PRINTER'S NO. 119
No. 135 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY BISHOP, YOUNGBLOOD, THOMAS, LAUGHLIN, BELFANTI,
PESCI, CURRY, CASORIO, PRESTON, READSHAW, BELARDI, RAMOS AND
BROWNE, JANUARY 26, 1999
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, JANUARY 26, 1999
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 28, 1935 (P.L.477, No.193), entitled,
2 as amended, "An act providing for the payment of the salary,
3 medical and hospital expenses of members of the State Police
4 Force, of the enforcement officers and investigators employed
5 by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, and the parole
6 agents, enforcement officers and investigators of the
7 Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, Capitol Police
8 officers, correction officers employed by the Department of
9 Corrections whose principal duty is the care, custody and
10 control of inmates, psychiatric security aides employed by
11 the Department of Public Welfare and the Department of
12 Corrections whose principal duty is the care, custody, and
13 control of the criminally insane, drug enforcement agents of
14 the Office of Attorney General whose principal duty is the
15 enforcement of the drug laws of the Commonwealth, special
16 agents of the Office of Attorney General whose principal duty
17 is the enforcement of the criminal laws of the Commonwealth,
18 members of the Delaware River Port Authority Police and of
19 policemen, firemen and park guards by the Commonwealth of
20 Pennsylvania, the Delaware River Port Authority, counties,
21 cities, boroughs, towns and townships, who are injured or
22 contract certain diseases in the performance of their duty;
23 and providing that absence during such injury shall not
24 reduce any usual sick leave period," further providing for
25 compensation for service-related injuries.
26 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
27 hereby enacts as follows:
28 Section 1. Section 1(a) of the act of June 28, 1935
29 (P.L.477, No.193), referred to as the Enforcement Officer
1 Disability Benefits Law, amended December 19, 1996 (P.L.1438,
2 No.183), is amended to read:
3 Section 1. (a) Be it enacted, &c., That any member of the
4 State Police Force, any enforcement officer or investigator
5 employed by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, and the
6 parole agents, enforcement officers and investigators of the
7 Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, Capitol Police
8 officers, correction officers employed by the Department of
9 Corrections, whose principal duty is the care, custody and
10 control of inmates, psychiatric security aides employed by the
11 Department of Public Welfare and the Department of Corrections,
12 whose principal duty is the care, custody, and control of the
13 criminally insane, drug enforcement agents of the Office of
14 Attorney General whose principal duty is the enforcement of the
15 drug laws of the Commonwealth, special agents of the Office of
16 Attorney General whose principal duty is the enforcement of the
17 criminal laws of the Commonwealth, any member of the Delaware
18 River Port Authority Police or any policeman, fireman or park
19 guard of any county, city, borough, town or township, who is
20 injured in the performance of his duties including, in the case
21 of firemen, duty as special fire police, and by reason thereof
22 is temporarily incapacitated from performing his duties, shall
23 be paid by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania if a member of the
24 State Police Force or an enforcement officer or investigator
25 employed by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board or the parole
26 agents, enforcement officers and investigators of the
27 Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, Capitol Police
28 officers, correction officers employed by the Department of
29 Corrections, whose principal duty is the care, custody and
30 control of inmates, psychiatric security aides employed by the
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1 Department of Public Welfare and the Department of Corrections,
2 whose principal duty is the care, custody, and control of the
3 criminally insane, drug enforcement agents of the Office of
4 Attorney General whose principal duty is the enforcement of the
5 drug laws of the Commonwealth, special agents of the Office of
6 Attorney General whose principal duty is the enforcement of the
7 criminal laws of the Commonwealth, or by the Delaware River Port
8 Authority if a member of the Delaware River Port Authority
9 Police or by the county, township or municipality, by which he
10 is employed, his full rate of salary, as fixed by ordinance or
11 resolution, until the disability arising therefrom has ceased.
12 All medical and hospital bills, incurred in connection with any
13 such injury, including psychiatric and psychological care for
14 the individual and the individual's spouse and dependent
15 children, shall be paid by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or
16 by the Delaware River Port Authority or by such county, township
17 or municipality. During the time salary for temporary incapacity
18 shall be paid by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or by the
19 Delaware River Port Authority or by the county, city, borough,
20 town or township, any workmen's compensation, received or
21 collected by any such employe for such period, shall be turned
22 over to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or to the Delaware
23 River Port Authority or to such county, city, borough, town or
24 township, and paid into the treasury thereof, and if such
25 payment shall not be so made by the employe the amount so due
26 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Delaware River Port
27 Authority or the county, city, borough, town or township shall
28 be deducted from any salary then or thereafter becoming due and
29 owing.
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1 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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