PRINTER'S NO. 933
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
755
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY BREWSTER, FONTANA, SABATINA, RAFFERTY, YUDICHAK,
COSTA, VULAKOVICH AND BARTOLOTTA, JUNE 12, 2017
REFERRED TO LABOR AND INDUSTRY, JUNE 12, 2017
AN ACT
Amending the act of June 28, 1935 (P.L.477, No.193), entitled,
as amended, "An act providing for the payment of the salary,
medical and hospital expenses of certain employes of State
and local government who are injured or contract certain
diseases in the performance of their duty; and providing that
absence during such injury shall not reduce any usual sick
leave period," further providing for payment of salary,
medical and hospital expenses of certain employees of State
and local government.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 1(b) of the act of June 28, 1935
(P.L.477, No.193), referred to as the Enforcement Officer
Disability Benefits Law, is amended by adding a paragraph to
read:
Section 1. * * *
(b) In the case of:
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(13) corrections officers employed by a local government;
who have served for four consecutive years or longer, diseases
of the heart and tuberculosis of the respiratory system,
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contracted or incurred by any of them after four years of
continuous service as such, and caused by extreme overexertion
in times of stress or danger or by exposure to heat, smoke,
fumes or gases, arising directly out of the employment shall be
compensable in accordance with the terms hereof; and unless any
such disability shall be compensable under the compensation laws
as having been caused by accidental injury, such disability
shall be compensable as occupational disease disabilities are
presently compensable under the compensation laws of this
Commonwealth. It shall be presumed that tuberculosis of the
respiratory system contracted or incurred after four consecutive
years of service was contracted or incurred as a direct result
of employment.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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