PRINTER'S NO. 155
No. 150 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY SHUPNIK, WARGO, USTYNOSKI, MUSTO AND O'BRIEN,
JANUARY 28, 1975
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LAW AND JUSTICE, JANUARY 28, 1975
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 Parole, members of the Delaware River
8 Port Authority Police and of policemen, firemen and park
9 guards by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Delaware
10 River Port Authority, counties, cities, boroughs, towns and
11 townships, who are injured in the performance of their duty;
12 and providing that absence during such injury shall not
13 reduce any usual sick leave period," including employes of
14 State penal and correctional institutions under certain
15 provisions of the act.
16 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
17 hereby enacts as follows:
18 Section 1. The title and subsections (b) and (d) of section
19 1, act of June 28, 1935 (P.L.477, No.193), entitled, as amended,
20 "An act providing for the payment of the salary, medical and
21 hospital expenses of members of the State Police Force, of the
22 enforcement officers and investigators employed by the
23 Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, and the parole agents,
24 enforcement officers and investigators of the Pennsylvania Board
1 of Parole, members of the Delaware River Port Authority Police
2 and of policemen, firemen and park guards by the Commonwealth of
3 Pennsylvania, the Delaware River Port Authority, counties,
4 cities, boroughs, towns and townships, who are injured in the
5 performance of their duty; and providing that absence during
6 such injury shall not reduce any usual sick leave period," the
7 title amended July 25, 1961 (P.L.867, No.374), and subsections
8 (b) and (d) of section 1 amended May 31, 1974 (No.99), are
9 amended to read:
10 AN ACT
11 Providing for the payment of the salary, medical and hospital
12 expenses of members of the State Police Force, of the
13 enforcement officers and investigators employed by the
14 Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, of fulltime salaried
15 employes employed by the Bureau of Correction in State penal
16 and correctional institutions, and the parole agents,
17 enforcement officers and investigators of the Pennsylvania
18 Board of Probation and Parole, members of the Delaware River
19 Port Authority Police and of policemen, firemen and park
20 guards by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Delaware
21 River Port Authority, counties, cities, boroughs, towns and
22 townships, who are injured or contract certain diseases in
23 the performance of their duty; and providing that absence
24 during such injury shall not reduce any usual sick leave
25 period.
26 Section 1. * * *
27 (b) In the case of the State Police Force, enforcement
28 officers and investigators employed by the Pennsylvania Liquor
29 Control Board guards and enforcement officers employed by the
30 Bureau of Correction in State penal and correctional
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1 institutions and the parole agents, enforcement officers and
2 investigators of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole,
3 including fulltime salaried staff of the board assigned to State
4 penal or correctional institutions, members of the Delaware
5 River Port Authority Police and salaried policemen and firemen
6 who have served for four consecutive years or longer, diseases
7 of the heart and tuberculosis of the respiratory system,
8 contracted or incurred by any of them after four years of
9 continuous service as such, and caused by extreme overexertion
10 in times of stress or danger or by exposure to heat, smoke,
11 fumes or gases, arising directly out of the employment of any
12 such member of the State Police Force, enforcement officer
13 [investigator] or investigator employed by the Pennsylvania
14 Liquor Control Board, fulltime salaried employe employed by the
15 Bureau of Correction in a State penal or correctional
16 institution or parole agent, enforcement officer or investigator
17 of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, including a
18 fulltime salaried staff member of the board assigned to a State
19 penal or correctional institution, member of the Delaware River
20 Port Authority Police, or policeman or fireman, shall be
21 compensable in accordance with the terms hereof; and unless any
22 such disability shall be compensable under the compensation laws
23 as having been caused by accidental injury, such disability
24 shall be compensable as occupational disease disabilities are
25 presently compensable under the compensation laws of this
26 Commonwealth. It shall be presumed that tuberculosis of the
27 respiratory system contracted or incurred after four consecutive
28 years of service was contracted or incurred as a direct result
29 of employment.
30 * * *
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1 (d) All payments herein required to be made by the
2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on account of any member of the
3 State Police Force shall be made from moneys appropriated to the
4 Pennsylvania State Police, and any payments required to be made
5 on account of any enforcement officer or investigator employed
6 by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board shall be from
7 appropriations out of the State Stores Fund, and any payments
8 required to be made on account of any fulltime salaried employe
9 employed by the Bureau of Correction in a State penal or
10 correctional institution shall be from moneys appropriated to
11 the Department of Justice, and any payments required to be made
12 on account of any parole agent, enforcement officer or
13 investigator employed by the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and
14 Parole, including a fulltime salaried employe of the board
15 assigned to a State penal or correctional institution shall be
16 from moneys appropriated to the Pennsylvania Board of Probation
17 and Parole.
18 Section 2. For the purposes of this act, 4 years of
19 consecutive or continuous service shall include service rendered
20 prior to the effective date of this act.
21 Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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