PRINTER'S NO. 183
No. 175 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY CORMAN, ARMSTRONG, HELFRICK AND EARLL,
JANUARY 30, 2001
REFERRED TO LABOR AND INDUSTRY, JANUARY 30, 2001
AN ACT
1 Providing for rescue volunteers.
2 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
3 hereby enacts as follows:
4 Section 1. Sharing of workers' compensation premiums.
5 Any municipality which does not have a fire company,
6 ambulance corps, rescue and lifesaving squad or hazardous
7 materials response team located within its corporate limits and
8 which receives fire protection services, ambulance services,
9 rescue and lifesaving or hazardous materials response services
10 from the volunteer fire company, volunteer ambulance corps,
11 volunteer rescue and lifesaving squad or hazardous materials
12 response team of another municipality pursuant to a contract,
13 standing agreement, mutual aid agreement or any other
14 arrangement may be required to reimburse if requested by the
15 municipality in which the volunteer fire company, volunteer
16 ambulance corps, volunteer rescue and lifesaving squad or
17 hazardous materials response team is located for a portion of
1 the cost of the workers' compensation premiums covering members
2 of the volunteer fire company, volunteer ambulance corps,
3 volunteer rescue and lifesaving squad or hazardous materials
4 response team.
5 Section 2. Method of calculation.
6 The appropriate portion of the cost shall be determined by
7 multiplying the entire cost of the premium by the percentage
8 that the individual municipality's population served by such
9 volunteer fire company, volunteer ambulance corps, volunteer
10 rescue and lifesaving squad or hazardous materials response team
11 bears to the total population served by such volunteer fire
12 company, volunteer ambulance corps, volunteer rescue and
13 lifesaving squad or hazardous materials response team.
14 Section 3. Limitation.
15 No segment of the population shall be included in more than
16 one service area for purposes of calculating workers'
17 compensation premiums under this act. Nothing in this act shall
18 prevent the municipalities from agreeing to share the cost on
19 some other basis.
20 Section 4. Effective date.
21 This act shall take effect in 30 days.
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