PRINTER'S NO. 2477

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

No.

2132

Session of

2021

INTRODUCED BY STRUZZI, HILL-EVANS, SMITH, MILLARD, SNYDER,

OBERLANDER AND CIRESI, DECEMBER 7, 2021

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND INDUSTRY, DECEMBER 7, 2021

during such injury shall not reduce any usual sick leave

period," further providing for disability benefits for campus

police officers and for definitions.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 1(a), (b) and (d) of the act of June 28,

1935 (P.L.477, No.193), referred to as the Enforcement Officer

Disability Benefits Law, are amended to read:

Section 1. (a) Be it enacted, &c., That:

(1) any member of the State Police Force;

university;

(5) correction employes employed by the Department of

Corrections, whose principal duty is the care, custody and

control of inmates;

(6) psychiatric security aides employed by the Department of

Human Services and the Department of Corrections, whose

principal duty is the care, custody, and control of the

criminally insane;

(7) drug enforcement agents of the Office of Attorney

General whose principal duty is the enforcement of the drug laws

of the Commonwealth;

(10.1) firemen employed by the Commonwealth;

(11) any sheriff or deputy sheriff; or

(12) any enforcement officer or investigator of the

Pennsylvania Game Commission or the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat

Commission;

who is injured in the performance of his duties including, in

the case of firemen, duty as special fire police, and by reason

thereof is temporarily incapacitated from performing his duties,

shall be paid by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania if an employe

identified under paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4), (4.1) (5), (6),

county, township or municipality, by which he is employed, his

full rate of salary, as fixed by ordinance or resolution, until

the disability arising therefrom has ceased. All medical and

hospital bills, incurred in connection with any such injury,

shall be paid by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or by the

Delaware River Port Authority or by the participating university

or by such county, city, township or municipality. During the

time salary for temporary incapacity shall be paid by the

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or by the Delaware River Port

Authority or by the participating university or by the county,

city, borough, town or township, any workmen's compensation,

Pennsylvania, the Delaware River Port Authority, the

participating university or the county, city, borough, town or

township shall be deducted from any salary then or thereafter

becoming due and owing.

(b) In the case of:

(1) the State Police Force;

(2) enforcement officers and investigators employed by the

Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board;

(3) the parole agents, enforcement officers and

investigators of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole;

(5) correction employes employed by the Department of

Corrections, whose principal duty is the care, custody and

control of inmates;

(6) psychiatric security aides employed by the Department of

Human Services and the Department of Corrections whose principal

duty is the care, custody, and control of the criminally insane;

(7) drug enforcement agents of the Office of Attorney

General whose principal duty is the enforcement of the drug laws

of the Commonwealth;

(8) special agents of the Office of Attorney General whose

principal duty is the enforcement of the criminal laws of the

Pennsylvania Game Commission and the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat

Commission;

who have served for four consecutive years or longer, diseases

of the heart and tuberculosis of the respiratory system,

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

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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(d) (1) All payments herein required to be made by the

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on account of any member of the

State Police Force shall be made from moneys appropriated to the

Pennsylvania State Police.

(2) Any payments required to be made on account of any

enforcement officer or investigator employed by the Pennsylvania

and Parole.

(4) Any payments required to be made on account of Capitol

Police officers shall be made from moneys appropriated to the

Department of General Services.

(4.1) Any payments required to be made on account of any

campus police officers employed by a participating university

shall be made from moneys appropriated to the participating

university.

(5) Any payments required to be made on account of any

correction employe shall be made from moneys appropriated to the

appropriated to the Department of Human Services or the

Department of Corrections where appropriate.

(7) Any payments required to be made on account of any drug

enforcement agent or special agents shall be made from moneys

appropriated to the Office of Attorney General and any payments

required to be made on account of any fireman employed by the

Commonwealth shall be made from moneys appropriated to the

employing agency.

(8) Any payments required to be made on account of any

enforcement officers or investigators of the Pennsylvania Game

Commission shall be made from moneys appropriated to the

the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission or executively

authorized from the Fish Fund under 30 Pa.C.S. Ch. 5 Subch. B

(relating to the Fish Fund) or the Boat Fund under 30 Pa.C.S.

Ch. 5 Subch. C (relating to the Boat Fund).

higher education may elect to participate in this act by

submitting a notice to the Department of Labor and Industry. An

election to participate in this act shall be irrevocable after

participation commences.

Section 3. Section 2.1 of the act is amended to read:

Section 2.1. For the purposes of this act, the [term

"fireman" shall mean and include the following:] following words

and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this

section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

"Fireman." Any of the following:

(1) Paid firemen not employed by the Commonwealth.

(2) Emergency medical services personnel employed within a

city fire department.

(3) Firemen of airport authorities, including fire

suppression instructors.

(4) Fire and safety marshals who are firemen employed by the

Commonwealth.

(5) Fire academy instructors employed at the State Fire

(2) A community college.

(3) A State-related college or university.

(4) A State-aided college or university.

"Participating university." An institute of higher education

that elects to participate in this act.

Section 4. This act shall take effect in 60 days.