PRINTER'S NO. 1275
No. 1146 Session of 1995
INTRODUCED BY BISHOP, BUNT, MARKOSEK, DeLUCA, STABACK, LUCYK,
ROONEY, McGEEHAN, LAUGHLIN, YOUNGBLOOD, BOSCOLA, TRELLO,
RICHARDSON AND THOMAS, MARCH 13, 1995
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 13, 1995
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, and drug enforcement agents
14 of the Office of Attorney General whose principal duty is the
15 enforcement of the drug laws of the Commonwealth, members of
16 the Delaware River Port Authority Police and of policemen,
17 firemen and park guards by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
18 the Delaware River Port Authority, counties, cities,
19 boroughs, towns and townships, who are injured or contract
20 certain diseases in the performance of their duty; and
21 providing that absence during such injury shall not reduce
22 any usual sick leave period," further providing for
23 compensation for service-related injuries.
24 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
25 hereby enacts as follows:
26 Section 1. Section 1(a) of the act of June 28, 1935
27 (P.L.477, No.193), referred to as the Enforcement Officer
28 Disability Benefits Law, amended December 19, 1986 (P.L.1733,
1 No.208), is amended to read:
2 Section 1. (a) Be it enacted, &c., That any member of the
3 State Police Force, any enforcement officer or investigator
4 employed by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, and the
5 parole agents, enforcement officers and investigators of the
6 Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, Capitol Police
7 officers, correction officers employed by the Department of
8 Corrections, whose principal duty is the care, custody and
9 control of inmates, psychiatric security aides employed by the
10 Department of Public Welfare and the Department of Corrections,
11 whose principal duty is the care, custody, and control of the
12 criminally insane, and drug enforcement agents of the Office of
13 Attorney General whose principal duty is the enforcement of the
14 drug laws of the Commonwealth, any member of the Delaware River
15 Port Authority Police or any policeman, fireman or park guard of
16 any county, city, borough, town or township, who is injured in
17 the performance of his duties including, in the case of firemen,
18 duty as special fire police, and by reason thereof is
19 temporarily incapacitated from performing his duties, shall be
20 paid by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania if a member of the
21 State Police Force or an enforcement officer or investigator
22 employed by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board or the parole
23 agents, enforcement officers and investigators of the
24 Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, Capitol Police
25 officers, correction officers employed by the Department of
26 Corrections, whose principal duty is the care, custody and
27 control of inmates, psychiatric security aides employed by the
28 Department of Public Welfare and the Department of Corrections,
29 whose principal duty is the care, custody, and control of the
30 criminally insane, and drug enforcement agents of the Office of
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1 Attorney General whose principal duty is the enforcement of the
2 drug laws of the Commonwealth, or by the Delaware River Port
3 Authority if a member of the Delaware River Port Authority
4 Police or by the county, township or municipality, by which he
5 is employed, his full rate of salary, as fixed by ordinance or
6 resolution, until the disability arising therefrom has ceased.
7 All medical and hospital bills, incurred in connection with any
8 such injury, including psychiatric and psychological care for
9 the individual and the individual's spouse and dependent
10 children, shall be paid by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or
11 by the Delaware River Port Authority or by such county, township
12 or municipality. During the time salary for temporary incapacity
13 shall be paid by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or by the
14 Delaware River Port Authority or by the county, city, borough,
15 town or township, any workmen's compensation, received or
16 collected by any such employe for such period, shall be turned
17 over to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or to the Delaware
18 River Port Authority or to such county, city, borough, town or
19 township, and paid into the treasury thereof, and if such
20 payment shall not be so made by the employe the amount so due
21 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Delaware River Port
22 Authority or the county, city, borough, town or township shall
23 be deducted from any salary then or thereafter becoming due and
24 owing.
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26 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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