PRINTER'S NO. 618
No. 524 Session of 2003
INTRODUCED BY BISHOP, PALLONE, WATERS, CIVERA, PETRARCA, McCALL,
PRESTON, SHANER, DONATUCCI, MELIO, HARHAI, JAMES, BELFANTI,
BEBKO-JONES, LAUGHLIN, BELARDI, KIRKLAND, THOMAS, YOUNGBLOOD,
CRUZ AND HORSEY, FEBRUARY 26, 2003
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 26, 2003
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, drug enforcement agents of
14 the Office of Attorney General whose principal duty is the
15 enforcement of the drug laws of the Commonwealth, special
16 agents of the Office of Attorney General whose principal duty
17 is the enforcement of the criminal laws of the Commonwealth,
18 members of the Delaware River Port Authority Police and of
19 policemen, firemen and park guards by the Commonwealth of
20 Pennsylvania, the Delaware River Port Authority, counties,
21 cities, boroughs, towns and townships, who are injured or
22 contract certain diseases in the performance of their duty;
23 and providing that absence during such injury shall not
24 reduce any usual sick leave period," further providing for
25 compensation for service-related injuries.
26 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
27 hereby enacts as follows:
28 Section 1. Section 1(a) of the act of June 28, 1935
1 (P.L.477, No.193), referred to as the Enforcement Officer
2 Disability Benefits Law, amended December 19, 1996 (P.L.1438,
3 No.183), is amended to read:
4 Section 1. (a) Be it enacted, &c., That any member of the
5 State Police Force, any enforcement officer or investigator
6 employed by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, and the
7 parole agents, enforcement officers and investigators of the
8 Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, Capitol Police
9 officers, correction officers employed by the Department of
10 Corrections, whose principal duty is the care, custody and
11 control of inmates, psychiatric security aides employed by the
12 Department of Public Welfare and the Department of Corrections,
13 whose principal duty is the care, custody, and control of the
14 criminally insane, drug enforcement agents of the Office of
15 Attorney General whose principal duty is the enforcement of the
16 drug laws of the Commonwealth, special agents of the Office of
17 Attorney General whose principal duty is the enforcement of the
18 criminal laws of the Commonwealth, any member of the Delaware
19 River Port Authority Police or any policeman, fireman or park
20 guard of any county, city, borough, town or township, who is
21 injured in the performance of his duties including, in the case
22 of firemen, duty as special fire police, and by reason thereof
23 is temporarily incapacitated from performing his duties, shall
24 be paid by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania if a member of the
25 State Police Force or an enforcement officer or investigator
26 employed by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board or the parole
27 agents, enforcement officers and investigators of the
28 Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, Capitol Police
29 officers, correction officers employed by the Department of
30 Corrections, whose principal duty is the care, custody and
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1 control of inmates, psychiatric security aides employed by the
2 Department of Public Welfare and the Department of Corrections,
3 whose principal duty is the care, custody, and control of the
4 criminally insane, drug enforcement agents of the Office of
5 Attorney General whose principal duty is the enforcement of the
6 drug laws of the Commonwealth, special agents of the Office of
7 Attorney General whose principal duty is the enforcement of the
8 criminal laws of the Commonwealth, or by the Delaware River Port
9 Authority if a member of the Delaware River Port Authority
10 Police or by the county, township or municipality, by which he
11 is employed, his full rate of salary, as fixed by ordinance or
12 resolution, until the disability arising therefrom has ceased.
13 All medical and hospital bills, incurred in connection with any
14 such injury, including psychiatric and psychological care for
15 the individual and the individual's spouse and dependent
16 children, shall be paid by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or
17 by the Delaware River Port Authority or by such county, township
18 or municipality. During the time salary for temporary incapacity
19 shall be paid by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or by the
20 Delaware River Port Authority or by the county, city, borough,
21 town or township, any workmen's compensation, received or
22 collected by any such employe for such period, shall be turned
23 over to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or to the Delaware
24 River Port Authority or to such county, city, borough, town or
25 township, and paid into the treasury thereof, and if such
26 payment shall not be so made by the employe the amount so due
27 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Delaware River Port
28 Authority or the county, city, borough, town or township shall
29 be deducted from any salary then or thereafter becoming due and
30 owing.
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2 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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