PRINTER'S NO. 2458
No. 1428 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY McGEEHAN, BELFANTI, BLACKWELL, BUXTON, CRUZ,
FABRIZIO, GEORGE, GRUCELA, HARHAI, JAMES, KORTZ, LEACH, MANN,
McCALL, MUNDY, PASHINSKI, PETRARCA, READSHAW, REICHLEY,
SIPTROTH, SOLOBAY, WALKO, WOJNAROSKI, YOUNGBLOOD AND
YUDICHAK, SEPTEMBER 19, 2007
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, SEPTEMBER 19, 2007
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 employes 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, and sheriffs and
22 deputy sheriffs who are injured or contract certain diseases
23 in the performance of their duty; and providing that absence
24 during such injury shall not reduce any usual sick leave
25 period," further providing for certain corrections officers.
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 March 15, 2006 (P.L.55, No.20)
3 and July 7, 2006 (P.L.614, No.95), 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 employes 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, any policeman, fireman [or], park
20 guard or corrections employee whose principal duty is the care,
21 custody and control of inmates of any county, city, borough,
22 town or township, or any sheriff or deputy sheriff who is
23 injured in the performance of his duties including, in the case
24 of firemen, duty as special fire police, and by reason thereof
25 is temporarily incapacitated from performing his duties, shall
26 be paid by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania if a member of the
27 State Police Force or an enforcement officer or investigator
28 employed by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board or the parole
29 agents, enforcement officers and investigators of the
30 Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, Capitol Police
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1 officers, correction employes employed by the Department of
2 Corrections, whose principal duty is the care, custody and
3 control of inmates, psychiatric security aides employed by the
4 Department of Public Welfare and the Department of Corrections,
5 whose principal duty is the care, custody, and control of the
6 criminally insane, drug enforcement agents of the Office of
7 Attorney General whose principal duty is the enforcement of the
8 drug laws of the Commonwealth, special agents of the Office of
9 Attorney General whose principal duty is the enforcement of the
10 criminal laws of the Commonwealth, or by the Delaware River Port
11 Authority if a member of the Delaware River Port Authority
12 Police or by the county, township or municipality, by which he
13 is employed, his full rate of salary, as fixed by ordinance or
14 resolution, until the disability arising therefrom has ceased.
15 All medical and hospital bills, incurred in connection with any
16 such injury, shall be paid by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
17 or by the Delaware River Port Authority or by such county,
18 township or municipality. During the time salary for temporary
19 incapacity shall be paid by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or
20 by the Delaware River Port Authority or by the county, city,
21 borough, town or township, any workmen's compensation, received
22 or collected by any such employe for such period, shall be
23 turned over to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or to the
24 Delaware River Port Authority or to such county, city, borough,
25 town or township, and paid into the treasury thereof, and if
26 such payment shall not be so made by the employe the amount so
27 due 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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