PRINTER'S NO. 1636

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

No.

1242

Session of

2015

INTRODUCED BY READSHAW, D. COSTA, MILLARD, BARBIN, MURT, FARINA,

HELM, KINSEY, HARKINS, THOMAS, BROWNLEE, KOTIK, A. HARRIS,

MAHONEY, COHEN, O'BRIEN, McNEILL, DEAN, CARROLL, KAVULICH AND

medical and hospital expenses of members of the State Police

Force, of the enforcement officers and investigators employed

by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, and the parole

agents, enforcement officers and investigators of the

Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, Capitol Police

officers, correction employes employed by the Department of

Corrections whose principal duty is the care, custody and

control of inmates, psychiatric security aides employed by

the Department of Public Welfare and the Department of

Corrections whose principal duty is the care, custody, and

policemen, firemen and park guards by the Commonwealth of

Pennsylvania, the Delaware River Port Authority, counties,

cities, boroughs, towns and townships, and sheriffs and

deputy sheriffs who are injured or contract certain diseases

in the performance of their duty; and providing that absence

during such injury shall not reduce any usual sick leave

period," extending benefits to civilian firefighters and

police officers stationed at military installations or

facilities in this Commonwealth; and making an editorial

change.

Providing for the payment of the salary, medical and hospital

expenses of members of the State Police Force, of the

enforcement officers and investigators employed by the

Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, and the parole agents,

enforcement officers and investigators of the Pennsylvania

Board of Probation and Parole, Capitol Police officers,

correction employes employed by the Department of Corrections

whose principal duty is the care, custody and control of

inmates, psychiatric security aides employed by the

General whose principal duty is the enforcement of the

criminal laws of the Commonwealth, members of the Delaware

River Port Authority Police [and], of policemen, firemen and

park guards and of civilian firefighters and police officers

stationed at military installations or facilities in this

Commonwealth by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the

Delaware River Port Authority, counties, cities, boroughs,

towns and townships, and sheriffs and deputy sheriffs who are

injured or contract certain diseases in the performance of

parole agents, enforcement officers and investigators of the

Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, Capitol Police

officers, correction employes employed by the Department of

Corrections, whose principal duty is the care, custody and

control of inmates, psychiatric security aides employed by the

Department of [Public Welfare] Human Services and the Department

of Corrections, whose principal duty is the care, custody, and

control of the criminally insane, drug enforcement agents of the

Office of Attorney General whose principal duty is the

enforcement of the drug laws of the Commonwealth, special agents

installation or facility in this Commonwealth 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 a member of the

State Police Force or an enforcement officer or investigator

employed by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board or the parole

agents, enforcement officers and investigators of the

Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, Capitol Police

control of the criminally insane, drug enforcement agents of the

Office of Attorney General whose principal duty is the

enforcement of the drug laws of the Commonwealth, special agents

of the Office of Attorney General whose principal duty is the

enforcement of the criminal laws of the Commonwealth, civilian

firefighters and police officers stationed at a military

installation or facility in this Commonwealth or by the Delaware

River Port Authority if a member of the Delaware River Port

Authority Police or by the county, township or municipality, by

which he is employed, his full rate of salary, as fixed by

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or by the Delaware River Port

Authority or by the county, city, borough, town or township, any

workmen's compensation, received or collected by any such

employe for such period, shall be turned over to the

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or to the Delaware River Port

Authority or to such county, city, borough, town or township,

and paid into the treasury thereof, and if such payment shall

not be so made by the employe the amount so due the Commonwealth

of Pennsylvania, the Delaware River Port Authority or the

investigators of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole,

Capitol Police officers, correction employes employed by the

Department of Corrections, whose principal duty is the care,

custody and control of inmates, psychiatric security aides

employed by the Department of [Public Welfare] Human Services

and the Department of Corrections whose principal duty is the

care, custody, and control of the criminally insane, drug

enforcement agents of the Office of Attorney General whose

principal duty is the enforcement of the drug laws of the

Commonwealth, special agents of the Office of Attorney General

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 of any such member of the State Police Force,

enforcement officer, investigator employed by the Pennsylvania

Liquor Control Board, guard or enforcement officer employed by

the Department of Corrections or parole agent, enforcement

Human Services and the Department of Corrections whose principal

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

drug enforcement agents of the Office of Attorney General whose

principal duty is the enforcement of the drug laws of the

Commonwealth, special agents of the Office of Attorney General

whose principal duty is the enforcement of the criminal laws of

the Commonwealth, member of the Delaware River Port Authority

Police, policeman or fireman, [or] sheriff or deputy sheriff, or

civilian firefighters or police officers stationed at a military

installation or facility in this Commonwealth shall be

respiratory system contracted or incurred after four consecutive

years of service was contracted or incurred as a direct result

of employment.

(c) In the case of any person receiving benefits pursuant to

this act, the statutes of limitations set forth in sections

306.1, 315, 413, and 434 of the act of June 2, 1915 (P.L.736,

No.338), known as the "Workers' Compensation Act," shall not

begin to run until the expiration of the receipt of benefits

pursuant to this act.

by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board shall be from

appropriations out of the State Stores Fund, any payments

required to be made on account of any parole agent, enforcement

officer or investigator employed by the Pennsylvania Board of

Probation and Parole shall be from moneys appropriated to the

Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, any payments

required to be made on account of Capitol Police officers shall

be made from moneys appropriated to the Department of General

Services, any payments required to be made on account of any

correction employe shall be made from moneys appropriated to the

Office of Attorney General.