Bill Text: NY A03549 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the same benefits and services for post-traumatic stress disorder for emergency dispatchers and correction officers as are afforded police and firefighters.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-11 - reported referred to ways and means [A03549 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A03549-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3549

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 28, 2025
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Employees

        AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to access to  certain
          mental  health  care services for emergency dispatchers and correction
          officers

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The  civil service law is amended by adding a new section
     2  155 to read as follows:
     3    §  155.  Access  to  post-traumatic  stress  disorder  treatment   for
     4  correction  officers  and emergency dispatchers.  1. Correction officers
     5  and emergency dispatchers employed by a municipality shall  be  entitled
     6  to  the  same  benefits  and services for the diagnosis and treatment of
     7  post-traumatic stress disorder as are afforded police officers and fire-
     8  fighters employed by such municipality, and such benefits  and  services
     9  shall be accessed through the same policies and procedures.
    10    2.  Any collective bargaining agreement or employment contract entered
    11  into by a municipality and  an  employee  or  an  employee  organization
    12  representing  emergency  dispatchers  or correction officers employed by
    13  such municipality shall provide the same benefits and services  for  the
    14  diagnosis and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder as provided to
    15  police  officers  and  firefighters employed by such municipality, which
    16  shall be accessed through the same policies  and  procedures,  provided,
    17  however,  that  nothing  contained  in  this  section  shall prohibit an
    18  employee organization representing emergency dispatchers and  correction
    19  officers  employed  by  a  municipality  from seeking to provide greater
    20  benefits and services for the diagnosis and treatment of  post-traumatic
    21  stress  disorder than those provided to police officers and firefighters
    22  employed by such municipality.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06659-01-5