Bill Text: NJ A3747 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides for sick leave injury program of 30 days for State corrections officer injured by inmate of State correctional facility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-07 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly State Government Committee [A3747 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2012-A3747-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman CHARLES MAINOR
District 31 (Hudson)
Assemblyman NELSON T. ALBANO
District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)
Assemblywoman ANGELICA M. JIMENEZ
District 32 (Bergen and Hudson)
SYNOPSIS
Provides for sick leave injury program of 30 days for State corrections officer injured by inmate of State correctional facility.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning a sick leave injury program for certain State corrections officers, and amending N.J.S.11A:6-8.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. N.J.S.11A:6-8 is amended to read as follows:
11A:6-8. Sick leave injury in State service. a. Leaves of absence for career, senior executive and unclassified employees in State service due to injury or illness directly caused by and arising from State employment shall be governed by rules of the Civil Service Commission. Leaves of absence for career and unclassified employees of a political subdivision directly caused by or arising from employment shall be governed by rules of the political subdivision. Any sick leave with pay shall be reduced by the amount of workers' compensation or disability benefits, if any, received for the same injury or illness.
b. The rules promulgated by the commission to govern leaves of absence under subsection a. of this section shall not apply, nor shall a leave of absence pursuant to this section be available, to any career, senior executive or unclassified employee in State service who sustains an injury or illness on or after the effective date of P.L.2010, c.3, or the expiration of a collective negotiations agreement with a relevant provision in effect on that effective date, directly caused by and arising from State employment. This subsection shall not be construed as impairing the obligations set forth in any collective negotiations agreement between the State and its employees in effect on the effective date of P.L.2010, c.3.
c. Leaves of absence with pay due to injury or illness incurred during the performance of duties on or after the effective date of P.L. , c. (pending before the Legislature as this bill) by a State corrections officer who is enrolled in the Police and Firemen's Retirement System, P.L.1944, c.255 (C.43:16A-1 et seq.) which injury or illness was caused directly by the act of an inmate of a State correctional facility shall be governed by rules of the Civil Service Commission. The rules shall provide for a leave of absence for such a corrections officer with pay for a period up to 30 days, and shall require an examining physician designated and compensated by the appointing authority to certify to such injury or illness. Any sick leave with pay shall be reduced by the amount of workers' compensation or disability benefits, if any, received for the same injury or illness.
(cf: P.L.2010, c.3, s.6)
2. This act shall take effect
on the 60th day following
enactment, but the Civil Service Commission and the Chairperson thereof may
take such anticipatory administrative action in advance as shall be necessary
for the implementation of this act.
STATEMENT
This bill provides for a sick leave injury program for State corrections officers who are injured by inmates of a State correctional facility during the performance of their duties.
A change in the law enacted in 2010 ended the sick leave injury program for career, senior executive, and unclassified employees in State service who sustain an injury or illness on or after the effective date of May 21, 2010, or the expiration of a collective negotiations agreement with a relevant provision in effect on that effective date, when the injury or illness was directly caused by and arising from State employment. That program had provided for leaves of absence with pay during a period up to one year beginning on the initial date of the injury or illness.
This bill reinstates a sick leave injury program for State corrections officers to provide paid leave for a maximum of 30 days when the injury or illness of the officer is caused by an inmate of a State correctional facility.
