Bill Text: NY A04968 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
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) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental employees [A04968 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A04968-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4968 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 27, 2023 ___________ 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. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09047-01-3