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Senator · Senate District 7
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History
- Referred to civil service and pensions
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Provides a performance of duty disability retirement benefit for certain employees of Nassau county
In Assembly Committee · Governmental Employees · Sponsor Peter Abbate
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S7207
Title of bill
An act to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to providing performance of duty disability retirement benefits for members in the employ of the Nassau county police department as ambulance medical technician supervisors, ambulance medical technician coordinators and ambulance medical technicians
Summary of provisions
This legislation provides for a 3/4 performance of duty retirement for various Ambulance Medical Technician titles within Nassau County.
Justification
Nassau County Police Medics serve their community countywide, providing the highest possible quality in pre-hospital advanced life support emergency medical service care. Though rare, it does happen that Nassau County Police Medics are rendered seriously and permanently disabled due to injuries sustained in the line of duty. While such instances occur infrequently, they are nonetheless devastating to the Medic involved, their spouses, and their children.
Police Medics respond to and perform work in varying types of situations, from the scenes of basic medical assistance calls to truly life threatening emergencies. They respond to calls in all types of places via ambulance. They perform their duties on active highways, at fire scenes, at the scenes of collapsed buildings, railroad incidents, and active crime scenes. They also operate as Tactical Medics with the Nassau. County Police Department Bureau of Special Operations. Further, they sometimes operate as Hazardous Materials Decontamination Technicians.
Though the Medics are well trained, they sometimes encounter the dangerous environments described above, as well as dangerous, violent individuals. They are not armed on the job. Their duties as Hazardous Materials Decontamination Technicians and Tactical Medics are by their nature very dangerous and can result in serious injury. It should be noted that Emergency Medical Technicians in the adjacent City of New York have a 75% disability benefit.
This bill will provide appropriate protection for Nassau County Police Medics and their families in the event of a serious on-the-job disablement. It will also rectify the imbalance in protection that currently exists between the Medics and other, similar first responders.
Fiscal implications
See fiscal note in bill.
Effective date
Immediately.
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