New York S 8028: Requires the payment of regular wages to bay constables employed by the town of Hempstead, Nassau county, who have sustained injuries or illnesses in the line of duty

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S08028 Summary:

BILL NOS08028 

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SAME ASSAME AS A04782

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SPONSORCANZONERI-FITZPATRICK

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §207-c, Gen Muni L

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Requires the payment of regular wages to bay constables employed by the town of Hempstead, Nassau county, who have sustained injuries or illnesses in the line of duty.

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BILL NOS08028 

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05/15/2025REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

01/07/2026REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8028

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 May 15, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK -- read twice and ordered
 printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local
 Government

 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to providing
 coverage for injuries while in the line of duty by bay constables in
 the town of Hempstead, Nassau county

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 207-c of the general municipal
 2 law, as amended by section 55 of chapter 476 of the laws of 2018, is
 3 amended to read as follows:
 4 1. Any sheriff, undersheriff, deputy sheriff or corrections officer of
 5 the sheriff's department of any county or any member of a police force
 6 of any county, city of less than one million population, town or
 7 village, or of any district, agency, board, body or commission thereof,
 8 or any LIRR police officer as defined in paragraph two of subdivision a
 9 of section three hundred eighty-nine of the retirement and social secu-
 10 rity law whose benefits are provided in and pursuant to such section
 11 three hundred eighty-nine, or a detective-investigator or any other
 12 investigator who is a police officer pursuant to the provisions of the
 13 criminal procedure law employed in the office of a district attorney of
 14 any county, or any corrections officer of the county of Erie department
 15 of corrections, or an advanced ambulance medical technician employed by
 16 the county of Nassau, or any detention officer employed by the city of
 17 Yonkers, or any supervising fire inspector, fire inspector, fire
 18 marshal, or assistant fire marshal employed full-time in the county of
 19 Nassau fire marshal's office, or at the option of the county of Nassau,
 20 any probation officer of the county of Nassau, or any director of bay
 21 constables, assistant director of bay constables, bay constable II, or
 22 bay constable employed by the department of conservation and waterways
 23 in the town of Hempstead, county of Nassau, who is injured in the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01774-01-5

 S. 8028 2

 1 performance of [his or her] their duties or who is taken sick as a
 2 result of the performance of [his or her] their duties so as to necessi-
 3 tate medical or other lawful remedial treatment shall be paid by the
 4 municipality or The Long Island Rail Road Company by which [he or she]
 5 such person is employed the full amount of [his or her] such person's
 6 regular salary or wages from such employer until [his or her] their
 7 disability arising therefrom has ceased, and, in addition such munici-
 8 pality or The Long Island Rail Road Company shall be liable for all
 9 medical treatment and hospital care necessitated by reason of such inju-
 10 ry or illness. Provided, however, and notwithstanding the foregoing
 11 provisions of this section, the municipal or The Long Island Rail Road
 12 Company health authorities or any physician appointed for the purpose by
 13 the municipality or The Long Island Rail Road Company, as relevant,
 14 after a determination has first been made that such injury or sickness
 15 was incurred during, or resulted from, such performance of duty, may
 16 attend any such injured or sick police officer, from time to time, for
 17 the purpose of providing medical, surgical or other treatment, or for
 18 making inspections, and the municipality or The Long Island Rail Road
 19