New York S 9566: Relates to disability benefits for certain individuals employed by the Nassau county police department

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S09566 Summary:

BILL NOS09566 

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SAME ASSAME AS A10833

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SPONSORJACKSON

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COSPNSRADDABBO

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §§63-j & 607-m, R & SS L

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Provides a performance of duty presumption for diseases of the heart for members who serve as an ambulance medical technician, ambulance medical coordinator, ambulance medical technician/supervisor or a member who performs ambulance medical technician related services, or a police medic, police medic coordinator, police medic supervisor, bureau director police emergency ambulance services - county, assistant bureau director police emergency ambulance services - county, or a member who performs police medic or police emergency ambulance related services and is employed in the Nassau county police department.

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BILL NOS09566 

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03/25/2026REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

05/18/2026REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

06/04/2026COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

06/04/2026ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1805

06/04/2026SUBSTITUTED BY A10833

&nbspA10833 AMEND= Pheffer Amato

&nbsp04/01/2026referred to governmental employees

&nbsp05/28/2026reported referred to ways and means

&nbsp06/03/2026reported referred to rules

&nbsp06/03/2026reported 

&nbsp06/03/2026rules report cal.421

&nbsp06/03/2026ordered to third reading rules cal.421

&nbsp06/03/2026home rule request

&nbsp06/03/2026passed assembly

&nbsp06/03/2026delivered to senate

&nbsp06/03/2026REFERRED TO RULES

&nbsp06/04/2026SUBSTITUTED FOR S9566

&nbsp06/04/20263RD READING CAL.1805

&nbsp06/04/2026HOME RULE REQUEST

&nbsp06/04/2026PASSED SENATE

&nbsp06/04/2026RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 9566

 IN SENATE

 March 25, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions

 AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to
 disability benefits for certain individuals employed by the Nassau
 county police department

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

 1 Section 1. The retirement and social security law is amended by adding
 2 a new section 63-j to read as follows:
 3 § 63-j. Certain impairment of health; presumption. Notwithstanding any
 4 provision of this chapter or any general or special law to the contrary,
 5 any condition of impairment of health caused by diseases of the heart,
 6 resulting in the disability or death to a member who serves as an ambu-
 7 lance medical technician, ambulance medical coordinator, ambulance
 8 medical technician/supervisor or a member who performs ambulance medical
 9 technician related services, or a police medic, police medic coordina-
 10 tor, police medic supervisor, bureau director police emergency ambulance
 11 services - county, assistant bureau director police emergency ambulance
 12 services - county, or a member who performs police medic or police emer-
 13 gency ambulance related services and is employed in the Nassau county
 14 police department, presently employed and who shall have sustained such
 15 disability while so employed, who successfully passed a physical exam-
 16 ination on entry into service as a member covered by this section, which
 17 examination failed to disclose evidence of any disease or other impair-
 18 ment of the heart, shall be presumptive evidence that it was incurred in
 19 the performance and discharge of duty, unless the contrary can be proved
 20 by competent evidence.
 21 § 2. The retirement and social security law is amended by adding a new
 22 section 607-m to read as follows:
 23 § 607-m. Certain impairment of health; presumption. Notwithstanding
 24 any provision of this chapter or any general or special law to the
 25 contrary, any condition of impairment of health caused by diseases of
 26 the heart, resulting in the disability or death to a member who serves
 27 as an ambulance medical technician, ambulance medical coordinator, ambu-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (under