New York A 4673: Relates to benefits for police officers, correction officers, firefighters, and other emergency personnel diagnosed with PTSD

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A04673 Summary:

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Relates to benefits for police officers, correction officers, firefighters, and other emergency personnel diagnosed with PTSD by making their injury compensable if it cannot be shown, by a preponderance of evidence, that the PTSD was caused by factors unrelated to their occupation.

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BILL NOA04673 

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02/04/2025referred to labor

01/07/2026referred to labor

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4673

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 4, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. EACHUS -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Labor

 AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to benefits
 for police officers, correction officers, firefighters, and other
 emergency personnel diagnosed with PTSD

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 10 of the workers' compensation
 2 law is amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
 3 (c) Where a police officer, correction officer, firefighter, emergency
 4 medical technician, paramedic, emergency dispatcher or other person
 5 certified to provide medical care in emergencies is diagnosed by a
 6 psychiatrist or psychologist to have post-traumatic stress disorder, it
 7 shall be presumed to have been incurred during service in the line of
 8 duty and shall be compensable, unless it is shown by a preponderance of
 9 the evidence that the post-traumatic stress disorder was caused by
 10 nonservice-connected risk factors or nonservice-connected exposure.
 11 Such person who is diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder within
 12 three years of the last active date of employment as a police officer,
 13 correction officer, firefighter, emergency medical technician, paramed-
 14 ic, emergency dispatcher or other person certified to provide medical
 15 care in emergencies shall be eligible for benefits under this subdivi-
 16 sion.
 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07842-01-5

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