Authorizes police/fire members of the New York city fire department pension fund to obtain credit for certain prior service as an EMT member.
Requires full family service restroom facilities in public buildings to permit a caregiver to attend to the sanitary and hygienic needs of any person affected by any combination of physical and/or cognitive disabilities.
Relates to the effect and rebuttal of certain medical presumptions relating to heart disease; provides that, for certain members, any condition of impairment of health caused by a disease of the heart, resulting in disability, shall be presumptive evidence that such disability was incurred in the performance and discharge of duty and the natural and proximate result of an accident.
Increases the salary ranges tied to member contribution requirements; ties salary amount to inflation.
Allows for the admission of a defendant's previous declarations or statements when the crime committed is a hate crime.
Authorizes the promotion of personnel to the positions of General Superintendent 2 and General Superintendent 3; provides that such positions shall be filled as far as practicable by promotion from among persons holding competitive class positions in a lower grade in the sanitation department of the city of New York in which the vacancy exists.
Elevates an assault of a retail worker to the class D felony of assault in the second degree.
Provides for certain death benefits to county fire marshals, supervising fire marshals, fire marshals, assistant fire marshals, assistant chief fire marshals, chief fire marshals and division supervising fire marshals employed by Nassau county.
Establishes disability retirement benefits for correction officers, correction supervisors, deputy sheriff patrols and deputy sheriff patrol supervisors who suffer any condition or impairment of health caused by methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) or Staph/MRSA; provides that such disability benefits shall be three-quarters of a member's final average salary.
Exempts correction officers of any penal correctional institution from training requirements for security guards.
