Bill > A09391

This bill provides a line of duty disability presumption for any condition of impairment of health caused by diseases of the lung, resulting in total or partial disability or death of certain deputy sheriff members of a retirement system in cities with a population of one million or more. The bill establishes that such a condition shall be presumptive evidence that it was incurred in the performance and discharge of duty, unless the contrary is proven. It also grants a pension equal to three-fourths of the member's final average salary for those retiring under this presumption, and allows for the recalculation of pensions for retirees within five years who would have been eligible. The bill aims to provide additional benefits and protections for deputy sheriffs in certain cities who develop lung diseases in the line of duty.