Sec. 23. (a) This section applies after December 31, 2017, to a police reserve officer who is unable to pursue the officer’s usual vocation as the result of an injury or illness occurring in the course of or as the result of the performance of duties as a police reserve officer.

     (b) A unit shall pay a police reserve officer a weekly amount that may not be less than the Indiana minimum wage established under IC 22-2-2 and computed on the basis of a forty (40) hour work week.

     (c) A unit shall pay the police reserve officer the weekly amount described in subsection (b) for the lesser of:

(1) the period the police reserve officer is unable to pursue the officer’s usual vocation; or

(2) two hundred sixty (260) weeks.

As added by P.L.180-2017, SEC.6.