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                                  6035

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             August 21, 2015
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Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation  to  providing  a
  special  accidental  death  benefit  to employees of the department of
  sanitation of the city of New York

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  a  of section 208-f of the general municipal
law, as separately amended by chapters 583 and 742 of the laws of  2004,
is amended to read as follows:
  a.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the special accidental
death benefit provided by this section shall be paid  to  the  widow  or
widower or the deceased member's children under the age of eighteen, or,
if  a student under the age of twenty-three, if the widow or widower has
died of: (i) a deceased member of a pension or retirement  system  of  a
police  department  or  paid fire department of a city, town or village;
(ii) a deceased paid member of the police force of the police department
of the New York city transit authority; (iii) a deceased paid member  of
the  police  force of the police department of the New York city housing
authority; (iv) a deceased paid member of the uniformed correction force
of the New York city department  of  correction;  (v)  a  deceased  paid
uniformed  member  of a county sheriff's department (outside the city of
New York); [or] (vi) a deceased employee of the city of New York or  the
New  York  city health and hospitals corporation in a title whose duties
are those of an  emergency  medical  technician  or  advanced  emergency
medical technician (as those terms are defined in section three thousand
one  of  the  public health law), or in a title whose duties require the
supervision of employees whose duties are those of an emergency  medical
technician  or advanced emergency medical technician (as those terms are
defined in section three thousand one of the  public  health  law);  [or
(vi)]  (VII)  a  deceased  paid bridge and tunnel member of the New York

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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city employees' retirement system; OR (VIII) A DECEASED EMPLOYEE OF  THE
DEPARTMENT OF SANITATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, providing the widow or
widower  is  ineligible  to  receive  benefits pursuant to section three
hundred  sixty-one-a  of the retirement and social security law as added
by chapter four hundred seventy-two of  the  laws  of  nineteen  hundred
seventy-eight and the deceased member:
  1.  Died  before  the  effective date of his or her retirement, as the
natural and proximate result of an accident sustained in the performance
of duty in the service upon which his membership was based, and
  2. Did not cause such accident by his or her own  willful  negligence,
and
  3.  At  the  time  of  such  accident  was actually a member of: (i) a
pension or retirement system of a police department or paid fire depart-
ment of a city, town or village; (ii) a  pension  or  retirement  system
covering  the police force of the police department of the New York city
transit authority; (iii) a pension or  retirement  system  covering  the
police  force  of  the  police  department  of the New York city housing
authority; (iv) a pension or retirement system  covering  the  uniformed
correction  force  of  the New York city department of correction; (v) a
pension or retirement system covering  uniformed  members  of  a  county
sheriff's department (outside the city of New York); [or] (vi) a pension
or  retirement system covering employees of the city of New York, or the
New York city health and hospitals corporation in a title  whose  duties
are  those  of  an  emergency  medical  technician or advanced emergency
medical technician (as those terms are defined in section three thousand
one of the public health law), or in a title whose  duties  require  the
supervision  of employees whose duties are those of an emergency medical
technician or advanced emergency medical technician (as those terms  are
defined  in  section  three  thousand one of the public health law); [or
(vi)] (VII) a pension or retirement  system  covering  paid  bridge  and
tunnel  members  of  the  New York city employees' retirement system; OR
(VIII) A PENSION OR RETIREMENT SYSTEM COVERING EMPLOYEES OF THE  DEPART-
MENT OF SANITATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.