Assembly Bill A9665

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Deems Lawrence Lakeman to have died as a natural and proximate result of his participation in the World Trade Center rescue, recovery or cleanup operations

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A9665 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
Retirement
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A3052

2021-A9665 - Summary

Deems an application filed with the New York state and local police and fire retirement system by the widow of Lawrence Lakeman as timely filed.

2021-A9665 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9665
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 28, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WALLACE, NORRIS -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Governmental Employees
 
 AN ACT deeming Lawrence Lakeman to have died as a natural and  proximate
   result of his participation in the World Trade Center rescue, recovery
   or cleanup operations
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, rule or  regu-
 lation to the contrary, Lawrence Lakeman, who was previously employed by
 the  New York state police as a trooper and was a member of the New York
 state and local police and fire retirement system,  who  was  granted  a
 state  police disability retirement benefit on April 24, 2007 due to the
 incapacitation he sustained as a result  of  his  participation  in  the
 World  Trade  Center  rescue,  recovery  or cleanup operations, shall be
 deemed to have died as a natural and proximate result of such  incapaci-
 tation,  and  as such, his beneficiary, Audra Lakeman, shall be eligible
 to request and such request shall not be time barred, the conversion  of
 such  retiree's  state  police disability retirement benefit to an acci-
 dental death benefit, if such request to that effect is filed  with  the
 state comptroller within one year from the effective date of this act.
   §  2.  All  costs  of implementing the provisions of this act shall be
 borne by the state of New York and all participating  employers  in  the
 New York state and local police and fire retirement system.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
   FISCAL NOTE. -- Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
   This  bill  would  provide  Audra Lakeman, the beneficiary of deceased
 police officer Lawrence Lakeman's performance of duty  disability  bene-
 fit, the option to resubmit the Application for Conversion of Service or
 Disability  Retirement  to  Accidental  Death Benefit for Victims of the
 2001 World Trade Center Disaster, and that such application  be  consid-
 ered by the New York State and Local Retirement System without regard to
 the  requirement  that such application be filed within two years of the
 retiree's date of death as provided in Section 361 of the Retirement and
 Social Security Law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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2021-A9665A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
Retirement
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A3052

2021-A9665A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Deems an application filed with the New York state and local police and fire retirement system by the widow of Lawrence Lakeman as timely filed.

2021-A9665A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  9665--A
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 28, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. WALLACE, NORRIS, McMAHON, CONRAD, BURKE -- read
   once and referred  to  the  Committee  on  Governmental  Employees  --
   committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
   recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to deem an application filed with the New York  state  and  local
   police  and fire retirement system by the widow of Lawrence Lakeman as
   timely filed
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Notwithstanding  the provisions of any general or special
 law, rule or regulation to the contrary, an application  for  conversion
 of  service  or  disability  retirement to accidental death benefits for
 victims of the 2001 World Trade Center disaster filed by  Audra  Lakeman
 with  the New York state and local police and fire retirement system, on
 behalf of her deceased  husband  Lawrence  Lakeman  who  was  previously
 employed by the New York State Police as a trooper and who was granted a
 disability  retirement  benefit  on  April  24,  2007  which pursuant to
 section 361 of the retirement and social security law had  to  be  filed
 with such retirement system by August 24, 2009 but was filed on December
 16, 2016 shall be considered timely filed.
   §  2.  All  costs  of implementing the provisions of this act shall be
 borne by the state of New York.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
   FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
   This bill would deem the Application  for  Conversion  of  Service  or
 Disability  Retirement  to  Accidental  Death Benefit for Victims of the
 2001 World Trade Center Disaster originally filed by Audra Lakeman,  the
 beneficiary of deceased police officer Lawrence Lakeman's performance of
 duty  disability  benefit,  on  December  16,  2016  to be timely filed.
 Lawrence Lakeman died on August 24, 2007. Such application  for  conver-
 sion  is  required  to  be filed within two years of a retiree's date of
 death as provided in Section 361 of the Retirement and  Social  Security
 Law.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03934-14-2
              

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