Senate Bill S9091

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to special accidental death benefits for certain deceased paid employees of the city of New York or the New York city health and hospitals corporation

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

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2021-S9091 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §208-f, Gen Muni L

2021-S9091 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to special accidental death benefits for certain deceased paid employees of the city of New York or the New York city health and hospitals corporation whose duties are to provide medical, behavioral health, dental, or other health-related services.

2021-S9091 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S9091 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9091
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 9, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. GAUGHRAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to special  acci-
   dental  death benefits for certain deceased paid employees of the city
   of New York or the New York city health and hospitals corporation

   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 amended by chapter 457 of the laws of 2017, 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); (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  super-
 vision of employees whose duties are those of an emergency medical tech-
 nician  or  advanced  emergency  medical  technician (as those terms are
 defined in section three thousand one of the public health law); (vii) a
 deceased paid bridge and tunnel member of the New York  city  employees'
 retirement  system;  [or] (viii) a deceased paid member of the uniformed
 force of the New York city department of sanitation; OR (IX) A  DECEASED
 PAID EMPLOYEE, WHETHER FULL-TIME, PART-TIME, HOURLY, OR PER DIEM, OF THE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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