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Senate Bill S5239

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides a special accidental death benefit to deputy sheriff members of the New York city employees' retirement system

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2009-S5239 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง208-f, Gen Muni L

2009-S5239 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides a special accidental death benefit to deputy sheriff members of the New York city employees' retirement system.

2009-S5239 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S5239 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  5239

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 27, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions

AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation  to  providing  a
  special  accidental death benefit to deputy sheriff members of the New
  York city employees' retirement system

  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  OR  NEW YORK CITY 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 techni-
cian  (as  those  terms are defined in section three thousand one of the
public health law); or (vi) a deceased paid bridge and tunnel member  of

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10380-01-9

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