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Senate Bill S1670

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Authorizes William J. Horrigan to apply for retroactive accidental disability retirement benefits

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2015-S1670 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
Retirement

2015-S1670 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes William J. Horrigan to apply for retroactive accidental disability retirement benefits.

2015-S1670 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S1670 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  1670

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 13, 2015
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to grant William J. Horrigan eligibility for accidental disabili-
  ty retirement benefits

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

  Section  1.  Notwithstanding  any  provision  of  law to the contrary,
William J. Horrigan, a retiree receiving pension benefits from  the  New
York state and local employees' retirement system since May 3, 2002, who
prior  to  his  retirement,  through no negligence of his own, broke his
neck and became physically incapacitated for performance of duty  during
2002  while actually in service in his public employment by the Bingham-
ton-Johnson City joint sewage board, a participating employer, shall  be
deemed entitled to an accidental disability retirement allowance, pursu-
ant  to  section  63  of  the retirement and social security law, on and
after May 3, 2002, if within 1 year of the effective date of  this  act,
he files an application therefor with the state comptroller.
  S 2. All costs associated with the implementation of the provisions of
this  act  shall  be  borne  by the Binghamton-Johnson City joint sewage
board.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07425-01-5

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