Assembly Bill A11125

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to allowing for the electronic submission of a notice that a member of a retirement system participated in World Trade Center rescue, recovery or cleanup operations for a qualifying period

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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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2019-A11125 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8501
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
Retirement and Social Security Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§2, 363-bb & 605, R & SS L; amd §13-168, NYC Ad Cd
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A6934

2019-A11125 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows for the electronic submission of a notice that a member of a retirement system participated in World Trade Center rescue, recovery or cleanup operations for a qualifying period.

2019-A11125 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11125
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             November 6, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Abbate) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees
 
 AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law and the  adminis-
   trative  code of the city of New York, in relation to allowing for the
   electronic submission of a notice that a member of a retirement system
   participated in World Trade Center rescue, recovery or  cleanup  oper-
   ations for a qualifying period
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph (a) of  paragraph  36  of  section  2  of  the
 retirement  and  social  security  law, as amended by chapter 266 of the
 laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   (a) "Qualifying World Trade Center condition" shall mean a  qualifying
 condition  or  impairment  of health resulting in disability to a member
 who participated in World Trade Center rescue, recovery or cleanup oper-
 ations for a qualifying  period,  as  those  terms  are  defined  below,
 provided  the  following  conditions  have been met: (i) such member, or
 eligible beneficiary in the case of the member's death, must have EITHER
 filed a written and sworn statement with the member's retirement  system
 on  a form provided by such system, OR ELECTRONICALLY SUBMITTED A STATE-
 MENT THROUGH A SECURE ONLINE PORTAL MAINTAINED BY THE  MEMBER'S  RETIRE-
 MENT  SYSTEM  THAT  HAS DULY VALIDATED THE MEMBER'S IDENTITY, indicating
 the underlying dates and locations of employment not later than  Septem-
 ber  eleventh,  two thousand twenty-two, and (ii) such member has either
 successfully  passed  a  physical  examination  for  entry  into  public
 service,  or  authorized release of all relevant medical records, if the
 member did not undergo a physical  examination  for  entry  into  public
 service;  and  (iii) there is no evidence of the qualifying condition or
 impairment of health that formed the basis for the  disability  in  such
 physical  examination  for  entry into public service or in the relevant
 medical records, prior to September eleventh, two  thousand  one  except
 for  such  member,  or  eligible beneficiary in the case of the member's
 death, of a local retirement system of a city with a population  of  one
 million  or more that is covered by section 13-551 of the administrative
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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