assembly Bill A10528

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to establishing a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) public employee death benefit

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  • Introduced
  • In Committee
  • On Floor Calendar
    • Passed Senate
    • Passed Assembly
  • Delivered to Governor
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Assembly Actions - Lowercase
Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
May 30, 2020 signed chap.89
delivered to governor
May 28, 2020 returned to senate
passed assembly
message of necessity - 3 day message
ordered to third reading rules cal.59
substituted for a10528
May 28, 2020 substituted by s8427
rules report cal.59
reported
reported referred to rules
referred to ways and means

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A10528 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8427
Law Section:
Retirement and Social Security Law
Laws Affected:
Add §§61-b, 361-b, 509-a & 607-i, R & SS L; amd §§512 & 2575, Ed L; amd §1266-h, Pub Auth L; add §§13-149.1, 13-244.1, 13-347.1 & 13-544.1, NYC Ad Cd
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A3988

A10528 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) public employee death benefit for individuals who reported to their usual place of employment or an alternate worksite at the direction of their employer on or after March 1, 2020 and such individual contracted COVID-19 within 45 days of reporting to such workplace as confirmed by a laboratory test or by a licensed physician and such individual died on or before December 31, 2020.

A10528 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf


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

                                  10528

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 28, 2020
                               ___________

Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES  -- (at request of M. of A. Abbate,
  Heastie, Peoples-Stokes, Weinstein, Abinanti, Arroyo, Aubry, Barnwell,
  Barrett, Barron,  Benedetto,  Bichotte,  Blake,  Braunstein,  Bronson,
  Buchwald,  Burke,  Buttenschon, Cahill, Carroll, Colton, Cook, Crespo,
  Cruz, Cusick,  Cymbrowitz,  Darling,  Davila,  De La Rosa,  DenDekker,
  Dickens,  Dilan,  Dinowitz, D'Urso, Eichenstein, Englebright, Epstein,
  Fahy, Fall, Fernandez, Frontus, Galef, Gantt, Glick, Gottfried,  Grif-
  fin,  Gunther, Hevesi, Hunter, Hyndman, Jacobson, Jaffee, Jean-Pierre,
  Jones, Joyner, Kim, Lavine, Lentol, Lifton, Lupardo, Magnarelli, McDo-
  nald, McMahon, M. G. Miller, Mosley, Niou,  Nolan,  O'Donnell,  Ortiz,
  Otis,  Paulin,  Perry, Pheffer Amato, Pichardo, Pretlow, Quart, Ramos,
  Reyes,  Richardson,  Rivera,  Rodriguez,  D. Rosenthal,  L. Rosenthal,
  Rozic,  Ryan,  Santabarbara,  Sayegh,  Schimminger,  Seawright, Simon,
  Simotas, Solages, Steck, Stern, Stirpe, Taylor, Thiele, Vanel, Walker,
  Wallace, Weprin, Williams, Woerner, Wright, Zebrowski) -- (at  request
  of  the  Governor)  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways
  and Means

AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security  law,  the  education
  law,  the  public  authorities  law and the administrative code of the
  city of New York, in relation to establishing  a  coronavirus  disease
  2019  (COVID-19)  benefit  for  public  employee  death  benefits; and
  providing for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration there-
  of

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

  Section 1. The retirement and social security law is amended by adding
a new section 61-b to read as follows:
  §  61-B.  COVID-19  BENEFIT. A. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF
THIS ARTICLE OR OF ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL OR LOCAL LAW  TO  THE  CONTRARY,
AND SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF DETERMINING ELIGIBILITY FOR BENEFITS UNDER
THIS SECTION, WHERE:
  1.  A MEMBER REPORTED IN PERSON TO SUCH MEMBER'S USUAL PLACE OF PUBLIC
EMPLOYMENT AT THE DIRECTION OF SUCH MEMBER'S PUBLIC EMPLOYER OR  TO  ANY
ALTERNATE  WORKSITE  AS  DIRECTED  BY  SUCH PUBLIC EMPLOYER, ON OR AFTER

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets