Senate Bill S9091

                             
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                                   9091
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 9, 2022
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 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.
              

                                                            LBD15696-01-2
 S. 9091                             2
 
 CITY  OF  NEW YORK OR THE NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION
 IN A TITLE WHOSE DUTIES  ARE  TO  PROVIDE  MEDICAL,  BEHAVIORAL  HEALTH,
 DENTAL,  OR OTHER HEALTH-RELATED SERVICES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
 ANY  DECEASED  PAID  EMPLOYEE  IN  A  TITLE WHOSE DUTIES WERE TO PROVIDE
 MEDICAL, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH, DENTAL, OR OTHER HEALTH-RELATED SERVICES FOR
 CORRECTIONAL HEALTH SERVICES, A MAYORAL AGENCY,  OR  DEPARTMENT  OF  THE
 CITY  OF  NEW  YORK,  WHETHER  EMPLOYED  BY THE NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND
 HOSPITALS CORPORATION OR SUBCONTRACTORS OR AFFILIATES THEREOF, THE  CITY
 OF  NEW YORK, THE METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, OR THE NEW YORK
 CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY, providing the widow or widower is ineligible  to
 receive  benefits  pursuant  to section three hundred sixty-one-a of the
 retirement and social security law as amended by chapter  seven  hundred
 thirty-three  of  the  laws  of nineteen hundred ninety and the deceased
 member:
   1. Died before the effective date of his or  her  retirement,  as  the
 natural and proximate result of an accident sustained in the performance
 of duty in the service upon which his OR HER membership was based, and
   2.  Did  not cause such accident by his or her own willful negligence,
 and
   3. At the time of such accident  was  actually  a  member  of:  (i)  a
 pension or retirement system of a police department or paid fire depart-
 ment  of  a  city,  town or village; (ii) a pension or retirement system
 covering the police force of the police department of the New York  city
 transit  authority;  (iii)  a  pension or retirement system covering the
 police force of the police department  of  the  New  York  city  housing
 authority;  (iv)  a  pension or retirement system covering the uniformed
 correction force of the New York city department of  correction;  (v)  a
 pension  or  retirement  system  covering  uniformed members of a county
 sheriff's department (outside the city of New York); (vi) a  pension  or
 retirement system covering employees 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
 pension or retirement system covering paid bridge and tunnel members  of
 the New York city employees' retirement system; [or] (viii) a pension or
 retirement  system  covering  paid members of the uniformed force of the
 New York city department of sanitation; OR (IX) A PENSION OR  RETIREMENT
 SYSTEM  COVERING  PAID MEMBERS OF THE NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS
 CORPORATION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.