Assembly Actions -
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Assembly Bill A9378
2023-2024 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
LEMONDES
Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2023-A9378 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Senate Version of this Bill:
- S8785
- Current Committee:
- Assembly Governmental Employees
- Law Section:
- Retirement and Social Security Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §507-b, R & SS L
2023-A9378 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Provides that a corrections officer who contracts COVID-19 while employed as a uniformed personnel in institutions under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections and community supervision and suffers a permanent disability or death shall be presumed to have contracted COVID-19 in the performance and discharge of duty and shall be eligible for a performance of duty disability retirement benefit.
2023-A9378 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 9378 I N A S S E M B L Y March 6, 2024 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LEMONDES -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Governmental Employees AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to eligibility for a performance of duty disability retirement benefit THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 507-b of the retirement and social security law is amended by adding a new subdivision g to read as follows: G. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF THIS CHAPTER OR OF ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL OR LOCAL LAW TO THE CONTRARY, A MEMBER COVERED BY THIS SECTION WHO CONTRACTS COVID-19 WHILE EMPLOYED AS A UNIFORMED PERSONNEL IN INSTI- TUTIONS UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION, RESULTING IN A PERMANENT DISABILITY OR DEATH, SHALL BE PRESUMPTIVE EVIDENCE THAT IT WAS INCURRED IN THE PERFORMANCE AND DISCHARGE OF DUTY, UNLESS THE CONTRARY BE PROVED BY COMPETENT EVIDENCE. SUCH INDIVIDUAL SHALL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A PERFORMANCE OF DUTY DISABILITY RETIREMENT BENEFIT AS PROVIDED IN SECTION SIXTY-THREE OF THIS CHAPTER, SUBJECT TO SECTION SIXTY-FOUR OF THIS CHAPTER. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD14508-01-4
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