Assembly Bill A9378

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to eligibility for a performance of duty disability retirement benefit

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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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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