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Senate Bill S10435

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Permits surviving spouses of certain members to retain accidental death benefits upon remarriage

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Civil Service And Pensions Committee

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2025-S10435 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
Retirement and Social Security Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §607, R & SS L

2025-S10435 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits surviving spouses of certain members to retain accidental death benefits upon remarriage; provides for regaining of any such lost benefits prior to the rule change.

2025-S10435 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S10435 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10435
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 15, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
 
 AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in  relation  to
   permitting  surviving  spouses of certain members to retain accidental
   death benefits upon remarriage
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision b of section 607 of the retirement and social
 security law, as amended by chapter 105 of the laws of 2005, is  amended
 to read as follows:
   b.  If  an eligible beneficiary receiving the accidental death benefit
 hereunder becomes ineligible to continue to receive  such  benefit,  the
 benefit  shall  be continued for all other members of the eligible class
 of beneficiaries and, if none, to each successive class, if any,  during
 their  eligibility therefor. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF LAW TO THE
 CONTRARY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO SECTION SIX HUNDRED ONE  OF  THIS
 ARTICLE,  A  SURVIVING  SPOUSE  REMAINS  AN ELIGIBLE BENEFICIARY FOR THE
 ACCIDENTAL DEATH BENEFIT HEREUNDER UPON REMARRIAGE.
   § 2. Section 607 of the retirement and social security law is  amended
 by adding a new subdivision d to read as follows:
   D.  ANY SURVIVING SPOUSE WHOSE RECEIPT OF THE ACCIDENTAL DEATH BENEFIT
 HEREUNDER HAS CEASED AS A RESULT OF THE  REMARRIAGE  OF  SUCH  SURVIVING
 SPOUSE  SHALL  BE  DEEMED  ELIGIBLE FOR SUCH BENEFIT AND SHALL HAVE SUCH
 BENEFIT REINSTATED RETROACTIVE TO THE DATE OF SUCH REMARRIAGE.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14574-01-6

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