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May 30, 2012 |
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Senate Bill S7504
2011-2012 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) 35th Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Civil Service And Pensions 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
2011-S7504 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A10558
- Current Committee:
- Senate Civil Service And Pensions
- Law Section:
- Retirement
- Versions Introduced in 2013-2014 Legislative Session:
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S4888, A7140
2011-S7504 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S7504 TITLE OF BILL: An act to authorize the New York city employees' retirement system to consider the application for disability retirement benefits from Peter DiMario PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: To allow Peter DiMario to apply to disability benefits from the New York City Employees' Retirement System. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Section 1 of the bill requires the New York City Employees' Retirement to accept the application for disability retirement benefits of Peter DiMario as if tiled in a timely manner. Section 2 of the bill states that all costs associated with the implementation of this act shall be borne by the State Section 3 is the immediate effective c1ate. JUSTIFICATION: The company where Peter DiMario worked from June of 1984 to December of 2010, closed in December of 2010. Mr. DiMario filed for disability retirement benefits in October of 2011 not realizing that his application should have been filed by March 7, 2011. As a result
2011-S7504 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7504 I N S E N A T E May 30, 2012 ___________ Introduced by Sen. STEWART-COUSINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions AN ACT to authorize the New York city employees' retirement system to consider the application for disability retirement benefits from Peter DiMario THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the application for disability retirement benefits of Peter DiMario, who was employed by the New York city off-track betting corporation from June 1984 until December 2010 when such corporation closed, and is a member of the New York city employees' retirement system, which for reasons not ascribable to his own negligence has been denied a disability retirement from the New York city employees' retirement system, shall be accepted for consideration by the New York city employees' retirement system as if such application had been filed in a timely manner on March 7, 2011. S 2. All costs associated with the implementation of this act shall be borne by the state. S 3. This act shall take effect immediately. FISCAL NOTE: PROVISIONS OF PROPOSED LEGISLATION: The proposed legis- lation would authorize the New York City Employees' Retirement System ("NYCERS") to accept for consideration an application for Disability Retirement benefits from Peter DiMario. BACKGROUND: Mr. DiMario became a Tier IV member of NYCERS on June 18, 1984 and is covered under the provisions of Retirement and Social Secu- rity Law (RSSL") Article 15. RSSL Article 15, Section 605 provides that an application for Disabil- ity Retirement must be filed either: (a) By a vested member incapacitated as the result of a qualifying World Trade Center condition as defined in RSSL Section 2, at any time, or (b) Within three months from the last date the member was being paid on the payroll or, EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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