Assembly Bill A10018

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to increasing certain special accidental death benefits

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  • 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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2019-A10018 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §208-f, Gen Muni L; amd §361-a, R & SS L

2019-A10018 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to increasing certain special accidental death benefits; increases the special accidental death benefit paid to a widow or widower or the deceased member's children under the age of eighteen, or if a student, under the age of twenty-three.

2019-A10018 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10018
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 4, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Governmental Employees
 
 AN  ACT to amend the general municipal law and the retirement and social
   security law, in relation to  increasing  certain  special  accidental
   death benefits
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision c of section 208-f  of  the  general  municipal
 law,  as  amended by chapter 382 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read
 as follows:
   c. Commencing July first, two thousand [nineteen] TWENTY  the  special
 accidental  death  benefit  paid  to  a 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, shall be esca-
 lated by adding thereto an additional percentage of the  salary  of  the
 deceased member (as increased pursuant to subdivision b of this section)
 in accordance with the following schedule:
      calendar year of death
      of the deceased member              per centum
           1977 or prior                  [246.1%] 256.5%
           1978                           [236%] 246.1%
           1979                           [226.2%] 236%
           1980                           [216.7%] 226.2%
           1981                           [207.5%] 216.7%
           1982                           [198.5%] 207.5%
           1983                           [189.8%] 198.5%
           1984                           [181.4%] 189.8%
           1985                           [173.2%] 181.4%
           1986                           [165.2%] 173.2%
           1987                           [157.5%] 165.2%
           1988                           [150.0%] 157.5%
           1989                           [142.7%] 150.0%
           1990                           [135.7%] 142.7%
           1991                           [128.8%] 135.7%
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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