Senate Bill S7883

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Deems Lawrence Lakeman to have died as a natural and proximate result of his participation in the World Trade Center rescue, recovery or cleanup operations

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Civil Service And Pensions 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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2019-S7883 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9973
Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
Retirement
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S4285, A6619
2023-2024: S2519

2019-S7883 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Deems Lawrence Lakeman to have died as a natural and proximate result of his participation in the World Trade Center rescue, recovery or cleanup operations and grants his beneficiary Audra Lakeman the ability to convert such retiree's state police disability retirement benefit to an accidental death benefit.

2019-S7883 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S7883 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7883
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 28, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  GALLIVAN, ORTT -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and
   Pensions
 
 AN ACT deeming Lawrence Lakeman to have died as a natural and  proximate
   result of his participation in the World Trade Center rescue, recovery
   or cleanup operations

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, rule or  regu-
 lation to the contrary, Lawrence Lakeman, who was previously employed by
 the  New York state police as a trooper and was a member of the New York
 state and local police and fire retirement system,  who  was  granted  a
 state  police disability retirement benefit on April 24, 2007 due to the
 incapacitation he sustained as a result  of  his  participation  in  the
 World  Trade  Center  rescue,  recovery  or cleanup operations, shall be
 deemed to have died as a natural and proximate result of such  incapaci-
 tation,  and  as such, his beneficiary, Audra Lakeman, shall be eligible
 to request and such request shall not be time barred, the conversion  of
 such  retiree's  state  police disability retirement benefit to an acci-
 dental death benefit, if such request to that effect is filed  with  the
 state comptroller within one year from the effective date of this act.
   §  2.  All  costs  of implementing the provisions of this act shall be
 borne by the state of New York and all participating  employers  in  the
 New York state and local police and fire retirement system.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
   FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
   This  bill  will  provide  Audra  Lakeman, the beneficiary of deceased
 police officer Lawrence Lakeman's performance of duty  disability  bene-
 fit, the option to resubmit the Application for Conversion of Service or
 Disability  Retirement  to  Accidental  Death Benefit for Victims of the
 2001 World Trade Center Disaster, and that such application  be  consid-
 ered  by the New York State and Local Retirement System (NYSLRS) without
 regard to the requirement that such  application  be  filed  within  two
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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