Assembly Bill A6499

Signed By Governor
2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides for special accidental death benefits for widows or widowers of certain deputy sheriff members of the New York city sheriff's department

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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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2023-A6499 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6216
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §208-f, Gen Muni L

2023-A6499 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for special accidental death benefits for widows or widowers of certain deputy sheriff members of the New York city sheriff's department.

2023-A6499 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6499
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 12, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Governmental Employees
 
 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to special  acci-
   dental death benefits for widows or widowers of certain deputy sheriff
   members of the New York city sheriff's department

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision a of section 208-f  of  the  general  municipal
 law,  as  amended  by chapter 457 of the laws of 2017, the opening para-
 graph as amended by chapter 782 of the laws of 2022, is amended to  read
 as follows:
   a.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the special accidental
 death benefit provided by this section shall be paid  to  the  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, or to the deceased member's parents if the member  has  no  widow,
 widower,  children under the age of eighteen, or a student under the age
 of twenty-three, of: (i) a deceased member of a  pension  or  retirement
 system of a police department or paid fire department of a city, town or
 village;  (ii)  a deceased paid member of the police force of the police
 department of the New York city transit authority; (iii) a deceased paid
 member of the police force of the police department of the New York city
 housing  authority;  (iv)  a  deceased  paid  member  of  the  uniformed
 correction  force  of  the New York city department of correction; (v) a
 deceased paid uniformed member of a county sheriff's department (outside
 the city of New York); (vi) a deceased employee of the city of New  York
 or  the  New York city health and hospitals corporation in a title whose
 duties are those of an emergency medical technician or advanced emergen-
 cy medical technician (as those terms are defined in section three thou-
 sand one of the public health law), or in a title whose  duties  require
 the  supervision  of  employees  whose  duties are those of an emergency
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10218-02-3
              

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