Senate Bill S5831

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the disability retirement for safety and security officers

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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-S5831 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6342
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Retirement and Social Security Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §607-a, R & SS L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S8918, A7833

2023-S5831 - Summary

Relates to the disability retirement for safety and security officers.

2023-S5831 - Sponsor Memo

2023-S5831 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5831
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 17, 2023
                                ___________
 
 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
   the disability retirement for safety and security officers
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 607-a of the retirement and social security law, as
 added by chapter 722 of the laws of 1996, subdivision b  as  amended  by
 chapter  322  of the laws of 2021, and subdivision c as added by chapter
 653 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows:
   § 607-a. Performance of duty disability retirement.  a.  Any  security
 hospital  treatment  assistant, as that term is defined in subdivision i
 of section eighty-nine of this chapter, OR  ANY  QUALIFYING  MEMBER,  AS
 SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH ONE OF SUBDIVISION A OF SECTION EIGHT-
 Y-NINE-T OF THIS CHAPTER, AS AMENDED BY CHAPTER FOUR HUNDRED SEVENTY-SIX
 OF THE LAWS OF TWO THOUSAND EIGHTEEN, who becomes physically or mentally
 incapacitated for the performance of duties as the natural and proximate
 result,  of  an injury, sustained in the performance or discharge of his
 or her duties by, or as the natural and proximate result of, an  act  of
 any  person  confined  in  an  institution under the jurisdiction of the
 office of mental health, or by any person who has been committed to such
 institution by any court shall be paid a performance of duty  disability
 retirement  allowance  equal to that which is provided in section sixty-
 three of this chapter, subject to the provisions of  section  sixty-four
 of this chapter.
   b.  Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or of any general or
 special law to the contrary,  a  member  covered  by  this  section  who
 contracts  HIV  (where there may have been an exposure to a bodily fluid
 of an incarcerated individual or a person described in subdivision a  of
 this  section  as a natural and proximate result of an act of any incar-
 cerated individual or person described in such subdivision  a  that  may
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08429-02-3
              

2023-S5831A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6342
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Retirement and Social Security Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §607-a, R & SS L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S8918, A7833

2023-S5831A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the disability retirement for safety and security officers.

2023-S5831A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S5831A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  5831--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 17, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
   -- recommitted to the Committee  on  Civil  Service  and  Pensions  in
   accordance  with  Senate  Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
   amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
   tee
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to
   the disability retirement for safety and security officers
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 607-a of the retirement and social security law, as
 added  by  chapter  722 of the laws of 1996, subdivision b as amended by
 chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, and subdivision c as added  by  chapter
 653 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows:
   §  607-a.  Performance  of duty disability retirement. a. Any security
 hospital treatment assistant, as that term is defined in  subdivision  i
 of  section  eighty-nine  of  this chapter, OR ANY QUALIFYING MEMBER, AS
 SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH ONE OF SUBDIVISION A OF SECTION EIGHT-
 Y-NINE-T OF THIS CHAPTER, AS AMENDED BY CHAPTER FOUR HUNDRED SEVENTY-SIX
 OF THE LAWS OF TWO THOUSAND EIGHTEEN, who becomes physically or mentally
 incapacitated for the performance of duties as the natural and proximate
 result, of an injury, sustained in the performance or discharge  of  his
 or  her  duties by, or as the natural and proximate result of, an act of
 any person confined in an institution  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the
 office of mental health, or by any person who has been committed to such
 institution  by any court shall be paid a performance of duty disability
 retirement allowance equal to that which is provided in  section  sixty-
 three  of  this chapter, subject to the provisions of section sixty-four
 of this chapter.
   b. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or of any general  or
 special  law  to  the  contrary,  a  member  covered by this section who
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08429-04-4
              

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