Bill Text: NY A04715 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the New York state auxiliary officer death benefit fund to provide a death benefit to the families of auxiliary officers who died in the line of duty during the state of emergency declared by the governor pursuant to section twenty-nine of the executive law beginning March 7, 2020.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to local governments [A04715 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A04715-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4715

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 5, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. STERN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Local Governments

        AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to  establishing  the
          New York state auxiliary officer death benefit fund

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and  may  be  cited  as  "Anthony's
     2  law".
     3    § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 99-ii to
     4  read as follows:
     5    §  99-ii.  New  York  state  auxiliary  officer death benefit fund. 1.
     6  There is hereby established in the joint  custody  of  the  state  comp-
     7  troller and the commissioner of the department of taxation and finance a
     8  special  fund  to be known as the New York state auxiliary officer death
     9  benefit fund. Moneys in this fund shall be kept separate and not commin-
    10  gled with any other moneys in the custody of  the  comptroller  and  the
    11  commissioner of taxation and finance.
    12    2.  Such  fund  shall consist of the moneys transferred thereto by the
    13  comptroller pursuant to this section.
    14    3. All moneys in the New York state auxiliary  officer  death  benefit
    15  fund  shall be available, subject to appropriation, for the payment of a
    16  death benefit in an amount not to exceed ten thousand dollars to  auxil-
    17  iary officers who died in the line of duty during the state of emergency
    18  declared  by  the governor pursuant to section twenty-nine of the execu-
    19  tive law beginning March seventh,  two  thousand  twenty.  Such  benefit
    20  shall  be  paid  to  the  surviving spouse and children of the auxiliary
    21  officer and shall be divided equally between the  surviving  spouse  and
    22  each  child;  provided,  however,  that if there is no surviving spouse,
    23  such benefit shall be paid to the children of the auxiliary officer  and
    24  shall be divided equally between such children. For the purposes of this

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06796-01-1
        A. 4715                             2

     1  section,  "auxiliary officer" shall mean a member of an auxiliary police
     2  organization authorized by local law.
     3    4.  All  payment  of  moneys from the New York state auxiliary officer
     4  death benefit fund shall be made on the audit and warrant of  the  state
     5  comptroller.
     6    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.