Bill Text: NY A07326 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that the estate of a person murdered by a retiree from the police pension fund may attach, execute or garnish the retiree's pension.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-18 - held for consideration in governmental employees [A07326 Detail]
Download: New_York-2009-A07326-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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7326
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 27, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. TOBACCO, ALFANO, BURLING, KOLB, TOWNSEND -- read
once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to allowing garnishment of pensions from the New York city
police pension fund by the estate of a person murdered by the retiree
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 13-264 of the administrative code of the city of
2 New York is amended by adding a new closing paragraph to read as
3 follows:
4 NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION OR ANY OTHER
5 LAW, RULE OR REGULATION TO THE CONTRARY, THE BENEFITS BEING RECEIVED BY
6 A PERSON AS A RETIREE FROM THE NEW YORK CITY POLICE PENSION FUND ARE
7 SUBJECT TO EXECUTION, GARNISHMENT, ATTACHMENT OR ANY OTHER PROCESS TO
8 SATISFY A JUDGMENT AGAINST THE RETIREE RECEIVING THE BENEFITS OBTAINED
9 BY THE ESTATE OF A VICTIM WHO WAS MURDERED BY SUCH RETIREE WHO WAS
10 CONVICTED OF SUCH MURDER INCLUDING A JUDGEMENT OBTAINED AS THE RESULT IN
11 A WRONGFUL DEATH ACTION BY THE ESTATE OF SUCH VICTIM AGAINST THE RETI-
12 REE.
13 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09934-01-9
