Bill Text: NY A07426 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows a duly appointed personal representative of the estate of a victim of the September eleventh, two thousand one terrorist attacks to file a claim with the September eleventh victim compensation fund without being in violation of any restriction on the powers granted to the personal representative relating to the filing of a claim.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-09-09 - signed chap.558 [A07426 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07426-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7426

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 7, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Judiciary

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  estates,  powers and trusts law, in relation to
          allowing a duly appointed personal representative of the estate  of  a
          victim  of  the September eleventh, two thousand one terrorist attacks
          to file a claim with the September eleventh victim compensation fund

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

     1    Section  1.  Subparagraph  3  of  paragraph e of section 11-4.7 of the
     2  estates, powers and trusts law, as added by chapter 73 of  the  laws  of
     3  2002, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (3) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, or any
     5  restrictions  set forth in letters relating to any decedent who [dies as
     6  a result of wounds or injury incurred as a result] is a  victim  of  the
     7  terrorist  attacks  on  September  eleventh,  two  thousand  one, a duly
     8  appointed personal representative is authorized to file and prosecute  a
     9  claim  with  the  fund, and the filing of such a claim for an award from
    10  the fund, and the resulting compromise of any cause of  action  pursuant
    11  to  the  act, shall not violate any restriction on the powers granted to
    12  the personal representative relating to the prosecution or compromise of
    13  any action, the collection of any settlement, or the enforcement of  any
    14  judgment.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11206-01-1