STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7768 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 20, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DenDEKKER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees AN ACT to amend the general municipal law in relation to disability retirement for persons receiving benefits from the victims compen- sation fund for the terrorist attacks occurring on September eleventh, two thousand one The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new 2 section 207-r to read as follows: 3 § 207-r. Performance of duty disability retirement. Notwithstanding 4 the provisions of any general, special or local law or administrative 5 code to the contrary, but except for the purposes of the workers' 6 compensation law and the labor law, a member of the New York city 7 employee retirement system who has previously received benefits from the 8 victims compensation fund for the terrorist attacks occurring on Septem- 9 ber eleventh, two thousand one, who completes an application for disa- 10 bility retirement shall be presumed to have such disability as a result 11 of the performance or discharge of his or her duties, unless the contra- 12 ry be proved by competent evidence. Such disability retirement shall be 13 approved unless it is proved such member of the New York city employee 14 retirement system has not received benefits from the victims compen- 15 sation fund for the terrorist attacks occurring on September eleventh, 16 two thousand one. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11599-01-9