Bill Text: NY A09200 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 9200 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Increases certain special accidental death benefits paid to widows, widowers or the deceased member's children.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-9)

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-29 - signed chap.347 [A09200 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09200-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         9200--A
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 3, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MARKEY,  SIMANOWITZ,  CERETTO, MILLER, COOK,
          MOSLEY, KAMINSKY, COLTON, RUSSELL, SOLAGES, DenDEKKER, SKOUFIS, BLAKE,
          ROBINSON, ZEBROWSKI, GUNTHER, SALADINO,  McDONOUGH,  MONTESANO,  RAIA,
          GRAF,  BRABENEC  --  Multi-Sponsored  by  -- M. of A. BRENNAN, CROUCH,
          HYNDMAN, LUPINACCI, MAGEE, PEOPLES-STOKES,  RAMOS,  SIMON,  THIELE  --
          read  once  and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees --
          reported and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN  ACT to amend the general municipal law and the retirement and social
          security law, in relation to  increasing  certain  special  accidental
          death benefits
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision c of section 208-f  of  the  general  municipal
     2  law, as amended by chapter 23 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    c.  Commencing  July first, two thousand [fifteen] sixteen the special
     5  accidental death benefit paid to a widow  or  widower  or  the  deceased
     6  member's  children under the age of eighteen or, if a student, under the
     7  age of twenty-three, if the widow or widower has died,  shall  be  esca-
     8  lated  by  adding  thereto an additional percentage of the salary of the
     9  deceased member (as increased pursuant to subdivision b of this section)
    10  in accordance with the following schedule:
    11       calendar year of death
    12       of the deceased member              per centum
    13            1977 or prior                  [207.5%] 216.7%
    14            1978                           [198.5%] 207.5%
    15            1979                           [189.8%] 198.5%
    16            1980                           [181.4%] 189.8%
    17            1981                           [173.2%] 181.4%
    18            1982                           [165.2%] 173.2%
    19            1983                           [157.5%] 165.2%
    20            1984                           [150.0%] 157.5%
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13853-04-6