Bill Text: NY S04987 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to providing accidental disability retirement benefits for chief fire marshals, assistant chief fire marshals, division supervising fire marshals, supervising marshals, fire marshals and fire marshal trainees in Nassau County.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-17 - RECOMMITTED TO RULES [S04987 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S04987-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4987--B
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 27, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen. MARTINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
          -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
          and  recommitted  to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on
          Civil Service and Pensions in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to
          providing accidental disability retirement  benefits  for  chief  fire
          marshals,  assistant  chief  fire  marshals, division supervising fire
          marshals, supervising fire marshals, fire marshals  and  fire  marshal
          trainees in Nassau county
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The retirement and social security law is amended by adding
     2  a new section 607-i to read as follows:
     3    § 607-i. Performance of duty, disability  retirement  for  chief  fire
     4  marshals,  assistant  chief  fire  marshals,  division  supervising fire
     5  marshals, supervising fire marshals,  fire  marshals  and  fire  marshal
     6  trainees in Nassau county. a.  The county of Nassau shall make the bene-
     7  fits  provided  herein available to chief fire marshals, assistant chief
     8  fire marshals, division  supervising  fire  marshals,  supervising  fire
     9  marshals,  fire  marshals  and  fire  marshal  trainees in the employ of
    10  Nassau county.
    11    b. A member shall be entitled to retirement for disability incurred in
    12  the performance of duty if, at the time application therefor  is  filed,
    13  he or she is:
    14    1. Physically or mentally incapacitated for performance of duty as the
    15  natural  and  proximate result of a disability, not caused by his or her
    16  own willful negligence sustained in such service and  while  actually  a
    17  member of the retirement system; and
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10180-08-6