Bill Text: NY S07537 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Includes step children within the meaning of the term "child" for purposes of additional credits for children of firefighters, police officers, emergency medical technicians and paramedics killed in the line of duty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-23 - REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS [S07537 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S07537-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7537 IN SENATE January 23, 2020 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to civil service credits for step children of firefighters, police officers, emergency medical technicians and paramedics killed in the line of duty The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 85-a of the civil service law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows: 3 (c) For purposes of this section, the term "child" shall include (i) a 4 step child of a firefighter, police officer, emergency medical techni- 5 cian or paramedic killed in the line of duty, or (ii) the child of a 6 surviving spouse of a firefighter, police officer, emergency medical 7 technician or paramedic killed in the line of duty, provided that such 8 child was born prior to the date on which such an individual is killed 9 in the line of duty. 10 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 85-b of the civil service law, as 11 amended by chapter 376 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as 12 follows: 13 1. [Definition] Definitions. (a) As used in this section, "killed in 14 the line of duty" shall mean having died in the performance of duty as 15 the natural and proximate result of the World Trade Center attack on 16 September eleventh, two thousand one or as the natural and proximate 17 result of participation in the rescue effort that was conducted in 18 response to such attack. 19 (b) For purposes of this section, the term "child" shall include (i) a 20 step child of a firefighter, police officer, emergency medical techni- 21 cian or paramedic killed in the line of duty, or (ii) the child of a 22 surviving spouse of a firefighter, police officer, emergency medical 23 technician or paramedic killed in the line of duty, provided that such 24 child was born prior to the date on which such an individual is killed 25 in the line of duty. 26 § 3. Subdivision 1 of section 85-c of the civil service law is amended 27 by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14956-01-0S. 7537 2 1 (c) For purposes of this section, the term "child" shall include (i) a 2 step child of a firefighter, police officer, emergency medical techni- 3 cian or paramedic killed in the line of duty, or (ii) the child of a 4 surviving spouse of a firefighter, police officer, emergency medical 5 technician or paramedic killed in the line of duty, provided that such 6 child was born prior to the date on which such an individual is killed 7 in the line of duty. 8 § 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 9 have become a law.
