Bill Text: NY S08785 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that a corrections officer who contracts COVID-19 while employed as a uniformed personnel in institutions under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections and community supervision and suffers a permanent disability or death shall be presumed to have contracted COVID-19 in the performance and discharge of duty and shall be eligible for a performance of duty disability retirement benefit.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-11 - REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS [S08785 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08785-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8785

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 11, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions

        AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in  relation  to
          eligibility for a performance of duty disability retirement benefit

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

     1    Section 1. Section 507-b of the retirement and social security law  is
     2  amended by adding a new subdivision g to read as follows:
     3    g.  Notwithstanding  any  provision of this chapter or of any general,
     4  special or local law to the contrary, a member covered by  this  section
     5  who contracts COVID-19 while employed as a uniformed personnel in insti-
     6  tutions  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the department of corrections and
     7  community supervision, resulting in a  permanent  disability  or  death,
     8  shall  be  presumptive  evidence that it was incurred in the performance
     9  and discharge of duty,  unless  the  contrary  be  proved  by  competent
    10  evidence.    Such individual shall be eligible for a performance of duty
    11  disability retirement benefit as provided in section sixty-three of this
    12  chapter, subject to section sixty-four of this chapter.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14508-01-4