Bill Text: NY S09631 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes Michael Winston Hoard, the widower of Kathy Marie Dwyer-Hoard, to file a new service retirement application and an option election form on behalf of his deceased wife with the New York state and local employees' retirement system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-07 - referred to governmental employees [S09631 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09631-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9631

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 16, 2024
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT in relation to authorizing Michael Winston Hoard, the widower  of
          Kathy  Marie Dwyer-Hoard, to file a new service retirement application
          and option election form with the New York state and local  employees'
          retirement system on behalf of such deceased member

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

     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
     2  Michael Winston Hoard, the widower of Kathy Marie Dwyer-Hoard, who was a
     3  member of the New York state and local employees' retirement system, who
     4  died after she commenced the filing  of  paperwork  for  retirement  but
     5  prior to her selected retirement date, shall be authorized to file a new
     6  service  retirement application and an option election form on behalf of
     7  his deceased wife with a joint allowance full  option,  if,  within  one
     8  year  from  the  effective  date  of this act, he shall submit a request
     9  therefor to the state comptroller. In addition, her date  of  retirement
    10  shall be deemed to have been October 21, 2019.  Once such application is
    11  received,  any  rights  or benefits to the pre-retirement ordinary death
    12  benefit payable upon the death  of  a  member  in  service  pursuant  to
    13  section  448  of the retirement and social security law shall be waived.
    14  Any amounts paid by the New York state and local  employees'  retirement
    15  system  as  the  result of the death of Kathy Marie Dwyer-Hoard prior to
    16  the filing of the request for a service retirement benefit  pursuant  to
    17  this section shall be deducted from the service retirement benefit paya-
    18  ble thereafter.
    19    §  2.  Any additional costs for this act shall be paid by the state of
    20  New York.
    21    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15629-01-4