Bill Text: NY A09378 | 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 (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-06 - referred to governmental employees [A09378 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09378-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9378

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 6, 2024
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        Introduced by M. of A. LEMONDES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Employees

        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