Bill Text: NY S04734 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 4734 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Authorizes the payment of ordinary disability retirement benefits by the New York state teachers' retirement system to Christine M. Allen, the widow of Lawrence L. Allen, if she shall file an application for such benefits with the retirement board of such retirement system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-07 - PRINT NUMBER 4734A [S04734 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S04734-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4734--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 13, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  LITTLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
          -- 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  commit-
          tee
        AN  ACT to authorize the payment of ordinary disability retirement bene-
          fits by the New York state teachers' retirement system to the widow of
          Lawrence L.  Allen
          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  Christine  M. Allen, the widow of Lawrence L. Allen, who was a member of
     3  the New York state teachers' retirement system, who prior to his  death,
     4  in  the presence of a notary public, completed and mailed an application
     5  for an ordinary disability retirement and a retirement election form  to
     6  the  New York state teachers' retirement system, and who died before the
     7  application was received by the  New  York  state  teachers'  retirement
     8  system,  shall be authorized to re-file such application and election on
     9  behalf of her deceased husband, if within 1 year of the  effective  date
    10  of  this act she shall file a request therefor with the retirement board
    11  of the New York state teachers' retirement system.  Such application for
    12  an ordinary disability retirement and retirement option  election  shall
    13  be  deemed  to  have  become effective on March 18, 1999. All retirement
    14  benefits payable pursuant to the provisions of this act shall be paid to
    15  Christine M. Allen and shall be in lieu  of  any  other  death  benefits
    16  payable.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
          FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
          This  bill  would  allow  Christine M. Allen, the widow of Lawrence L.
        Allen who was a Tier 1 member of the New York State Teachers' Retirement
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06419-06-6