Bill Text: NY S07056 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to providing an increased death benefit for the survivors of Theodore Raffel.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2016-11-28 - VETOED MEMO.286 [S07056 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07056-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 7056                                                  A. 9577
                SENATE - ASSEMBLY
                                     March 21, 2016
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        IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service
          and Pensions
        IN  ASSEMBLY  -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Governmental Employees
        AN ACT to provide for an increased death benefit for the survivors of  a
          deceased police officer
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The legislature finds and declares that the  late  Theodore
     2  Raffel  served  the  village  of  Southampton  for nineteen years, three
     3  hundred sixty-four days and fifteen and one-half hours as a police offi-
     4  cer.  At the time of officer Raffel's death, a situation which  was  not
     5  due  to  negligence  on the part of such individual, there had been paid
     6  into the New York state and local police and fire retirement  system  on
     7  his  behalf  contributions  in  the  amount of approximately one hundred
     8  eighteen thousand dollars.  Nevertheless, the amount of the death  bene-
     9  fit paid to officer Raffel's widow was much less than that amount.
    10    §  2.  Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, the New York
    11  state and local police and fire  retirement  system  is  authorized  and
    12  directed  to  pay  to the beneficiary of police officer Theodore Raffel,
    13  who was employed by the village of Southampton as a police officer  from
    14  1966,  until  his  death on June 1, 1986, the sum of all of the contrib-
    15  utions paid by the village of Southampton to such system  on  behalf  of
    16  such  police  officer,  less  any sums previously paid by such system to
    17  such beneficiary, with interest, compounded annually, calculated at  the
    18  rate  established  in accordance with the provisions of subdivision c of
    19  section 1202 of the retirement and social security  law.  Such  interest
    20  shall be calculated from June 1, 1986 to May 31, 2016.
    21    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
          FISCAL NOTE. -- Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
          This bill would create an additional death benefit paid to the benefi-
        ciary  of  deceased police officer Theodore Raffel. The additional death
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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