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NY A07004
Bill
Status
4/19/2021
Primary Sponsor
Peter Abbate
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AI Summary
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Amends Section 363-a of the Retirement and Social Security Law to establish that heart disease causing disability or death in police officers is presumptive evidence of work-related injury unless proven otherwise by competent evidence.
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Creates new Section 809 eliminating requirements for accidental disability retirement applicants with heart disease to prove they sustained an accident, that the incapacity relates to an accident, or that notice was provided.
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Allows the heart disease presumption to be rebutted only by competent evidence that the disability is not the natural and proximate result of job performance and duty.
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Applies to members of the New York State and Local Employees' Retirement System (ERS) and the New York State and Local Police and Fire Retirement System (PFRS).
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Projected to cost approximately $5.6 million annually ($2.3 million state, $3.3 million local employers) plus $13.2 million one-time past service cost to ERS.
Legislative Description
Relates to the effect and rebuttal of certain medical presumptions relating to heart disease; provides that, for certain members, any condition of impairment of health caused by a disease of the heart, resulting in disability, shall be presumptive evidence that such disability was incurred in the performance and discharge of duty and the natural and proximate result of an accident.
Last Action
substituted by s6093a
6/2/2022