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NY S06093
Bill
Status
12/16/2022
Primary Sponsor
Andrew Gounardes
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AI Summary
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Amends the Retirement and Social Security Law to establish that heart disease causing disability in members of the New York State and Local Employees' Retirement System and Police and Fire Retirement System is presumptive evidence the disability resulted from job performance and duty.
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Eliminates requirements for accidental disability benefits based on heart disease to prove the member sustained a specific accident, that incapacity was accident-related, or that notice was provided.
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Allows the 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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Increases disability benefits for police officers with heart disease from 50% of salary (current performance-of-duty rate) to 75% of salary, minus workers' compensation.
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Projected to cost approximately $5.6 million annually in increased retirement contributions ($2.3 million by the State and $3.3 million by local employers) plus a one-time past service cost of $13.2 million to the State.
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
VETOED MEMO.123
12/16/2022