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NY A05201
Bill
Status
3/6/2023
Primary Sponsor
Stacey Pheffer Amato
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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 police officers is presumptive evidence of job-related injury, with the presumption rebuttable only by competent evidence that the disability is not a natural result of duty performance.
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Eliminates the requirement for members applying for accidental disability benefits due to heart disease to prove they sustained an accident or provided notice thereof; the heart disease presumption alone establishes eligibility.
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Applies to members of the New York State and Local Employees' Retirement System and the New York State and Local Police and Fire Retirement System, including uniformed court officers, peace officers, and fire marshals.
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Increases disability benefits for affected police officers from 50% of salary (performance-of-duty benefit) to 75% of salary (accidental disability benefit), less workers' compensation.
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Estimated annual costs of approximately $1.2 million for NYSLERS and $4.3 million for NYSLPFRS in fiscal year 2024, plus one-time past service costs of $12.5 million and $111,000 respectively; takes effect immediately.
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
referred to governmental employees
1/3/2024