S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4517
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
April 5, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. BALL -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
AN ACT to prohibit the reduction of the disability retirements of
responders, injured at the site of the World Trade Center terrorist
attack, by any workers' compensation payments received by such first
responders
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the
2 disability retirement benefits from any public retirement system of the
3 state, as defined in section 501 of the retirement and social security
4 law, of any retired member of such system who was a police officer, a
5 firefighter or certified first responder, as defined in section 3001 of
6 the public health law, and whose disability arose as the natural and
7 proximate result of participation in the rescue effort conducted in
8 response to the World Trade Center attack on September 1, 2001, shall
9 not be reduced or set off by the amounts of any workers' compensation
10 benefits paid or payable to such retiree.
11 All workers' compensation benefits paid or payable to every such reti-
12 ree, shall be payable in addition to any disability retirement for which
13 the retiree is eligible.
14 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09796-01-3