File #: SLR 0108-2002    Version: * Name: Providing special accidental death benefits and accidental death benefits to registered domestic partners (S.7772, A.11799)
Type: SLR Status: Adopted
Committee: Committee on State and Federal Legislation
On agenda: 6/19/2002
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: State Legislation Resolution requesting the New York State Legislature to pass bills introduced by Committee on Rules, S.7772, and Committee on Rules, A.11799, "AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, the administrative code of the city of New York, the retirement and social security law and the education law, in relation to providing special accidental death benefits and accidental death benefits to registered domestic partners of deceased members of the New York city police pension fund, subchapter two, the New York city fire department pension fund, subchapter two, the New York city employees' retirement system, the New York city teachers' retirement system and the board of education retirement system of the city of New York".
Sponsors: Maria Baez, Tracy L. Boyland, Hiram Monserrate, Philip Reed, Alan J. Gerson, Helen Sears
Council Member Sponsors: 6
Attachments: 1. Fiscal Impact Statement, 2. Stated Meeting - Hearing Transcript - 6/19, 3. Hearing Transcript
State Legislation Resolution No. 108 Title State Legislation Resolution requesting the New York State Legislature to pass bills introduced by Committee on Rules, S.7772, and Committee on Rules, A.11799, "AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, the administrative code of the city of New York, the retirement and social security law and the education law, in relation to providing special accidental death benefits and accidental death benefits to registered domestic partners of deceased members of the New York city police pension fund, subchapter two, the New York city fire department pension fund, subchapter two, the New York city employees' retirement system, the New York city teachers' retirement system and the board of education retirement system of the city of New York". Body By Council Member Baez; also Council Members Boyland, Monserrate, Reed, Gerson and Sears Whereas, bills have been introduced in the New York State Legislature by Committee on Rules, S.7772, and Committee on Rules, A.11799, "AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, the administrative code of the city of New York, the retirement and social security law and the education law, in relation to providing special accidental death benefits and accidental death benefits to registered domestic partners of deceased members of the New York city police pension fund, subchapter two, the New York city fire department pension fund, subchapter two, the New York city employees' retirement system, the New York city teachers' retirement system and the board of education retirement system of the city of New York"; and Whereas, the enactment of the above State Legislation requires the concurrence of the Council of the City of New York as the local legislative body; now, therefore, be it Resolved, that the Council of the City of New York, in accordance with the provisions of Section 2 of Article 9 of the Constitution of the State of New York, does hereby request the New York State Legislature to enact into law the aforesaid pending bills. Referred to the Committee on State and Federal Legislation.