New York S 7397: authorizing Liliana Fernandez-Clemente, the widow of Daniel Clemente, to file a new service retirement application and option election form with the New York state and local employees' retirement system

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S07397 Summary:

BILL NOS07397 

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SAME ASSAME AS A07571

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Authorizes Liliana Fernandez-Clemente, the widow of Daniel Clemente, to file a new service retirement application and option election form with the New York state and local employees' retirement system on behalf of such deceased member.

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BILL NOS07397 

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04/14/2025REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

06/12/2025COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

06/12/2025ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1898

06/12/2025PASSED SENATE

06/12/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

06/12/2025referred to governmental employees

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

03/24/2026RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7397

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 April 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions

 AN ACT in relation to authorizing Liliana Fernandez-Clemente, the widow
 of Daniel Clemente, to file a new service retirement application and
 option election form with the New York state and local employees'
 retirement system on behalf of such deceased member

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
 2 Liliana Fernandez-Clemente, the widow of Daniel Clemente, who was a
 3 member of the New York state and local employees' retirement system, who
 4 died after he commenced the filing of paperwork for retirement but prior
 5 to his selected retirement date, shall be authorized to file a new
 6 service retirement application and an option election form on behalf of
 7 her deceased husband with a joint allowance full option, if, within one
 8 year from the effective date of this act, she shall submit a request
 9 therefor to the state comptroller. In addition, his date of retirement
 10 shall be deemed to have been December 8, 2024. Once such application is
 11 received, any rights or benefits to the pre-retirement ordinary death
 12 benefit payable upon the death of a member in service pursuant to
 13 section 448 of the retirement and social security law shall be waived.
 14 Any amounts paid by the New York state and local employees' retirement
 15 system as the result of the death of Daniel Clemente prior to the filing
 16 of the request for a service retirement benefit pursuant to this section
 17 shall be deducted from the service retirement benefit payable thereaft-
 18 er.
 19 § 2. Any additional costs for this act shall be paid by the state of
 20 New York.
 21 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10114-02-5

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 This bill would authorize Liliana Fernandez-Clemente, the widow of
 deceased member Daniel Clemente, to file a new service retirement appli-
 cation and option election form with the New York State and Local
 Employees' Retirement System (NYSLERS). The date of retirement will be
 December 8, 2024, one day prior to the date of death of Daniel Clemente.
 The option election will be a joint allowance full. Any ordinary death
 benefit paid by NYSLERS prior to the filing of a new service retirement
 application will be deducted from the benefits payable under this legis-
 lation.
 If this bill is enacted during the 2025 Legislative Session, there
 will be an immediate past service cost of approximately $634,000 which
 will be borne by the State of New York as a one-time payment. This esti-
 mate assumes that payment will be made on March 1, 2026.
 Summary of relevant resources:
 Membership data as of March 31, 2024 was used in measuring the impact
 of the proposed change, the same data used in the April 1, 2024 actuari-
 al valuation. Distributions and other statist