New York S 4725: Authorizes Michael Winston Hoard, the widower of Kathy Marie Dwyer-Hoard, to file a new service retirement application and election form with the New York state and local employees' retirement system

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S04725 Summary:

BILL NOS04725A

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Authorizes Michael Winston Hoard, the widower of Kathy Marie Dwyer-Hoard, to file a new service retirement application and an option election form on behalf of his deceased wife with the New York state and local employees' retirement system.

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BILL NOS04725A

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02/12/2025REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

05/27/2025REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

06/12/2025COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

06/12/2025ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1877

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

02/11/2026AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

02/11/2026PRINT NUMBER 4725A

06/03/2026COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

06/03/2026ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1614

06/03/2026PASSED SENATE

06/03/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4725--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 12, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
 -- recommitted to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions in
 accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
 amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
 tee

 AN ACT in relation to authorizing Michael Winston Hoard, the widower of
 Kathy Marie Dwyer-Hoard, 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 Michael Winston Hoard, the widower of Kathy Marie Dwyer-Hoard, who was a
 3 member of the New York state and local employees' retirement system, who
 4 died after she filed the paperwork for retirement but prior to the date
 5 her retirement would have become effective, shall be authorized to file
 6 a new service retirement application and an option election form on
 7 behalf of his deceased wife with a joint allowance full option, if,
 8 within one year from the effective date of this act, he shall submit a
 9 request therefor to the state comptroller. In addition, her date of
 10 retirement shall be deemed to have been October 21, 2019. Once such
 11 application is received, any rights or benefits to the pre-retirement
 12 ordinary death benefit payable upon the death of a member in service
 13 pursuant to section 448 of the retirement and social security law shall
 14 be waived. Any amounts paid by the New York state and local employees'
 15 retirement system as the result of the death of Kathy Marie Dwyer-Hoard
 16 prior to the filing of the request for a service retirement benefit
 17 pursuant to this section shall be deducted from the service retirement
 18 benefit payable thereafter.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00943-04-6

 S. 4725--A 2

 1 § 2. Any additional costs for this act shall be paid by the state of
 2 New York.
 3 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
 This bill would authorize Michael Winston Hoard, the beneficiary of
 deceased member Kathy Marie Dwyer-Hoard, to file a new service retire-
 ment application with a joint allowance full option election on behalf
 of Kathy Marie Dwyer-Hoard. The date of retirement will be October 21,
 2019, four days prior to the decedent's date of death. The option
 election will be a joint allowance full. Any death benefits paid prior
 to the filing of a new service retirement application will be deducted
 from the benefits payable under this legislation.
 Insofar as this bill affects NYSLERS,