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A02523 Summary:

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Establishes the New York state auxiliary officer death benefit fund to provide a death benefit to the families of auxiliary officers who died in the line of duty during the state of emergency declared by the governor pursuant to section twenty-nine of the executive law beginning March 7, 2020.

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01/17/2025referred to local governments

01/07/2026referred to local governments

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 2523

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 17, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. STERN -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Local Governments

 AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing the
 New York state auxiliary officer death benefit fund

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

 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Anthony's
 2 law".
 3 § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 99-ss to
 4 read as follows:
 5 § 99-ss. New York state auxiliary officer death benefit fund. 1.
 6 There is hereby established in the joint custody of the state comp-
 7 troller and the commissioner of the department of taxation and finance a
 8 special fund to be known as the New York state auxiliary officer death
 9 benefit fund. Moneys in this fund shall be kept separate and not commin-
 10 gled with any other moneys in the custody of the comptroller and the
 11 commissioner of taxation and finance.
 12 2. Such fund shall consist of the moneys transferred thereto by the
 13 comptroller pursuant to this section.
 14 3. All moneys in the New York state auxiliary officer death benefit
 15 fund shall be available, subject to appropriation, for the payment of a
 16 death benefit in an amount not to exceed ten thousand dollars to auxil-
 17 iary officers who died in the line of duty during the state of emergency
 18 declared by the governor pursuant to section twenty-nine of the execu-
 19 tive law beginning March seventh, two thousand twenty. Such benefit
 20 shall be paid to the surviving spouse and children of the auxiliary
 21 officer and shall be divided equally between the surviving spouse and
 22 each child; provided, however, that if there is no surviving spouse,
 23 such benefit shall be paid to the children of the auxiliary officer and
 24 shall be divided equally between such children. For the purposes of this

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01451-01-5

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 1 section, "auxiliary officer" shall mean a member of an auxiliary police
 2 organization authorized by local law.
 3 4. All payment of moneys from the New York state auxiliary officer
 4 death benefit fund shall be made on the audit and warrant of the state
 5 comptroller.
 6 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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