New York A 7949: Permits surviving spouses of certain retirement plan members to retain certain benefits upon remarriage

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A07949 Summary:

BILL NOA07949A

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SAME ASSAME AS S07314-C

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SPONSORPheffer Amato

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd 501, R & SS L; amd 13-209, NYC Ad Cd

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Permits surviving spouses of NYC police pension fund members to retain accidental death benefits upon remarriage.

Go to top A07949 Actions:

BILL NOA07949A

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04/16/2025referred to governmental employees

05/21/2025amend (t) and recommit to governmental employees

05/21/2025print number 7949a

06/13/2025reference changed to ways and means

06/16/2025reported referred to rules

06/16/2025reported 

06/16/2025rules report cal.817

06/16/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.817

06/16/2025substituted by s7314c

&nbspS07314 AMEND=C JACKSON

&nbsp04/09/2025REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

&nbsp05/15/2025AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

&nbsp05/15/2025PRINT NUMBER 7314A

&nbsp05/16/2025AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

&nbsp05/16/2025PRINT NUMBER 7314B

&nbsp05/20/2025AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

&nbsp05/20/2025PRINT NUMBER 7314C

&nbsp05/27/2025REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

&nbsp06/12/2025COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

&nbsp06/12/2025ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.2001

&nbsp06/13/2025HOME RULE REQUEST

&nbsp06/13/2025PASSED SENATE

&nbsp06/13/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp06/13/2025referred to governmental employees

&nbsp06/16/2025substituted for a7949a

&nbsp06/16/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.817

&nbsp06/16/2025home rule request

&nbsp06/16/2025passed assembly

&nbsp06/16/2025returned to senate

&nbsp12/08/2025DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR

&nbsp12/18/2025SIGNED CHAP.642

Go to topA07949 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:WAYS AND MEANS Chair:Pretlow 
DATE:06/16/2025AYE/NAY:32/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules PretlowAyeRaAye

GlickAyeFitzpatrickAye

ColtonAyeHawleyAye

CookAyeBlankenbushAye

BenedettoAyePalmesanoAye

WeprinAyeWalshAye

RamosAbsentDeStefanoAye

BraunsteinAyeManktelowAye

McDonaldAyeSmullenAye

RozicExcusedGiglioAye

DinowitzAye

MagnarelliAye

BronsonAye

DilanAye

SeawrightAye

HyndmanAye

WalkerAye

Bichotte HermelAye

SimonAye

CruzAye

OtisAye

SolagesAye

HunterAye

EpsteinAye

SeptimoAbsent

Committee:RULES Chair:Glick 
DATE:06/16/2025AYE/NAY:29/0 Action: Favorable HeastieExcusedBarclayAye

PretlowAyeHawleyAye

CookAyeBlankenbushAye

GlickAyeRaAye

DinowitzAyeBrabenecAye

ColtonAyePalmesanoAye

MagnarelliAyeReillyAye

PaulinAyeSmithAye

Peoples-StokesAyeJensenAye

BenedettoAye

LavineAye

LupardoAye

BraunsteinAye

DavilaAye

HyndmanAye

RozicExcused

BronsonAye

HevesiAye

HunterAye

TaylorAye

CruzAye

VanelAye

Go to topA07949 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA07949 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7949--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 April 16, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Governmental Employees -- committee discharged, bill
 amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
 tee

 AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law and the adminis-
 trative code of the city of New York, in relation to permit surviving
 spouses of certain retirement plan members to retain certain benefits
 upon remarriage

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 501 of the retirement and social
 2 security law, as amended by chapter 457 of the laws of 2017, is amended
 3 to read as follows:
 4 7. "Eligible beneficiary" for the purposes of section five hundred
 5 nine of this article shall mean the following persons or classes of
 6 persons in the order set forth: (a) a surviving spouse who has not
 7 renounced survivorship rights in a separation agreement, until remar-
 8 riage, (b) surviving children until age twenty-five, (c) dependent
 9 parents, determined under regulations promulgated by the comptroller,
 10 (d) any other person who qualified as a dependent on the final federal
 11 income tax return of the member or the return filed in the year imme-
 12 diately preceding the year of death, un