New York A 8059: Relates to an application of a relative to become a foster parent

Bill Text

Bill Search and Legislative Information | New York State Assembly 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

 Skip to main content 

 New York State Assembly

 Speaker Carl E. Heastie

 --> 
 --> 

 --> 

• 
 Assembly Members 

• 
 Legislative Info 

• 
 Public Hearings 

• 
 Speaker's Press 

• 
 Assembly Reports 

• 
 Committees & More 

• Bill Search Home
• Laws
• Legislative Calendar
• Public Hearing Schedule
• Assembly Calendars
• Assembly Committee Agenda 

 Javascript must be enabled to properly view this page. 

 Bill No.: 

• Summary 
• Actions 
• Committee&nbspVotes 
• Floor&nbspVotes 
• Memo 
• Text 
• LFIN 
• Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript 
A08059 Summary:

BILL NOA08059A

&nbsp

SAME ASSAME AS S07910-A

&nbsp

SPONSORStern

&nbsp

COSPNSR

&nbsp

MLTSPNSR

&nbsp

&nbsp

Permits the widow of Luis Palermo to apply for a World Trade Center related accidental death benefit for participation in the rescue, recovery, and clean-up operations as a member of the Nassau county police department.

Go to top A08059 Actions:

BILL NOA08059A

&nbsp

04/22/2025referred to governmental employees

01/07/2026referred to governmental employees

04/21/2026amend and recommit to governmental employees

04/21/2026print number 8059a

Go to topA08059 Committee&nbspVotes:

Go to topA08059 Floor&nbspVotes:

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

Go to topA08059 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8059--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 April 22, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. STERN -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Governmental Employees -- recommitted to the Committee on Govern-
 mental Employees in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- commit-
 tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
 mitted to said committee

 AN ACT to authorize the widow of Luis Palermo to apply for World Trade
 Center related accidental death benefits from the New York state and
 local police and fire retirement system

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

 1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the widow of
 2 Luis Palermo, who was employed by the Nassau County police department
 3 since October 14, 1994, and was a member of the New York state and local
 4 police and fire retirement system for approximately 23 years, until his
 5 passing on September 4, 2017, as a result of end stage pulmonary fibro-
 6 sis contracted through his participation as a first responder, shall be
 7 entitled to file a new application for an accidental and special acci-
 8 dental death retirement benefit provided by the New York state and local
 9 police and fire retirement system. Additionally, notwithstanding any
 10 rule, regulation or law to the contrary, Luis Palermo's application for
 11 World Trade Center notice shall be approved despite Officer Palermo
 12 participating in rescue, recovery, and clean-up operations for twenty-
 13 nine hours between September 11, 2001 and September 12, 2002. Such
 14 application must be filed with the New York state and local police and
 15 fire retirement system pursuant to section 361-a of the retirement and
 16 social security law, as amended by chapter 733 of the laws of 1990,
 17 within one year of the effective date of this act.
 18 § 2. All costs associated with the implementation of this act shall be
 19 borne by the county of Nassau and may be amortized over a period of ten
 20 years.
 21 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03712-05-6

 A. 8059--A 2

 FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
 This bill would entitle the widow of Luis Palermo to file a new appli-
 cation for accidental and special accidental death benefits. It would
 also deem Luis Palermo's World Trade Center Notice approved.
 There will be an immediate past service cost of $6.25 million borne by
 Nassau county as a one-time payment. This cost assumes that payment will
 be made on February 1, 2027. If Nassau County elects to amortize this
 cost over 10 years, the cost for each year will be $798,000.
 Summary of relevant resources:
 Membership data as of March 31, 2025 was used to measure the impact of
 the bill, the same data used in the Actuarial Valuations dated April 1,
 2025. Distributions and other statistics can be found in the 2025 Report
 of the Actuary and the 2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report. The
 actuarial assumptions and methods used are described in the 2025 Annual
 Report to the Comptroller on Actuarial Assumptions, and the Codes, Rules
 and Regulations of the State of New York: Audit and Control. The fair
 value of assets and GASB disclosures can be found in the 2025 Financial
 Statements and Supplementary Information.
 Assumptions, demographics, and other conside