New York A 7970: Authorizes Olivia Rae Salta, the daughter of Dawn Jimenez-Salta, 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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A07970 Summary:

BILL NOA07970 

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SAME ASSAME AS S07740

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SPONSORBichotte Hermelyn

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Authorizes Olivia Rae Salta, the daughter of Dawn Jimenez-Salta, to file a new service retirement application and option election form with the New York state and local employees' retirement system on behalf of her deceased mother.

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BILL NOA07970 

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04/16/2025referred to governmental employees

01/07/2026referred to governmental employees

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7970

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 April 16, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and referred to
 the Committee on Governmental Employees

 AN ACT to authorize Olivia Rae Salta, the daughter of Dawn Jimenez-Sal-
 ta, to file a new service retirement application and option election
 form with the New York state and local employees' retirement system on
 behalf of her deceased mother

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

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "Dawn Jimenez-Salta act".
 3 § 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
 4 Olivia Rae Salta, the daughter of Dawn Jimenez-Salta, who was a member
 5 of the unified court system and member of the New York state and local
 6 employees' retirement system, who died on October 20, 2024 from trauma
 7 prior to filing for retirement, shall be authorized to file a new
 8 service retirement application and an option election form on behalf of
 9 her deceased mother with a joint allowance full option, if, within one
 10 year from the effective date of this act, she shall submit a request
 11 therefor to the state comptroller. In addition, her date of retirement
 12 shall be deemed to have been October 19, 2024. Once such application is
 13 received, any rights or benefits to the pre-retirement ordinary death
 14 benefit payable upon the death of a member in service pursuant to
 15 section 448 of the retirement and social security law shall be waived.
 16 Any amounts paid by the New York state and local employees' retirement
 17 system as the result of the death of Dawn Jimenez-Salta prior to the
 18 filing of the request for a service retirement benefit pursuant to this
 19 section shall be deducted from the service retirement benefit payable on
 20 an actuarially equivalent basis over the expected future lifetime of
 21 Olivia Rae Salta.
 22 § 3. Any additional costs for this act shall be paid by the state of
 23 New York.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11106-03-5

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 1 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
 FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
 This bill would authorize Olivia Rae Salta, the daughter of deceased
 member Dawn Jimenez-Salta, to file a new service retirement application
 and option election form with the New York State and Local Employees'
 Retirement System (NYSLERS). The date of retirement will be October 19,
 2024, one day prior to the date of death of Dawn Jimenez-Salta. The
 option election will be a joint allowance full. Any ordinary death bene-
 fit 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 $1,000,000 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 statistics can be found in the
 2024 Report of the Actuary and the 2024 Annual Comprehensive Financial
 Report. The actuarial assumptions and methods used are described in the
 2024 Ann