New York S 8159: Requires nursing homes to designate dedicated storage spaces for the storage of the bodies of deceased persons

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S08159 Summary:

BILL NOS08159A

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SAME ASSAME AS A11089

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SPONSORJACKSON

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §607-a, R & SS L

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Relates to the disability retirement for safety and security officers.

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BILL NOS08159A

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05/15/2025REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

05/19/2025AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

05/19/2025PRINT NUMBER 8159A

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8159--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 May 15, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
 and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to
 the disability retirement for safety and security officers

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

 1 Section 1. Section 607-a of the retirement and social security law, as
 2 added by chapter 722 of the laws of 1996, subdivision b as amended by
 3 chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, and subdivision c as added by chapter
 4 653 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows:
 5 § 607-a. Performance of duty disability retirement. a. Any security
 6 hospital treatment assistant, as that term is defined in subdivision i
 7 of section eighty-nine of this chapter, or any qualifying member, as
 8 such term is defined in paragraph one of subdivision a of section eight-
 9 y-nine-t of this chapter, as amended by chapter four hundred seventy-six
 10 of the laws of two thousand eighteen, who becomes physically or mentally
 11 incapacitated for the performance of duties as the natural and proximate
 12 result, of an injury, sustained in the performance or discharge of [his
 13 or her] their duties by, or as the natural and proximate result of, an
 14 act of any person confined in an institution under the jurisdiction of
 15 the office of mental health, or by any person who has been committed to
 16 such institution by any court shall be paid a performance of duty disa-
 17 bility retirement allowance equal to that which is provided in section
 18 sixty-three of this chapter, subject to the provisions of section
 19 sixty-four of this chapter.
 20 b. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or of any general or
 21 special law to the contrary, a member covered by this section who
 22 contracts HIV (where there may have been an exposure to a bodily fluid
 23 of an incarcerated individual or a person described in subdivision a of

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11232-02-5

 S. 8159--A 2

 1 this section as a natural and proximate result of an act of any incar-
 2 cerated individual or person described in such subdivision a that may
 3 have involved transmission of a specified transmissible disease from an
 4 incarcerated individual or such person described in such subdivision a
 5 to the retirement system member), tuberculosis or hepatitis will be
 6 presumed to have contracted such disease in the performance or discharge
 7 of [his or her] their duties, and will be presumed to be disabled from
 8 the performance of [his or her] their duties, unless the contrary be
 9 proved by competent evidence.
 10 c. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or of any general or
 11 special law to the contrary, any condition of impairment of health
 12 caused by diseases of the heart, resulting in disability or death to a
 13 member covered by this section, presently employed and who shall have
 14 sustained such disability while so employed, who successfully passed a
 15 physical examination on entry into service as a security hospital treat-
 16 ment assistant or a qualifying member as set forth in this section,
 17 which examination failed to disclose evidence of any disease or other
 18 impairment of the heart, shall be presumptive evid