New York A 5670: Authorizes Michael Winston Hoard, the widower of Kathy Marie Dwyer-Hoard, to file a new service retirement application and election form with the New York state and local employees' retirement system

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A05670 Summary:

BILL NOA05670A

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Authorizes Michael Winston Hoard, the widower of Kathy Marie Dwyer-Hoard, to file a new service retirement application and an option election form on behalf of his deceased wife with the New York state and local employees' retirement system.

Go to top A05670 Actions:

BILL NOA05670A

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02/19/2025referred to governmental employees

01/07/2026referred to governmental employees

03/31/2026amend and recommit to governmental employees

03/31/2026print number 5670a

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5670--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 19, 2025
 ___________

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

 AN ACT in relation to authorizing Michael Winston Hoard, the widower of
 Kathy Marie Dwyer-Hoard, to file a new service retirement application
 and option election form with the New York state and local employees'
 retirement system on behalf of such deceased member

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

 1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
 2 Michael Winston Hoard, the widower of Kathy Marie Dwyer-Hoard, who was a
 3 member of the New York state and local employees' retirement system, who
 4 died after she filed the paperwork for retirement but prior to the date
 5 her retirement would have become effective, shall be authorized to file
 6 a new service retirement application and an option election form on
 7 behalf of his deceased wife with a joint allowance full option, if,
 8 within one year from the effective date of this act, he shall submit a
 9 request therefor to the state comptroller. In addition, her date of
 10 retirement shall be deemed to have been October 21, 2019. Once such
 11 application is received, any rights or benefits to the pre-retirement
 12 ordinary death benefit payable upon the death of a member in service
 13 pursuant to section 448 of the retirement and social security law shall
 14 be waived. Any amounts paid by the New York state and local employees'
 15 retirement system as the result of the death of Kathy Marie Dwyer-Hoard
 16 prior to the filing of the request for a service retirement benefit
 17 pursuant to this section shall be deducted from the service retirement
 18 benefit payable thereafter.
 19 § 2. Any additional costs for this act shall be paid by the state of
 20 New York.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00943-05-6

 A. 5670--A 2

 1 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
 This bill would authorize Michael Winston Hoard, the beneficiary of
 deceased member Kathy Marie Dwyer-Hoard, to file a new service retire-
 ment application with a joint allowance full option election on behalf
 of Kathy Marie Dwyer-Hoard. The date of retirement will be October 21,
 2019, four days prior to the decedent's date of death. The option
 election will be a joint allowance full. Any death benefits paid prior
 to the filing of a new service retirement application will be deducted
 from the benefits payable under this legislation.
 Insofar as this bill affects NYSLERS, there will be an immediate past
 service cost of $547,000 borne by the state of New York as a one-time
 payment. This cost assumes that payment will be made on March 1, 2027.
 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 me