New York A 11531: Relates to disability claims for a qualifying World Trade Center

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A11531 Summary:

BILL NOA11531 

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SAME ASSAME AS S10605

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SPONSORRules (Fall)

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COSPNSRGriffin, Hooks, Otis, Pheffer Amato

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §2, R & SS L; amd §§162 & 168, Work Comp L

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Extends the deadline for filing disability claims for a qualifying World Trade Center condition until 2030.

Go to top A11531 Actions:

BILL NOA11531 

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05/29/2026referred to governmental employees

06/01/2026reference changed to ways and means

06/03/2026reported referred to rules

06/03/2026reported 

06/03/2026rules report cal.438

06/03/2026ordered to third reading rules cal.438

06/03/2026substituted by s10605

&nbspS10605 AMEND= JACKSON

&nbsp05/29/2026REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

&nbsp06/02/2026COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

&nbsp06/02/2026ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1602

&nbsp06/02/2026PASSED SENATE

&nbsp06/02/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp06/02/2026referred to ways and means

&nbsp06/03/2026substituted for a11531

&nbsp06/03/2026ordered to third reading rules cal.438

&nbsp06/03/2026passed assembly

&nbsp06/03/2026returned to senate

Go to topA11531 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:WAYS AND MEANS Chair:Pretlow 
DATE:06/03/2026AYE/NAY:32/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules PretlowAyePalmesanoAye

GlickAyeFitzpatrickAye

ColtonAyeHawleyAye

CookExcusedBlankenbushAye

BenedettoAyeWalshAye

WeprinAyeDeStefanoAye

RamosAyeManktelowAye

BraunsteinAyeSmullenAye

McDonaldAyeGiglioAye

RozicAyeSlaterAye

DinowitzAye

MagnarelliAye

BronsonAye

DilanAbsent

SeawrightAye

HyndmanExcused

WalkerAye

Bichotte HermelAye

SimonAye

CruzAye

OtisAye

SolagesAye

HunterAye

SeptimoAye

HevesiAye

Committee:RULES Chair:Glick 
DATE:06/03/2026AYE/NAY:29/0 Action: Favorable HeastieExcusedRaAye

PretlowAyeHawleyAye

CookExcusedBlankenbushAye

GlickAyeBrabenecAye

DinowitzAyePalmesanoAye

ColtonAyeReillyAye

MagnarelliAyeSmithAye

PaulinAyeJensenAye

Peoples-StokesAyeGandolfoAye

BenedettoAye

LavineAye

LupardoAye

BraunsteinAye

DavilaAye

HyndmanAye

RozicAye

BronsonAye

HevesiAye

HunterAye

TaylorAye

CruzAye

VanelAye

Go to topA11531 Floor&nbspVotes:

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

Go to topA11531 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 11531

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 29, 2026
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 Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Fall) --
 read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees

 AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law and the workers'
 compensation law, in relation to extending the deadline for submission
 of a notice that a member of a retirement system participated in World
 Trade Center rescue, recovery or cleanup operations

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

 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 36 of section 2 of the retire-
 2 ment and social security law, as amended by chapter 561 of the laws of
 3 2022, is amended to read as follows:
 4 (a) "Qualifying World Trade Center condition" shall mean a qualifying
 5 condition or impairment of health resulting in disability to a member
 6 who participated in World Trade Center rescue, recovery or cleanup oper-
 7 ations for a qualifying period, as those terms are defined below,
 8 provided the following conditions have been met: (i) such member, or
 9 eligible beneficiary in the case of the member's death, must have either
 10 filed a written and sworn statement with the member's retirement system
 11 on a form provided by such system, or as allowed by the member's retire-
 12 ment system, electronically submitted a statement on a form provided by
 13 such system through a secure online portal maintained by the member's
 14 retirement system that has duly validated the member's identity, indi-
 15 cating the underlying dates and locations of employment not later than
 16 September eleventh, two thousand [twenty-six] thirty, and (ii) such
 17 member has either successfully passed a physical examination for entry
 18 into public service, or authorized release of all relevant medical
 19 records, if the member did not undergo a physical examination for entry
 20 into public service; and (iii) there is no evidence of the qualifyi