New York A 10843: Allows beneficiaries of certain deceased members to elect to receive death benefits in a lump sum

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A10843 Summary:

BILL NOA10843 

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SAME ASSAME AS S06406-A

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SPONSORCashman

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COSPNSRKay, Levenberg, Buttenschon

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§448 & 508, R & SS L

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Allows a beneficiary of a member whose death occurs on or after July 1, 2026 and who would have been entitled to a service credit at the time of such member's death to elect to receive a lump sum payment equal to the pension reserve that would have been established had the member retired on the date of such member's death.

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BILL NOA10843 

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04/06/2026referred to governmental employees

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 10843

 IN ASSEMBLY

 April 6, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. CASHMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Governmental Employees

 AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to
 allowing beneficiaries of certain deceased members to elect to receive
 death benefits in a lump sum

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision b of section 448 of the retirement and social
 2 security law is amended by adding a new paragraph 3 to read as follows:
 3 3. Provided further, notwithstanding any other provision of this arti-
 4 cle to the contrary, where the member is in a title as defined in subdi-
 5 vision i of section eighty-nine of this chapter, and would have been
 6 entitled to a service retirement benefit at the time of such member's
 7 death and where such member's death occurs on or after July first, two
 8 thousand twenty-six, the beneficiary or beneficiaries nominated for the
 9 purposes of this subdivision may elect to receive, in a lump sum, an
 10 amount payable which shall be equal to the pension reserve that would
 11 have been established had the member retired on the date of such
 12 member's death, or the value of the death benefit and the reserve-for-
 13 increased-take-home-pay, if any, whichever is greater.
 14 § 2. Subdivision b of section 508 of the retirement and social securi-
 15 ty law, as amended by chapter 476 of the laws of 2018, is amended to
 16 read as follows:
 17 b. A member of a retirement system subject to the provisions of this
 18 article who is a police officer, firefighter, correction officer, inves-
 19 tigator revised plan member or sanitation worker and is in a plan which
 20 permits immediate retirement upon completion of a specified period of
 21 service without regard to age or who is subject to the provisions of
 22 section five hundred four or five hundred five of this article, shall
 23 upon completion of ninety days of service be covered for financial
 24 protection in the event of death in service pursuant to this subdivi-
 25 sion.
 26 1. Such death benefit shall be equal to three times the member's sala-
 27 ry raised to the next highest multiple of one thousand dollars, but in

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08636-05-6

 A. 10843 2

 1 no event shall it exceed three times the maximum salary specified in
 2 section one hundred thirty of the civil service law or, in the case of a
 3 member of a retirement system other than the New York city employees'
 4 retirement system, or in the case of a member of the New York city
 5 employees' retirement system who is a New York city uniformed
 6 correction/sanitation revised plan member or an investigator revised
 7 plan member, the specific limitations specified for age of entrance into
 8 service contained in subparagraphs (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) of para-
 9 graph two of subdivision a of this section.
 10 2. Provided further, notwithstanding any other provision of this arti-
 11 cle to the contrary, where the member is in a title as defined in subdi-
 12 vision i of section eighty-nine of this chapter, and would have been
 13 entitled to a service retirement benefit at the time of such member's
 14 death and where such member's death occurs on or after July first, two
 15 thousand twenty-six, the beneficiary or