New York A 8792: Provides WTC-related benefits to certain employees who worked at the Verrazano Bridge Toll Facility

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A08792 Summary:

BILL NOA08792A

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SAME ASSAME AS S08135-B

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SPONSORPheffer Amato

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Amd §2, R & SS L

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Provides WTC-related benefits to certain employees who worked at the Verrazano Bridge Toll Facility.

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BILL NOA08792A

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06/05/2025referred to governmental employees

01/07/2026referred to governmental employees

02/24/2026amend and recommit to governmental employees

02/24/2026print number 8792a

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8792--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 June 5, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- 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 to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to
 providing WTC-related benefits to certain employees who worked at the
 Verrazano Bridge Toll Facility

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

 1 Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 36 of section 2 of the retire-
 2 ment and social security law, as amended by chapter 424 of the laws of
 3 2021, is amended to read as follows:
 4 (e) "Participated in World Trade Center rescue, recovery or cleanup
 5 operations" shall mean any member who: (i) participated in the rescue,
 6 recovery, or cleanup operations at the World Trade Center site, as
 7 defined in paragraph (f) of this subdivision; (ii) worked at the Fresh
 8 Kills Land Fill in New York; (iii) worked at the New York city morgue or
 9 the temporary morgue on pier locations on the west side of Manhattan;
 10 (iv) manned the barges between the west side of Manhattan and the Fresh
 11 Kills Land Fill in New York; (v) repaired, cleaned or rehabilitated
 12 vehicles or equipment, including emergency vehicle radio equipment owned
 13 by the city of New York that were contaminated by debris in the World
 14 Trade Center site, as defined in paragraph (f) of this subdivision,
 15 regardless of whether the work on the repair, cleaning or rehabilitation
 16 of said vehicles and equipment was performed within the World Trade
 17 Center site, provided such work was performed prior to decontamination
 18 of such vehicles or equipment; [or] (vi) worked in the following depart-
 19 ments, worksites and titles: (A) New York City Police Department at 11
 20 Metrotec Center in Brooklyn or 1 Police Plaza in Manhattan as a Police
 21 Communication Technician (PCT), Supervisor Police Communication Techni-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02346-05-6

 A. 8792--A 2

 1 cian (SPCT), Principal Police Communication Technician I, Principal
 2 Police Communication Technician II, Principal Police Communication Tech-
 3 nician III, Administrative Manager - Communications, or in the Police
 4 Administrative Aide title series; (B) Fire Department of the City of New
 5 York at 35 Empire Boulevard in Brooklyn, 79th Street Transverse in
 6 Manhattan, 83-98 Woodhaven Boulevard in Queens, 1129 East 180 Street in
 7 the Bronx, 65 Slosson Avenue in Staten Island, 9 Metrotec Center in
 8 Brooklyn, or 25 Rockaway Avenue in Brooklyn as Fire Alarm Dispatchers
 9 (FAD), Supervising Fire Alarm Dispatchers I (SFAD), Supervising Fire
 10 Alarm Dispatchers II (Borough Supervisor), Deputy Director & Director
 11 Fire Dispatch Operations, or Assistant Commissioner for Communications;
 12 (C) for the Fire Department of the City of New York's Emergency Medical
 13 Service at 1 or 9 Metrotec Centers in Brooklyn, or 55-30 58 Street in
 14 Maspeth Queens as Emergency Medical Specialist-Level I (EMT), Emergency
 15 Medical Specialist Level II-(Paramedic), Supervising Emergency Medical
 16 Specialist Level I (LT), Supervising Emergency Medical Specialist Level
 17 II (Capt), Deputy Chief EMS Communications, or Division Commander EMS
 18 Co