Includes step children within the meaning of the term "child" for purposes of additional credits for children of firefighters, police officers, emergency medical technicians and paramedics killed in the line of duty.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3099
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 4, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to civil service
credits for step children of firefighters, police officers, emergency
medical technicians and paramedics killed in the line of duty
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 85-a of the civil service law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
3 (c) For purposes of this section, the term "child" shall include (i) a
4 step child of a firefighter, police officer, emergency medical techni-
5 cian or paramedic killed in the line of duty, or (ii) the child of a
6 surviving spouse of a firefighter, police officer, emergency medical
7 technician or paramedic killed in the line of duty, provided that such
8 child was born prior to the date on which such an individual is killed
9 in the line of duty.
10 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 85-b of the civil service law, as
11 amended by chapter 376 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as
12 follows:
13 1. [Definition] Definitions. (a) As used in this section, "killed in
14 the line of duty" shall mean having died in the performance of duty as
15 the natural and proximate result of the World Trade Center attack on
16 September eleventh, two thousand one or as the natural and proximate
17 result of participation in the rescue effort that was conducted in
18 response to such attack.
19 (b) For purposes of this section, the term "child" shall include (i) a
20 step child of a firefighter, police officer, emergency medical techni-
21 cian or paramedic killed in the line of duty, or (ii) the child of a
22 surviving spouse of a firefighter, police officer, emergency medical
23 technician or paramedic killed in the line of duty, provided that such
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 child was born prior to the date on which such an individual is killed
2 in the line of duty.
3 § 3. Subdivision 1 of section 85-c of the civil service law is amended
4 by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
5 (c) For purposes of this section, the term "child" shall include (i) a
6 step child of a firefighter, police officer, emergency medical techni-
7 cian or paramedic killed in the line of duty, or (ii) the child of a
8 surviving spouse of a firefighter, police officer, emergency medical
9 technician or paramedic killed in the line of duty, provided that such
10 child was born prior to the date on which such an individual is killed
11 in the line of duty.
12 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
