Authorizes Olivia Rae Salta, the daughter of Dawn Jimenez-Salta, to file a new service retirement application and option election form with the New York state and local employees' retirement system on behalf of her deceased mother.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7740
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 2, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. PERSAUD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
AN ACT to authorize Olivia Rae Salta, the daughter of Dawn Jimenez-Sal-
ta, to file a new service retirement application and option election
form with the New York state and local employees' retirement system on
behalf of her deceased mother
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
2 the "Dawn Jimenez-Salta act".
3 § 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
4 Olivia Rae Salta, the daughter of Dawn Jimenez-Salta, who was a member
5 of the unified court system and member of the New York state and local
6 employees' retirement system, who died on October 20, 2024 from trauma
7 prior to filing for retirement, shall be authorized to file a new
8 service retirement application and an option election form on behalf of
9 her deceased mother with a joint allowance full option, if, within one
10 year from the effective date of this act, she shall submit a request
11 therefor to the state comptroller. In addition, her date of retirement
12 shall be deemed to have been October 19, 2024. Once such application is
13 received, any rights or benefits to the pre-retirement ordinary death
14 benefit payable upon the death of a member in service pursuant to
15 section 448 of the retirement and social security law shall be waived.
16 Any amounts paid by the New York state and local employees' retirement
17 system as the result of the death of Dawn Jimenez-Salta prior to the
18 filing of the request for a service retirement benefit pursuant to this
19 section shall be deducted from the service retirement benefit payable on
20 an actuarially equivalent basis over the expected future lifetime of
21 Olivia Rae Salta.
22 § 3. Any additional costs for this act shall be paid by the state of
23 New York.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
This bill would authorize Olivia Rae Salta, the daughter of deceased
member Dawn Jimenez-Salta, to file a new service retirement application
and option election form with the New York State and Local Employees'
Retirement System (NYSLERS). The date of retirement will be October 19,
2024, one day prior to the date of death of Dawn Jimenez-Salta. The
option election will be a joint allowance full. Any ordinary death bene-
fit paid by NYSLERS prior to the filing of a new service retirement
application will be deducted from the benefits payable under this legis-
lation.
If this bill is enacted during the 2025 Legislative Session, there
will be an immediate past service cost of approximately $1,000,000 which
will be borne by the State of New York as a one-time payment. This esti-
mate assumes that payment will be made on March 1, 2026.
Summary of relevant resources:
Membership data as of March 31, 2024 was used in measuring the impact
of the proposed change, the same data used in the April 1, 2024 actuari-
al valuation. Distributions and other statistics can be found in the
2024 Report of the Actuary and the 2024 Annual Comprehensive Financial
Report. The actuarial assumptions and methods used are described in the
2024 Annual Report to the Comptroller on Actuarial Assumptions, and the
Codes, Rules and Regulations of the State of New York: Audit and
Control. The Market Assets and GASB Disclosures are found in the March
31, 2024 New York State and Local Retirement System Financial Statements
and Supplementary Information.
This fiscal note does not constitute a legal opinion on the viability
of the proposed change nor is it intended to serve as a substitute for
the professional judgment of an attorney.
This estimate, dated April 9, 2025, and intended for use only during
the 2025 Legislative Session, is Fiscal Note No. 2025-144. As Chief
Actuary of the New York State and Local Retirement System, I, Aaron
Schottin Young, hereby certify that this analysis complies with applica-
ble Actuarial Standards of Practice as well as the Code of Professional
Conduct and Qualification Standards for Actuaries Issuing Statements of
Actuarial Opinion of the American Academy of Actuaries, of which I am a
member.
