Bill > A4614

Introduced Session

This bill extends eligibility for accidental disability retirement allowance to certain police officers and firefighters who participated in 9/11 World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations. Under current law, certain members of the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) are eligible to receive an accidental disability retirement allowance if the member participated in World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations and is then permanently and totally disabled as a result of a qualifying condition or impairment of health stemming from those efforts. Those members include police officers and fire fighters who did not meet the age or medical requirements for enrollment in the Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS) on the basis of the position held, and emergency medical technicians. This bill would extend eligibility for this benefit to police officers and firefighters who are or were otherwise eligible for enrollment in the PFRS, but who were enrolled in the PERS on July 1, 1993, before membership in the PFRS was required, and were continuously enrolled until retirement.

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Ronald Dancer (R)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee (on 09/14/2020)