S10435 • 2025

Permits surviving spouses of certain members to retain accidental death benefits upon remarriage

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Sponsor: Robert Jackson
Last action: 2026-05-15
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Permits surviving spouses of certain members to retain accidental death benefits upon remarriage

Permits surviving spouses of certain members to retain accidental death benefits upon remarriage Permits surviving spouses of certain members to retain accidental death benefits upon remarriage; provides for regaining of any such lost benefits prior to the rule change.

What This Bill Does

Permits surviving spouses of certain members to retain accidental death benefits upon remarriage Permits surviving spouses of certain members to retain accidental death benefits upon remarriage; provides for regaining of any such lost benefits prior to the rule change.

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Bill History

2026-05-15 Senate
REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Official Summary Text

Permits surviving spouses of certain members to retain accidental death benefits upon remarriage
Permits surviving spouses of certain members to retain accidental death benefits upon remarriage; provides for regaining of any such lost benefits prior to the rule change.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          10435

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                      May 15, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions

        AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in  relation  to
          permitting  surviving  spouses of certain members to retain accidental
          death benefits upon remarriage

          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 607 of the retirement and social
     2  security law, as amended by chapter 105 of the laws of 2005, is  amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    b.  If  an eligible beneficiary receiving the accidental death benefit
     5  hereunder becomes ineligible to continue to receive  such  benefit,  the
     6  benefit  shall  be continued for all other members of the eligible class
     7  of beneficiaries and, if none, to each successive class, if any,  during
     8  their  eligibility therefor. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF LAW TO THE
     9  CONTRARY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO SECTION SIX HUNDRED ONE  OF  THIS
    10  ARTICLE,  A  SURVIVING  SPOUSE  REMAINS  AN ELIGIBLE BENEFICIARY FOR THE
    11  ACCIDENTAL DEATH BENEFIT HEREUNDER UPON REMARRIAGE.
    12    § 2. Section 607 of the retirement and social security law is  amended
    13  by adding a new subdivision d to read as follows:
    14    D.  ANY SURVIVING SPOUSE WHOSE RECEIPT OF THE ACCIDENTAL DEATH BENEFIT
    15  HEREUNDER HAS CEASED AS A RESULT OF THE  REMARRIAGE  OF  SUCH  SURVIVING
    16  SPOUSE  SHALL  BE  DEEMED  ELIGIBLE FOR SUCH BENEFIT AND SHALL HAVE SUCH
    17  BENEFIT REINSTATED RETROACTIVE TO THE DATE OF SUCH REMARRIAGE.
    18    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14574-01-6