S 842: Provides that a corrections officer who contracts COVID-19 while employed as a uniformed personnel in institutions under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections and community supervision and suffers a permanent disability or death shall be presumed to have contracted COVID-19 in the performance and discharge of duty and shall be eligible for a performance of duty disability retirement benefit.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 842 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MAY -- 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 eligibility for a performance of duty disability retirement benefit The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 507-b of the retirement and social security law is 2 amended by adding a new subdivision g to read as follows: 3 g. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or of any general, 4 special or local law to the contrary, a member covered by this section 5 who contracts COVID-19 while employed as a uniformed personnel in insti- 6 tutions under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections and 7 community supervision, resulting in a permanent disability or death, 8 shall be presumptive evidence that it was incurred in the performance 9 and discharge of duty, unless the contrary be proved by competent 10 evidence. Such individual shall be eligible for a performance of duty 11 disability retirement benefit as provided in section sixty-three of this 12 chapter, subject to section sixty-four of this chapter. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03119-01-5