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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relates to providing an increased death benefit for the survivors of Theodore Raffel"
+description: "Relates to providing an increased death benefit for the survivors of Theodore Raffel."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
+legislature: "New York Legislature"
+session: "2017-2018"
+identifier: "S 5505"
+citation: "New York S 5505 (2017-2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["LAVALLE"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2017-04-04"
+last_action: "2017-11-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2db2f93a-7edb-44eb-acc7-dd63f8a05eab"
+source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/S5505"
+source_hash: "efb2274012fda8c7076f3e017e7809276ffccc5be71adf647e1f5076ae6d2572"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
+---
+
+# New York S 5505 (2017-2018) — Relates to providing an increased death benefit for the survivors of Theodore Raffel
+
+Relates to providing an increased death benefit for the survivors of Theodore Raffel.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S5505 HTML** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S5505&term=2017&Text=Y)
+2. **S5505 PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2017/S5505)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Rules Vote — **24–0** (pass) · upper
+- Assembly Vote — **145–0** (pass) · lower
+- Floor Vote — **63–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- LAVALLE — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-04-04** REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS `referral-committee`
+- **2017-06-05** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2017-06-05** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1487
+- **2017-06-14** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2017-06-14** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2017-06-14** REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES `referral-committee`
+- **2017-06-21** SUBSTITUTED FOR A7069
+- **2017-06-21** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.648
+- **2017-06-21** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
+- **2017-06-21** RETURNED TO SENATE
+- **2017-11-17** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2017-11-29** SIGNED CHAP.437 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2db2f93a-7edb-44eb-acc7-dd63f8a05eab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
+