republic-os/legislation/us/states/ny/2017-2018/s-5505.md

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Bill	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.	us/states/ny	New York Legislature	2017-2018	S 5505	New York S 5505 (2017-2018)	bill		enacted	LAVALLE	2	12	3	2017-04-04	2017-11-29	openstates	ocd-bill/2db2f93a-7edb-44eb-acc7-dd63f8a05eab	http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/S5505	efb2274012fda8c7076f3e017e7809276ffccc5be71adf647e1f5076ae6d2572	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. S5505 PDF (committee substitute) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/2db2f93a-7edb-44eb-acc7-dd63f8a05eab. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).