02/04/21
WorkersCompensation.com
Albany, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) - Speaker Carl Heastie and Governmental Employees Committee Chair Peter Abbate, Jr. today announced the Assembly has passed legislation to extend the provisions granted last year that ensure families of municipal frontline workers who lost their lives to COVID-19 as a result of their service receive the benefits they deserve (A.3988, Abbate).
“Throughout the course of this pandemic, our brave frontline workers have gotten up and gone to work every day despite the tremendous risks to their health,” said Speaker Heastie. “Tragically, many of these heroic public servants lost their lives to COVID-19. This legislation will ensure that the line of duty death benefits we put in place last year will remain available as we continue to battle this pandemic.”
Young military member admits role in death of missing Saratoga County biker
Jack L. Jeffers pleads guilty to manslaughter, felony weapons possession
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Michael P. Ahern was a member of the Rolling Pride motorcycle club.Saratoga County Sheriff s OfficeShow MoreShow Less
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Jack L. Jeffers, 25, a private first class in the New York National Guard, had been a focus of the investigation into Michael Ahern s disappearance along with associates of at least one other local biker club.Provided photoShow MoreShow Less
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Exterior of the clubhouse for the Rolling Pride motorcycle club on Wednesday, May 1, 2019, in Stillwater, N.Y. Police in Saratoga County fear a missing biker met with foul play. Michael P. Ahern s motorcycle and dog were left at the clubhouse, but there has been no sign of him since January. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
Tannousis announces appointments to several Assembly committees
Updated Dec 23, 2020;
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Assemblyman-elect Michael Tannousis (R-East Shore/South Brooklyn) announced his appointments to several New York Assembly committees on Tuesday ahead of his first term in the state legislature.
He said that in addition to his ranking minority position on the committee on aging, he’d been appointed to the Codes Committee, Judiciary Committee, Governmental Employees Committee, and the Cities Committee.
“I am honored to be appointed ranking member of the Aging Committee at a time when COVID-19 has affected our most vulnerable citizens,” he wrote in a statement. “I will use my position to ensure COVID-19 vaccines and other healthcare resources are made available to our seniors and other vulnerable residents.”