A 7971 — Allows for certain participants in World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations to be eligible for disability benefits

Congress · introduced 2025-04-16

Allows for participants in World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations who were not members of a New York state retirement system at the time of such participation but who are now currently active members in such retirement systems to be eligible for disability benefits.

Latest action: 2026-01-07 — IN_ASSEMBLY_COMM

Action timeline

2025-04-16 · assembly — REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES
2025-05-16 · assembly — AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES
2025-05-16 · assembly — PRINT NUMBER 7971A
2025-05-21 · assembly — AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES
2025-05-21 · assembly — PRINT NUMBER 7971B
2026-01-07 · assembly — REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES

Text versions

Introduced · 2025-04-16 — HTML · Text
Amendment A · 2025-05-16 — HTML · Text
Amendment B · 2025-05-21 — HTML · Text

Connected on the graph

Inbound (1)

date	from	type	amount	role	source
2025-04-16	David Weprin	sponsor_of_bill	—	sponsor	sponsorship

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#	Member	Role	Speeches	Voted	Score
1	David Weprin (—, state_lower NY-24)	sponsor	0	—	5

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

Activity

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2025-04-16 · sponsored by David Weprin (sponsor) · sponsorship

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