Senate Bill S2689

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Authorizes John Bergmann to obtain credit for service to a participating employer in the New York state and local employees' retirement system

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Civil Service And Pensions Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-S2689 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
Retirement
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S2833
2013-2014: S7243

2009-S2689 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes John Leslie Bergmann to apply for and obtain retirement service credit, for service in the employment of a participating employer in the New York state and local employees' retirement system, in the New York city teachers' retirement system, of which he is a retired member due to retirement from employment by the city school district of the city of New York.

2009-S2689 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S2689 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  2689

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 26, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  STEWART-COUSINS -- read twice and ordered printed,
  and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and
  Pensions

AN ACT to authorize John  Leslie  Bergmann  to  apply  for  and  receive
  service  credit,  for  service  in  the  employment of a participating
  employer in the New York state and local employees' retirement system,
  in the New York city teachers' retirement system

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
John Leslie Bergmann, who retired on July 1, 2002 from employment by the
city  school district of the city of New York and receives benefits from
the New York city teachers' retirement system, and who commenced employ-
ment by  the  Westchester  county  community  college,  a  participating
employer  in  the New York state and local employees' retirement system,
on September 6, 1988, and who, for reasons not  ascribable  to  his  own
negligence,  did  not  become  a  member of the New York state and local
employees' retirement system, shall be entitled  to  receive  retirement
service  credit for his service as an employee of the Westchester county
community college, from the date of his commencement of such  employment
until  the  date  of  his  retirement from employment by the city school
district of the city of New York, in the New York city teachers' retire-
ment system if, on or before the thirty-first of December next  succeed-
ing  the  date  on  which  it  shall have become a law, he shall file an
application therefor with the state comptroller.
  S 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, ther-
eupon, the New York state and local employees' retirement  system  shall
transfer  to the New York city teachers' retirement system an amount, to
be determined by the state comptroller, equal to that  which  the  West-
chester county community college would have been obligated to pay to the
New  York state and local employees' retirement system on account of its

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08241-02-9
              

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