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                                   8327
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 8, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. GUNTHER, SKOUFIS, PAULIN, SKARTADOS, MONTESANO,
   GRAF, RAIA, FRIEND -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of  A.  COOK,  CROUCH,
   McLAUGHLIN, STEC, WALTER -- read once and referred to the Committee on
   Governmental Employees
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to
   the limitation for retired police officers employed as school resource
   officers
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 3 of section 212 of the retirement and social
 security law, as added by section 1 of part Y of chapter 55 of the  laws
 of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
   3.  Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivisions one and two of this
 section, [the commissioner  of  education  may  determine,  pursuant  to
 section  two hundred eleven of this article, that] such earnings limita-
 tions shall not apply to a retired police officer employed by  a  school
 district  IN  EITHER  THE CLASSIFIED OR UNCLASSIFIED SERVICE as a school
 resource officer, SCHOOL SAFETY OFFICER, SCHOOL SECURITY OFFICER OR  ANY
 OTHER  SUBSTANTIALLY  SIMILAR  POSITION  OR  OFFICE  THAT IS DESIGNED TO
 PROVIDE SAFETY AND/OR SECURITY ON SCHOOL  GROUNDS,  PROVIDED  THAT  SUCH
 RETIRED  POLICE  OFFICER IS DULY QUALIFIED, COMPETENT AND PHYSICALLY FIT
 FOR PERFORMANCE OF THE DUTIES OF THE POSITION IN WHICH HE OR SHE  IS  TO
 BE  EMPLOYED AS DETERMINED BY THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND IS PROPERLY CERTI-
 FIED WHERE SUCH CERTIFICATION IS REQUIRED.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
   FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
   This bill will allow retired police  officers  to  be  employed  by  a
 school  district  as a school safety officer, school security officer or
 any other substantially similar position and continue to  receive  their
 full  retirement  benefit.  Currently, this privilege is only allowed to
 retired police officers who are employed as a school resource officer.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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   If this bill is enacted, insofar as it will affect the New York  State
 and  Local  Police and Fire Retirement System, we expect few retirees to
 be affected. There would be negligible additional annual costs.
   Summary of relevant resources:
   The  membership  data  used  in  measuring  the impact of the proposed
 change was the same as that used in the March 31, 2016  actuarial  valu-
 ation.    Distributions  and  other  statistics can be found in the 2016
 Report of the  Actuary  and  the  2016  Comprehensive  Annual  Financial
 Report.
   The  actuarial  assumptions and methods used are described in the 2015
 and 2016 Annual Report to the Comptroller on Actuarial Assumptions,  and
 the  Codes  Rules  and  Regulations  of the State of New York: Audit and
 Control.
   The Market Assets and GASB Disclosures are found in the March 31, 2016
 New York State and Local  Retirement  System  Financial  Statements  and
 Supplementary Information.
   I am a member of the American Academy of Actuaries and meet the Quali-
 fication Standards to render the actuarial opinion contained herein.
   This estimate, dated January 12, 2017 and intended for use only during
 the 2017 Legislative Session, is Fiscal Note No. 2017-6, prepared by the
 Actuary for the New York State and Local Retirement System.