Assembly Bill A9623

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to modifying the retirement program for Triborough bridge and tunnel members

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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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2021-A9623 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8655
Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
Retirement and Social Security Law
Laws Affected:
Add §604-j, R & SS L

2021-A9623 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to modifying the retirement program for Triborough bridge and tunnel members; provides for a twenty-year retirement program for Triborough bridge and tunnel members.

2021-A9623 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9623
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 28, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Governmental Employees
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to
   modifying the retirement program  for  Triborough  bridge  and  tunnel
   members
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The retirement and social security law is amended by adding
 a new section 604-j to read as follows:
   § 604-J. TWENTY-YEAR RETIREMENT  PROGRAM  FOR  TRIBOROUGH  BRIDGE  AND
 TUNNEL  MEMBERS. A. DEFINITIONS. THE FOLLOWING WORDS AND PHRASES AS USED
 IN THIS SECTION SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING  MEANINGS  UNLESS  A  DIFFERENT
 MEANING IS PLAINLY REQUIRED BY THE CONTEXT:
   1.  "TRIBOROUGH  BRIDGE  AND  TUNNEL  MEMBER"  SHALL  MEAN A MEMBER AS
 DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION E OF SECTION SIX HUNDRED ONE OF THIS ARTICLE  WHO
 IS  EMPLOYED  BY  THE TRIBOROUGH BRIDGE AND TUNNEL AUTHORITY AS A BRIDGE
 AND TUNNEL OFFICER, SERGEANT, OR LIEUTENANT IN  A  NON-MANAGERIAL  POSI-
 TION,  AND  WHO IS NOT A NEW YORK CITY REVISED PLAN MEMBER AS DEFINED IN
 SUBDIVISION M OF SECTION SIX HUNDRED ONE OF THIS ARTICLE.
   2. "TWENTY-YEAR RETIREMENT PROGRAM"  SHALL  MEAN  ALL  THE  TERMS  AND
 CONDITIONS OF THIS SECTION.
   3.  "STARTING  DATE  OF THE TWENTY-YEAR RETIREMENT PROGRAM" SHALL MEAN
 THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION, AS SUCH DATE IS  CERTIFIED  PURSUANT
 TO SECTION FORTY-ONE OF THE LEGISLATIVE LAW.
   4.  "PARTICIPANT IN THE TWENTY-YEAR RETIREMENT PROGRAM" SHALL MEAN ANY
 TRIBOROUGH BRIDGE AND TUNNEL MEMBER WHO, UNDER THE APPLICABLE PROVISIONS
 OF SUBDIVISION B OF THIS SECTION, IS ENTITLED TO  THE  RIGHTS,  BENEFITS
 AND  PRIVILEGES  AND  IS  SUBJECT  TO THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE TWENTY-YEAR
 RETIREMENT PROGRAM, AS APPLICABLE TO HIM OR HER.
   5. "DISCONTINUED MEMBER" SHALL MEAN A PARTICIPANT IN  THE  TWENTY-YEAR
 RETIREMENT  PROGRAM  WHO,  WHILE  HE  OR SHE WAS A TRIBOROUGH BRIDGE AND
 TUNNEL MEMBER, DISCONTINUED SERVICE AS SUCH A MEMBER AND HAS A RIGHT  TO
 A DEFERRED VESTED BENEFIT UNDER SUBDIVISION D OF THIS SECTION.
   6.  "ADMINISTRATIVE  CODE"  SHALL  MEAN THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF THE
 CITY OF NEW YORK.
   B. PARTICIPATION IN TWENTY-YEAR RETIREMENT PROGRAM. 1. SUBJECT TO  THE
 PROVISIONS  OF  PARAGRAPH  FIVE OF THIS SUBDIVISION, ANY PERSON WHO IS A
              

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