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                                  5353

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 13, 2009
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Introduced  by  M. of A. RAIA -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Governmental Employees

AN ACT in relation to allowing certain employees of the Vanderbilt Muse-
  um and Planetarium to receive additional  service  credit  from  their
  prior service in the employ of Suffolk county

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

  Section 1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law,  Stanley
B.    Coffield,  former employee of the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum
and Planetarium in Centerport, Long Island, and member of the  New  York
State  and  Local  Employees' Retirement System, Reg. No. 1251979-9, who
for reasons not ascribable to his own negligence, was  disenrolled  from
the New York State and Local Employees' Retirement System retroactive to
February  1,  1973,  without  notice  from such retirement system or his
employer, shall be eligible to be  reinstated  to  membership  with  his
original  date of membership and tier status and receive service credit,
for any time not already credited, in such system for  the  period  from
November  1,  1972 through August 1, 1990, during which period he was an
employee of the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum. Such additional credit
shall only be obtained if, on or before the thirty-first day of December
next succeeding the date on which this act shall have become a  law,  he
files  a  written request with the administrative head of the retirement
system seeking to receive such service credit.
  S 2. Notwithstanding any  inconsistent  provision  of  law,  Peter  D.
Valerio,  former  employee  of  the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum and
Planetarium in Centerport, Long Island, and member of the New York State
and Local Employees' Retirement   System, Reg. No.  1321449-9,  who  for
reasons  not  ascribable to his own negligence, was disenrolled from the
New York State and Local Employees'  Retirement  System  retroactive  to
February  1,  1973,  without  notice  from such retirement system or his
employer, shall be eligible to be  reinstated  to  membership  with  his

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06582-02-9
              

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original  date of membership and tier status and receive service credit,
for any time not already credited, in such system for  the  period  from
November  1,  1972 through August 1, 1990, during which period he was an
employee of the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum. Such additional credit
shall only be obtained if, on or before the thirty-first day of December
next  succeeding  the date on which this act shall have become a law, he
files a written request with the administrative head of  the  retirement
system seeking to receive such service credit.
  S  3.  Notwithstanding  any  inconsistent  provision  of  law, J. Mark
Levine, former employee of the  Suffolk  County  Vanderbilt  Museum  and
Planetarium in Centerport, Long Island, and member of the New York State
and  Local  Employees'  Retirement  System,  Reg. No. 1176603-7, who for
reasons not ascribable to his own negligence, was disenrolled  from  the
New  York  State  and  Local Employees' Retirement System retroactive to
February 1, 1973, without notice from  such  retirement  system  or  his
employer,  shall  be  eligible  to  be reinstated to membership with his
original date of membership and tier status and receive service  credit,
for  any  time  not already credited, in such system for the period from
November 1, 1972 through August 1, 1990, during which period he  was  an
employee of the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum. Such additional credit
shall only be obtained if, on or before the thirty-first day of December
next  succeeding  the date on which this act shall have become a law, he
files a written request with the administrative head of  the  retirement
system seeking to receive such service credit.
  S  4.  Notwithstanding  any  inconsistent provision of law, Stephen G.
Moore, former employee of the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum and Plan-
etarium in Centerport, Long Island, and member of the New York State and
Local Employees' Retirement System, Reg. No. 1257416-6, who for  reasons
not  ascribable to his own negligence, was disenrolled from the New York
State and Local Employees' Retirement System retroactive to February  1,
1973,  without notice from such retirement system or his employer, shall
be eligible to be reinstated to membership with  his  original  date  of
membership  and tier status and receive service credit, for any time not
already credited, in such system for the period from  November  1,  1972
through  August  1,  1990, during which period he was an employee of the
Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum. Such additional credit shall  only  be
obtained if, on or before the thirty-first day of December next succeed-
ing the date on which this act shall have become a law, he files a writ-
ten  request with the administrative head of the retirement system seek-
ing to receive such service credit.
  S 5. All costs associated with the implementation of the provisions of
this act shall be borne by the  New  York  State  and  Local  Employees'
Retirement  System,  except  any contributions received by the TIAA-CREF
pension fund for the period after August 1, 1990.
  S 6. In the event that the individuals named in this act retire  prior
to  the  effective date of this act, such retirement will not effect the
outcome and the member will be deemed to have been restored  to  his  or
her  prior  membership and tier status on the date immediately preceding
the effective date of retirement.
  S 7. This act shall take effect immediately.
  FISCAL NOTE.--This bill will allow four former  employees  of  Suffolk
County's Vanderbilt Museum, a non-participating employer in the New York
State and Local Employees' Retirement System, to receive tier status and
service credit for the service they rendered with the museum from Novem-
ber 1, 1972 through August 1, 1990.

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  If  this bill is enacted, we anticipate that there will be an increase
of approximately $940 in the annual contributions of the  State  of  New
York for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2010.
  In addition to the annual cost above, we anticipate that there will be
an  immediate past service cost of approximately $902,000, which will be
shared by the State of New York and all the participating  employers  in
the New York State and Local Employees' Retirement System.
  This  estimate,  dated  February  10,  2009  and intended for use only
during the 2009  Legislative  Session,  is  Fiscal  Note  No.  2009-122,
prepared  by  the  Actuary  for  the New York State and Local Employees'
Retirement System.