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                                  5602

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              May 21, 2009
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Introduced  by  Sen.  LARKIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions

AN ACT to authorize the village of Monroe, in the county of  Orange,  to
  offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to police officer Antho-
  ny T. Amatetti

  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,
the village of Monroe, in the county of Orange, a participating employer
in the New York state and local police and fire retirement system, which
previously elected to offer the optional twenty  year  retirement  plan,
established pursuant to section 384-d of the retirement and social secu-
rity law, to police officers employed by such village, is hereby author-
ized  to make participation in such plan available to Anthony T. Amatet-
ti, a police officer employed by the village of Monroe, for the term  of
his  employment  by such village, who, for reasons not ascribable to his
own negligence failed to make a timely  application  to  participate  in
such optional twenty year retirement plan.  The village of Monroe may so
elect  by  filing  with the state comptroller, on or before December 31,
2009, a resolution of its board of trustees together with  certification
that  such police officer did not bar himself from participation in such
retirement plan as a result of  his  own  negligence.  Thereafter,  such
police  officer  may  elect  to  be covered by the provisions of section
384-d of the retirement and social security law, and shall  be  entitled
to  the  full  rights  and  benefits associated with coverage under such
section for his employment as a police officer by the village of  Monroe
by  filing  a  request  to  that effect with the state comptroller on or
before June 30, 2010.
  S 2. All employer costs associated with implementing the provisions of
this act shall be borne by the village of Monroe.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11303-03-9
              

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  FISCAL NOTE.--This bill will allow the Village of Monroe to  elect  to
reopen  the  provisions  of  Section  384-d of the Retirement and Social
Security Law for Police Officer Anthony T. Amatetti.
  If  this  bill  is enacted, and Officer Amatetti becomes covered under
Section 384-d, we anticipate that there will be an increase of  approxi-
mately  $2,900  in the annual contributions of the Village of Monroe for
the fiscal year ending March 31, 2010.
  There will be no past service cost for the Village of Monroe resulting
from the enactment of this legislation.
  This estimate, dated May 12, 2009 and intended for use only during the
2009 Legislative Session, is Fiscal Note No. 2009-247, prepared  by  the
Actuary  for  the  New  York  State and Local Police and Fire Retirement
System.