Senate Bill S4512A

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                 4512--A

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              April 8, 2011
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Introduced  by  Sens. NOZZOLIO, LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed,
  and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and
  Pensions -- recommitted to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
  in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
  amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
  tee

AN  ACT  to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to
  providing credit to members of public retirement systems of the  state
  for military service rendered during periods of military conflict

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

  Section 1. Paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of subdivision 2  and  subdivi-
sion  6  of  section  1000 of the retirement and social security law, as
added by chapter 548 of the  laws  of  2000,  are  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  (a)  hostilities  participated in by the military forces of the United
States in Lebanon, from the first day of June, nineteen hundred  eighty-
three  to  the first day of December, nineteen hundred eighty-seven[, as
established by receipt of the armed forces expeditionary medal, the navy
expeditionary medal, or the marine corps expeditionary medal];
  (b) hostilities participated in by the military forces of  the  United
States  in  Grenada,  from  the  twenty-third  day  of October, nineteen
hundred eighty-three to  the  twenty-first  day  of  November,  nineteen
hundred  eighty-three[,  as  established  by receipt of the armed forces
expeditionary medal, the navy expeditionary medal, or the  marine  corps
expeditionary medal];
  (c)  hostilities  participated in by the military forces of the United
States in Panama, from the twentieth day of December,  nineteen  hundred
eighty-nine  to  the thirty-first day of January, nineteen hundred nine-
ty[, as established by receipt of the armed forces expeditionary  medal,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00786-02-2

              

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the  navy expeditionary medal, or the marine corps expeditionary medal];
or
  6.  To  be  eligible to receive credit for military service under this
section, a member must make  application  for  such  credit  before  the
effective  date of retirement. [Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions
of this subdivision, an individual who  retired  on  or  after  December
twenty-first,  nineteen  hundred  ninety-eight  and before the effective
date of this section may make application for credit  pursuant  to  this
section within one year following the effective date of this section, in
which  event, the cost to the retiree would be based on the twelve month
period immediately preceding retirement.] ANY RETIRED MEMBERS SEEKING TO
RECEIVE CREDIT FOR MILITARY SERVICE UNDER THIS SECTION MUST MAKE  APPLI-
CATION  FOR  SUCH  CREDIT WITHIN SIX MONTHS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE
CHAPTER OF THE LAWS OF TWO THOUSAND TWELVE WHICH AMENDED  THIS  SUBDIVI-
SION.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.