NY State Senate Bill 2011-S4680

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Date of Action	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jan 04, 2012	referred to local government
Apr 14, 2011	referred to local government

2011-S4680 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Local Government
Law Section:: General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§219-d, 219-k & 219-l, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in 2009-2010 Legislative Session:: S4486

2011-S4680 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires certain changes to service award programs to be subject to a mandatory referendum; lowers the entitlement age to fifty-five.

2011-S4680 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                BILL NUMBER:S4680

TITLE OF BILL:

An act
to amend the general municipal law, in relation to service award programs

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

The purpose of this bill is to make changes to the volunteer ambulance
service award program including requiring a mandatory referendum for
certain changes and authorizing a lowering of the entitlement to age
55.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Sections one and three of the bill amend the General Municipal law to
require a mandatory referendum any time a volunteer ambulance service
award program is amended to Increase the number of points granted for
an activity or if the amount of activity required to earn points is
decreased. These section also provide that amendments to a service
award program will only take effect as of the first of January next
succeeding the adoption of the amendment and prohibit retroactive
amendments.

Section two of the bill amends the General Municipal Law to authorize

program sponsors to lower the entitlement age for defined benefit
service award programs to fifty-five.

Section four contains the effective date.

JUSTIFICATION:

Volunteer ambulance service award programs are Intended to serve as
recruitment and incentive tools by providing volunteers with
pension-like benefits. This legislation seeks to provide ambulance
workers parity with the volunteer firefighters' service award
program, which authorizes program sponsors of defined benefit
programs to have an entitlement age as low as fifty-five. In
addition, this legislation also creates parity with volunteer
firefighter service award programs by requiring a mandatory
referendum for amendments to a program that could potentially lead to
higher costs for taxpayers.

PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2006:    A.11925 -- Assembly Local Governments Cmte.
2007-08: Senate Local Government Cmte./Assembly Local Governments Cmte.
2009-10: S.4486 Local Government Cmte.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None to the State.

EFFECTIVE DATE:


This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeeding
the date on which it shall have become a law; provided, however, that
effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any
rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act
on its effective date are authorized and directed to be made
and completed by the state comptroller on or before such date.

2011-S4680 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4680

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 14, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sen. FLANAGAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government

AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to service  award
  programs

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

  Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 8  of  section  219-d  of  the
general  municipal  law, as added by chapter 514 of the laws of 1998, is
amended to read as follows:
  (b) The entitlement age, the number  of  years  of  ambulance  service
required  to  obtain  a nonforfeitable right to a service award, and the
activities for which points shall be granted toward a year of  ambulance
service  may be changed by resolution adopted by the affirmative vote of
at least sixty percent of the governing board  of  the  sponsor  without
referendum;  PROVIDED,  THAT, CONSISTENT WITH THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVI-
SION THREE OF SECTION TWO HUNDRED NINETEEN-M OF  THIS  ARTICLE,  IF  THE
EFFECT  OF THE AMENDMENT IS TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF POINTS GRANTED FOR
THE PERFORMANCE OF THE ACTIVITY, DECREASE  THE  AMOUNT  OF  AN  ACTIVITY
REQUIRED TO EARN THE POINTS GRANTED FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF THE ACTIVITY,
OR  BOTH, SUCH AMENDMENT SHALL BE SUBJECT TO A MANDATORY REFERENDUM. ANY
AMENDMENT TO A SERVICE AWARD PROGRAM SHALL ONLY TAKE EFFECT  AS  OF  THE
FIRST  OF JANUARY NEXT SUCCEEDING COMPLETION OF THE PROCEEDINGS REQUIRED
FOR ADOPTION OF THE AMENDMENT AND SHALL ONLY APPLY PROSPECTIVELY.
  S 2. Subdivision 3 of section 219-k of the general municipal  law,  as
added by chapter 558 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
  3.  "Entitlement age" means age [sixty-five] FIFTY-FIVE and, except in
the case of disability or death, shall be the earliest age  at  which  a
participant  who  has a nonforfeitable right to a service award is enti-
tled to apply for and begin receiving a service award.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02946-02-1

S. 4680                             2

  S 3. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 9 of section 219-l  of  the  general
municipal  law,  as added by chapter 558 of the laws of 1998, is amended
to read as follows:
  (b)  The activities for which points shall be granted toward a year of
ambulance service may be changed by resolution adopted by  the  affirma-
tive  vote of at least sixty percent of the governing board of the spon-
sor without referendum; PROVIDED, THAT, CONSISTENT WITH  THE  PROVISIONS
OF  SUBDIVISION THREE OF SECTION TWO HUNDRED NINETEEN-M OF THIS ARTICLE,
IF THE EFFECT OF THE AMENDMENT IS  TO  INCREASE  THE  NUMBER  OF  POINTS
GRANTED  FOR  THE PERFORMANCE OF THE ACTIVITY, DECREASE THE AMOUNT OF AN
ACTIVITY REQUIRED TO EARN THE POINTS GRANTED FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF  THE
ACTIVITY, OR BOTH, SUCH AMENDMENT SHALL BE SUBJECT TO A MANDATORY REFER-
ENDUM.  ANY  AMENDMENT TO A SERVICE AWARD PROGRAM SHALL ONLY TAKE EFFECT
AS OF THE FIRST OF JANUARY NEXT SUCCEEDING COMPLETION OF THE PROCEEDINGS
REQUIRED FOR ADOPTION OF THE AMENDMENT AND SHALL ONLY APPLY PROSPECTIVE-
LY.
  S 4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
ing  the  date  on  which it shall have become a law; provided, however,
that effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any
rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act  on  its
effective  date  are authorized and directed to be made and completed by
the state comptroller on or before such date.

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