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Senate Bill S5544

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Grants service credit to members of the uniformed correction force of the New York city department of correction covered by provisions of law for over 25 years

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2013-S5544 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
Retirement and Social Security Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง504, R & SS L

2013-S5544 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Grants service credit to members of the uniformed correction force of the New York city department of correction covered by provisions of law with over 25 years of service.

2013-S5544 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S5544 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5544

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              May 16, 2013
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in  relation  to
  retirement  benefits  for  general members in the uniformed correction
  force of the New York city department of correction

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision d of section 504 of the retirement and social
security law, as amended by chapter 18 of the laws of 2012,  is  amended
to read as follows:
  d.  The  early  service  retirement benefit for general members in the
uniformed  correction  force  of  the  New  York  city   department   of
correction,  who are not entitled to an early service retirement benefit
pursuant to subdivision c of section five hundred four-a of this article
or subdivision c of section five  hundred  four-b  of  this  article  or
subdivision  c  of  section  five hundred four-d of this article, or for
general members in the uniformed personnel  in  institutions  under  the
jurisdiction of the department of corrections and community supervision,
as  defined  in  subdivision  i  of section eighty-nine of this chapter,
shall be a pension equal to one-fiftieth of final average  salary  times
years  of  credited  service  at  the completion of twenty-five years of
service, [but not in excess of fifty percent of  final  average  salary]
PLUS  ONE-SIXTIETH  OF  FINAL  AVERAGE  SALARY  TIMES  YEARS OF CREDITED
SERVICE IN EXCESS OF TWENTY-FIVE, provided, however, that the provisions
of  this  section  shall  not  apply  to  a  New  York  city   uniformed
correction/sanitation revised plan member.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09215-01-3

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