Assembly Bill A6980

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Removes post-retirement earnings restrictions for New York city department of corrections uniformed personnel

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A6980 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4632
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
Retirement and Social Security Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง507-a, R & SS L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A9393
2017-2018: A10817, S6100
2019-2020: S5850
2021-2022: S6982
2023-2024: S7115

2015-A6980 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Removes post-retirement earnings restrictions for New York city department of corrections uniformed personnel with respect to a retiree subsequent to his or her earliest eligibility date for service retirement.

2015-A6980 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  6980

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 16, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Governmental Employees

AN  ACT  to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to
  eligibility of uniformed personnel of the New York city department  of
  correction for ordinary disability benefits

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

  Section 1. Section 507-a of the retirement and social security law  is
amended by adding a new subdivision f to read as follows:
  F.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  OTHER  PROVISION  OF  LAW, THERE SHALL BE NO
RESTRICTIONS ON THE EARNINGS  FROM  EMPLOYMENT  NOT  IN  PUBLIC  SERVICE
PERMITTED  TO  A  MEMBER OF THE UNIFORMED PERSONNEL OF THE NEW YORK CITY
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION WHO:
  1. HAS RETIRED PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION; AND
  2. WAS SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF (I) SUBDIVISION D OF SECTION  FIVE
HUNDRED FOUR OF THIS ARTICLE, (II) SUBDIVISION C OF SECTION FIVE HUNDRED
FOUR-A  OF  THIS ARTICLE, OR (III) SUBDIVISION C OF SECTION FIVE HUNDRED
FOUR-B OF THIS ARTICLE PRIOR TO HIS OR HER RETIREMENT, SUBSEQUENT TO THE
DATE AS OF WHICH HE OR SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN ELIGIBLE FOR SERVICE  RETIRE-
MENT.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
  FISCAL NOTE. -- Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
  PROVISIONS  OF  PROPOSED  LEGISLATION: This proposed legislation would
amend Retirement and Social Security Law ("RSSL") Section 507-a to add a
new Subdivision f to remove restrictions on the earnings from employment
in the private sector for periods  subsequent  to  the  former  member's
earliest eligibility date for Service Retirement for uniformed personnel
of  the  New York City Department of Correction ("Correction Personnel")
who were members of the  New  York  City  Employees'  Retirement  System
("NYCERS")  and  who  have retired and are receiving Ordinary Disability
benefits ("Correction ODR Retirees").

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00931-02-5
              

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