Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Jun 10, 2016 |
referred to rules |
Senate Bill S8073
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Rules Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2015-S8073 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Rules
- Law Section:
- Retirement
2015-S8073 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S8073 TITLE OF BILL : An act to authorize the city of Rochester, in the county of Monroe, to offer a certain retirement plan to certain police officers PURPOSE : To authorize the City of Rochester to make the benefits of Section 384-d of the Retirement and Social Security Law available to certain police offices employed by such city. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS : Section 1 of the bill authorizes the City of Rochester to make the benefits of Section 384-d of the Retirement and Social Security Law available to certain police officers employed by the City who are currently enrolled in a different retirement plan. Section 2 of the bill requires the costs associated with such legislation to be borne by the City of Rochester and further authorizes the City to amortize such costs over a 10 year period. Section 3 of the bill provides for an immediate effective date. EXISTING LAW :
2015-S8073 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 8073 I N S E N A T E June 10, 2016 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ROBACH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to authorize the city of Rochester, in the county of Monroe, to offer a certain retirement plan to certain police officers 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 city of Rochester, in the county of Monroe, 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 city, is hereby authorized to make participation in such plan available to David Blaho, MaryEllen Monahan-Kenny, and Liza Dann, police officers employed by the city of Rochester, who, for reasons not ascribable to their own negligence, failed to make a timely application to participate in such optional twenty-year retirement plan. The city of Rochester may so elect by filing with the comptroller, on or before December 31, 2017, a resol- ution of its city council together with certification that such police officers did not bar themselves from participation in such retirement plan as a result of their own negligence. Thereafter, such police offi- cers 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, includ- ing eligibility for participation in the plan established pursuant to section 384-e of the retirement and social security law, by filing a request to that effect with the state comptroller on or before June 30, 2018. S 2. All past service costs associated with implementing the provisions of this act shall be borne by the city of Rochester, and may be amortized, over a ten-year period. S 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Fiscal Note.--Pursuant to Legistlative Law Section 50: EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD15491-03-6
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