S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5828
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 5, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. TENNEY -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to authorize James W. McCarthy Tier I status in the New York
state and local employees' retirement system
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, James W.
McCarthy, who was first eligible to join the public retirement system as
of May 1, 1968 and who was employed by the Power Authority of the state
of New York from May 1, 1968 to August 31, 1968, May 1, 1969 to August
31, 1969 and May 1, 1970 to August 31, 1970 and who for reasons not
ascribable to his own negligence was not afforded the opportunity to
join the New York state and local employees' retirement system with Tier
I status, shall be deemed to have become a member of the New York state
and local employees' retirement system as of May 1, 1968; and shall have
Tier I status, if, on or before December 31, 2015 he shall file a writ-
ten request with the state comptroller.
S 2. All costs attributable to the implementation of this act shall be
borne by New York state.
S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
This bill will deem James W. McCarthy, an employee of the New York
State Office of Court Administration, to have become a member of the New
York State and Local Employees' Retirement System on May 1, 1968, his
first date of employment with the New York State Power Authority, there-
by granting him Tier 1 status. All member contributions will be
refunded.
If this bill is enacted, we anticipate that there will be an increase
of approximately $11,000 in the annual contributions of New York State
for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2016.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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In addition to the annual contributions discussed above, there will be
an immediate past service cost of approximately $255,000 which will be
borne by the State of New York as a one-time payment. This estimate is
based on the assumption that payment will be made on March 1, 2016.
Summary of relevant resources:
The membership data used in measuring the impact of the proposed
change was the same as that used in the March 31, 2014 actuarial valu-
ation. Distributions and other statistics can be found in the 2014
Report of the Actuary and the 2014 Comprehensive Annual Financial
Report.
The actuarial assumptions and methods used are described in 2010,
2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 Annual Report to the Comptroller on Actuarial
Assumptions, and the Codes Rules and Regulations of the State of New
York: Audit and Control.
The Market Assets and GASB Disclosures are found in the March 31, 2014
New York State and Local Retirement System Financial Statements and
Supplementary Information.
I am a member of the American Academy of Actuaries and meet the Quali-
fication Standards to render the actuarial opinion contained herein.
This estimate, dated February 20, 2015, and intended for use only
during the 2015 Legislative Session, is Fiscal Note No. 2015-069,
prepared by the Actuary for the New York State and Local Employees'
Retirement System.