NY State Senate Bill 2019-S6382

Senate Bill S6382

Vetoed By Governor

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Authorizes retroactive tier III membership in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Steven R. Grice

download bill text pdf

Archive: Last Bill Status - Vetoed by Governor

Introduced
- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
Vetoed By Governor
Signed By Governor

Please enter your contact information

First Name

Last Name

Email Address

A valid email address is required.

Home address is used to determine the senate district in which you reside. Your support or opposition to this bill is then shared immediately with the senator who represents you.

Optional services from the NY State Senate:

Create an account. An account allows you to officially support or oppose key legislation, sign petitions with a single click, and follow issues, committees, and bills that matter to you. When you create an account, you agree to this platform's terms of participation.

Include a custom message for your Senator? (Optional)

Enter a message to your senator. Many New Yorkers use this to share the reasoning behind their support or opposition to the bill. Others might share a personal anecdote about how the bill would affect them or people they care about.

Actions

View Actions

	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Dec 13, 2019	vetoed memo.231
Dec 06, 2019	delivered to governor
Jun 20, 2019	returned to senate passed assembly home rule request ordered to third reading rules cal.697 substituted for a8261
Jun 19, 2019	referred to ways and means
Jun 18, 2019	delivered to assembly passed senate home rule request ordered to third reading cal.1625
Jun 07, 2019	referred to rules

Votes

- Jun 18, 2019 - Floor Vote
  S6382
  
  62
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Jun 18, 2019
      
      aye (62)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Akshar
      
      Amedore
      
      Antonacci
      
      Bailey
      
      Benjamin
      
      Biaggi
      
      Boyle
      
      Breslin
      
      Brooks
      
      Carlucci
      
      Comrie
      
      Felder
      
      Flanagan
      
      Funke
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gaughran
      
      Gianaris
      
      Gounardes
      
      Griffo
      
      Harckham
      
      Helming
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Jackson
      
      Jacobs
      
      Jordan
      
      Kaminsky
      
      Kaplan
      
      Kavanagh
      
      Kennedy
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Little
      
      Liu
      
      Martinez
      
      May
      
      Mayer
      
      Metzger
      
      Montgomery
      
      Myrie
      
      O'Mara
      
      Ortt
      
      Parker
      
      Persaud
      
      Ramos
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Ritchie
      
      Rivera
      
      Robach
      
      Salazar
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Savino
      
      Sepúlveda
      
      Serino
      
      Serrano
      
      Seward
      
      Skoufis
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Tedisco
      
      Thomas
  Jun 18, 2019 - Rules Committee Vote
  S6382
  
  19
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Rules Committee Vote: Jun 18, 2019
      
      aye (19)
      
      Benjamin
      
      Breslin
      
      Comrie
      
      Flanagan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Griffo
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Kennedy
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Little
      
      Liu
      
      Martinez
      
      Parker
      
      Robach
      
      Savino
      
      Seward
      
      Stewart-Cousins

2019-S6382 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A8261
Law Section:: Retirement
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2017-2018: S8598, A10717
2021-2022: S7240, A8025

2019-S6382 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes retroactive tier III membership in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Steven R. Grice.

2019-S6382 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S6382

SPONSOR: RANZENHOFER
 
TITLE OF BILL:  An act granting retroactive tier III membership in the
New York state and local employees' retirement system to Steven R. Grice

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

Allows Steven R. Grice, who is currently a member of Tier VI of the New
York State and Local Employees Retirement System, and employed by Gene-
see County, to claim a benefit from his original employment start date
when he was an employee of Gene see County.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 allows Steven R.  Grice to receive a
benefit based on the total service credit to which he was entitled at
the time of his employment start.

Section 2 requires that all costs associated with this act be borne by
Genesee County, and that there shall be no refund of member benefits to
Steven R. Grice.

Section 3 contains the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Steven R. Grice was employed by Genesee County in June 1981. He was
eligible to join the pension system, but through no fault of his own did
not join at that time. At the time, he would have been eligible for
entrance into Tier III. He was not provided with an application to apply
for membership in the retirement system until October 2017 and he is now
an employee with Genesee County and is a member of Tier VI. Had he
entered the pension system in 1981, he would be a member of Tier III.
This bill allows him to retroactively enter the pension tier that he was
entitled to in 1981.  The Genesee County Legislature has passed a resol-
ution requesting that this legislation be passed.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2017 - S .8598/A.10717 -- Vetoed

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

Refer to fiscal note on the bill

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2019-S6382 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6382
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               June 7, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
   when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT granting retroactive tier III membership in the  New  York  state
   and local employees' retirement system to Steven R. Grice
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Notwithstanding any other law to the  contrary,  Steven  R.
 Grice, who is currently a Tier VI member of the New York state and local
 employees'  retirement  system  and  currently employed by the county of
 Genesee, and who commenced employment with the county of Genesee on June
 22, 1981, and who, for reasons not ascribable  to  his  own  negligence,
 failed  to  become  a  member of the New York state and local employees'
 retirement system in 1981, may be deemed to have become a member of  the
 New  York state and local employees' retirement system on June 22, 1981,
 if within one year of the effective date of this act he  shall  file  an
 application  therefor  with  the state comptroller. Upon receipt of such
 application, Steven R. Grice shall be granted Tier III status in the New
 York state and local employees' retirement system and  be  eligible  for
 all  the  rights  and benefits thereof. No contributions made to the New
 York state and local employees' retirement system  by  Steven  R.  Grice
 shall be returned to him pursuant to this act.
   § 2. Any past service costs incurred in implementing the provisions of
 this act shall be borne by the county of Genesee.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
   FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
   This  bill  will  grant  Tier 3 status in the New York State and Local
 Employees' Retirement System to Steven R. Grice, a current Tier 6 member
 employed by the county of Genesee, by changing his date of membership to
 June 22, 1981, his first date of employment with the county of  Genesee.
 There will be no refund of member contributions. As a Tier 3 member with

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02405-02-9

 S. 6382                             2
 
 over  10  years  of membership, he will no longer be required to make 3%
 member contributions.
   If this bill is enacted during the 2019 legislative session, we antic-
 ipate  that  there  will  be  an increase of approximately $4,900 in the
 annual contributions of the county of Genesee for the fiscal year ending
 March 31, 2020. In future years, this cost  will  vary  as  the  billing
 rates and salary of Steven Grice change.
   In addition to the annual contributions discussed above, there will be
 an  immediate  past  service  cost  of $8,430 which will be borne by the
 county of Genesee as a one-time payment. This estimate is based  on  the
 assumption that payment will be made on February 1, 2020.
   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, 2018  actuarial  valu-
 ation.    Distributions  and  other  statistics can be found in the 2018
 Report of the  Actuary  and  the  2018  Comprehensive  Annual  Financial
 Report.
   The  actuarial assumptions and methods used are described in the 2015,
 2016, 2017 and 2018  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, 2018
 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  fiscal note does not constitute a legal opinion on the viability
 of the proposed change nor is it intended to serve as a  substitute  for
 the professional judgment of an attorney.
   This  estimate,  dated  May 16, 2019, and intended for use only during
 the 2019 Legislative Session, is Fiscal Note No. 2019-123,  prepared  by
 the Actuary for the New York State and Local Retirement System.

Comments

Open Legislation is a forum for New York State legislation. All comments are subject to review and community moderation is encouraged.

Comments deemed off-topic, commercial, campaign-related, self-promotional; or that contain profanity, hate or toxic speech; or that link to sites outside of the nysenate.gov domain are not permitted, and will not be published. Attempts to intimidate and silence contributors or deliberately deceive the public, including excessive or extraneous posting/posts, or coordinated activity, are prohibited and may result in the temporary or permanent banning of the user. Comment moderation is generally performed Monday through Friday. By contributing or voting you agree to the Terms of Participation and verify you are over 13.

Create an account. An account allows you to sign petitions with a single click, officially support or oppose key legislation, and follow issues, committees, and bills that matter to you. When you create an account, you agree to this platform's terms of participation.