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Senate Bill S8082

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Authorizes Carol McEnany to receive certain retirement benefit enhancements

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2019-S8082 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
Retirement

2019-S8082 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes Carol McEnany to receive certain retirement benefit enhancements.

2019-S8082 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S8082 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8082
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 17, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
 
 AN ACT in relation to  authorizing  Carol  McEnany  to  receive  certain
   retirement benefit enhancements
 
   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, Carol  McEnany,
 who  is  a retired Tier 2 member of the New York state and local employ-
 ee's retirement system, and who  was  employed  by  the  Suffolk  county
 department of social services for the period beginning November 1973 and
 ending in 1984, and who was employed by the Miller Place school district
 for  the period beginning July 1999 and ending October 1999, and who was
 employed by the Suffolk county department of health services from Novem-
 ber 1, 1999 through December 31, 2019, and who, for reasons not ascriba-
 ble to her own negligence, was not eligible for the benefit enhancements
 set forth in article 19 of the retirement and social security law, shall
 be eligible for the benefit enhancements set forth in article 19 of  the
 retirement  and  social security law if she shall file a request to that
 effect with the state comptroller within six months after the  effective
 date  of  this act. Upon receipt of such request, the retirement benefit
 shall be calculated and payment shall be made retroactive to her date of
 retirement.
   § 2. All costs associated with the implementation of the provisions of
 this act shall be borne by the state of New York.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
   FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
   This bill would grant two additional years  of  service  credit  under
 Article 19 of the Retirement and Social Security Law to Carol McEnany, a
 Tier  2  retiree  of  the New York State and Local Employees' Retirement
 System who is currently ineligible for  such  benefit  enhancement.  The
 retirement  benefit  would  be  recalculated  and  payment would be made
 retroactive to her date of retirement.
   If this bill is enacted during the  2020  legislative  session,  there
 will  be  an  immediate past service cost of approximately $47,200 which
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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