NY State Senate Bill S5956

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Oct 04, 2019	signed chap.353
Oct 01, 2019	delivered to governor
Jun 19, 2019	returned to senate passed assembly home rule request ordered to third reading rules cal.453 substituted for a6314 referred to ways and means
Jun 18, 2019	delivered to assembly passed senate home rule request ordered to third reading cal.1576 committee discharged and committed to rules
May 16, 2019	referred to civil service and pensions

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S5956 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A6314
Law Section:: Retirement

S5956 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes Morgan McDole, Baraaka J. Titus and David Dunlap, firefighters in the City of Syracuse Fire Department, in the county of Onondaga, to elect to participate in an optional 20 year retirement program.

S5956 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

S5956 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf


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

                                  5956

                       2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              May 16, 2019
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions

AN ACT to authorize Morgan McDole, Baraaka J. Titus and David Dunlap, to
  elect to participate in the optional twenty year retirement  plan  for
  firefighters  employed  by the City of Syracuse Fire Department in the
  county of Onondaga

  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  Syracuse  Fire  Department,  in the county of Onondaga, 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 security law, to  firefighters  employed  by  such
fire  district,  is hereby authorized to make participation in such plan
available to Morgan McDole, Baraaka J. Titus  and  David  Dunlap;  fire-
fighters employed by such fire department, who, for reasons not ascriba-
ble  to  their  own  negligence,  failed to make a timely application to
participate in such optional twenty year  retirement  plan.  Thereafter,
Morgan McDole, Baraaka J. Titus and David Dunlap 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, by filing a  request  to  that  effect
with  the state comptroller within six months from the effective date of
this act.
  §  2.  All  past  service  costs  associated  with  implementing   the
provisions  of  this  act  shall  be  borne by the City of Syracuse Fire
Department and may be amortized over a period of ten years.
  § 3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,  this
act  shall be contingent upon the City of Syracuse Fire Department Board
of Fire Commissioners passing a resolution requesting the  enactment  of

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

                                                           LBD07045-04-9

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this  legislation  and providing copies of such resolution to each house
of the legislature.
  § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
  FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
  This bill would allow the City of Syracuse to reopen the provisions of
Section 384-d of the Retirement and Social Security Law for firefighters
Morgan McDole, Baraaka J. Titus and David Dunlap.
  If  this bill is enacted during the 2019 legislative session and these
members become covered under the provisions of Section 384-d, we  antic-
ipate  that  there  will  be an increase of approximately $21,000 in the
annual contributions of the City of Syracuse for the fiscal year  ending
March  31,  2020.  In  future  years, this cost will vary as the billing
rates and salary of these members change.
  In addition to the annual contributions discussed above, there will be
an immediate past service cost of $339,000 which will be  borne  by  the
City  of  Syracuse  as a one-time payment. This estimate is based on the
assumption that payment will be made on February 1, 2020. If the City of
Syracuse elects to amortize this cost over a 10 year  period,  the  cost
for the first year would be $45,100.
  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  February  26,  2019, and intended for use only
during the  2019  Legislative  Session,  is  Fiscal  Note  No.  2019-84,
prepared  by  the  Actuary  for  the New York State and Local Retirement
System.

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S5956 (ACTIVE) - Details

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S5956 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

S5956 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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