NY State Senate Bill 2019-S8260

Senate Bill S8260

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to authorizing Shawn Houseman to receive certain credit under section 384-d of the retirement and social security law

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Delivered to Governor
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2019-S8260 (ACTIVE) - Details

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

2019-S8260 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to authorizing Shawn Houseman to receive certain credit under section 384-d of the retirement and social security law for service with the Orleans county sheriff's office.

2019-S8260 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S8260

SPONSOR: ORTT
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to authorize Shawn Houseman to receive certain credit under
section 384-d of the retirement and social security law

 
PURPOSE OF THE BILL:

This legislation will authorize Officer Shawn Houseman, of the Town of
Brighton Police Department, to transfer a defined period of service
credit he accrued while a member of the Orleans County Sheriffs Office
Jail Division to the retirement system of his current employer.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 classifies Mr. Houseman's time as a deputy sheriff as eligible
for service credit under section 384-d of the retirement and social
security law.

Section 2 clarifies that the service cost shall be borne by Mr.
Houseman's employer where he served as a deputy sheriff, the County of
Orleans.

Section 3 sets the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Officer Shawn Houseman has served our community honorably for over two
decades. He began his law enforcement career working five years in the
Orleans County Sheriff's Jail Division. He then transferred to the Sher-
iff's Road Patrol, then the Medina Police Department, and now works for
the Brighton Police Department.

However, Officer Houseman's service time in the Jail Division was count-
ed toward the Municipal Employees System, and the rest of his service
counted into the Police and Fire Retirement System.

Due to health concerns, Officer Houseman has an interest in retiring as
soon as he is able. This bill would enable Officer Houseman to retire
honorably and collect the full twenty-year benefit he has earned.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

See fiscal note.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:

2019-S8260 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   8260
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 29, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
 
 AN ACT to authorize Shawn  Houseman  to  receive  certain  credit  under
   section 384-d of the retirement and social security law
 
   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,
 Shawn Houseman, a member of the New York state and local police and fire
 retirement system covered under section  384-d  of  the  retirement  and
 social  security law, who for the period beginning September 3, 1996 and
 ending September 2002, was employed as a deputy sheriff by  the  Orleans
 county  sheriff's office where he was a member of the New York state and
 local employees' retirement system, and who, for reasons not  ascribable
 to  his  own  negligence,  was  not granted service credit under section
 384-d of the retirement and social  security  law  for  such  period  of
 employment  with  the  county  of Orleans, shall be granted such service
 credit under section 384-d of the retirement and social security law and
 shall be entitled to the full rights and benefits associated with cover-
 age under such section as well as section 384-e of  such  law,  provided
 that a request to that effect is filed with the state comptroller within
 one year from the effective date of this act.
   § 2. All past service costs incurred in implementing the provisions of
 this act shall be borne by the county of Orleans.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
   FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
   This  bill will grant service credit under section 384-d together with
 section 384-e of the Retirement and Social Security Law to Shawn  House-
 man,  a former member of the New York State Employees' Retirement System
 (ERS) and a current member of the New York State and  Local  Police  and
 Fire  Retirement System (PFRS) employed by the Town of Brighton, for the
 period of September 1996 through September 2002,  during  which  he  was
 employed as a deputy sheriff in the County of Orleans. Currently, deputy
 sheriff  service  is not creditable in a PFRS twenty year police retire-
 ment plan. Prior to being granted such service credit, Officer Houseman,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16143-03-0

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 who voluntarily withdrew his membership in  the  ERS  effective  January
 2003, must reinstate and transfer his former ERS membership to the PFRS.
   If  this  bill  is  enacted during the 2020 legislative session, there
 will be an immediate past service cost of approximately  $107,000  which
 will be borne by the County of Orleans as a one-time payment. This esti-
 mate is based on the assumption that payment will be made on February 1,
 2021.
   There  will  be no increase in the annual contributions of the Town of
 Brighton.
   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, 2019 actuarial valu-
 ation.  Distributions and other statistics can  be  found  in  the  2019
 Report  of  the  Actuary  and  the  2019  Comprehensive Annual Financial
 Report.
   The actuarial assumptions and methods used are described in the  2015,
 2016,  2017, 2018 and 2019 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, 2019
 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 April 22, 2020, and intended for use only  during
 the  2020  Legislative Session, is Fiscal Note No. 2020-106, prepared by
 the Actuary for the New York State and Local Retirement System.

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