Assembly Bill A4885

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Provides a pension benefit parity payment to certain retirees from a state management/confidential position

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A4885 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2866
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Add §137, Civ Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A10093, S7771
2019-2020: A2462, S899, S4079

2021-A4885 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides a pension benefit parity payment to certain retirees from a state management/confidential position; provides a payment for salary increases that were authorized but withheld by the state.

2021-A4885 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4885
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 8, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Governmental Employees
 
 AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in  relation  to  establishing  a
   retiree  parity payment for certain employees who served in a position
   or positions in the classified service of the state designated manage-
   rial or confidential

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  civil service law is amended by adding a new section
 137 to read as follows:
   § 137. MANAGEMENT/CONFIDENTIAL RETIREE PARITY PAYMENT.  1.    NOTWITH-
 STANDING  ANY  PROVISION OF LAW, RULE OR REGULATION TO THE CONTRARY, ANY
 RETIREE WHO SERVED IN A POSITION OR POSITIONS IN THE CLASSIFIED  SERVICE
 OF  THE  STATE DESIGNATED MANAGERIAL OR CONFIDENTIAL PURSUANT TO ARTICLE
 FOURTEEN OF THIS CHAPTER AND WHO RETIRED BETWEEN APRIL FIRST, TWO  THOU-
 SAND NINE AND MARCH THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN, AND HAD A SALARY
 INCREASE  AUTHORIZED UNDER CHAPTER TEN OF THE LAWS OF TWO THOUSAND EIGHT
 WHICH WAS WITHHELD FOR STATE FISCAL YEARS TWO THOUSAND NINE  AND/OR  TWO
 THOUSAND  TEN  SHALL  RECEIVE  A SEVENTY DOLLAR REBATE PAYMENT FOR EVERY
 MONTH OF WITHHOLDING FROM APRIL FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND  NINE  UNTIL  SUCH
 RETIREE'S  DATE  OF  RETIREMENT  OR  MARCH  THIRTY-FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND
 FIFTEEN, WHICHEVER IS EARLIER, NOT TO EXCEED A TOTAL  OF  FIVE  THOUSAND
 DOLLARS.  THE  COMPTROLLER SHALL CERTIFY TO THE DIVISION OF THE BUDGET A
 LISTING OF ALL SUCH RETIREES DEEMED ELIGIBLE PURSUANT TO  THIS  SUBDIVI-
 SION.
   2.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  PROVISION  OF LAW, RULE OR REGULATION TO THE
 CONTRARY, ANY RETIREE WHO SERVED IN A POSITION OR POSITIONS IN THE CLAS-
 SIFIED SERVICE OF THE STATE DESIGNATED MANAGERIAL OR CONFIDENTIAL PURSU-
 ANT TO ARTICLE FOURTEEN OF THIS CHAPTER AND WHO  RETIRED  BETWEEN  APRIL
 FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND FIFTEEN AND JUNE THIRTIETH, TWO THOUSAND SEVENTEEN
 AND HAD A SALARY INCREASE AUTHORIZED UNDER CHAPTER TEN OF  THE  LAWS  OF
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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