Assembly Bill A5304A

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to authorizing William Schumaker and Mark Hennessy to receive certain service credit under section 384-d of the retirement and social security law

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

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2021-A5304 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7286
Law Section:
Retirement
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A11009
2023-2024: A5075, S5539

2021-A5304 - Summary

Authorizes William Schumaker and Mark Hennessy to receive certain service credit under section 384-d of the retirement and social security law.

2021-A5304 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5304
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 12, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Governmental Employees
 
 AN  ACT  to  authorize  William  Schumaker  and Mark Hennessy to receive
   certain service 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,
 the city of Rensselaer, in the county  of  Rensselaer,  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 city, is here-
 by  authorized  to  make participation in such plan available to William
 Schumaker, a firefighter employed by the city of Rensselaer with a start
 date of October 10, 1996, who, for reasons not  ascribable  to  his  own
 negligence,  failed  to make a timely application to participate in such
 optional twenty year retirement plan. The  city  of  Rensselaer  may  so
 elect  by  filing with the state comptroller, within six months from the
 effective date of this act, a resolution of its local city common  coun-
 cil  together  with  certification  that  such  firefighter  did not bar
 himself from participation in such retirement plan as a  result  of  his
 own  negligence. Thereafter, such firefighter may elect to be covered by
 the provisions of section 384-d and 384-e 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  the  effective  date  of  such
 resolution.
   §  2.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the
 city of Rensselaer, in the county of Rensselaer, a participating employ-
 er in the New York state and local police and  fire  retirement  system,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

2021-A5304A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7286
Law Section:
Retirement
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A11009
2023-2024: A5075, S5539

2021-A5304A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes William Schumaker and Mark Hennessy to receive certain service credit under section 384-d of the retirement and social security law.

2021-A5304A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  5304--A
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 12, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee  on  Governmental  Employees  --  recommitted  to the Committee on
   Governmental Employees in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec.  2  --
   committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
   recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to authorize William  Schumaker  and  Mark  Hennessy  to  receive
   certain  service  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,
 the  city  of  Rensselaer,  in the county of Rensselaer, 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 city, is here-
 by authorized to make participation in such plan  available  to  William
 Schumaker, a firefighter employed by the city of Rensselaer with a start
 date  of  October  10,  1996, who, for reasons not ascribable to his own
 negligence, failed to make a timely application to participate  in  such
 optional  twenty  year  retirement  plan.  The city of Rensselaer may so
 elect by filing with the state comptroller, within six months  from  the
 effective  date of this act, a resolution of its local city common coun-
 cil together with  certification  that  such  firefighter  did  not  bar
 himself  from  participation  in such retirement plan as a result of his
 own negligence. Thereafter, such firefighter may elect to be covered  by
 the  provisions  of section 384-d and 384-e 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 the effective date of such
 resolution.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03516-03-2
              

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