Senate Bill S4794

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to authorizing police/fire members of the New York city fire department pension fund to obtain credit for service as an EMT member

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Civil Service And Pensions Committee


  • 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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2023-S4794 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5055
Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
Retirement and Social Security Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §513, R & SS L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S6980, A10029

2023-S4794 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes police/fire members of the New York city fire department pension fund to obtain credit for certain prior service as an EMT member.

2023-S4794 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S4794 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4794
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 14, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. GOUNARDES, ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered print-
   ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service
   and Pensions
 
 AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in  relation  to
   authorizing  police/fire  members of the New York city fire department
   pension fund to obtain credit for service as an EMT member
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision c of section 513 of the retire-
 ment and social security law, as added by chapter 890  of  the  laws  of
 1976, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  (I)  A  police/fire  member shall be eligible to obtain credit for
 service with a public employer described in paragraph one only  if  such
 service,  if  rendered prior to July first, nineteen hundred seventy-six
 by a police/fire member who was subject to article eleven of this  chap-
 ter,  would  have been eligible for credit in the police/fire retirement
 system or plan involved.
   (II) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW  TO  THE  CONTRARY,  A
 MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT PENSION FUND SUBJECT TO THIS
 ARTICLE  SHALL  BE ELIGIBLE TO OBTAIN CREDIT FOR ANY PERIOD OF ALLOWABLE
 SERVICE RENDERED AS AN EMT MEMBER, AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN  PARAGRAPH
 ONE  OF  SUBDIVISION A OF SECTION SIX HUNDRED FOUR-E OF THIS CHAPTER, AS
 ADDED BY CHAPTER FIVE HUNDRED SEVENTY-SEVEN OF THE LAWS OF TWO THOUSAND,
 WHICH IMMEDIATELY PRECEDES SERVICE IN THE UNIFORMED FORCE  OF  THE  FIRE
 DEPARTMENT  AND  SUCH  SERVICE  SHALL  BE DEEMED TO BE IN SERVICE OF THE
 UNIFORMED FORCE OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT FOR PURPOSES OF  ELIGIBILITY  FOR
 BENEFITS AND TO DETERMINE THE AMOUNT OF BENEFITS UNDER THE NEW YORK CITY
 FIRE  DEPARTMENT  PENSION FUND, PROVIDED THAT SUCH MEMBER PAYS OR TRANS-
 FERS INTO THE NEW YORK CITY FIRE  DEPARTMENT  PENSION  FUND  ALL  MEMBER
 CONTRIBUTIONS  SET FORTH IN SECTION FIVE HUNDRED SEVENTEEN OF THIS ARTI-
 CLE PLUS INTEREST, AT A RATE OF FIVE PERCENT PER ANNUM. FOR A MEMBER WHO
 TRANSFERS SUCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NEW YORK CITY  EMPLOYEES'  RETIRE-
 MENT  SYSTEM  TO THE NEW YORK CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT PENSION FUND OR FOR A
 MEMBER WHO WITHDRAWS SUCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NEW YORK  CITY  EMPLOY-
 
              

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