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Senate Bill S10387

2025-2026 Legislative Session

In relation to authorizing certain persons in an optional twenty year retirement plan to receive credit for previous service as a uniformed court officer or correction officer

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2025-S10387 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
Retirement and Social Security Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §384-e, R & SS L

2025-S10387 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes certain persons in an optional twenty year retirement plan of the police and fire retirement system to receive credit for previous service as a uniformed court officer title series employed by the Unified Court System or a correction officer employed by a county, a municipality or the state.

2025-S10387 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10387
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 15, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  BYNOE  -- read twice and ordered printed, 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 certain persons in an optional twenty year retirement plan
   to  receive  credit  for previous service as a uniformed court officer
   title series employed by the Unified Court System of the State of  New
   York, or any correction officer employed by a county, municipality, or
   the state
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 384-e of the retirement and social security law  is
 amended by adding two new subdivisions d and e to read as follows:
   D.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, UPON
 COMPLETION OF TWENTY YEARS OF SERVICE, AND UPON  RETIREMENT,  EACH  SUCH
 MEMBER  WHO  WAS PREVIOUSLY CREDITED WITH SERVICE CREDIT IN THE NEW YORK
 STATE AND LOCAL EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM OR THE NEW YORK  STATE  AND
 LOCAL  POLICE  AND  FIRE  RETIREMENT SYSTEM AS A UNIFORMED COURT OFFICER
 TITLE SERIES EMPLOYED BY THE UNIFIED COURT SYSTEM OF THE  STATE  OF  NEW
 YORK WHO IS A PARTICIPANT IN A PUBLIC RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF THE STATE MAY
 RECEIVE  FOR  EACH  SUCH  YEAR  OF PREVIOUS SERVICE, UP TO A TOTAL OF NO
 GREATER THAN FIVE YEARS OF PREVIOUS SERVICE, ADDITIONAL PENSION EQUAL TO
 ONE-SIXTIETH OF SUCH MEMBER'S FINAL AVERAGE SALARY. TO OBTAIN SUCH CRED-
 IT A MEMBER SHALL PAY SUCH RETIREMENT SYSTEM, FOR DEPOSIT  IN  THE  FUND
 USED TO ACCUMULATE EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS, A SUM EQUAL TO THE PRODUCT OF
 THE  NUMBER  OF YEARS OF SERVICE BEING CLAIMED AND THREE PERCENT OF SUCH
 MEMBER'S COMPENSATION  EARNED  DURING  THE  TWELVE  MONTHS  OF  CREDITED
 SERVICE  IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE DATE THAT THE MEMBER MADE APPLICATION
 FOR CREDIT PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION.
   E. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO  THE  CONTRARY,  UPON
 COMPLETION  OF  TWENTY  YEARS OF SERVICE, AND UPON RETIREMENT, EACH SUCH
 MEMBER WHO WAS PREVIOUSLY CREDITED WITH SERVICE CREDIT IN THE  NEW  YORK
 STATE  AND  LOCAL EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM OR THE NEW YORK STATE AND
 LOCAL POLICE AND FIRE RETIREMENT SYSTEM AS A CORRECTION OFFICER EMPLOYED
 BY A COUNTY, MUNICIPALITY, OR THE STATE WHO IS A PARTICIPANT IN A PUBLIC
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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