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Senate Bill S10405

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to service retirement of uniformed members of the New York city fire department pension fund

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2025-S10405 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
Retirement and Social Security Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§505 & 510, R & SS L

2025-S10405 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Removes the twenty-five year requirement for service retirement of certain uniformed members of the New York city fire department pension fund.

2025-S10405 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10405
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 15, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- 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
   service  retirement  of  uniformed  members  of the New York city fire
   department pension fund
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision d of section 505 of the retirement and social
 security law, as added by section 3 of part SS of chapter 55 of the laws
 of 2025, is amended to read as follows:
   d.  Notwithstanding  anything  to  the  contrary  in  any  other  law,
 police/fire members of the New York city police pension fund AND THE NEW
 YORK  CITY  FIRE  DEPARTMENT PENSION FUND shall be eligible for a normal
 service retirement benefit in lieu of an early service retirement  bene-
 fit upon completing twenty years of service pursuant to subdivision d of
 section five hundred three of this article.
   § 2. Paragraph 2 of subdivision b of section 510 of the retirement and
 social  security  law,  as amended by chapter 18 of the laws of 2012, is
 amended to read as follows:
   2. (I) The first day of the month following the date on which a member
 completes or would have completed twenty-five years of credited service,
 with respect to service retirement benefits for police/fire members  and
 their  beneficiaries,  New  York  city  uniformed  correction/sanitation
 revised plan members and their  beneficiaries  or  investigator  revised
 plan  members  and  their beneficiaries, EXCEPT FOR UNIFORMED MEMBERS OF
 THE NEW YORK CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT PENSION FUND AND THEIR BENEFICIARIES.
   (II) THE FIRST DAY OF THE  MONTH  FOLLOWING  THE  DATE  ON  WHICH  THE
 UNIFORMED  MEMBER  BECOMES  ELIGIBLE FOR SERVICE RETIREMENT BENEFITS FOR
 UNIFORMED MEMBERS OF THE NEW YORK CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT PENSION FUND.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14486-01-6

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