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Senate Bill S10406

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Permits certain twenty-five year retirement program dispatcher members to file elections not to participate

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2025-S10406 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
Retirement and Social Security Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §604-e, R & SS L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S7181

2025-S10406 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits certain twenty-five year retirement program dispatcher members to file elections not to participate.

2025-S10406 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10406
 
                             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
   permitting  certain  twenty-five  year  retirement  program dispatcher
   members to file elections not to participate

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 604-e of the retirement and social security law, as
 added  by  chapter  576  of the laws of 2000, is amended by adding a new
 subdivision f to read as follows:
   F. 1.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  PROVISION  OF  LAW  TO  THE  CONTRARY,  A
 DISPATCHER MEMBER WHO EXCEEDED AGE THIRTY UPON EMPLOYMENT AS A DISPATCH-
 ER  MEMBER AND FAILED TO FILE THEIR ELECTION NOT TO PARTICIPATE WITH THE
 RETIREMENT SYSTEM WITHIN ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY DAYS OF BECOMING A DISPATCH-
 ER MEMBER, AS REQUIRED BY PARAGRAPH  THREE  OF  SUBDIVISION  B  OF  THIS
 SECTION, MAY FILE SUCH AN ELECTION WITH THE RETIREMENT SYSTEM WITHIN ONE
 HUNDRED EIGHTY DAYS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SUBDIVISION.
   2.  THE RETIREMENT SYSTEM SHALL POST, AND ANNOUNCE ON ITS HOMEPAGE THE
 POSTING OF, THE  FORM  AND  CORRESPONDING  INSTRUCTIONS  FOR  DISPATCHER
 MEMBERS  TO ELECT NOT TO PARTICIPATE ON ITS WEBSITE NO LATER THAN THIRTY
 DAYS AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SUBDIVISION.
   3. IF THE RETIREMENT SYSTEM FAILS TO POST AND ANNOUNCE  THE  FORM  AND
 CORRESPONDING INSTRUCTIONS NO LATER THAN THIRTY DAYS AFTER THE EFFECTIVE
 DATE  OF THIS SUBDIVISION, AS PRESCRIBED BY PARAGRAPH TWO OF THIS SUBDI-
 VISION, THE PERIOD FOR A DISPATCHER MEMBER TO ELECT NOT  TO  PARTICIPATE
 PRESCRIBED  BY  PARAGRAPH  ONE  OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE EXTENDED BY
 SIXTY  DAYS  FOR  EACH  MONTH  OR  PART  THEREOF  THAT  SUCH  FORM   AND
 INSTRUCTIONS ARE NOT POSTED TO THE RETIREMENT SYSTEM'S WEBSITE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10892-04-5

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