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Senate Bill S1988

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes a retirement benefit review panel

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2025-S1988 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
Retirement and Social Security Law
Laws Affected:
Add §803-b, R & SS L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S4356
2023-2024: S2097

2025-S1988 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a retirement benefit review panel.

2025-S1988 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1988 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1988
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, ROLISON -- 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
   establishing a retirement benefit review panel

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The retirement and social security law is amended by adding
 a new section 803-b to read as follows:
   §  803-B.  RETIREMENT  BENEFIT REVIEW PANEL.  A. THE COMPTROLLER SHALL
 ESTABLISH A RETIREMENT BENEFIT  REVIEW  PANEL  CONSISTING  OF  AT  LEAST
 FIFTEEN MEMBERS, ANY THREE OF WHOM MAY SIT AS A TEAM TO REVIEW A PARTIC-
 ULAR  CASE.  MEMBERS  OF  THE  PANEL SHALL HAVE EXPERTISE IN THE VARIOUS
 RETIREMENT SYSTEMS OF THE STATE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,  MEMBER-
 SHIP,  SERVICE CREDIT, RETIREMENT OPTIONS AND THE TRANSFER OF RETIREMENT
 SERVICE BETWEEN RETIREMENT SYSTEMS WITHIN AND WITHOUT THE STATE.  TO THE
 EXTENT PRACTICABLE, THE WORKLOAD OF THE PANEL SHOULD BE EVENLY  DISTRIB-
 UTED  AMONG ITS MEMBERS. MEMBERS OF THE PANEL SHOULD BE FREE TO EXERCISE
 INDEPENDENT PROFESSIONAL JUDGMENT WITHOUT PRESSURE  OR  RETALIATION  FOR
 THE EXERCISE OF THAT JUDGMENT FROM ANY SOURCE.
   B.  ANY  MEMBER  OF  A  RETIREMENT SYSTEM IN THIS STATE, AFTER SEEKING
 RELIEF PURSUANT TO: (1) SECTION EIGHT HUNDRED THREE OF THIS ARTICLE; (2)
 A HEARING; AND/OR (3) ANY OTHER PROVISION OF  LAW,  WHO  HAS  FAILED  TO
 OBTAIN  THE  RELIEF SOUGHT, MAY HAVE THEIR CASE HEARD BEFORE THE RETIRE-
 MENT BENEFIT REVIEW PANEL. SUCH PANEL IS AUTHORIZED  TO  HEAR  TESTIMONY
 AND ADMIT EVIDENCE THAT SUCH PANEL DEEMS RELEVANT TO THE CASE BEFORE IT.
 UPON  THE  HEARING  OF  ALL TESTIMONY AND ADMISSION OF ALL EVIDENCE, THE
 PANEL SHALL MAKE ITS DETERMINATION  REGARDING  THE  RELIEF  SOUGHT.  ANY
 DETERMINATION MADE BY SUCH PANEL SHALL BE FINAL.
   C.  THE  COMPTROLLER IS AUTHORIZED TO PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS
 TO IMPLEMENT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04711-01-5

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