Senate Bill S6184

                             
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                                   6184
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 6, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
 
 AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York and  the
   retirement  and  social  security  law,  in relation to providing that
   members of a retirement system who retire from such system  and  later
   rejoin the retirement system are entitled to the same rights, benefits
   and privileges such member had prior to retirement
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 13-105 of the administrative code of  the  city  of
 New York is amended to read as follows:
   § 13-105 Membership; eligibility in certain cases. Notwithstanding any
 inconsistent  provision  of this chapter, the code, or any other law, an
 officer or employee  in  city-service  who  is  otherwise  eligible  for
 membership  in  this  retirement  system  but who is entitled to receive
 benefits from any other pension fund or retirement system maintained  by
 the  city  may  become  a member of this retirement system provided such
 benefits are suspended during [his or her] SUCH  OFFICER  OR  EMPLOYEE'S
 active  membership in this retirement system. Such member shall contrib-
 ute to this retirement system as a new entrant, PROVIDED, HOWEVER,  THAT
 IN  THE  CASE OF A MEMBER WHO HAS RETIRED OR RETIRES FROM PUBLIC SERVICE
 ON OR AFTER JULY FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED SEVENTY-SIX  AND  SUSPENDED  OR
 SUSPENDS SUCH MEMBER'S RETIREMENT ALLOWANCE UPON ENTRANCE INTO CITY-SER-
 VICE, SUCH MEMBER SHALL BE ENTITLED TO THE SAME RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES AS
 THOSE  TO WHICH SUCH MEMBER WAS ENTITLED UPON SUCH MEMBER'S LAST DATE OF
 ENTRY INTO A PUBLIC RETIREMENT SYSTEM OR PENSION FUND OF  THE  STATE  OR
 THE CITY OF NEW YORK.
   § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 519 of the retirement and social securi-
 ty law is amended by adding a new paragraph (vi) to read as follows:
   (VI)  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  OTHER  PROVISION  OF  LAW, ANY MEMBER OF A
 PUBLIC RETIREMENT SYSTEM WHO RETIRED  AFTER  HAVING  LAST  ENTERED  SUCH
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07266-01-5
              

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 SYSTEM  ON OR AFTER JULY FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED SEVENTY-SIX, AND THERE-
 AFTER RE-ENTERED SERVICE AND JOINED  OR  REJOINED  A  PUBLIC  RETIREMENT
 SYSTEM  SHALL BE ENTITLED TO ALL THE RIGHTS, BENEFITS AND PRIVILEGES AND
 SUBJECT  TO ALL THE OBLIGATIONS SET FORTH IN ANY LAW OR LAWS RELATING TO
 PUBLIC RETIREMENT SYSTEMS AND TO  WHICH  SUCH  MEMBER  WOULD  HAVE  BEEN
 SUBJECT  OR ENTITLED HAD SUCH MEMBER ENTERED OR RE-ENTERED MEMBERSHIP IN
 SUCH RETIREMENT SYSTEM ON THE DATE IN WHICH SUCH  MEMBER  FIRST  ENTERED
 THE RETIREMENT SYSTEM FROM WHICH SUCH MEMBER RETIRED.
   § 3. Subdivision b of section 614 of the retirement and social securi-
 ty law is amended by adding a new paragraph (vi) to read as follows:
   (VI)  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  OTHER  PROVISION  OF  LAW, ANY MEMBER OF A
 PUBLIC RETIREMENT SYSTEM WHO RETIRED  AFTER  HAVING  LAST  ENTERED  SUCH
 SYSTEM  ON OR AFTER JULY FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED SEVENTY-SIX, AND THERE-
 AFTER RE-ENTERED SERVICE AND JOINED  OR  REJOINED  A  PUBLIC  RETIREMENT
 SYSTEM  SHALL BE ENTITLED TO ALL THE RIGHTS, BENEFITS AND PRIVILEGES AND
 SUBJECT TO ALL THE OBLIGATIONS SET FORTH IN ANY LAW OR LAWS RELATING  TO
 PUBLIC  RETIREMENT  SYSTEMS  AND  TO  WHICH  SUCH MEMBER WOULD HAVE BEEN
 SUBJECT OR ENTITLED HAD SUCH MEMBER ENTERED OR RE-ENTERED MEMBERSHIP  IN
 SUCH  RETIREMENT  SYSTEM  ON THE DATE IN WHICH SUCH MEMBER FIRST ENTERED
 THE RETIREMENT SYSTEM FROM WHICH SUCH MEMBER RETIRED.
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.