NY State Senate Bill 2025-S7973

Senate Bill S7973

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides earnings limitations for retired police officers employed part-time by certain municipalities

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Civil Service And Pensions Committee

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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
Delivered to Governor
Signed By Governor

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2025-S7973 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:: Retirement and Social Security Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §212, R & SS L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:: S4905

2025-S7973 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides earnings limitations for retired police officers employed part-time by municipalities with a population of less than 15,000; permits such officer to work up to five hundred twenty hours in any consecutive six-month period, with no suspension or diminution of retirement allowance; establishes villages or towns shall report such hours and salary earned on a monthly basis and shall contribute a percentage of the officer's excess earnings to the New York state and local police and fire retirement system.

2025-S7973 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S7973

SPONSOR: MAYER
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to
calculating the earnings limitations for retired police officers
employed part-time by certain municipalities

 
PURPOSE OF BILL::

To enable police departments in certain municipalities reliant on the
employment of retired police officers to retain a sufficient number of
part-time police officers to adequately staff their departments, by
permitting certain retired part-time officers to work up to five hundred
twenty hours in any consecutive six-month period in a calendar year
without suspension or diminution of retirement allowance.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS::

Section 1 amends section 212 of the retirement and social security law
by adding a new subdivision four exempting certain retired police offi-

cers employed as part-time police officers in certain municipalities
from the earnings limitation provisions in subdivisions one and two of
section 212 while requiring the municipality employing such retired
police officer to contribute a percentage of the officer's excess earn-
ings, equivalent to the normal contribution rate, to the New York state
and local police and fire retirement system.

Section 2 establishes the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION::

Certain municipal police departments in Westchester County, such as the
Pound Ridge Police Department, are staffed in whole or in substantial
part by part-time police officers. Many of these part-time officers are
retired police officers who face suspension or diminution of retirement
allowance should their earnings exceed a statutory cap. The Pound Ridge
Police Department and others have difficulty retaining sufficient
numbers of experienced officers to staff their departments, since these
officers can easily find employment across the border in Connecticut
where their earnings are not subject to the limitation. This bill will
enable police departments such as Pound Ridge to retain experienced
officers and to adequately staff their departments.

This bill will provide relief to these municipalities, allowing certain
retired police officers who work as active police officersinmgpicipali-
ties with populations of less than 15,000 to work up to up to WcekhUp-
dred twenty hours in any consecutive six-month period in a calendar year
with no suspension or diminution of retirement allowance, if at least
seventy per cent of such municipality's active duty police force, not
including civilian staff, consists of part-time officers.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY::

2023-2024: S4905C, Died in Civil Service and Pensions

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS::

See fiscal notes.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE::

This act shall take effect immediately.

2025-S7973 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7973
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 15, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- 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
   calculating  the  earnings  limitations  for  retired  police officers
   employed part-time by certain municipalities

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  212 of the retirement and social security law is
 amended by adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
   4. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISIONS ONE AND TWO OF  THIS
 SECTION,  SUCH  EARNINGS LIMITATIONS SHALL NOT APPLY TO A RETIRED POLICE
 OFFICER, WHO HAS  RETIRED  AFTER  HAVING  TWENTY-FIVE  YEARS  OF  VESTED
 SERVICE IN A POLICE PENSION SYSTEM THAT FULLY VESTS AT TWENTY YEARS, WHO
 IS  EMPLOYED  PART-TIME  AS A POLICE OFFICER IN A VILLAGE OR TOWN WITH A
 POPULATION OF LESS THAN FIFTEEN  THOUSAND  AS  DETERMINED  BY  THE  MOST
 RECENT  FEDERAL DECENNIAL CENSUS, WHERE AT LEAST SEVENTY PERCENT OF SUCH
 VILLAGE OR TOWN'S  ACTIVE-DUTY  POLICE  FORCE,  NOT  INCLUDING  CIVILIAN
 STAFF,  CONSISTS  OF  PART-TIME  OFFICERS. SUCH PART-TIME POLICE OFFICER
 SHALL BE PERMITTED TO WORK UP  TO  FIVE  HUNDRED  TWENTY  HOURS  IN  ANY
 CONSECUTIVE SIX-MONTH PERIOD IN A CALENDAR YEAR BASED ON HOURS WORKED AS
 REPORTED  BY  THE VILLAGE OR TOWN ON A MONTHLY BASIS, WITH NO SUSPENSION
 OR DIMINUTION OF RETIREMENT ALLOWANCE. ANY VILLAGE OR TOWN THAT HIRES  A
 RETIRED  POLICE  OFFICER  PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL REPORT SUCH
 OFFICER'S DAYS WORKED AND SALARY EARNED TO THE NEW YORK STATE AND  LOCAL
 POLICE  AND  FIRE  RETIREMENT  SYSTEM ON A MONTHLY BASIS.   FOR ANY SUCH
 OFFICER WHOSE EARNINGS EXCEED THE EARNINGS LIMITATIONS  IN  SUBDIVISIONS
 ONE  AND TWO OF THIS SECTION, THE VILLAGE OR TOWN EMPLOYING SUCH OFFICER
 SHALL CONTRIBUTE TO THE NEW YORK STATE AND LOCAL POLICE AND FIRE RETIRE-
 MENT SYSTEM A PERCENTAGE OF SUCH OFFICER'S EXCESS EARNINGS EQUIVALENT TO
 THE NORMAL CONTRIBUTION RATE AS DESCRIBED IN PARAGRAPH ONE  OF  SUBDIVI-
 SION B OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED TWENTY-THREE OF THIS CHAPTER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD13074-01-5

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