Bill Text: NY A03476 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the retirement of members who serve as police medics, police medic supervisors and members who perform police medic related services in the Nassau county police department.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2021-07-16 - signed chap.245 [A03476 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A03476-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3476 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 26, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to the retirement of members who serve as police medics, police medic supervisors and members who perform police medic related services in the Nassau county police department The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The section heading and subdivisions a and d of section 2 89-s of the retirement and social security law, as amended by chapter 3 578 of the laws of 1998, are amended to read as follows: 4 Retirement of members who serve as ambulance medical technicians, 5 ambulance medical technician/supervisors [and], members who perform 6 ambulance medical technician related services, police medics, police 7 medic supervisors and members who perform police medic related services 8 in the Nassau county police department. 9 a. Any member who serves as an ambulance medical technician, ambulance 10 medical technician/supervisor or a member who performs ambulance medical 11 technician related services, or a police medic, police medic supervisor 12 or a member who performs police medic related services and is employed 13 in the Nassau county police department shall be eligible to retire 14 pursuant to the provisions of this section. Such eligibility shall be an 15 alternative to the eligibility provisions available under any other plan 16 of this article to which such member is subject. 17 d. As used in this section "creditable service" shall include any and 18 all services performed as an ambulance medical technician, ambulance 19 medical technician/supervisor or member who performs ambulance medical 20 technician related services, or a police medic, police medic supervisor 21 or a member who performs police medic related services in the Nassau 22 county police department. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03627-02-1A. 3476 2 1 § 2. Subdivision a of section 445 of the retirement and social securi- 2 ty law, as amended by chapter 476 of the laws of 2018, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 a. No member of a retirement system who is subject to the provisions 5 of this article shall retire without regard to age, exclusive of retire- 6 ment for disability, unless he or she is a police officer, an investi- 7 gator member of the New York city employees' retirement system, fire- 8 fighter, correction officer, a qualifying member as defined in section 9 eighty-nine-t, as added by chapter six hundred fifty-seven of the laws 10 of nineteen hundred ninety-eight, of this chapter, sanitation worker, a 11 special officer (including persons employed by the city of New York in 12 the title urban park ranger or associate urban park ranger), school 13 safety agent, campus peace officer or a taxi and limousine commission 14 inspector member of the New York city employees' retirement system or 15 the New York city board of education retirement system, a dispatcher 16 member of the New York city employees' retirement system, a police 17 communications member of the New York city employees' retirement system, 18 an EMT member of the New York city employees' retirement system, a depu- 19 ty sheriff member of the New York city employees' retirement system, a 20 correction officer of the Westchester county correction department as 21 defined in section eighty-nine-e of this chapter or employed in Suffolk 22 county as a peace officer, as defined in section eighty-nine-s, as added 23 by chapter five hundred eighty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred 24 ninety-seven, of this chapter, employed in Suffolk county as a 25 correction officer, as defined in section eighty-nine-f of this chapter, 26 or employed in Nassau county as a correction officer, uniformed 27 correction division personnel, sheriff, undersheriff or deputy sheriff, 28 as defined in section eighty-nine-g of this chapter, or employed in 29 Nassau county as an ambulance medical technician, an ambulance medical 30 technician/supervisor or a member who performs ambulance medical techni- 31 cian related services, or a police medic, police medic supervisor or a 32 member who performs police medic related services, as defined in section 33 eighty-nine-s, as amended by chapter five hundred seventy-eight of the 34 laws of nineteen hundred ninety-eight, of this chapter, or employed in 35 Nassau county as a peace officer, as defined in section eighty-nine-s, 36 as added by chapter five hundred ninety-five of the laws of nineteen 37 hundred ninety-seven, of this chapter, or employed in Albany county as a 38 sheriff, undersheriff, deputy sheriff, correction officer or identifica- 39 tion officer, as defined in section eighty-nine-h of this chapter or is 40 employed in St. Lawrence county as a sheriff, undersheriff, deputy sher- 41 iff or correction officer, as defined in section eighty-nine-i of this 42 chapter or is employed in Orleans county as a sheriff, undersheriff, 43 deputy sheriff or correction officer, as defined in section 44 eighty-nine-l of this chapter or is employed in Jefferson county as a 45 sheriff, undersheriff, deputy sheriff or correction officer, as defined 46 in section eighty-nine-j of this chapter or is employed in Onondaga 47 county as a deputy sheriff-jail division competitively appointed or as a 48 correction officer, as defined in section eighty-nine-k of this chapter 49 or is employed in a county which makes an election under subdivision j 50 of section eighty-nine-p of this chapter as a sheriff, undersheriff, 51 deputy sheriff or correction officer as defined in such section eighty- 52 nine-p or is employed in Broome County as a sheriff, undersheriff, depu- 53 ty sheriff or correction officer, as defined in section eighty-nine-m of 54 this chapter or is a Monroe county deputy sheriff-court security, or 55 deputy sheriff-jailor as defined in section eighty-nine-n, as added by 56 chapter five hundred ninety-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred nine-A. 3476 3 1 ty-one, of this chapter or is employed in Greene county as a sheriff, 2 undersheriff, deputy sheriff or correction officer, as defined in 3 section eighty-nine-o of this chapter or is a traffic officer with the 4 town of Elmira as defined in section eighty-nine-q of this chapter or is 5 employed by Suffolk county as a park police officer, as defined in 6 section eighty-nine-r of this chapter or is a peace officer employed by 7 a county probation department as defined in section eighty-nine-t, as 8 added by chapter six hundred three of the laws of nineteen hundred nine- 9 ty-eight, of this chapter or is employed in Rockland county as a deputy 10 sheriff-civil as defined in section eighty-nine-v of this chapter as 11 added by chapter four hundred forty-one of the laws of two thousand one, 12 or is employed in Rockland county as a superior correction officer as 13 defined in section eighty-nine-v of this chapter as added by chapter 14 five hundred fifty-six of the laws of two thousand one or is a paramedic 15 employed by the police department in the town of Tonawanda and retires 16 under the provisions of section eighty-nine-v of this chapter, as added 17 by chapter four hundred seventy-two of the laws of two thousand one, or 18 is a county fire marshal, supervising fire marshal, fire marshal, 19 assistant fire marshal, assistant chief fire marshal or chief fire 20 marshal employed by the county of Nassau as defined in section eighty- 21 nine-w of this chapter and is in a plan which permits immediate retire- 22 ment upon completion of a specified period of service without regard to 23 age. Except as provided in subdivision c of section four hundred forty- 24 five-a of this article, subdivision c of section four hundred forty- 25 five-b of this article, subdivision c of section four hundred forty- 26 five-c of this article, subdivision c of section four hundred 27 forty-five-d of this article, subdivision c of section four hundred 28 forty-five-e of this article, subdivision c of section four hundred 29 forty-five-f of this article and subdivision c of section four hundred 30 forty-five-h of this article, a member in such a plan and such an occu- 31 pation, other than a police officer or investigator member of the New 32 York city employees' retirement system or a firefighter, shall not be 33 permitted to retire prior to the completion of twenty-five years of 34 credited service; provided, however, if such a member in such an occupa- 35 tion is in a plan which permits retirement upon completion of twenty 36 years of service regardless of age, he or she may retire upon completion 37 of twenty years of credited service and prior to the completion of twen- 38 ty-five years of service, but in such event the benefit provided from 39 funds other than those based on such a member's own contributions shall 40 not exceed two per centum of final average salary per each year of cred- 41 ited service. 42 § 3. Subdivision o of section 603 of the retirement and social securi- 43 ty law, as amended by chapter 578 of the laws of 1998, is amended to 44 read as follows: 45 o. The service retirement benefit specified in section six hundred 46 four of this article shall be payable to members with twenty-five or 47 more years of creditable service, without regard to age, who are 48 employed as ambulance medical technicians, ambulance medical 49 technician/supervisors or a member who performs ambulance medical tech- 50 nician related services, or a police medic, police medic supervisor or a 51 member who performs police medic related services within the Nassau 52 county police department, as defined in section eighty-nine-s of this 53 chapter if: (i) such members have met the minimum service requirements 54 upon retirement, and (ii) in the case of a member subject to the 55 provisions of article fourteen of this chapter, such member files an 56 election therefor which provides that he or she will be subject to theA. 3476 4 1 provisions of this article and to none of the provisions of such article 2 fourteen. Such election, which shall be irrevocable, shall be in writ- 3 ing, duly executed and shall be filed with the comptroller on or before 4 January first, two thousand. For the purposes of this subdivision, the 5 term "creditable service" shall have the meaning as so defined in both 6 sections eighty-nine-s and six hundred one of this chapter. 7 § 4. Subdivision p of section 604 of the retirement and social securi- 8 ty law, as amended by chapter 578 of the laws of 1998, is amended to 9 read as follows: 10 p. The early service retirement for a member who is employed as an 11 ambulance medical technician, ambulance medical technician/supervisor or 12 a member who performs ambulance medical technician related services, or 13 a police medic, police medic supervisor or a member who performs police 14 medic related services as defined in section eighty-nine-s of this chap- 15 ter, shall be a pension equal to one-fiftieth of final average salary 16 times years of credited service at the completion of twenty-five years 17 of service, but not exceeding one-half of his or her final average sala- 18 ry; for service beyond twenty-five years the benefits shall increase by 19 one-sixtieth of final average salary for each year of additional service 20 credit provided, however, that the total allowance payable pursuant to 21 this section shall not exceed three-fourths of such member's final aver- 22 age salary. 23 § 5. The section heading, the opening paragraph of subdivision a and 24 subdivision g of section 605-e of the retirement and social security 25 law, as added by chapter 522 of the laws of 2014, are amended to read as 26 follows: 27 Accidental disability retirement for ambulance medical technician 28 supervisors, ambulance medical technician coordinators [and], ambulance 29 medical technicians, police medic supervisors, police medic coordina- 30 tors, and police medics in Nassau county. 31 A member employed as [a] an ambulance medical technician supervisor, 32 ambulance medical technician coordinator [and], ambulance medical tech- 33 nician, police medic supervisor, police medic coordinator, or police 34 medic in Nassau county shall be entitled to an accidental disability 35 retirement allowance if, at the time application therefor is filed, such 36 member is: 37 g. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, this section shall 38 apply to ambulance medical technician supervisors, ambulance medical 39 technician coordinators [and], ambulance medical technicians, police 40 medic supervisors, police medic coordinators, and police medics in 41 Nassau county who were hired on or after July twenty-seventh, nineteen 42 hundred seventy-six. 43 § 6. This act shall take effect immediately. FISCAL NOTE.-- Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50: This bill will add police medic titles and members who perform police medic related services in Nassau County to the ambulance medical techni- cian titles eligible for certain retirement benefits. If this bill is enacted during the 2021 legislative session, there will not be a past service cost as these members were previously in the ambulance medical technician titles and covered by the same sections of law. There will be no increase in the annual contributions of Nassau Coun- ty. Summary of relevant resources: Membership data as of March 31, 2020 was used in measuring the impact of the proposed change, the same data used in the April 1, 2020 actuari-A. 3476 5 al valuation. Distributions and other statistics can be found in the 2020 Report of the Actuary and the 2020 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. The actuarial assumptions and methods used are described in the 2020 Annual Report to the Comptroller on Actuarial Assumptions, and the Codes, Rules and Regulations of the State of New York: Audit and Control. The Market Assets and GASB Disclosures are found in the March 31, 2020 New York State and Local Retirement System Financial Statements and Supplementary Information. I am a member of the American Academy of Actuaries and meet the Quali- fication Standards to render the actuarial opinion contained herein. This fiscal note does not constitute a legal opinion on the viability of the proposed change nor is it intended to serve as a substitute for the professional judgment of an attorney. This estimate, dated December 21, 2020, and intended for use only during the 2021 Legislative Session, is Fiscal Note No. 2021-3, prepared by the Actuary for the New York State and Local Retirement System.
