Bill Text: NY A05644 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 5644 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Authorizes the village of Sleepy Hollow to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to a certain police officer employed by such village.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-16 - substituted by s4980a [A05644 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A05644-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5644--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 3, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee  on  Governmental  Employees  --  recommitted  to the Committee on
          Governmental Employees in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec.  2  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to authorize the village of Sleepy Hollow to  offer  an  optional
          twenty  year  retirement  plan to a certain police officer employed by
          such village
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
     2  Jose  Quinoy,  a  member of the New York state and local police and fire
     3  retirement system, who was employed as a police officer with the village
     4  of Sleepy Hollow from August 10, 1998 through May  31,  2011,  and  who,
     5  through  no  fault  of  his  own, failed to file a timely application to
     6  participate in the special twenty  year  retirement  plan  contained  in
     7  section 384-d of the retirement and social security law resulting in the
     8  crediting of his service with the village of Sleepy Hollow in the gener-
     9  al  retirement  plan  contained  in  section 375-i of such law, shall be
    10  given full credit in the special twenty year retirement  plan  for  such
    11  service  upon the election of the village of Sleepy Hollow to assume the
    12  additional cost of such service. The village of  Sleepy  Hollow  may  so
    13  elect by filing a resolution of its local legislative body together with
    14  certification  that such police officer did not bar himself from partic-
    15  ipation in such retirement plan as a result of his own negligence.
    16    § 2. All employer past service costs associated with implementing  the
    17  provisions  of  this  act shall be borne by the village of Sleepy Hollow
    18  and may be amortized over a ten year period.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
          FISCAL NOTE. -- Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07790-04-6