STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 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