Bill Text: NY A07719 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides eligibility for certain New York city transit authority members changing to transit operating positions from other positions to participate in the twenty-five-year and age fifty-five retirement program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental employees [A07719 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07719-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7719

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 6, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Employees

        AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in  relation  to
          eligibility for certain New York city transit authority members chang-
          ing to transit operating positions from other positions to participate
          in the twenty-five-year and age fifty-five retirement program

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision e of section 604-b of the retirement and social
     2  security law is amended by adding a new paragraph 12 to read as follows:
     3    12. Notwithstanding any other  provision  of  law  including,  without
     4  limitation, this section or section 13-161 of the administrative code of
     5  the  city  of  New York nor any prior resolution adopted by the New York
     6  city transit authority in accordance with such section of  the  adminis-
     7  trative  code of the city of New York, any transit annually-paid employ-
     8  ee, any transit annually-paid non-operating employee with prior  transit
     9  service and any subsequently appointed transit annually-paid non-operat-
    10  ing  employee, as such terms are defined by section 13-161 of the admin-
    11  istrative code of the city of New  York,  shall,  upon  transfer,  hire,
    12  promotion  or  other  employment  as  a  transit annually-paid operating
    13  employee, as such term is defined by section 13-161 of  the  administra-
    14  tive code of the city of New York, be eligible to elect participation in
    15  the retirement program set forth in this section.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11713-01-3