Bill Text: NY A07819 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes Bradley M. Fuerst to participate in the optional 20 year retirement plan for police officers covered under section 384-d of the retirement and social security law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 0000-00-00 - [A07819 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A07819-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7819--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 27, 2015
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PALMESANO  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental  Employees  --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee
        AN ACT authorizing Bradley M. Fuerst to participate in the  optional  20
          year retirement plan for police officers in the village of Bath
          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  Bradley M. Fuerst, a member of the New York state and local  police  and
     3  fire  retirement  system,  who began employment as a police officer with
     4  the village of Bath on March 22, 2011 and currently remains employed  by
     5  such  village,  and  who,  through no fault of his own, failed to file a
     6  timely application to participate in the special twenty year  retirement
     7  plan  pursuant  to sections 384-d and 384-e of the retirement and social
     8  security law resulting in the crediting of his service with the  village
     9  of  Bath  in  the  general retirement plan contained in section 375-g of
    10  such law, shall be given full credit in the special twenty year  retire-
    11  ment  plan  for such service upon the election of the village of Bath to
    12  assume the additional cost of such service. The village of Bath  may  so
    13  elect  by  filing  with the state comptroller, on or before December 31,
    14  2015, a resolution of  the  village  board  of  trustees  together  with
    15  certification  that such police officer did not bar himself from partic-
    16  ipation in such retirement plan as  a  result  of  his  own  negligence.
    17  Thereafter,  such  police  officer  may  elect  to  be  covered  by  the
    18  provisions of sections 384-d and 384-e  of  the  retirement  and  social
    19  security law from the date he commenced his employment as a police offi-
    20  cer by such village, and shall be entitled  to the full rights and bene-
    21  fits  associated  with coverage under such section while so employed, by
    22  filing a request to that effect with the state comptroller on or  before
    23  June 30, 2016.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10391-06-5