STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9059--A IN ASSEMBLY January 20, 2016 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RUSSELL -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Governmental Employees -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT granting retroactive tier IV membership in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Scott Goodfellow 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, Scott Goodfel- 2 low, a member of the New York state and local employees' retirement 3 system, who was employed on December 28, 2009, by the county of St. 4 Lawrence department of corrections, and who filed membership application 5 in such system on December 28, 2009, which should have given him Tier IV 6 status but for reasons not ascribable to his own negligence and due to 7 an administrative error, the application was not processed in the usual 8 manner and therefore not processed until January 4, 2010, may be deemed 9 to have become a member of the New York state and local employees' 10 retirement system on December 28, 2009, if within one year from the date 11 this act shall have become a law he shall file an application therefor 12 with the state comptroller. Upon the receipt of such application, Scott 13 Goodfellow shall be granted Tier IV status in the New York state and 14 local employees' retirement system and be eligible for all the rights 15 and benefits thereof. No contributions made to the New York state and 16 local employees' retirement system by Scott Goodfellow shall be returned 17 to him pursuant to this act. 18 § 2. Any past service costs incurred in implementing the provisions of 19 this act shall be borne by the county of St. Lawrence. 20 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. FISCAL NOTE. -- Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50: This bill will grant Tier 4 status in the New York State and Local Employees' Retirement System to Scott Goodfellow, by changing his date of membership to December 28, 2009, his first date of employment by the St. Lawrence County department of corrections. He currently is a Tier 5 member employed by the New York State Power Authority. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13439-05-6