Bill Text: NY A09095 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 9095 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Authorizes Micki Guy, a firefighter in the city of Glens Falls, in the county of Warren, to elect to participate in the optional 20 year retirement program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-15 - substituted by s6545 [A09095 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09095-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          9095
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 26, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. STEC -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Employees
        AN ACT to authorize Micki Guy to elect to participate  in  the  optional
          twenty-year  retirement  plan for firefighters employed by the city of
          Glens Falls in the county of Warren
          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  the  city  of  Glens  Falls,  in  the  county of Warren, a participating
     3  employer in the New York state and  local  police  and  fire  retirement
     4  system,  which  previously  elected  to  offer  the optional twenty-year
     5  retirement plan, established pursuant to section 384-d of the retirement
     6  and Social Security law, to firefighters employed by such city, is here-
     7  by authorized to make participation in such plan available to Micki Guy,
     8  a firefighter employed by such city, who, for reasons not ascribable  to
     9  her  own  negligence, failed to make a timely application to participate
    10  in such optional twenty-year retirement plan. Thereafter, Micki Guy  may
    11  elect to be covered by the provisions of section 384-e of the retirement
    12  and  social  security  law, and shall be entitled to the full rights and
    13  benefits associated with coverage under such section as well as  section
    14  384-e  of  such  law,  by filing a request to that effect with the state
    15  comptroller on or before December 31, 2016.
    16    §  2.  All  past  service  costs  associated  with  implementing   the
    17  provisions of this act shall be borne by the city of Glens Falls and may
    18  be amortized over a period of ten years.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
          FISCAL NOTE.-- Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
          This bill would allow the City of Glens Falls to reopen the provisions
        of Section 384-d and 384-e of the Retirement and Social Security Law for
        Micki Guy, a firefighter in their employ and a current member of the New
        York State and Local Police and Fire retirement system.
          If this legislation is enacted during the 2016 legislative session, we
        anticipate that there will be an increase of approximately $2,070 in the
        annual  contributions  of  the  City  of Glens Falls for the fiscal year
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13786-01-6