Bill Text: NY A09222 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes the town of Inlet to offer a 20 year retirement plan to police officer John Harrington.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-07-18 - signed chap.132 [A09222 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A09222-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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9222
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 7, 2012
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Introduced by M. of A. SAYWARD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to authorize the town of Inlet, in the county of Hamilton to
offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to police officer John
Harrington
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 town of Inlet, in the county of Hamilton, a participating employer
3 in the New York state and local police and fire retirement system, which
4 previously elected to offer the optional twenty year retirement plan,
5 established pursuant to section 384-d of the retirement and social secu-
6 rity law, to police officers employed by such town, is hereby authorized
7 to make participation in such plan available to sergeant John Harring-
8 ton, a police officer employed by the town of Inlet, who, for reasons
9 not ascribable to his own negligence, failed to make a timely applica-
10 tion to participate in such optional twenty year retirement plan. The
11 town of Inlet may so elect by filing with the state comptroller, on or
12 before December 31, 2013, a resolution of its town board together with
13 certification that such police officer did not bar himself from partic-
14 ipation in such retirement plan as a result of his own negligence.
15 Thereafter, such police officer may elect to be covered by the
16 provisions of section 384-d of the retirement and social security law,
17 and shall be entitled to the full rights and benefits associated with
18 coverage under such section, by filing a request to that effect with the
19 state comptroller on or before June 30, 2014.
20 S 2. All past costs associated with implementing the provisions of
21 this act shall be borne by the town of Inlet.
22 S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
FISCAL NOTE.--If this legislation is enacted during the 2012 legisla-
tive session, we anticipate that there will be an increase of approxi-
mately $3,600 in the annual contributions of the Town of Inlet for the
fiscal year ending March 31, 2013.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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In addition to the annual contributions discussed above, there will be
an immediate past service cost of approximately $40,400, which would be
borne by the Town of Inlet as a one-time payment. This estimate is based
on the assumption that payment will be made on February 1, 2013. If the
legislation so specifies and the past service cost were amortized over a
period of five (5) or ten (10) years, the past service costs for the
first year including interest, would be approximately $9,300 or $5,480
respectively.
Summary of relevant resources:
Data: March 31, 2011 Actuarial Year End File with distributions of
membership and other statistics displayed in the 2011 Report of the
Actuary and 2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report.
Assumptions and Methods: 2010 and 2011 Annual Report to the Comp-
troller and Actuarial Assumptions, Codes Rules and Regulations of the
State of New York: Audit and Control.
Markets Assets and GASB Disclosures: March 31, 2011 New York State and
Local Retirement System Financial Statements and Supplementary Informa-
tion.
Valuations of Benefit Liabilities and Actuarial Assets; summarized in
the 2011 Actuarial Valuations report.
I am a member of the American Academy of Actuaries and meet the Quali-
fication Standards to render the actuarial opinion contained herein.
