Bill Text: NY A10203 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides a waiver of earnings limitations for certain retired members of the New York state and local police and fire retirement system who are employed after retirement by a community college as a criminal faculty member with a criminal justice program of the state university or city university.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-08 - print number 10203a [A10203 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A10203-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                       10203--A
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 11, 2012
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       Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on  Governmental  Employees  --  committee  discharged,  bill amended,
         ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to provide a waiver of earnings limitations for certain  criminal
         justice faculty employed by a community college
         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 general  or  special
    2  law, local law and/or charter, the earnings limitations contained in any
    3  such  general or special law, local law and/or charter and applicable to
    4  the employment of a person or persons in  a  position  or  positions  in
    5  public  service  in  any  calendar  year  while  retired and receiving a
    6  retirement allowance shall not apply to any person employed by a  commu-
    7  nity college as a faculty member under a criminal justice program of the
    8  state  university  of New York or city university of New York during the
    9  whole of any calendar year beginning with the  calendar  year  in  which
   10  this act shall have become a law and such person may continue as retired
   11  and  without  loss,  suspension  or  diminution of his or her retirement
   12  allowance, provided: (a) such person retired while a member of  the  New
   13  York  state and local police and fire retirement system; (b) such person
   14  was entitled to receive a  retirement  allowance  from  such  retirement
   15  system  immediately prior to the commencement date of such employment by
   16  the community college as a  faculty  member  under  a  criminal  justice
   17  program  of the state university or city university, as the case may be;
   18  and (c) such retired person is granted a waiver of  retirement  earnings
   19  limitation  by  the  president  of  a community college under a criminal
   20  justice program of the state university  or  city  university,  if  such
   21  person  is  hired  as  a  member of the faculty of such criminal justice
   22  program.
   23    S 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2013.
         FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
         The State University of New York  has  determined  that  there  is  no
       fiscal impact to SUNY or the State of New York regarding the implementa-
       tion of A. 10203.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15582-02-2
       A. 10203--A                         2
         A.  10203  is  in  fact  intended to save SUNY administrative time and
       effort in the processing of employment waivers in order for retired  law
       enforcement officials to serve on the faculty of community colleges.
         Currently 17 SUNY community colleges offer degree programs in criminal
       justice. In addition, there are numerous New York retirees who are valu-
       able  law enforcement personnel who are employed as faculty and instruc-
       tors in the areas of criminal justice and law enforcement. These members
       of the faculty who are also retired members of the NYS  policemen's  and
       firemen's  retirement  system are not eligible to be appointed to tenure
       track positions due to the need to continue to seek  211  waivers  on  a
       bi-annual  basis,  thus  reducing  the need to conduct costly employment
       searches.
         Often times, campuses that are  located  in  smaller  communities  are
       challenged  in finding experienced and qualified personnel. Enactment of
       A. 10203 will dramatically enrich the  teaching  faculty  of  the  State
       University of New York. Furthermore, given the current provisions of the
       NYS  policemen's  and  firemen's retirement system which permits a 20/25
       year and out, many of those eligible under the  provision  of  A.  10203
       have  many  years  of  valuable  service  and experience to offer to the
       public sector and the State University of New York.
         This estimate intended  for  use  only  during  the  2012  Legislative
       Session  was  prepared  by  the  Actuary  for the Office of Governmental
       Relations of the State University of New York.