Bill Text: NY S01094 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides that public employees placed on furlough shall be entitled to any pension service credits such person would have received if employed full time.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS [S01094 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01094-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1094

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. KAMINSKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions

        AN ACT in relation to furloughs of employees by certain  public  retire-
          ment  systems;  and  providing  for the repeal of such provisions upon
          expiration thereof

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  1.  Notwithstanding  any  other provision of law, rule or
     2  regulation, any employee of a public retirement system  in  this  state,
     3  including,  but  not limited to, the New York state and local employees'
     4  retirement system, the New York city employees' retirement  system,  the
     5  New  York state teachers' retirement system, the New York city teachers'
     6  retirement system, and the New York state  and  local  police  and  fire
     7  retirement system, who was an employee and entitled to benefits pursuant
     8  to  their  respective retirement system on March 7, 2020, shall be enti-
     9  tled to pension service credits in the event that such person is subject
    10  to an employee furlough during the "COVID-19 emergency  declaration"  as
    11  if  such  employee  was employed full time during the COVID-19 emergency
    12  declaration.
    13    2. For the purposes of this act, the term:
    14    (a) "Employee furlough" means a mandatory, temporary  suspension  from
    15  work without pay.
    16    (b)  "COVID-19  emergency  declaration"  shall mean the state disaster
    17  emergency declared for the entire state by executive  order  number  202
    18  and  any  further  amendments  or  modifications,  and as may be further
    19  extended pursuant to section 28 of the executive law.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately, provided,  however,  that
    21  this  act shall be subject to the expiration of the state disaster emer-
    22  gency declared for the entire state by executive order  number  202  and
    23  any  further amendments or modifications, and as may be further extended
    24  pursuant to section 28 of the executive law,  and  shall  be  deemed  to

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01250-01-1

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     1  expire  and  be  repealed therewith; provided, further, that the commis-
     2  sioner of health shall notify the legislative bill  drafting  commission
     3  upon  the  occurrence  of the expiration of the state disaster emergency
     4  declared  for  the  entire  state  by executive order number 202 and any
     5  further amendments or modifications, and  as  may  be  further  extended
     6  pursuant  to  section 28 of the executive law, in order that the commis-
     7  sion may maintain an accurate and timely  effective  data  base  of  the
     8  official  text  of  the  laws of the state of New York in furtherance of
     9  effectuating the provisions of section 44 of  the  legislative  law  and
    10  section 70-b of the public officers law.
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