Bill Text: NY S01881 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows retired state police officers to serve as police officers for local police departments without diminution of retirement benefits; empowers the superintendent of state police to approve such service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS [S01881 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S01881-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1881
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 17, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  O'MARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
        AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in  relation  to
          allowing retired state police officers to serve as police officers for
          local police departments without diminution of retirement benefits
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subparagraph 7 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section
     2  211 of the retirement and social security law, as amended by chapter 840
     3  of the laws of 1983, is amended and a new subparagraph  8  is  added  to
     4  read as follows:
     5    (7)  the  chief  administrator  of  the courts if such person is to be
     6  employed in a judicial or nonjudicial  position  in  the  unified  court
     7  system[.]; or
     8    (8)  the  superintendent  of  state police, if such person is a former
     9  state police officer to be employed as a  police  officer  for  a  local
    10  police department.
    11    §  2. Section 211 of the retirement and social security law is amended
    12  by adding a new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
    13    9. For purposes of paragraph (b) of subdivision one of this section, a
    14  retired person who served as a police officer for the division of  state
    15  police  is not in service of a former employer if such retired person is
    16  serving as a local  police  officer  after  retirement  from  the  state
    17  police.
    18    §  3. Section 212 of the retirement and social security law is amended
    19  by adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
    20    4. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivisions one and two of  this
    21  section,  the  superintendent of state police may determine, pursuant to
    22  section two hundred eleven of this article, that such  earnings  limita-
    23  tions  shall  not  apply to a retired state police officer employed by a
    24  local police department as a police officer.
    25    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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