Bill Text: NY S02231 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes Jaime Laczko to elect to participate in the optional 25 year retirement plan for forest rangers in the service of the department of environmental conservation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-06 - PRINT NUMBER 2231B [S02231 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02231-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2231--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 22, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  LITTLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
          -- recommitted to the Committee  on  Civil  Service  and  Pensions  in
          accordance  with  Senate  Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee
        AN ACT to authorize Jaime Laczko to elect to participate in the optional
          twenty-five  year retirement plan for forest rangers in the service of
          the department of environmental conservation
          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, Jaime Laczko, a
     2  member  of  the  New  York  state  and  local police and fire retirement
     3  system, who is employed by the department of environmental  conservation
     4  as  a  full-time  forest  ranger  I, who upon commencing such employment
     5  became a member of such retirement system subject to the  provisions  of
     6  section  375-h of the retirement and social security law, who was eligi-
     7  ble, at such time, to elect to join the New York state and local  police
     8  and  fire  retirement  system  subject  to the optional twenty-five year
     9  retirement plan for forest rangers in the service of the  department  of
    10  environmental  conservation  pursuant to section 383-c of the retirement
    11  and social security law, and who, for reasons not ascribable to his  own
    12  negligence,  failed  to  elect  to  participate in such twenty-five year
    13  retirement plan, shall be deemed to have elected to participate  in  the
    14  retirement  plan,  established  by  section  383-c of the retirement and
    15  social security law, upon commencement of his  employment  as  a  forest
    16  ranger  I, if, within 1 year of the effective date of this act, he shall
    17  file an application therefor with the state comptroller.
    18    § 2. All past costs associated with  implementing  the  provisions  of
    19  this act shall be borne by the state of New York.
    20    § 3. 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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