S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2680
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 27, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sens. KRUEGER, ADDABBO, AVELLA, HOYLMAN, STEWART-COUSINS
         -- 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
         forfeiture of pension rights or retirement benefits upon conviction of
         a felony related to public employment
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 157 of the retirement  and  social
    2  security law, as added by section 1 of part C of chapter 399 of the laws
    3  of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
    4    1.  Notwithstanding  any other law to the contrary, it shall be a term
    5  and condition of membership for every public  official  [who  becomes  a
    6  member  of  any  retirement system on or after the effective date of the
    7  chapter of the laws of two thousand eleven which  added  this  article,]
    8  that  such  public official's rights to a pension in a retirement system
    9  that accrue in such retirement system after his or her date  of  initial
   10  membership  in  the retirement system shall be subject to the provisions
   11  of this article.
   12    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD05548-01-5