Bill Text: NY S02866 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides a pension benefit parity payment to certain retirees from a state management/confidential position.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-25 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S02866 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S02866-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2866 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 26, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sens. GOUNARDES, BOYLE, BRESLIN, JACKSON, SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to establishing a retiree parity payment for certain employees who served in a position or positions in the classified service of the state designated manage- rial or confidential The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The civil service law is amended by adding a new section 2 137 to read as follows: 3 § 137. Management/confidential retiree parity payment. 1. Notwith- 4 standing any provision of law, rule or regulation to the contrary, any 5 retiree who served in a position or positions in the classified service 6 of the state designated managerial or confidential pursuant to article 7 fourteen of this chapter and who retired between April first, two thou- 8 sand nine and March thirty-first, two thousand fifteen, and had a salary 9 increase authorized under chapter ten of the laws of two thousand eight 10 which was withheld for state fiscal years two thousand nine and/or two 11 thousand ten shall receive a seventy dollar rebate payment for every 12 month of withholding from April first, two thousand nine until such 13 retiree's date of retirement or March thirty-first, two thousand 14 fifteen, whichever is earlier, not to exceed a total of five thousand 15 dollars. The comptroller shall certify to the division of the budget a 16 listing of all such retirees deemed eligible pursuant to this subdivi- 17 sion. 18 2. Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule or regulation to the 19 contrary, any retiree who served in a position or positions in the clas- 20 sified service of the state designated managerial or confidential pursu- 21 ant to article fourteen of this chapter and who retired between April 22 first, two thousand fifteen and June thirtieth, two thousand seventeen EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06261-01-1S. 2866 2 1 and had a salary increase authorized under chapter ten of the laws of 2 two thousand eight which was withheld for state fiscal years two thou- 3 sand nine and/or two thousand ten shall receive five thousand dollars 4 less the parity salary increases received during the specified time 5 period. The comptroller shall certify to the division of the budget a 6 listing of all such retirees deemed eligible pursuant to this subdivi- 7 sion. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
