Bill Text: NY S04692 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes Brian Mulqueen to file a request for change of benefit coverage with the New York state and local police and fire retirement system to grant him coverage under article 22 of the retirement and social security law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-11 - PRINT NUMBER 4692A [S04692 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S04692-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4692--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      April 7, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen. LATIMER -- 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  in relation to authorizing Brian Mulqueen to file a request for
          change of benefit coverage with the New York state  and  local  police
          and fire retirement system
          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, Brian Mulqueen,
     2  who is currently a member of the New York state  and  local  police  and
     3  fire  retirement  system, and who was first employed as a firefighter by
     4  the city of Yonkers on October 1, 2009, and by virtue  of  his  date  of
     5  employment  became  a  member of the New York state and local police and
     6  fire retirement system who elected to participate in the optional twenty
     7  year retirement plan contained in section 384-d of  the  retirement  and
     8  social security law, and who subsequently, for reasons not ascribable to
     9  his  own  negligence,  failed to file a timely election to be covered by
    10  the benefits of article 22 of such law, shall be deemed to be covered by
    11  the benefits of such article 22 if, within one  year  of  the  effective
    12  date  of  this  act, he shall file a written request to that effect with
    13  the state comptroller.
    14    § 2. All past service costs associated with the implementation of this
    15  act shall be borne by the city of Yonkers.
    16    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
          FISCAL NOTE--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
          This bill would allow Brian Mulqueen, a firefighter  employed  by  the
        City  of  Yonkers,  to  elect  to become covered under the provisions of
        Section 384-e of the Retirement and Social Security  Law  as  a  Tier  5
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09976-05-6