Bill Text: NY S04724 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Grants William J. Cooley additional service credit within the New York state and local police and fire retirement system.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Vetoed) 2019-12-16 - VETOED MEMO.235 [S04724 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S04724-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4724 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 22, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions AN ACT in relation to granting William J. Cooley additional service credit 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, William J. 2 Cooley, currently a city of Buffalo police officer and member of the New 3 York state and local police and fire retirement system covered by 4 section 384-d of the retirement and social security law, who for the 5 period beginning November 12, 2002 and ending in July of 2006, was 6 employed as a deputy sheriff by the Erie County Sheriff's Department 7 where he was a member of the New York state and local employees' retire- 8 ment system, and who, for reasons not ascribable to his own negligence, 9 was not granted service credit under section 384-d of the retirement and 10 social security law for his period of employment with the Erie County 11 Sheriff's Department, shall be granted such service credit under section 12 384-d of the retirement and social security law, if on or before the 13 thirty-first of December next succeeding the effective date of this act, 14 he shall file a written request to that effect with the state comp- 15 troller. 16 § 2. All past service costs incurred in implementing the provisions of 17 this act shall be borne by the city of Buffalo. 18 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50: This bill will grant service credit under section 384-d of the Retire- ment and Social Security Law to William J. Cooley, a current member of the New York State and Local Police and Fire Retirement System (PFRS), for the period of November 12, 2002 through July of 2006, during which he was employed as a deputy sheriff in Erie County. Currently, deputy EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02857-02-9S. 4724 2 sheriff service is not creditable in a PFRS twenty year police retire- ment plan. If this bill is enacted during the 2019 legislative session, there will be an immediate past service cost of approximately $352,000 which will be borne by the City of Buffalo as a one-time payment. This esti- mate is based on the assumption that payment will be made on February 1, 2020. There will be no increase in the annual contributions of the City of Buffalo. Summary of relevant resources: The membership data used in measuring the impact of the proposed change was the same as that used in the March 31, 2018 actuarial valu- ation. Distributions and other statistics can be found in the 2018 Report of the Actuary and the 2018 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. The actuarial assumptions and methods used are described in the 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 Annual Report to the Comptroller on Actuarial Assumptions, and the Codes, Rules and Regulations of the State of New York: Audit and Control. The Market Assets and GASB Disclosures are found in the March 31, 2018 New York State and Local Retirement System Financial Statements and Supplementary Information. I am a member of the American Academy of Actuaries and meet the Quali- fication Standards to render the actuarial opinion contained herein. This fiscal note does not constitute a legal opinion on the viability of the proposed change nor is it intended to serve as a substitute for the professional judgment of an attorney. This estimate, dated March 21, 2019, and intended for use only during the 2019 Legislative Session, is Fiscal Note No. 2019-94, prepared by the Actuary for the New York State and Local Retirement System.