Bill Text: NY S05121 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to allowing certain members of the New York city police pension fund to receive service credit for their service in the New York city police department cadet program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-20 - PRINT NUMBER 5121A [S05121 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S05121-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5121--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 8, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- 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 amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to allowing certain members of the New York city police pension fund to receive service credit for their service in the New York city police department cadet program The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision h of section 13-218 of the administrative code 2 of the city of New York, as added by chapter 594 of the laws of 2000, is 3 relettered subdivision i and a new subdivision j is added to read as 4 follows: 5 j. (1) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, upon 6 election, any member of the police pension fund, subchapter two of this 7 chapter who is subject to article fourteen of the retirement and social 8 security law, and served in the New York city police department cadet 9 program shall receive credit in such police pension fund, subchapter two 10 of this chapter, for the period of service in the New York city police 11 department cadet program. Any member who was not a member of the retire- 12 ment system shall receive such credit by paying into the police pension 13 fund additional member contributions plus interest, at a rate of five 14 percent, which would have been paid or credited had such member been a 15 member of the police pension fund, subchapter two of this chapter, from 16 his or her date of appointment as a New York city police department 17 cadet, provided such payment is made within five years after the effec- 18 tive date of this subdivision, or within five years after commencement 19 of membership in the New York city police pension fund, whichever is EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09399-03-8S. 5121--A 2 1 later. Any such member who was a member of the New York city employees' 2 retirement system while serving in the New York city police department 3 cadet program shall receive such credit in the police pension fund by 4 requesting a transfer of credit within five years after this subdivision 5 shall take effect, or within five years after commencement of membership 6 in the New York city police pension fund, whichever is later. Upon such 7 request, the reserve on the benefits allowable to such member as the 8 result of employer contributions, including the reserve-for-increased- 9 take-home-pay, if any, and the accumulated deductions of such member, 10 shall thereupon be transferred from the New York city employees' retire- 11 ment system to the police pension fund within one year from the date of 12 such request. 13 (2) The period of such service transferred or purchased pursuant to 14 paragraph one of this subdivision shall be deemed to be service in the 15 police force for purposes of eligibility for benefits and to determine 16 the amounts of benefits under the police pension fund. 17 (3) Any member of the police pension fund, subchapter two of this 18 chapter, who acquires service credit by reason of the provisions of this 19 subdivision shall be entitled to all rights benefits and privileges to 20 which he or she would have been entitled had his or her current member- 21 ship begun upon appointment as a New York city police department cadet, 22 as well as any other right, benefit or entitlement of a similarly situ- 23 ated member of such pension fund with equal total service credit 24 consisting only of service in the uniformed force of the police depart- 25 ment. 26 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50: We have estimated the impact of the Cadet Bill, a copy of which is attached, on the projected employer contributions. The table below summarizes the resulting contributions by year. (in millions) Year Annual Cost 2018 5.1 2019 5.4 2020 5.6 2021 5.9 2022 6.1 These estimates are based on headcounts, as summarized below: Year Open Competitive Promotional 2009 5 180 2010 3 164 2011 1 68 2012 1 52 2013 0 35 2014 2 14 2015 5 73 2016 (partial year) 2 22 For the sake of projection, we assumed that from 2016 to 2020 (the time period that impacts costs from 2018 to 2022), we would continue to see cadets enter the plan with past service. We assumed for each year that 2 cadets would enter as Open Competitive hires and 50 cadets would enter through Promotional hire channels. Note, the new Cadets are allS. 5121--A 3 subject to the Tier 6 plan provisions, with no opportunity for Tier reassignment. We also assumed that Promotional hires would enter with 1.25 years of past service on average and Open Competitive hires would have 0.83 years of service, which is 2/3 of the amount of the Promotional hires. In addition, we had to make assumptions about the Tier Reinstatement Rates, as summarized in the table below: _______________________________________________________________________ Tier Reinstatement Year Rates Resulting Tier _______________________________________________________________________ 2009 100% All Tier Reinstate to Tier 2 2010 100% All Tier Reinstate to Tier 2 2011 50% 50% Tier Reinstate to Tier 2 (7/1/2009 change date) 2012 100% All Tier Reinstate to Tier 3 2013 100% All Tier Reinstate to Tier 3 2014 25% 25% Tier Reinstate to Tier 3 (4/1/2012 change date) 2015 0% Tier 6 2016 0% Tier 6 All other assumptions are consistent with our current understanding of the actuarial assumptions employed by the New York City Office of the Actuary to illustrate expected contribution impact. The undersigned is familiar with the immediate and long-term aspects of pension calculations and meets the Qualification Standards of the American Academy of Actuaries necessary to render the actuarial opinions contained herein.
