Bill Text: NY S05478 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Grants members of the city of New York's police force eligibility for retirement and pension based on previous service as traffic enforcement agents.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-09 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS [S05478 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05478-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5478

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 6, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities 1

        AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
          relation  to  granting  members of the city's police force eligibility
          for retirement and  pension  based  on  previous  service  as  traffic
          enforcement agents

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is  amended
     2  by adding a new section 13-633 to read as follows:
     3    §  13-633  Transfer  of members of the New York city police department
     4  from traffic enforcement to the police force. a. The time  served  as  a
     5  member  of the city's traffic enforcement who has become a member of the
     6  police force of the city, whether by  transfer  or  as  a  result  of  a
     7  competitive  examination  and  appointment, and who is still a member of
     8  the police force of the city, shall be included and counted  as  service
     9  in the police force for the police department of the city in determining
    10  retirement  and  pension    as provided in this code, provided, however,
    11  that no person becoming a member of the police department of the city in
    12  the manner herein provided, shall be  entitled  to  participate  in  the
    13  benefits  of  the  police  pension fund, unless he or she shall pay into
    14  such fund the total sum that he or she would have been required  to  pay
    15  in  order  to  participate  therein  had he or she been a member of such
    16  force from the time he or she entered the service  of  traffic  enforce-
    17  ment.  These provisions shall not be subject to any restriction relative
    18  to transfers contained in the civil service law  or  in  the  rules  and
    19  regulations  of the civil service commission of the state, or any subdi-
    20  vision thereof.
    21    b. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, a member  of  the  New
    22  York  city  police  department shall be entitled to buy back and receive
    23  service credit for  the  period  of  time  such  member  was  previously
    24  employed as a New York city traffic enforcement agent pursuant to subdi-
    25  vision a of this section.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05537-01-3