STATE OF NEW YORK
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6136
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 16, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to a
child care leave credit for New York city uniformed correction offi-
cers who are members of the New York city uniformed
correction/sanitation revised plan
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 513 of the retirement and social
2 security law, as amended by chapter 18 of the laws of 2012, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 h. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, any general
5 member in the uniformed correction force of the New York city department
6 of correction who is absent without pay for a child care leave of
7 absence pursuant to regulations of the New York city department of
8 correction shall be eligible for credit for such period of child care
9 leave provided such member files a claim for such service credit with
10 the retirement system by December thirty-first, two thousand five or
11 within ninety days of the termination of the child care leave, whichever
12 is later, and contributes to the retirement system an amount which such
13 member would have contributed during the period of such child care
14 leave, together with interest thereon. Service credit provided pursuant
15 to this subdivision shall not exceed one year of credit for each period
16 of authorized child care leave. In the event there is a conflict between
17 the provisions of this subdivision and the provisions of any other law
18 or code to the contrary, the provisions of this subdivision shall
19 govern[, provided, however, that the provisions of this subdivision
20 shall not apply to a member of the uniformed force of the New York city
21 department of correction who is a New York city uniformed
22 correction/sanitation revised plan member].
23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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