Bill Text: NY S06224 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes Jodi Manne to receive a refund from the New York state teachers' retirement system.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-06-01 - referred to governmental employees [S06224 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S06224-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6224--A 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 15, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. REICHLIN-MELNICK -- 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 authorize Jodi Manne to receive a refund from the New York state teachers' retirement system The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision b of section 2 902 of the retirement and social security law, Jodi Manne a Tier 4 3 member of the New York state teachers' retirement system who was former- 4 ly a member of the New York city teachers' retirement system, with 11 5 years, 3 months of service credit, who then paid contributions as an 6 employee of the Greenburgh central school district from July 1, 2008 7 through June 30, 2013 to the New York state teachers' retirement system 8 and on November 15, 2013 initiated a transfer from the New York city 9 teachers' retirement system to the New York state teachers' retirement 10 system, shall be entitled to a refund of the accumulated 3 percent 11 contributions paid to said retirement system for the period in which the 12 transfer was not initiated and cessation date was not established, if an 13 application is filed within one year of the effective date of this act. 14 § 2. All costs associated with the implementation of this act shall be 15 borne by the employers of the members of the New York state teachers' 16 retirement system. 17 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. FISCAL NOTE.-- Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50: This bill would allow Jodi Manne, a Tier 4 member of the New York State Teachers' Retirement System (NYSTRS), who was formerly a member of the New York City Teachers' Retirement System (NYCTRS) and who initiated EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08372-03-2S. 6224--A 2 a transfer from NYCTRS to NYSTRS on November 15, 2013 to receive a refund of her 3% contributions paid to NYSTRS, accumulated with inter- est, for the period in which the transfer was not initiated and the cessation date was not established. Ms. Manne must file a written request with the head of the New York State Teachers' Retirement System within one year of the effective date of this bill. The cost of this benefit is equal to the refund of the accumulated member contributions paid by Ms. Manne to NYSTRS, which is estimated to be $21,000. This cost is to be borne by the employers of members of the NYSTRS. Member data is from the System's most recent actuarial valuation files, consisting of data provided by the employers to the Retirement System. Data distributions and statistics can be found in the System's Annual Report. System assets are as reported in the System's financial statements and can also be found in the System's Annual Report. Actuari- al assumptions and methods are provided in the System's Actuarial Valu- ation Report and the 2021 Actuarial Assumptions Report. The source of this estimate is Fiscal Note 2022-24 dated April 13, 2022 prepared by the Office of the Actuary of the New York State Teach- ers' Retirement System and is intended for use only during the 2022 Legislative Session. I, Richard A. Young, am the Chief Actuary for the New York State Teachers' Retirement System. I am a member of the Ameri- can Academy of Actuaries and I meet the Qualification Standards of the American Academy of Actuaries to render the actuarial opinion contained herein.