Bill Text: NY S06520 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to the residency requirements of certain public officers of political subdivisions or municipal corporations of the state; prohibits certain officers from being required to forego or make a payment or satisfy a levy due to him or her becoming a nonresident of the political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S06520 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06520-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6520

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 4, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. REICHLIN-MELNICK -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the  Committee  on  Investigations
          and Government Operations

        AN  ACT  to amend the public officers law, in relation to the removal of
          residency penalties related to employment by any political subdivision
          or municipal corporation of the state

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

     1    Section 1. Legislative finding and declaration. The legislature hereby
     2  finds  and  declares  that  there is a substantial state interest in the
     3  fair and equitable treatment of public officers throughout the state who
     4  are permitted to reside in localities outside the political  subdivision
     5  or municipal corporation of the state for which they work. That substan-
     6  tial  state  interest would be furthered by establishing that any public
     7  officer who resides in a permitted locality shall not be subject to  any
     8  levy  or  payment  by  residing in a permitted locality.  Therefore, the
     9  legislature declares the necessity for the  enactment  of  this  act  to
    10  establish  that  any public officer who is or becomes a nonresident of a
    11  political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state for which he
    12  or she is employed shall not be obligated  to  forgo  wages  or  make  a
    13  payment  because  he or she is or becomes a nonresident by residing in a
    14  locality permitted by state or other applicable law.
    15    § 2. Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding  a  new
    16  subdivision 71 to read as follows:
    17    71.  Notwithstanding the provisions of this section or of any general,
    18  special or local law, charter,  code,  ordinance,  resolution,  rule  or
    19  regulation to the contrary, any person subject to the residency require-
    20  ments  of this section who resides in a political subdivision or munici-
    21  pal corporation permitted by this section or any  other  applicable  law
    22  shall  not  be  obligated  or  required  to forgo or make any payment or
    23  satisfy any levy pursuant to a condition of employment or  an  agreement

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07911-01-1

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     1  by  such  person if such person is or becomes a nonresident of the poli-
     2  tical subdivision or municipal corporation of the state.
     3    §  3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
     4  ing the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective  immediately
     5  the  addition,  amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
     6  sary for the implementation of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are
     7  authorized to be made and completed on or before such date.
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