Bill Text: NY S07399 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes a municipality to increase the number of years of service that a participant in a defined contribution plan or defined benefit plan service award program for volunteer ambulance workers may receive a contribution.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2022-11-23 - SIGNED CHAP.654 [S07399 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S07399-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7399--A Cal. No. 361 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE September 24, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sens. GAUGHRAN, ADDABBO, HELMING, HINCHEY, STEC -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- recommitted to the Committee on Local Government in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to authorizing a municipality to increase the number of years of service that a partic- ipant in a defined contribution plan service award program or a defined benefit plan service award program may receive a contribution The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 219-m of the general municipal 2 law, as added by chapter 558 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 4. Points toward a year of ambulance service may be granted for activ- 5 ities performed after a participant reaches entitlement age, but shall 6 not be granted for activities performed after a participant applies for 7 a service award. The maximum number of years for which a participant may 8 receive credit for a year of ambulance service shall be forty years. The 9 governing board of a political subdivision may extend the maximum number 10 of years for which a participant may receive credit for a year of ambu- 11 lance service for up to an additional ten years, to a maximum of fifty 12 years, and such increases in the number of years may be added in multi- 13 ple increments or in a single action, pursuant to the adoption of the 14 required resolution or resolutions of the governing board, receiving the 15 affirmative vote of at least sixty percent of the governing board of the 16 political subdivision, and the approval of any mandatory referendum or 17 referenda authorizing the extension of benefits under the program by 18 eligible voters within such political subdivision. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13198-09-2S. 7399--A 2 1 § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 219-f of the general municipal law, as 2 amended by chapter 514 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 3. The maximum number of years for which a participant may receive a 5 contribution shall be forty years. The governing board of a political 6 subdivision may extend the maximum number of years of service for which 7 a participant may receive a contribution for up to an additional ten 8 years, to a maximum of fifty years, and such increases in the number of 9 years may be added in multiple increments or in a single action, pursu- 10 ant to the adoption of the required resolution or resolutions of the 11 governing board, receiving the affirmative vote of at least sixty 12 percent of the governing board of the political subdivision, and the 13 approval of any mandatory referendum or referenda authorizing the exten- 14 sion of benefits under the program by eligible voters within such poli- 15 tical subdivision. 16 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all 17 current and future participants.
