Bill Text: NY A07470 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to permitting retired members to authorize a deduction from retirement benefits for membership dues in the Retired Public Employees Association, Inc.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to governmental employees [A07470 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07470-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7470

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 10, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BENEDETTO  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Employees

        AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in  relation  to
          deductions for retiree organization dues

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

     1    Section 1. Section 110-c of the retirement and social security law, as
     2  amended by chapter 165 of the laws  of  1993,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    §  110-c.  Deductions  from  benefits of certain retired members.   1.
     5  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a retired member shall  have
     6  the  right,  at  any time after the retiree's retirement, to execute and
     7  file a deduction authorization card with the comptroller authorizing the
     8  deduction from the retired member's retirement allowance  of  membership
     9  dues  and such retired member's share of the cost for employee organiza-
    10  tion-sponsored benefit plans and the payment thereof to a retiree organ-
    11  ization of which the retired member is then a member and which  is  then
    12  affiliated  with either an employee organization certified or recognized
    13  as the collective bargaining representative  of  all  employees  in  the
    14  negotiating  unit of which the retired member was a part prior to his or
    15  her retirement or with an employee organization with which such employee
    16  organization is then affiliated. The comptroller shall thereafter deduct
    17  from the retirement allowance of  such  retired  member  the  amount  of
    18  membership  dues  and  such  amounts required to be paid by such retired
    19  member  for  such  authorized  employee  organization-sponsored  benefit
    20  plans,  and shall transmit the sum so deducted to said retiree organiza-
    21  tion. Such authorization shall continue in effect until revoked in writ-
    22  ing by such retired member.  For  purposes  of  this  section  the  term
    23  "employee  organization-sponsored  benefit  plans" shall include any and
    24  all insurance plans and/or other benefit plans sponsored by such retiree
    25  organization  whether  provided  by  (a)  a  not-for-profit  corporation

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  licensed  under article forty-three of the insurance law; (b) any insur-
     2  ance company authorized to do business in this state; (c) a health main-
     3  tenance organization issued a certificate of authority pursuant to arti-
     4  cle  forty-four  of  the  public  health  law;  or  (d) a self-insurance
     5  arrangement, welfare fund or benefit fund.
     6    2.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a retired member shall
     7  have the right, at any time after the retiree's retirement,  to  execute
     8  and file a deduction authorization card with the comptroller authorizing
     9  the deduction from the  retired member's retirement allowance of member-
    10  ship  dues  in the Retired Public Employees Association, Inc.  The comp-
    11  troller shall thereafter deduct from the retirement  allowance  of  such
    12  retired  member the amount of membership dues and shall transmit the sum
    13  so deducted to the Retired Public  Employees  Association,  Inc.    Such
    14  authorization  shall continue in effect until revoked in writing by such
    15  retired member.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.