Bill Text: NY S00190 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to defining the terms "retiree" and "beneficiary" within the freedom of information law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-17 - SUBSTITUTED BY A5469 [S00190 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00190-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           190

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment Operations

        AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in  relation  to  defining  the
          terms  "retiree"  and  "beneficiary" within the freedom of information
          law

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

     1    Section  1. Section 86 of the public officers law is amended by adding
     2  two new subdivisions 10 and 11 to read as follows:
     3    10. "Retiree" means a former officer or employee  of  an  agency,  the
     4  state legislature, or the judiciary who was a member of a public retire-
     5  ment  system  of the state, as such term is defined in subdivision twen-
     6  ty-three of section five hundred one of the retirement and social  secu-
     7  rity  law  and is receiving, or entitled to receive, a benefit from such
     8  public retirement system.
     9    11. "Beneficiary" means a person designated by a member or retiree  of
    10  a  public  retirement system of the state to receive retirement or death
    11  benefits following the death of the member or retiree.
    12    § 2. Subdivision 7 of section 89 of the public officers law, as  added
    13  by chapter 783 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows:
    14    7.  Nothing  in  this article shall require the disclosure of the home
    15  address of an officer or employee, former officer or employee, or  of  a
    16  retiree of a public [employees'] retirement system of the state, as such
    17  term  is defined in subdivision twenty-three of section five hundred one
    18  of the retirement and social security law; nor shall  anything  in  this
    19  article  require the disclosure of the name or home address of a benefi-
    20  ciary of a public [employees'] retirement system of the state,  as  such
    21  term  is defined in subdivision twenty-three of section five hundred one
    22  of the retirement and social  security  law,  or  of  an  applicant  for

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 190                              2

     1  appointment to public employment; provided however, that nothing in this
     2  subdivision  shall  limit  or abridge the right of an employee organiza-
     3  tion, certified or recognized for any collective negotiating unit of  an
     4  employer  pursuant  to  article  fourteen  of  the civil service law, to
     5  obtain the name or home address of any officer, employee or  retiree  of
     6  such employer, if such name or home address is otherwise available under
     7  this article.
     8    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.