Bill Text: NY S04525 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the dates of hostilities participated in by the military forces of the United States in Lebanon.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 0000-00-00 - [S04525 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S04525-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4525--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 26, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  GRIFFO -- 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 amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to
          military service credit
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  2 of section 1000 of the
     2  retirement and social security law, as added by chapter 548 of the  laws
     3  of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (a)  hostilities  participated in by the military forces of the United
     5  States in Lebanon, from the [first] twenty-first day of  [June]  August,
     6  nineteen hundred [eighty-three] eighty-two to the first day of December,
     7  nineteen  hundred  eighty-seven,  as established by receipt of the armed
     8  forces expeditionary medal, the navy expeditionary medal, or the  marine
     9  corps expeditionary medal;
    10    §  2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, none
    11  of the provisions of this act shall be subject  to  section  25  of  the
    12  retirement and social security law.
    13    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
          FISCAL NOTE.-- Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
          This  bill would amend subdivision 2 of Section 1000 of the Retirement
        and Social Security Law by revising the  starting  date  of  hostilities
        participated  in  by the military forces of the United States in Lebanon
        from June 1, 1983 to August 21,  1982  for  military  service  crediting
        purposes.  To  obtain credit, a member must make payments as required in
        Section 1000 of the Retirement and Social Security Law. Tier 1, 2, 3,  4
        and  5 members are required to pay three percent of salary earned during
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01762-09-6