Bill Text: NY S04898 | 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 CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS [S04898 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S04898-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4898

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 18, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions

        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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        S. 4898                             2

     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.