STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5585 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 8, 2019 ___________ 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 determination of salary base for members of the city of New York fire department pension fund The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 443 of the retirement and social security law is 2 amended by adding a new subdivision h to read as follows: 3 h. Notwithstanding any general, special or local law, charter, admin- 4 istrative code, agreement, resolution or rule or regulation to the 5 contrary, the salary base for members of the city of New York fire 6 department pension fund whose employment with the fire department of the 7 city of New York commenced on or after the first of July, two thousand 8 to whom this article otherwise applies shall be determined in the same 9 manner as the salary base for members of the city of New York fire 10 department pension fund whose employment with the fire department of the 11 city of New York commenced before the first of July, two thousand. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to members 13 of the city of New York fire department pension fund who retire on and 14 after such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11504-02-9