Bill Text: NY S05963 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes Kevin Gleason, a town of Hamburg police officer, to receive certain credit under section 384-d of the retirement and social security law.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS [S05963 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S05963-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5963--B 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 16, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. GALLIVAN, KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to authorize Kevin Gleason to receive certain credit under section 384-d of the retirement and social security law The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, Kevin Gleason, 2 currently a town of Hamburg police officer and member of the New York 3 state and local police and fire retirement system covered by section 4 384-d of the retirement and social security law, who between July 27, 5 1998 and February 28, 2004 was employed by the Erie county sheriff's 6 department where he was a member of the New York state and local employ- 7 ees' retirement system, and who, for reasons not ascribable to his own 8 negligence, was not granted service credit under section 384-d of the 9 retirement and social security law for his period of employment with the 10 Erie county sheriff's department, shall be granted such service credit 11 under section 384-d of the retirement and social security law and shall 12 be entitled to the full rights and benefits associated with coverage 13 under such section, provided a request to that effect is filed with the 14 state comptroller within one year from the effective date of this act. 15 § 2. All past service costs incurred in implementing the provisions of 16 this act shall be borne by the town of Hamburg. 17 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. FISCAL NOTE.-- Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50: This bill will grant service credit under section 384-d of the Retire- ment and Social Security Law to Kevin Gleason, a current member of the New York State and Local Police and Fire Retirement System (PFRS), for EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11840-03-9S. 5963--B 2 the period of July 27, 1998 through February 28, 2004, during which time the officer was employed as a deputy sheriff in Erie County. Currently, deputy sheriff service is not creditable in a PFRS twenty year police retirement plan. If this bill is enacted during the 2020 legislative session, there will be an immediate past service cost of approximately $165,000 which will be borne by the Town of Hamburg as a one-time payment. This esti- mate is based on the assumption that payment will be made on February 1, 2021. There will be no increase in the annual contributions of the Town of Hamburg. Summary of relevant resources: The membership data used in measuring the impact of the proposed change was the same as that used in the March 31, 2019 actuarial valu- ation. Distributions and other statistics can be found in the 2019 Report of the Actuary and the 2019 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. The actuarial assumptions and methods used are described in the 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 Annual Report to the Comptroller on Actuarial Assumptions, and the Codes, Rules and Regulations of the State of New York: Audit and Control. The Market Assets and GASB Disclosures are found in the March 31, 2019 New York State and Local Retirement System Financial Statements and Supplementary Information. I am a member of the American Academy of Actuaries and meet the Quali- fication Standards to render the actuarial opinion contained herein. This fiscal note does not constitute a legal opinion on the viability of the proposed change nor is it intended to serve as a substitute for the professional judgment of an attorney. This estimate, dated December 6, 2019, and intended for use only during the 2020 Legislative Session, is Fiscal Note No. 2020-9, prepared by the Actuary for the New York State and Local Retirement System.