Bill Text: NY S05964 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes John Lake, a town of West Seneca 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 [S05964 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05964-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         5964--A

                               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

        AN ACT to authorize John Lake 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,  John  Lake,
     2  currently  a  Town  of  West Seneca police officer and member of the New
     3  York state and local  police  and  fire  retirement  system  covered  by
     4  section  384-d  of  the  retirement and social security law, who between
     5  January 27, 1997 and January 26, 2006 was employed by  the  Erie  County
     6  Sheriff's  Department  where  he  was a member of the New York state and
     7  local employees' retirement system, and who, for reasons not  ascribable
     8  to  his  own  negligence,  was  not granted service credit under section
     9  384-d of the retirement and  social  security  law  for  his  period  of
    10  employment  with  the Erie County Sheriff's Department, shall be granted
    11  such service credit under section 384-d of  the  retirement  and  social
    12  security law and shall be entitled to the full rights and benefits asso-
    13  ciated  with  coverage  under  such  section, provided a request to that
    14  effect is filed with the state comptroller  within  one  year  from  the
    15  effective date of this act.
    16    § 2. All past service costs incurred in implementing the provisions of
    17  this act shall be borne by the Town of West Seneca.
    18    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11836-02-9