Bill Text: NY S07771 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides a pension benefit parity payment to certain retirees from a state management/confidential position.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S07771 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S07771-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7771--A
            Cal. No. 1165
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 21, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  YOUNG  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
          -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second
          report, ordered to a third reading,  amended  and  ordered  reprinted,
          retaining its place in the order of third reading
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the civil service law, in relation to establishing a
          retiree parity payment for certain employees who served in a  position
          or positions in the classified service of the state designated manage-
          rial or confidential
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The civil service law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  137 to read as follows:
     3    §  137.  Management/confidential  retiree parity payment. 1.  Notwith-
     4  standing any provision of law, rule or regulation to the  contrary,  any
     5  retiree  who served in a position or positions in the classified service
     6  of the state designated managerial or confidential pursuant  to  article
     7  fourteen  of this chapter and who retired between April first, two thou-
     8  sand nine and March thirty-first, two thousand fifteen, and had a salary
     9  increase authorized under chapter ten of the laws of two thousand  eight
    10  which  was  withheld for state fiscal years two thousand nine and/or two
    11  thousand ten shall receive a seventy dollar  rebate  payment  for  every
    12  month  of  withholding  from  April  first, two thousand nine until such
    13  retiree's  date  of  retirement  or  March  thirty-first,  two  thousand
    14  fifteen,  whichever  is  earlier, not to exceed a total of five thousand
    15  dollars. The comptroller shall certify to the division of the  budget  a
    16  listing  of  all such retirees deemed eligible pursuant to this subdivi-
    17  sion.
    18    2. Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule  or  regulation  to  the
    19  contrary, any retiree who served in a position or positions in the clas-
    20  sified service of the state designated managerial or confidential pursu-
    21  ant  to  article  fourteen of this chapter and who retired between April
    22  first, two thousand fifteen and June thirtieth, two  thousand  seventeen
    23  and  had  a  salary increase authorized under chapter ten of the laws of
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14823-02-8
        S. 7771--A                          2
     1  two thousand eight which was withheld for state fiscal years  two  thou-
     2  sand  nine  and/or  two thousand ten shall receive five thousand dollars
     3  less the parity salary increases  received  during  the  specified  time
     4  period.  The  comptroller  shall certify to the division of the budget a
     5  listing of all retirees deemed eligible pursuant to this subdivision.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.