Committee

New York Senate Civil Service and Pensions Committee

Bill Bill Name Progress Referral Date
A00779 Provides that no provision of section eighty of the civil service law shall modify, replace or supersede any provision of a collective bargaining agreement that provides for greater rights than required by such section. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 02/25/2025
A01396 Prevents an agency, department, division, commission, bureau or any other entity under the authority of the executive department from contracting, subcontracting or hiring any third party during a hiring freeze. Crossed Over 04/01/2025
A02123 Provides additional credits to children and siblings of New York city sanitation members who died in the performance of duty as the natural and proximate result of the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/04/2025
A06624 Requires appointing authorities to provide appointment and promotion letters when extending an offer of appointment or promotion to a position in the classified service. Crossed Over 05/21/2025
A07424 Relates to the terms and conditions of employment for members of the collective negotiating unit consisting of troopers in the division of state police and salary schedules for members of such unit; relates to the employee benefit fund for members of such unit; provides for the payment of overtime pursuant to the terms of any agreement (Part A); relates to the terms and conditions of employment for members of the collective negotiating unit consisting of commissioned and non-commissioned officer Signed/Enacted/Adopted 05/12/2025
A08417 Extends the effectiveness of the September 11th worker protection task force act. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 05/29/2025
S00012 Provides that no provision of section eighty of the civil service law shall modify, replace or supersede any provision of a collective bargaining agreement that provides for greater rights than required by such section. In Committee 01/08/2025
S00337 Allows municipal commissions to use alternate lists for filling vacancies with resident and non-resident minority group members and women in order to achieve diversity in police departments. In Committee 01/08/2025
S00712 Enacts the "Nassau future protectors act" to provide additional credits to the Nassau county law enforcement explorers in competitive civil service examinations; makes related provisions. In Committee 01/08/2025
S00713 Enacts the "unique abilities employment act" relating to the employment of persons with developmental disabilities by school districts. In Committee 01/08/2025
S00721 Enacts the "educator expense assistance act" to allow educators to deduct qualified expenses incurred by K-12 educators. In Committee 01/08/2025
S00842 Provides that a corrections officer who contracts COVID-19 while employed as a uniformed personnel in institutions under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections and community supervision and suffers a permanent disability or death shall be presumed to have contracted COVID-19 in the performance and discharge of duty and shall be eligible for a performance of duty disability retirement benefit. In Committee 01/08/2025
S00898 Relates to compensation paid to persons employed in positions requiring foreign language skills; establishes career ladders for persons holding such positions; establishes supervisory positions for persons required to have foreign language skills. In Committee 01/08/2025
S00938 Relates to the right of public employees and employee organizations to strike; repeals certain provisions relating thereto. In Committee 01/08/2025
S00946 Authorizes the removal of police officer candidates from an eligible list when such candidate does not meet psychological fitness requirements or lacks good moral character standards. Crossed Over 01/08/2025
S00954 Establishes the teachers' fossil fuel divestment act; requires the New York state teachers' retirement system to divest the retirement system of any stocks, securities, equities, assets, or other obligations of corporations or companies included on an exclusion list of coal producers and oil and gas producers. In Committee 01/08/2025
S00959 Establishes the disability benefits maximization and assistance program to assist eligible state retirees in obtaining certain disability benefits; provides for the investing of any net savings realized by the program back into the New York state health insurance program for the purpose of eliminating or limiting the impact of any premium rate or other cost increases that would be the responsibility of an employee or retiree. In Committee 01/08/2025
S00986 Directs the department of civil service to conduct a study on competitive examinations for public employment held by the state department of civil service and by municipal commissions to determine whether the contents of such examinations have a discriminatory effect on minority examinees; requires a report on such findings to be delivered to the governor and legislature. In Committee 01/08/2025
S01011 Relates to changes of membership eligibility in a New York state retirement system. Crossed Over 01/08/2025
S01081 Requires dental insurance plans to automatically carry over a portion of the enrollee's unused benefit amount of up to 25% of the total benefit amount for use in the succeeding year. In Committee 01/08/2025
S01088 Requires health insurance for state officers and employees who receive health insurance benefits from the state to take effect immediately upon employment. In Committee 01/08/2025
S01090 Requires dental insurance coverage to be offered to employees that is effective immediately upon the starting date of employment. In Committee 01/08/2025
S01165 Provides additional credits to children and siblings of New York city sanitation members who died in the performance of duty as the natural and proximate result of the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001. In Committee 01/08/2025
S01181 Establishes a temporary task force on the variable supplements fund program to make findings and recommendations. In Committee 01/08/2025
S01232 Authorizes Christopher Walser to take the competitive civil service examination for the position of police officer and be placed on the eligible list for employment as a full-time police officer for the village of Skaneateles police department. In Committee 01/08/2025
S01311 Authorizes Jonathan Montalvo to be placed on the eligible list for employment for the state university of New York police. Crossed Over 01/09/2025
S01449 Eliminates the maximum age for taking the civil service examination for appointment as a police officer or as an environmental conservation officer. In Committee 01/10/2025
S01521 Allows retired state police officers to serve as police officers for local police departments without diminution of retirement benefits; empowers the superintendent of state police to approve such service. In Committee 01/10/2025
S01540 Relates to hearing procedures for certain public employees; provides that the recommendation of a hearing officer in relation to designated managerial and confidential employees shall be considered final and not subject to change or modification. Crossed Over 01/10/2025
S01579 Grants a retroactive parity payment to certain management and confidential retirees who retired between April 1, 2009 and March 31, 2015, not to exceed $5,000. In Committee 01/10/2025
S01722 Provides for salary schedule parity for positions designated managerial or confidential with comparable union-represented positions. In Committee 01/13/2025
S01724 Provides notification of employment or promotion of applicable employees to organizations of state employees designated managerial or confidential for purposes of employee representation in determining the terms and conditions of employment. Passed 01/13/2025
S01739 Provides for annual longevity payments for certain state employees designated managerial or confidential. In Committee 01/13/2025
S01750 Provides for comparable salary and other benefits for state employees designated managerial or confidential to ensure such employees receive an increase in salary at least equal to the percentage of the general salary increases provided to employees in a bargaining unit that receives the highest percentage general salary increase and other benefits. In Committee 01/13/2025
S01898 Authorizes Mark Barnhart, David Skinner, and James Pappas to take the competitive civil service examination and be placed on the eligible civil service list for employment as full-time police officers with the village of Wayland. In Committee 01/14/2025
S01988 Establishes a retirement benefit review panel. In Committee 01/14/2025
S02009 Provides a corrective remedy for certain administrative errors, omissions or inaccuracies relating to membership and benefits under the retirement system. In Committee 01/14/2025
S02028 Modifies eligibility for ordinary disability benefits and re-employment of disability retirees of the New York city police pension fund Tier III plans. In Committee 01/15/2025
S02264 Requires subsidiaries of certain authorities and their employees to submit all unresolvable contract negotiations to binding arbitration. Crossed Over 01/16/2025
S02461 Authorizes the New York state and local employees' retirement system to accept an application for disability retirement benefits from Andrew Reilly, Jr. Crossed Over 01/17/2025
S02566 Relates to the use of MWBE investments for and aspirational goal of at least twenty percent of each New York state fund, to the greatest extent feasible within the bounds of financial and fiduciary prudence. In Committee 01/21/2025
S02585 Relates to the definition of a public employee or employee; includes the unified court system and the legislature as public employers. In Committee 01/21/2025
S02642 Allows for child beneficiaries of deceased police officers and firefighters to receive accidental death benefits until age twenty-six. In Committee 01/22/2025
S02710 Restores 20 year service retirement for New York city police officers. In Committee 01/22/2025
S03314 Provides that a member with credited service in excess of twenty-five years shall receive an additional retirement allowance equal to one-sixtieth of such member's final average salary for each year of creditable service in excess of twenty-five years; makes related provisions. In Committee 01/24/2025
S03321 Authorizes Alexander D. Rusin to receive retroactive membership in the New York state and local employees' retirement system. In Committee 01/24/2025
S03349 Relates to safe staffing for public employees of institutional settings by setting maximum overtime levels. In Committee 01/27/2025
S03354 Allows certain employees to transfer or receive sick time from a fellow employee. In Committee 01/27/2025
S03414 Provides cost-of-living adjustments for certain public retirees, including an adjusted benefit in monthly installments that is equal to the percentage of the change in consumer price index according to the included schedule. In Committee 01/27/2025
S03488 Provides a performance of duty presumption for diseases of the heart for members who serve as an ambulance medical technician, ambulance medical coordinator, ambulance medical technician/supervisor or a member who performs ambulance medical technician related services, or a police medic, police medic coordinator, police medic supervisor, bureau director police emergency ambulance services - county, assistant bureau director police emergency ambulance services - county, or a member who performs p Crossed Over 01/28/2025
S03513 Authorizes Lois J. Reid to reapply for ordinary disability retirement benefits. In Committee 01/28/2025
S03514 Authorizes former full-time police officers with the New York city police department to be eligible to take the competitive civil service examination for the position of police officer and contingent on their score, to be placed on the eligible list for appointment as a full-time police officer for the city of New York. In Committee 01/28/2025
S03557 Provides a heart disease presumption for correction officers, correction supervisors, deputy sheriff patrol or deputy sheriff patrol supervisors. In Committee 01/28/2025
S03607 Prohibits public employers from diminishing health insurance benefits provided to Medicare-eligible retirees and their Medicare-eligible dependents or the contributions such employer makes for such health insurance coverage below the level of such benefits or contributions made on behalf of such retirees and dependents by the public employer as of December 31, 2021. In Committee 01/28/2025
S03608 Provides an optional twenty-five year retirement plan for county 911 operators throughout the state. In Committee 01/29/2025
S03655 Establishes a twenty-five year retirement plan for firefighters employed by the division of military and naval affairs. In Committee 01/29/2025
S03691 Prohibits a person convicted of rebellion or insurrection under federal law from state or municipal employment. In Committee 01/29/2025
S03818 Provides that any officer terminated who was dismissed for malfeasance or serious misconduct or resigned or retired during an investigation relating to such malfeasance or serious misconduct shall not be entitled to receive any retirement or other benefit or payment of any kind. In Committee 01/30/2025
S03880 Grants David Morse, the parent of firefighter Peyton Morse, who was employed by the city of Watertown, accidental death benefits. In Committee 01/30/2025
S03927 Relates to the removal of certain policemen. In Committee 01/30/2025
S03960 Places limits on the additional member contributions required of certain EMTs in the twenty-five year retirement program. In Committee 01/31/2025
S04074 Provides for payment of accidental death benefits for members who die while travelling from their primary residence directly to their place of business, or to a different location where such member was assigned to perform their duties. In Committee 01/31/2025
S04122 Clarifies that the New York state health insurance program remains subject to certain provisions of the financial services law and coverage for usual and customary costs for out-of-network health care service. In Committee 02/03/2025
S04170 Ensures language assistance services by state agencies; requires state agencies to maintain records of the primary language spoken by any individual seeking such assistance; requires state agencies to submit an annual report on language services. In Committee 02/03/2025
S04320 Extends the pilot program to examine the effects of waiving the state civil service examination fee to December 31, 2027. In Committee 02/04/2025
S04324 Grants retroactive tier IV membership in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Kenneth Panaro. In Committee 02/04/2025
S04326 Grants Lawrence Korzeniewski, the statutory beneficiary of Janice Korzeniewski, accidental death benefits because Janice Korzeniewski was directed by her employer to return to work and contracted COVID-19 within 45 days of reporting to work and died from such disease. In Committee 02/04/2025
S04426 Relates to waiving the earning limitations for retired sworn officers employed by a district attorney as investigators. In Committee 02/04/2025
S04436 Provides equal retirement benefits for persons who have been appointed to the title of correction lieutenant, correction captain, deputy assistant superintendent and superintendent in the department of corrections and community supervision. In Committee 02/05/2025
S04448 Authorizes the county of Clinton to employ retired former members of the division of state police as special patrol officers. Crossed Over 02/05/2025
S04450 Relates to granting retroactive Tier IV membership in the New York state and local employees' retirement system for Maureen Sullivan Nasca. In Committee 02/05/2025
S04485 Grants retroactive membership with Tier 1 status in the New York state teachers' retirement system to James J. DeMarco. In Committee 02/05/2025
S04490 Authorizes Christine Hasseler to apply for a recalculation of her retirement benefits. In Committee 02/05/2025
S04491 Authorizes Jeffrey Alva Beall eligibility to apply for retroactive military service credit in the New York state teachers' retirement system. In Committee 02/05/2025
S04499 Authorizes Justin Finkle to take the competitive civil service examination for the position of police officer and be placed on the eligible list for employment as a full-time police officer for the town of Bethlehem; requires that Justin Finkle be otherwise subject to the merit and fitness provisions of the civil service law applicable to full-time police officers. In Committee 02/06/2025
S04523 Relates to excused absence of a public employee for mental health purposes. In Committee 02/06/2025
S04542 Authorizes Justin Finkle to take the competitive civil service examination for the position of police officer and be placed on the eligible list for employment as a full-time police officer for the Albany county sheriff's office; requires that Justin Finkle be otherwise subject to the merit and fitness provisions of the civil service law applicable to full-time police officers. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 02/06/2025
S04580 Removes eligibility or receipt of primary social security disability benefits as a condition for ordinary disability retirement for New York city enhanced plan members in active service who are not eligible for a normal retirement benefit and have completed five years or more of service. In Committee 02/07/2025
S04581 Authorizes an optional twenty-five year retirement plan for uniformed court officers and peace officers employed by the unified court system. In Committee 02/07/2025
S04582 Prohibits elected officials from collecting retirement while still in office when the retirement is earned from an elective public office. In Committee 02/07/2025
S04598 Provides for eligibility of certain participants in the New York City employees retirement system to opt into the twenty-five year retirement program for EMT members. Crossed Over 02/10/2025
S04599 Grants Nassau county fire marshals, supervising fire marshals, fire marshals, assistant fire marshals, assistant chief fire marshals or chief fire marshals pension benefits for service rendered beyond twenty-five years. Crossed Over 02/10/2025
S04638 Establishes a temporary commission to reform and improve tier VI membership status in the New York state and local employees' retirement system. In Committee 02/10/2025
S04656 Authorizes Michael V. Layman to receive state police retirement credit for services performed as a SUNY police officer. In Committee 02/10/2025
S04666 Provides that for New York city police/fire members, uniformed correction/sanitation revised plan and investigator revised plan members of the New York city employees' retirement system, the service retirement benefit shall not be reduced by the primary social security retirement benefit commencing at age sixty-two. In Committee 02/11/2025
S04667 Provides that for New York city uniformed sanitation revised plan members of the New York city employees' retirement system, the service retirement benefit shall not be reduced by the primary social security retirement benefit commencing at age sixty-two. In Committee 02/11/2025
S04668 Relates to service retirement benefits for certain members of the New York city employees' retirement system; provides that for New York city uniformed correction/sanitation revised plan members of the New York city employees' retirement system, the service retirement benefit shall not be reduced by the primary social security retirement benefit commencing at age sixty-two. In Committee 02/11/2025
S04686 Authorizes Kim Bowers to receive certain service credit with the New York state and local employees' retirement system for her employment with the town of Orchard Park Zoning Board of Appeals. In Committee 02/11/2025
S04706 Provides that for New York city uniformed correction revised plan members of the New York city employees' retirement system, the service retirement benefit shall not be reduced by the primary social security retirement benefit commencing at age sixty-two. In Committee 02/11/2025
S04724 Ensures that public retirees are not having their skilled nursing care benefits reduced under the state health benefit plan at the time they enroll for medicare. In Committee 02/12/2025
S04725 Authorizes Michael Winston Hoard, the widower of Kathy Marie Dwyer-Hoard, to file a new service retirement application and an option election form on behalf of his deceased wife with the New York state and local employees' retirement system. Crossed Over 02/12/2025
S04727 Provides that the normal service retirement benefit for police/fire members who are members of the New York city fire department pension fund shall be paid to such members of the New York city fire department pension fund without regard to age upon retirement after twenty years of service. Crossed Over 02/12/2025
S04732 Prohibits the diminution of health insurance benefits of public employee retirees and their dependents or reducing the employer's contributions for such insurance; defines employers to include the state, municipalities, school districts, and public authorities and commissions. In Committee 02/12/2025
S04737 Ensures language assistance services by state agencies; requires state agencies to maintain records of the primary language spoken by any individual seeking such assistance; requires state agency to submit an annual report on language services. In Committee 02/12/2025
S04773 Prevents an agency, department, division, commission, bureau or any other entity under the authority of the executive department from contracting, subcontracting or hiring any third party during a hiring freeze. In Committee 02/12/2025
S04779 Relates to establishing a variable supplements fund for sanitation members of the New York city employees' retirement system; creates a board to manage such fund and to make payments. In Committee 02/12/2025
S04824 Provides a performance and discharge of duty presumption for any condition of impairment of health caused by leptospirosis, resulting in total or partial disability or death to a paid member of the uniformed force of a paid sanitation department, where such paid member is drawn from competitive civil service lists, who successfully passed a physical examination on entry into the service of such department, which examination failed to reveal any evidence of such condition. Crossed Over 04/29/2025
S04880 Authorizes Melissa Baker to receive certain service credit under a twenty year retirement plan for service with the village of Blasdell Police Department. In Committee 02/13/2025
S04894 Repeals provisions relating to resolutions of disputes in the course of collective negotiations with certain deputy sheriffs to provide such deputy sheriffs with the same interest arbitration scope as municipal police officers. Crossed Over 02/14/2025
S04898 Amends the definition of public employee to include persons holding positions by appointment or employment in the organized militia of the state. In Committee 02/14/2025
S04901 Expands the authority of hearing officers regarding judgments about an employee's inability to perform their duties due to a disability to be provided to the employee and the authorized representative of such employee. In Committee 02/14/2025
S04965 Waives the state application fee for all civil service examinations for all veterans. In Committee 02/14/2025
S05026 Requires that all procedures and other matters related to the receipt or discontinuation of benefits available under section two hundred seven-c of the general municipal law shall be subject, upon request of the affected employee, to a de novo evidentiary hearing. In Committee 02/18/2025
S05053 Relates to increasing the mandatory retirement age for New York police department members from 62 to 65. In Committee 02/18/2025
S05058 Affords certain members of the fire department pension fund with new or increased pension benefits for each year of additional service beyond their required minimum service. In Committee 02/18/2025
S05083 Permits an eligible retirement system member to receive, in lieu of an ordinary death benefit, a death benefit such member would otherwise be entitled to receive provided such member is a state-paid judge or justice of the unified court system or a housing judge of the civil court of the city of New York. Crossed Over 02/18/2025
S05211 Enacts the "New York state teleworking expansion act"; provides that each state agency shall establish a policy and program to allow employees to perform all or a portion of their duties through teleworking to the maximum extent possible without diminished employee performance. In Committee 02/19/2025
S05255 Provides procedures to be followed in appointing a hearing officer for removal and disciplinary action against certain public employees not in the service of the city of New York, including the fees to be paid for such hearing officer; provides for suspension, with pay, pending the determination. In Committee 02/20/2025
S05435 Authorizes Jonathan Grossman to apply for a recalculation of his retirement benefits. In Committee 02/21/2025
S05459 Relates to employment of persons and veterans with disabilities by the state; provides up to five thousand positions may be filled by persons with a physical or mental disability and up to two thousand positions may be filled by disabled veterans and veterans with disabilities. In Committee 02/21/2025
S05564 Authorizes the village of Port Chester to offer an optional twenty-year retirement plan to Michael Sprague, a police officer employed by such village since January 7, 2013. In Committee 02/25/2025
S05579 Increases the amount of money a public retirement system retiree may earn in a position of public service in the year 2026 and thereafter to $65,000. In Committee 02/25/2025
S05634 Authorizes the participation by free association libraries in the New York state and local employees' retirement system. In Committee 02/26/2025
S05726 Provides for certain death benefits to correction officers, correction officer-sergeants, correction officer-captains, assistant wardens, associate wardens or wardens employed by Orange county. In Committee 02/28/2025
S05754 Authorizes an optional twenty-five year retirement plan for fire marshals I and supervisors of such title in Suffolk county. In Committee 02/28/2025
S05760 Requires appointing authorities to provide appointment and promotion letters when extending an offer of appointment or promotion to a position in the classified service. In Committee 02/28/2025
S05761 Establishes a thirty-year retirement benefit for correction officers of the Westchester county correction department. In Committee 02/28/2025
S05868 Prohibits the diminution of health insurance benefits of public employee retirees and their dependents or reducing the employer's contributions for such insurance; defines employers to include the state, municipalities, school districts, and public authorities and commissions. In Committee 03/03/2025
S05928 Grants retroactive membership with Tier IV status in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Dawn Ward. Crossed Over 03/04/2025
S05934 Directs local law enforcement agencies in municipalities authorizing an auxiliary police force by local law to provide retirement service identification cards to auxiliary police officers who retire with 10 or more years of service or who are injured in the course of duty and unable to continue duty due to such injury. In Committee 03/04/2025
S06055 Relates to implementing equal employment opportunity and affirmative action for classified civil service positions in the service of the state; requires that each agency have a full-time affirmative action officer who reports directly to the agency head. In Committee 03/05/2025
S06057 Requires the same benefits and services for post-traumatic stress disorder for emergency dispatchers and correction officers as are afforded police and firefighters. In Committee 03/05/2025
S06063 Prohibits the investment of certain public funds with the Trump organization; directs the comptroller to take appropriate action to sell, redeem, divest or withdraw any investment held in such organization. In Committee 03/05/2025
S06068 Relates to the creation of an annual report on the race and ethnic data of individuals who have taken a civil service examination. Crossed Over 03/05/2025
S06184 Provides that members of a retirement system who retire from such system and later rejoin the retirement system are reinstated with the same rights, benefits and privileges they had prior to retirement. In Committee 03/06/2025
S06204 Clarifies the definition of a paid firefighter to include firefighters employed by the division of military and naval affairs for the purpose of receiving certain benefits as other firefighters. In Committee 03/06/2025
S06258 Allows for NYSTRS retirees to change their retirement plan beneficiary to a spouse at any time either prior to or after retirement. Crossed Over 03/07/2025
S06289 Relates to primary social security retirement benefits for certain members; provides that in the computation of the normal service retirement benefit of members of the New York city fire department pension fund, there shall be no reduction for the primary social security retirement benefit. In Committee 03/10/2025
S06321 Authorizes the county of Suffolk and the village of Nissequogue, in the county of Suffolk, to offer the 20-year retirement option to Bridget Topping, a police officer employed by such county and village. In Committee 03/10/2025
S06349 Authorizes Franklynn Smith, who has been continuously employed as a part-time police officer, to take the competitive civil service examination and be placed on the eligible list for appointment as a full-time police officer with the village of Perry. In Committee 03/11/2025
S06401 Relates to death benefits for members of the uniformed force of the New York city department of sanitation and members of the uniformed force of the New York city department of correction; establishes that the beneficiaries of a member who would have been entitled to a service retirement benefit at the time of such member's death may elect to receive, in a lump sum, an amount payable which shall be equal to the pension reserve that would have been established had the member retired on the date o In Committee 03/13/2025
S06404 Provides a lung disease presumption for correction officers, correction supervisors, deputy sheriff patrol or deputy sheriff patrol supervisors. In Committee 03/13/2025
S06405 Allows New York state employees to use accrued vacation time toward student loan payments; defines terms; requires the president of the civil service commission to promulgate necessary rules and regulations. In Committee 03/13/2025
S06406 Allows a beneficiary of a member whose death occurs on or after July 1, 2025 and who would have been entitled to a service credit at the time of such member's death to elect to receive a lump sum payment equal to the pension reserve that would have been established had the member retired on the date of such member's death. In Committee 03/13/2025
S06411 Restores the 20 year service retirement for certain New York city corrections officers. In Committee 03/13/2025
S06432 Provides New York city fire pension fund benefits to the widow of deceased firefighter Derek Floyd. In Committee 03/13/2025
S06433 Provides that New York city correction officers may file for disability without ten years of service. In Committee 03/13/2025
S06434 Increases benefits payable by the correction officers' variable supplements fund to beneficiaries. In Committee 03/13/2025
S06435 Grants service credit to members of the uniformed correction force of the New York city department of correction covered by provisions of law for over 25 years. In Committee 03/13/2025
S06437 Provides for the transfer of service credit by a member of the New York city police pension fund into the New York city police pension fund. Crossed Over 03/13/2025
S06440 Authorizes Brian Studley, a police officer employed by the New York state university police department at SUNY Fredonia, to transition his pension from the New York state and local employees' retirement system to the New York state and local police and fire retirement system. In Committee 03/13/2025
S06486 Restores the 20 year service retirement for certain New York city corrections officers and sanitation workers. In Committee 03/14/2025
S06520 Reports the number of women employed in each office and/or position in the service of the state and the race, ethnicity and salary range of each such employee. In Committee 03/17/2025
S06522 Allows any enrollee of the New York State common retirement fund to request a list of investment managers on contract with the office of state comptroller to make investment contracts for the office of state comptroller division of pensions, investment, and cash management and the contents of any contracts and opportunistic investment contracts made by such investment manager. In Committee 03/17/2025
S06554 Provides for benefits for certain emergency medical technicians or advanced emergency medical technicians in the city of New York who suffer any condition or impairment of health caused by a stroke resulting in disability or death. In Committee 03/17/2025
S06555 Provides a heart disease presumption for members employed as a fire alarm dispatcher, a supervising fire alarm dispatcher level one or a supervising fire alarm dispatcher level two of a fire department in a city with a population of one million or more. In Committee 03/17/2025
S06598 Relates to authorizing geographic pay differentials for certain police officers; authorizes a pay differential for regional state park police, forest ranger, environmental conservation officer, and university police officer titles when wage rates of police officers in a given location are substantially higher than the wage rates paid by the state. In Committee 03/18/2025
S06631 Provides for cost-of-living adjustments; provides that the base benefit amount shall be increased annually by reference to the consumer price index for each applicable calendar year beginning on September 1, 2025. In Committee 03/19/2025
S06638 Relates to calculating certain pensions; increases pension calculation from thirty-five to forty per centum of final average salary. In Committee 03/19/2025
S06639 Increases the limitation of overtime compensation in final average salary calculations from fifteen percent to thirty percent. In Committee 03/19/2025
S06640 Provides an option for beneficiaries of NYC transit authority members to receive a lump sum equal to the pension reserve where a member who is eligible for a service retirement dies prior to filing for retirement. Crossed Over 03/19/2025
S06641 Increases certain special accidental death benefits for state and local retirement system members. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/19/2025
S06671 Authorizes a thirty year retirement benefit for certain members in Nassau county; provides a retirement allowance equal to 60 percent of a member's final average salary. In Committee 03/19/2025
S06688 Relates to providing county correction officers with a special optional twenty year retirement plan. In Committee 03/19/2025
S06690 Authorizes the county of Monroe to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to Christopher R. Fay, a deputy sheriff employed by the county of Monroe. In Committee 03/19/2025
S06691 Authorizes the county of Monroe to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to Gregory M. Prokop, a deputy sheriff/investigator employed by the county of Monroe. In Committee 03/19/2025
S06692 Authorizes the county of Monroe to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to Carl J. Zimmerman, a deputy sheriff employed by the county of Monroe. In Committee 03/19/2025
S06702 Relates to eligibility for participants in the automotive 25 year/age 50 pension plan with more than 30 years of credited service who remain in active service after age 62 to receive a service retirement benefit equivalent to the standard service retirement benefit received by Tier IV members with the same age and service. Crossed Over 03/20/2025
S06720 Grants retroactive Tier 5 status in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Barbara Juh. In Committee 03/20/2025
S06750 Permits a retired member to change their option election or designate a new beneficiary where the beneficiary has been convicted of a family offense. Crossed Over 03/21/2025
S06820 Allows Andriel Santana to be eligible to take the civil service exam for the position of Columbia county deputy sheriff. In Committee 03/25/2025
S06823 Provides for service credit related to the birth or adoption of a new child for certain correction officer retirement system members. In Committee 03/25/2025
S06840 Increases the amount of years of military service credit a member may purchase from three years to four years; provides that the provisions of such act shall not be subject to the requirement that the state shall make an equal payment to the retirement system. In Committee 03/25/2025
S06854 Authorizes Marie Glarakis, a former Suffolk county police officer who is receiving a performance of duty disability retirement, to change the designated beneficiary of her retirement benefits and her retirement option to single life allowance (Option 0). In Committee 03/25/2025
S06855 Grants retroactive membership in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Michael Posillico. In Committee 03/25/2025
S06856 Provides certain enhanced disability retirement benefits for Kyle Brower relating to participation in World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations, and who retired in 2013. In Committee 03/25/2025
S06860 Entitles Dennis Malone, an employee of the Town of Clarkstown who retired from such service on August 16, 2018, and who participated in the World Trade Center rescue, recovery and cleanup operations to a 75% accidental disability retirement benefit. In Committee 03/25/2025
S06861 Grants retroactive tier IV membership in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Karen Siegel. In Committee 03/25/2025
S06956 Relates to increasing the earnings limitation for positions of public service; increases the earnings limitation from $35,000 to $50,000 in 2025 and thereafter. Crossed Over 03/27/2025
S06988 Grants members of the city of New York's police force eligibility for retirement and pension based on previous service as traffic enforcement agents. In Committee 04/08/2025
S06989 Establishes alternative twenty and twenty-five year plans for every non-seasonally appointed sworn member or officer of the division of law enforcement in the department of environmental conservation, a forest ranger in the service of the department of environmental conservation, which shall mean a person who serves on a full-time basis in the title of forest ranger I, forest ranger II, forest ranger III, assistant superintendent of forest fire control, or any successor titles or new titles in t In Committee 03/27/2025
S06990 Requires each agency to conduct exit surveys for employees resigning from state civil service; directs the state civil service commission to create an annual report on such surveys; exempts individual responses to exit surveys from the freedom of information law. In Committee 03/27/2025
S07004 Relates to providing state correction officers with a special optional twenty year retirement plan. In Committee 03/28/2025
S07021 Establishes a retirement service credit for volunteer fire or emergency service. In Committee 03/28/2025
S07023 Increases the age of eligibility for provisional or permanent appointment of certain police officers from thirty-five to forty. In Committee 03/28/2025
S07044 Relates to requiring the commissioner of the department of civil service to prepare a report on civil service titles which require an appointee to possess a license and current registration as a mental health practitioner in one or more professions under article 163 of the education law. In Committee 03/31/2025
S07054 Authorizes the granting of retirement service credit in the optional twenty year retirement plan to Duane A. Palma for service as a correction officer at the Monroe county sheriff's office jail bureau. In Committee 03/31/2025
S07113 Provides for beneficiaries of the death benefits of an eligible uniformed member of the fire department of the city of New York the ability to elect to receive such benefits in a certain lump-sum amount. In Committee 04/01/2025
S07114 Relates to obtaining military credit for members of the New York state and local police and fire retirement system; provides that the calculation for military credit shall be equal to the product of the number of years of military service being claimed and three percent of such member's compensation earned during the twelve months of credited service. In Committee 04/01/2025
S07115 Relates to supplemental military retirement allowances for members of public retirement systems of the state. In Committee 04/01/2025
S07118 Grants retroactive tier IV membership in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Raymond Ruckel. In Committee 04/01/2025
S07119 Authorizes Robin Garfinkle, the widow of Howard Mahler, to file a retirement option election on behalf of her deceased husband. In Committee 04/01/2025
S07143 Provides alternative retirement benefits for the police force at Erie County Medical Center; provides a qualifying member shall receive a retirement allowance consisting of a pension equal to one-fiftieth of their final average salary for each year of qualifying creditable service. In Committee 04/01/2025
S07148 Provides a heart disease presumption for members employed as a probation officer, supervising probation officer or probation officer trainee of a department of probation in a city with a population of one million or more. Crossed Over 04/02/2025
S07196 Authorizes Sgt. Bethany Kidd to receive certain service credit under a twenty year retirement plan for service with the Seneca Falls Police Department. In Committee 04/03/2025
S07237 Requires the department of civil service to allow municipalities to post municipal employment positions on the department of civil service's state jobs website; requires such municipal employment opportunities to be posted in a format searchable by municipality and employment position type. In Committee 04/04/2025
S07240 Prohibits the comptroller from using environment, social, and governance criteria as a screening method for selecting companies and funds to invest the state pension fund in. In Committee 04/07/2025
S07310 Provides for a grace period until July 1, 2025, in which former employees of the department of corrections and community supervision that participated in a strike may return to full duty without discipline. In Committee 04/09/2025
S07314 Permits surviving spouses of NYC police pension fund members to retain accidental death benefits upon remarriage. Crossed Over 04/09/2025
S07338 Authorizes active members of the New York state and local police and fire retirement system to purchase service credit for service with the Long Island Railroad Company police department. In Committee 04/10/2025
S07339 Authorizes Carl Spatola to receive a refund from the New York state teachers' retirement system due to overpayment. In Committee 04/10/2025
S07340 Authorizes Michael J. Cappiello to purchase service credit for service with the Long Island Railroad Company police department prior to its merger with the MTA and the state retirement system. In Committee 04/10/2025
S07363 Relates to authorizing state university police, regional state park police and detective investigators for the office of the attorney general to receive additional service credit in an optional twenty year retirement plan. In Committee 04/11/2025
S07369 Relates to unlawful strikes by public employees; provides for the settlement of certain disputes relating to terms and conditions of employment of certain transit and transportation authorities. In Committee 04/11/2025
S07376 Authorizes Karol Hughes, a part-time police officer, with the town/village of East Rochester police department to take the civil service examination and be eligible for appointment as a full time police officer for the town/village of East Rochester. In Committee 04/11/2025
S07378 Establishes an optional twenty-five year retirement plan for employees of the New York Power Authority who are a member of the public employee organization certified or recognized to represent employees of such authority. In Committee 04/11/2025
S07383 Allows Christopher Collins to be eligible to take the civil service exam for the position of police officer with the Saugerties police department. In Committee 04/11/2025
S07384 Authorizes the Onondaga county sheriff's department, in the county of Onondaga, to offer the optional twenty year retirement plan to deputy sheriffs Brittany E. Dorn, Noah C. Hunt, Daniel D. Lorenzini, Gordon J. Lopez, Tre C. Fesinger, and Christopher L. Van Dusen. In Committee 04/11/2025
S07397 Authorizes Liliana Fernandez-Clemente, the widow of Daniel Clemente, to file a new service retirement application and option election form with the New York state and local employees' retirement system on behalf of such deceased member. Crossed Over 04/14/2025
S07411 Authorizes Lt. Thomas Cleere to change his service credit from the improved career retirement plan to a 20 year retirement plan. In Committee 04/15/2025
S07414 Restores the 20 year service retirement for certain New York city sanitation workers. In Committee 04/15/2025
S07528 Extends the benefits of the variable supplements fund for transit police members of the New York city employees' retirement system for persons who retired on or after October 1, 1968. In Committee 04/21/2025
S07529 Relates to the eligibility of New York city transit authority employees for performance of duty disability retirement. In Committee 04/21/2025
S07534 Provides a performance of duty presumption for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis for paid members of a fire department in a city with a population of one million or more. In Committee 04/22/2025
S07614 Provides a cost-of-living adjustment for New York public retirement systems. In Committee 04/23/2025
S07635 Establishes an optional twenty-five year retirement plan for certain public safety dispatchers, public safety telecommunicators, 911 operators, communications officers, police communication technicians, emergency services operators and emergency services dispatchers employed by the state, or a county or municipal emergency services department. In Committee 04/24/2025
S07646 Relates to the terms and conditions of employment for members of the collective negotiating unit consisting of troopers in the division of state police and salary schedules for members of such unit; relates to the employee benefit fund for members of such unit; provides for the payment of overtime pursuant to the terms of any agreement (Part A); relates to the terms and conditions of employment for members of the collective negotiating unit consisting of commissioned and non-commissioned officer In Committee 04/24/2025
S07655 Provides for comparable salary and other benefits for state employees designated managerial or confidential which shall not be withheld unless an employee has received a formal written performance evaluation rating of unsatisfactory or its equivalent. In Committee 04/25/2025
S07661 Removes post-retirement earnings restrictions for New York city department of correction uniformed personnel with respect to a retiree subsequent to such member's earliest eligibility date for service retirement. In Committee 04/25/2025
S07670 Sets the increase to the overtime ceiling as a fixed percentage. In Committee 04/28/2025
S07688 Authorizes Frank Lyburd III, Brian McNamara, Peter J. Jacobs, Roman S. Wilinski, Alex U. Chenche and Tara T. Desposito, police officers in the town of Southold, county of Suffolk, to receive certain service credit under section 384-d of the retirement and social security law. Crossed Over 04/29/2025
S07716 Enacts the "building recruitment and incentives for dedicated government employees (BRIDGE) act" which provides a service credit for members who were previously employed by the federal government. In Committee 05/01/2025
S07740 Authorizes Olivia Rae Salta, the daughter of Dawn Jimenez-Salta, to file a new service retirement application and option election form with the New York state and local employees' retirement system on behalf of her deceased mother. In Committee 05/02/2025
S07750 Relates to the calculation of past service credit for members in the title of deputy sheriff who provided police protection or correction officer service transferring between the New York state and local employees' retirement system to the New York state and local police and fire retirement system. In Committee 05/05/2025
S07755 Relates to the election of retirement benefits for certain members of the New York state and local employees' retirement system who are employed by the office of mental health. In Committee 05/05/2025
S07757 Authorizes Scott Pavlick to receive certain service credit under a twenty-five year retirement plan offering one-sixtieths after twenty-five years of total creditable service for service with the Binghamton Fire Department. In Committee 05/05/2025
S07758 Authorizes David Edwards to receive certain service credit under a twenty-five year retirement plan offering one-sixtieths after twenty-five years of total creditable service for service with the Binghamton Fire Department. In Committee 05/05/2025
S07759 Authorizes Frank Smith, a New York city police detective, to receive accidental performance of duty disability retirement benefits for illness suffered as a result of exposure to disease during undercover assignments as a member of the police department of the city of New York. In Committee 05/05/2025
S07783 Provides increases of cost-of-living adjustments for public retirees; allows increases of up to five percent. In Committee 05/06/2025
S07803 Authorizes Joshua Kaye to receive certain retroactive membership in the New York state and local police and fire retirement system. In Committee 05/09/2025
S07808 Relates to the determination of salary base for members of the New York city police pension fund; provides that the salary base for members of the New York city police pension fund whose employment with the police department of the city of New York commenced on or after July 1, 2000 shall be determined in the same manner as members whose employment commenced prior to such date. In Committee 05/09/2025
S07817 Authorizes Janice Middlebrooks, the widow of William James Middlebrooks, to file a retirement option election on behalf of her deceased husband. Crossed Over 05/09/2025
S07825 Grants tier IV benefits in the New York state and local retirement system to employees hired on or after January 1, 2010. In Committee 05/09/2025
S07829 Establishes a managerial or confidential higher education differential for employees designated managerial or confidential who hold an earned associate's degree, bachelor's degree, master's degree, or doctorate (e.g., MD, JD, Ph.D.) from a college or university or a professional license issued by the New York state education department are eligible to receive a higher education differential of up to six hundred dollars retroactively for state fiscal year two thousand twenty-four-two thousand twe In Committee 05/09/2025
S07831 Allows for participants in World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations who were not members of a New York state retirement system at the time of such participation but who are now currently active members in such retirement systems to be eligible for disability benefits. In Committee 05/09/2025
S07832 Authorizes Daniel Woolley to file for an accidental disability retirement. In Committee 05/09/2025
S07841 Directs the director of the budget to amend the state's overtime compensation eligibility policy to include all positions allocated up to and including salary grade 23. In Committee 05/09/2025
S07842 Directs the state civil service commission to design and implement a pilot location pay compensation program for state employees designated managerial or confidential that is based upon cost-of-living factors in different geographic areas of the state consistent with methodologies used by the federal government in its general schedule locality pay plan. In Committee 05/09/2025
S07843 Establishes a twenty-five year retirement program for members of the NYC employees' retirement system employed as water supply police; provides for employer pick-up of certain additional member contributions required to be made by certain participants in the 25-year retirement programs. Crossed Over 05/09/2025
S07844 Authorizes the widow of Gerald J. Sullivan to file an application with the New York state and local police and fire retirement system on behalf of such deceased member and deem such application as timely filed. Crossed Over 05/09/2025
S07847 Authorizes the village of Trumansburg to offer an optional twenty-year retirement plan to Kevin R. Noterfonzo under section 384-d of the retirement and social security law. Crossed Over 05/09/2025
S07848 Authorizes the county of Tompkins to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to Bryan Jolly, a deputy sheriff employed by such county upon such officer's election to participate in such plan. Crossed Over 05/09/2025
S07849 Authorizes the county of Tompkins to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to Kyle Davenport, a deputy sheriff employed by such county upon such officer's election to participate in such plan. Crossed Over 05/09/2025
S07854 Relates to granting retroactive Tier II membership in the New York state and local police and fire retirement system for Giuseppe T. Rosini. Crossed Over 05/09/2025
S07866 Establishes a twenty-two year retirement program for deputy sheriff members who are employed by the city of New York as a deputy city sheriff level one, deputy city sheriff level two, supervising deputy sheriff or administrative sheriff. In Committee 05/12/2025
S07881 Grants NYC board of education employee Gabrielle Tessler continued health coverage in retirement. In Committee 05/13/2025
S07910 Permits the widow of Luis Palermo to apply for a World Trade Center related accidental death benefit for participation in the rescue, recovery, and clean-up operations as a member of the Nassau county police department. In Committee 05/13/2025
S07911 Authorizes the village of Trumansburg to offer an optional twenty-year retirement plan to Daniel H. Austic under section 384-d of the retirement and social security law. Crossed Over 05/13/2025
S07916 Relates to the establishment of a twenty-two and one-half year retirement program for members of the New York city employees' retirement system employed as emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical technicians and to the establishment of such program for such members who are subject to articles 11 and 15 of the retirement and social security law. In Committee 05/14/2025
S07917 Relates to limiting participation by certain public or quasi-public organizations in the retirement system. In Committee 05/14/2025
S07930 Authorizes retired firefighters to be employed as fire science instructors by career and technical education centers without a reduction of their retirement benefits. In Committee 05/14/2025
S07938 Authorizes Kristin Proud to receive certain service credit with the New York state and local employees' retirement system for her volunteer service beginning March 25, 2020 and ending November 8, 2020. In Committee 05/14/2025
S07958 Grants retroactive tier IV membership in the New York city employees' retirement system to Ryan D. O'Connor. In Committee 05/15/2025
S07973 Provides earnings limitations for retired police officers employed part-time by municipalities with a population of less than 7,500; permits such officer to work up to five hundred twenty hours in any consecutive six-month period, with no suspension or diminution of retirement allowance; establishes villages or towns shall report such hours and salary earned on a monthly basis and shall contribute a percentage of the officer's excess earnings to the New York state and local police and fire retir In Committee 05/15/2025
S07975 Provides that service retirement benefits for members of the NYC police pension fund shall not be reduced by the primary social security retirement benefit commencing at age sixty-two. In Committee 05/15/2025
S07986 Authorizes members or officers of the state police who were previously firefighters receive credit for such previous firefighter service for the purposes of retirement. In Committee 05/15/2025
S07991 Authorizes Nicole Longo to take the competitive civil service examination for the position of police sergeant and be placed on the eligible list for employment as a full-time police sergeant for the village of Bronxville. In Committee 05/15/2025
S08006 Authorizes the county of Dutchess to offer an optional twenty-five year retirement plan to certain deputy sheriffs employed by such county. In Committee 05/15/2025
S08020 Enacts the "New York state agency BIPOC asset management and financial institution strategy act" to ensure the promotion of equity, diversity, and inclusion within the state pension system and the New York city pension system's investments by mandating a minimum allocation of assets to BIPOC asset managers, BIPOC financial institutions, and BIPOC financial or professional service firms; addresses disparities in investment opportunities and fosters economic growth within BIPOC communities, aligni In Committee 05/15/2025
S08023 Decreases the time period before certain retirees receive a cost of living adjustment to their benefits. In Committee 05/15/2025
S08024 Provides accidental disability retirement benefits for deputy sheriff Richard Stueber, a participant in World Trade Center rescue, recovery, and cleanup operations. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 05/15/2025
S08038 Enacts the State Police Retention act; provides a deferred retirement option plan payable to members and officers of the division of state police. In Committee 05/15/2025
S08052 Provides that a member of a public retirement system who has been determined to have a permanent partial disability by the workers' compensation board of the state of New York, and who the United States social security administration has determined is disabled for substantial gainful activity, and approved for social security disability benefits, shall be deemed to be disabled for the purposes of eligibility for disability benefits of such public retirement system. In Committee 05/15/2025
S08053 Exempts certain military service credit from being included in calculations of up to three years of military service credit for a public retirement system of the state. In Committee 05/15/2025
S08058 Relates to disability retirement benefits for the presumption of cancer affecting the endocrine and thyroid systems and Parkinson's Disease for certain firefighters. In Committee 05/15/2025
S08087 Relates to the definition of overtime ceiling for members who first become members of a public retirement system of the state on or after April first, two thousand twelve. Crossed Over 05/15/2025
S08088 Authorizes Scott Hoag, a city of Rome police officer, to receive certain credit under section 384-d of the retirement and social security law. In Committee 05/15/2025
S08090 Provides that the maximum age requirement of 35 years for police officers to take a competitive examination shall not apply to any police officer of any county, city, town or village police force not otherwise provided for in this section if such officer is a part-time police officer in a non-competitive position and is vested in the New York state and local police and fire retirement system. In Committee 05/15/2025
S08093 Allows members of the New York city fire department pension fund to obtain service credit for retirement eligibility and retirement allowance from any of the public retirement systems of New York state. In Committee 05/15/2025
S08094 Provides for retirement credit to fire protection inspector members for a child care leave of absence. In Committee 05/15/2025
S08096 Prevents public employers from diminishing health insurance benefits provided to retirees and their Medicare-eligible dependents or the contributions such employer makes for such health insurance coverage below the level of such benefits or contributions made on behalf of such retirees and their dependents by such public employer. In Committee 05/15/2025
S08105 Authorizes Christopher P. Mayr to receive certain credit under section 384-d of the retirement and social security law for service as a fire fighter employed by the city of Rensselaer. In Committee 05/15/2025
S08111 Provides for retirement credit to emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical technicians for a child care leave of absence. In Committee 05/15/2025
S08121 Permits certain twenty-five year retirement program dispatcher members to file elections not to participate. Crossed Over 05/15/2025
S08122 Permits New York City correction and sanitation members to borrow from accumulated contributions to their retirement plans. In Committee 05/15/2025
S08123 Provides that members of the New York city teachers' retirement system with an active membership at the time, who participated in World Trade Center rescue, recovery or cleanup operations, and who are determined to have incurred a qualifying condition, be paid a duty disability retirement allowance equal to three-quarters of final average salary. In Committee 05/15/2025
S08133 Provides that retirement contributions of certain public employees shall be three per centum of annual wages. In Committee 05/15/2025
S08134 Provides that retirement contributions of public employees with ten or more years of service shall be three per centum per annum. In Committee 05/15/2025
S08135 Provides WTC-related benefits to certain employees who worked at the Verrazano Bridge Toll Facility. In Committee 05/15/2025
S08140 Provides for transfers from the MTA police retirement program to certain other retirement systems or funds. In Committee 05/15/2025
S08141 Modifies the definition of additional member contributions and basic member contributions for certain New York city employees' retirement system members who are subject to the twenty-five year retirement program for fire protection inspector members under Article 15 of the retirement and social security law, to allow such additional member contributions to be used to offset a deficit of basic member contributions, or to allow an excess of basic member contributions to offset a deficit of additio In Committee 05/15/2025
S08142 Provides a presumption for accidental disability benefits for certain deputy sheriff members in the sheriff's department of a city with a population of one million or more who in performance of their duties contract human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), tuberculosis or hepatitis. In Committee 05/15/2025
S08143 Provides for the refund of additional member contributions of persons who cease to be members of the age fifty-seven retirement program for certain New York city members because they have become members of the twenty-five year retirement program for EMTs. In Committee 05/15/2025
S08147 Provides for a heart disease presumption for certain New York police department traffic enforcement agents. In Committee 05/15/2025
S08148 Provides a heart disease presumption for members employed by the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority as a bridge and tunnel officer, sergeant or lieutenant in a non-managerial position. In Committee 05/15/2025
S08149 Provides for an alternate final average salary calculation for Triborough bridge and tunnel members where such calculation includes certain dates. In Committee 05/15/2025
S08154 Makes certain benefits available to members of the Dutchess county sheriff's department upon the election to offer such benefits by Dutchess county. In Committee 05/15/2025
S08158 Relates to accidental disability retirement for deputy sheriffs; provides that deputy sheriffs shall receive a pension of three-quarters of their final average salary. In Committee 05/15/2025
S08159 Relates to the disability retirement for safety and security officers. In Committee 05/15/2025
S08160 Increases the base benefit amount for computation of pension cost-of-living adjustments. In Committee 05/15/2025
S08164 Authorizes the county of Rockland to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to John F. Leonard, Jr., a deputy sheriff employed by such county. Crossed Over 05/16/2025
S08167 Grants retroactive Tier IV membership in the New York city teachers' retirement system to certain employees employed by the city of Yonkers parks department for the period beginning in 2009 and ending in 2014. In Committee 05/16/2025
S08181 Extends the effectiveness of the September 11th worker protection task force act. In Committee 05/19/2025
S08190 Authorizes Thomas Collins to file a request for change of benefit coverage with the New York state teachers' retirement system. In Committee 05/20/2025
S08194 Authorizes Heath A. Wadhams, a part-time police officer, with the village of Warsaw police department to take the civil service examination and be eligible for appointment as a full time police officer for the village of Palmyra, in the county of Wayne. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 05/20/2025
S08207 Relates to age and service eligibility requirements for ordinary retirement for members of the unified court system; restores 55/30 for all members; reduces the retirement age from 63 to 62. Crossed Over 05/21/2025
S08208 Authorizes the county of Rockland to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to Matthew Donovan, a deputy sheriff employed by such county. Crossed Over 05/21/2025
S08209 Directs the president of the state civil service commission to conduct a study on job vacancies across state agencies and determine which, if any, state agencies are understaffed. In Committee 05/21/2025
S08216 Grants retroactive tier II membership in the New York state and local police and fire retirement system to Daniel Rizzo. In Committee 05/21/2025
S08219 Authorizes the village of Trumansburg to offer an optional twenty-year retirement plan to Mackenzie M. Covert under section 384-d of the retirement and social security law. Crossed Over 05/22/2025
S08234 Changes the due date by which the New York State teachers' retirement system is required to submit the annual MWBE report to on or before December thirty-first following the end of the teachers retirement system's fiscal year. Crossed Over 05/27/2025
S08281 Authorizes Matthew Terpening to take the competitive civil service examination for the position of police officer and be placed on the eligible list for employment as a full-time police officer for the town of Webb, county of Herkimer. In Committee 05/29/2025