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                                  7990

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 25, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Governmental Employees

AN  ACT  to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to
  allowing members of organized units of Suffolk county correction offi-
  cers to transfer service credit from any  New  York  state  and  local
  retirement  system  earned for service with the New York state depart-
  ment of mental hygiene

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Subdivision d of section 89-f of the retirement and social
security law, as added by chapter 591 of  the  laws  of  1988  and  such
section  as renumbered by chapter 771 of the laws of 1988, is amended to
read as follows:
  d. As used in this section "creditable service" shall include (I)  any
and  all services performed as a correction officer of Suffolk county OR
(II) ANY SERVICE DESCRIBED IN SUBDIVISION F OF THIS SECTION.
  S 2. Subdivision f of section 89-f of the retirement and social  secu-
rity  law, as added by chapter 591 of the laws of 1988, as relettered by
chapter 543 of the laws of 1992 and such section as renumbered by  chap-
ter 771 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read as follows:
  f. Credit for service as a member or officer of the state police or as
a paid fireman, policeman or officer of any organized fire department or
police  force  or  department  of  any county, city, village, town, fire
district or police district, or as a criminal investigator in the office
of a district attorney, provided that service as such investigator shall
have been rendered prior to January first, nineteen  hundred  sixty  and
that  credit  therefor  shall  not exceed five years, OR AS A SAFETY AND
SECURITY OFFICER, GRADE TWELVE EMPLOYED BY THE NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT
OF MENTAL HYGIENE, PROVIDED HOWEVER THAT SUCH SERVICE  OCCURRED  BETWEEN
JANUARY  FIRST,  NINETEEN HUNDRED EIGHTY-FOUR AND DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST,
NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETY AND SHALL NOT EXCEED FIVE YEARS, shall  also  be

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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deemed to be creditable service and shall be included in computing years
of  total service for retirement pursuant to this section, provided such
service was performed by the member while contributing to the retirement
system  pursuant  to  the provisions of this article or article eight of
this chapter.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
  FISCAL NOTE.--This bill will allow Suffolk County correction  officers
to  be credited with up to five (5) years of safety and security officer
service with the New York State department  of  mental  hygiene  between
January  1,  1984  and December 31, 1990, under Suffolk County's Section
89-f twenty-five (25) year half-pay retirement plan.
  If this bill is enacted, we anticipate that there will be an immediate
past service cost of approximately $1.18 million which will be borne  by
Suffolk  County  as a one-time payment. This cost assumes a payment date
of February 1, 2012.
  These  estimated  costs  are  based  on  27  affected  Suffolk  County
correction  officers  having  a  total  estimated  annual salary for the
fiscal year ending March 31, 2011 of approximately $3.0 million.
  This estimate, dated April 26, 2011, and intended for use only  during
the  2011  Legislative Session, is Fiscal Note No. 2011-170, prepared by
the Actuary for the New  York  State  and  Local  Employees'  Retirement
System.