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                                  7992

                       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 up to seven years

  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, such  subdivision
as  relettered  by  chapter 543 of the laws of 1992, and such section as
renumbered by chapter 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]
OF ANY NEW YORK STATE AND LOCAL EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM,  NEW  YORK
STATE AND LOCAL POLICE AND FIRE RETIREMENT SYSTEM, NEW YORK STATE TEACH-
ERS'  RETIREMENT SYSTEM, NEW YORK CITY EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM, NEW
YORK CITY POLICE AND FIRE RETIREMENT SYSTEM AND THE NEW YORK CITY  BOARD
OF  EDUCATION  RETIREMENT  SYSTEM  that credit therefor shall not exceed

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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[five] SEVEN years, shall also be 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 seven (7) years of non-correction officer
service under Suffolk County's twenty-five (25) year half-pay retirement
plan, Section 89-f.
  If this bill is enacted, we anticipate that there will be an immediate
past service cost of approximately $12.8 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 814 Suffolk County correction offi-
cers having a total estimated annual salary for the fiscal  year  ending
March 31, 2011 of approximately $83 million.
  This  estimate, dated April 26, 2011, and intended for use only during
the 2011 Legislative Session, is Fiscal Note No. 2011-172,  prepared  by
the  Actuary  for  the  New  York  State and Local Employees' Retirement
System.