Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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May 06, 2014 |
referred to governmental employees |
Assembly Bill A9543
2013-2014 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
ABBATE
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2013-A9543 (ACTIVE) - Details
2013-A9543 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Permits New York state teachers' and New York city teachers' retirement system members to obtain retirement credit for up to ten years of federal teaching service, including service with VISTA, Head Start and the Peace Corps, if such service would constitute service as a teacher had it been performed within NYS for a participating employer; provides that no such credit shall be allowed for any service for which the person is receiving a benefit or will be entitled to receive a benefit from some other public or private retirement system.
2013-A9543 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 9543 I N A S S E M B L Y May 6, 2014 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees AN ACT to amend the education law, the retirement and social security law and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to permitting members of the New York state and New York city teach- ers' retirement systems to claim retirement credit for certain federal teaching service THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 509 of the education law is amended by adding a new paragraph d to read as follows: D. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, A MEMBER SHALL BE ENTI- TLED TO OBTAIN CREDIT FOR UP TO TEN YEARS OF SERVICE OTHER THAN MILITARY SERVICE RENDERED IN THE EMPLOY OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, INCLUDING SERVICE IN THE PEACE CORPS, VISTA, OR HEAD START, WHICH WOULD CONSTITUTE SERVICE AS A TEACHER, HAD IT BEEN PERFORMED WITHIN NEW YORK STATE FOR AN EMPLOYER SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ARTICLE. THE CREDITING OF SERVICE PURSUANT TO THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULES AND REGULATIONS AS SHALL BE ADOPTED BY THE RETIREMENT BOARD, PROVIDED THAT SUCH RULES AND REGULATIONS SHALL BE SUBSTANTIALLY EQUIVALENT TO THE RULES AND REGULATIONS OTHERWISE APPLICABLE FOR THE CREDITING OF SERVICE PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, NO SUCH CREDIT SHALL BE ALLOWED FOR ANY SERVICE FOR WHICH THE PERSON IS RECEIVING A BENEFIT OR WILL BE ENTITLED TO RECEIVE A BENEFIT AT ANY FUTURE TIME FROM SOME OTHER PUBLIC OR PRIVATE RETIREMENT SYSTEM OR PLAN IN THIS STATE, IN ANY OTHER STATE OR FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. S 2. Section 446 of the retirement and social security law is amended by adding a new subdivision k to read as follows: K. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, A MEMBER OF A TEACHERS' RETIREMENT SYSTEM SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ARTICLE SHALL BE ENTITLED TO OBTAIN CREDIT FOR UP TO TEN YEARS OF SERVICE OTHER THAN MILITARY SERVICE RENDERED IN THE EMPLOY OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, INCLUDING SERVICE IN THE PEACE CORPS, VISTA, OR HEAD START, WHICH WOULD CONSTITUTE SERVICE AS A TEACHER, HAD IT BEEN PERFORMED WITHIN NEW YORK EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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