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                                   9071
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 15, 2020
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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
   the retirement of members who serve as  police  medics,  police  medic
   supervisors  and  members who perform police medic related services in
   the Nassau county police department

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  section  heading and subdivisions a and d of section
 89-s of the retirement and social security law, as  amended  by  chapter
 578 of the laws of 1998, are amended to read as follows:
   Retirement  of  members  who  serve  as ambulance medical technicians,
 ambulance medical  technician/supervisors  [and],  members  who  perform
 ambulance  medical  technician  related  services, POLICE MEDICS, POLICE
 MEDIC SUPERVISORS AND MEMBERS WHO PERFORM POLICE MEDIC RELATED  SERVICES
 in the Nassau county police department.
   a. Any member who serves as an ambulance medical technician, ambulance
 medical technician/supervisor or a member who performs ambulance medical
 technician  related services, OR A POLICE MEDIC, POLICE MEDIC SUPERVISOR
 OR A MEMBER WHO PERFORMS POLICE MEDIC RELATED SERVICES and  is  employed
 in  the  Nassau  county  police  department  shall be eligible to retire
 pursuant to the provisions of this section. Such eligibility shall be an
 alternative to the eligibility provisions available under any other plan
 of this article to which such member is subject.
   d. As used in this section "creditable service" shall include any  and
 all  services  performed  as  an ambulance medical technician, ambulance
 medical technician/supervisor or member who performs  ambulance  medical
 technician  related services, OR A POLICE MEDIC, POLICE MEDIC SUPERVISOR
 OR A MEMBER WHO PERFORMS POLICE MEDIC RELATED  SERVICES  in  the  Nassau
 county police department.
   § 2. Subdivision a of section 445 of the retirement and social securi-
 ty  law,  as  amended  by chapter 476 of the laws of 2018, is amended to
 read as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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   a. No member of a retirement system who is subject to  the  provisions
 of this article shall retire without regard to age, exclusive of retire-
 ment  for  disability, unless he or she is a police officer, an investi-
 gator member of the New York city employees'  retirement  system,  fire-
 fighter,  correction  officer, a qualifying member as defined in section
 eighty-nine-t, as added by chapter six hundred fifty-seven of  the  laws
 of  nineteen hundred ninety-eight, of this chapter, sanitation worker, a
 special officer (including persons employed by the city of New  York  in
 the  title  urban  park  ranger  or associate urban park ranger), school
 safety agent, campus peace officer or a taxi  and  limousine  commission
 inspector  member  of  the New York city employees' retirement system or
 the New York city board of education  retirement  system,  a  dispatcher
 member  of  the  New  York  city  employees' retirement system, a police
 communications member of the New York city employees' retirement system,
 an EMT member of the New York city employees' retirement system, a depu-
 ty sheriff member of the New York city employees' retirement  system,  a
 correction  officer  of  the Westchester county correction department as
 defined in section eighty-nine-e of this chapter or employed in  Suffolk
 county as a peace officer, as defined in section eighty-nine-s, as added
 by  chapter  five  hundred  eighty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred
 ninety-seven,  of  this  chapter,  employed  in  Suffolk  county  as   a
 correction officer, as defined in section eighty-nine-f of this chapter,
 or  employed  in  Nassau  county  as  a  correction  officer,  uniformed
 correction division personnel, sheriff, undersheriff or deputy  sheriff,
 as  defined  in  section  eighty-nine-g  of this chapter, or employed in
 Nassau county as an ambulance medical technician, an  ambulance  medical
 technician/supervisor or a member who performs ambulance medical techni-
 cian  related  services, OR A POLICE MEDIC, POLICE MEDIC SUPERVISOR OR A
 MEMBER WHO PERFORMS POLICE MEDIC RELATED SERVICES, as defined in section
 eighty-nine-s, as amended by chapter five hundred seventy-eight  of  the
 laws  of  nineteen hundred ninety-eight, of this chapter, or employed in
 Nassau county as a peace officer, as defined in  section  eighty-nine-s,
 as  added  by  chapter  five hundred ninety-five of the laws of nineteen
 hundred ninety-seven, of this chapter, or employed in Albany county as a
 sheriff, undersheriff, deputy sheriff, correction officer or identifica-
 tion officer, as defined in section eighty-nine-h of this chapter or  is
 employed in St. Lawrence county as a sheriff, undersheriff, deputy sher-
 iff  or  correction officer, as defined in section eighty-nine-i of this
 chapter or is employed in Orleans county  as  a  sheriff,  undersheriff,
 deputy   sheriff   or   correction   officer,   as  defined  in  section
 eighty-nine-l of this chapter or is employed in Jefferson  county  as  a
 sheriff,  undersheriff, deputy sheriff or correction officer, as defined
 in section eighty-nine-j of this chapter  or  is  employed  in  Onondaga
 county as a deputy sheriff-jail division competitively appointed or as a
 correction  officer, as defined in section eighty-nine-k of this chapter
 or is employed in a county which makes an election under  subdivision  j
 of  section  eighty-nine-p  of  this chapter as a sheriff, undersheriff,
 deputy sheriff or correction officer as defined in such section  eighty-
 nine-p or is employed in Broome County as a sheriff, undersheriff, depu-
 ty sheriff or correction officer, as defined in section eighty-nine-m of
 this  chapter  or  is  a Monroe county deputy sheriff-court security, or
 deputy sheriff-jailor as defined in section eighty-nine-n, as  added  by
 chapter  five hundred ninety-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred nine-
 ty-one, of this chapter or is employed in Greene county  as  a  sheriff,
 undersheriff,  deputy  sheriff  or  correction  officer,  as  defined in
 section eighty-nine-o of this chapter or is a traffic officer  with  the

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 town of Elmira as defined in section eighty-nine-q of this chapter or is
 employed  by  Suffolk  county  as  a  park police officer, as defined in
 section eighty-nine-r of this chapter or is a peace officer employed  by
 a  county  probation  department as defined in section eighty-nine-t, as
 added by chapter six hundred three of the laws of nineteen hundred nine-
 ty-eight, of this chapter or is employed in Rockland county as a  deputy
 sheriff-civil  as  defined  in  section eighty-nine-v of this chapter as
 added by chapter four hundred forty-one of the laws of two thousand one,
 or is employed in Rockland county as a superior  correction  officer  as
 defined  in  section  eighty-nine-v  of this chapter as added by chapter
 five hundred fifty-six of the laws of two thousand one or is a paramedic
 employed by the police department in the town of Tonawanda  and  retires
 under  the provisions of section eighty-nine-v of this chapter, as added
 by chapter four hundred seventy-two of the laws of two thousand one,  or
 is  a  county  fire  marshal,  supervising  fire  marshal, fire marshal,
 assistant fire marshal, assistant  chief  fire  marshal  or  chief  fire
 marshal  employed  by the county of Nassau as defined in section eighty-
 nine-w of this chapter and is in a plan which permits immediate  retire-
 ment  upon completion of a specified period of service without regard to
 age. Except as provided in subdivision c of section four hundred  forty-
 five-a  of  this  article,  subdivision c of section four hundred forty-
 five-b of this article, subdivision c of  section  four  hundred  forty-
 five-c   of   this  article,  subdivision  c  of  section  four  hundred
 forty-five-d of this article, subdivision  c  of  section  four  hundred
 forty-five-e  of  this  article,  subdivision  c of section four hundred
 forty-five-f of this article and subdivision c of section  four  hundred
 forty-five-h  of this article, a member in such a plan and such an occu-
 pation, other than a police officer or investigator member  of  the  New
 York  city  employees'  retirement system or a firefighter, shall not be
 permitted to retire prior to the  completion  of  twenty-five  years  of
 credited service; provided, however, if such a member in such an occupa-
 tion  is  in  a  plan which permits retirement upon completion of twenty
 years of service regardless of age, he or she may retire upon completion
 of twenty years of credited service and prior to the completion of twen-
 ty-five years of service, but in such event the  benefit  provided  from
 funds  other than those based on such a member's own contributions shall
 not exceed two per centum of final average salary per each year of cred-
 ited service.
   § 3. Subdivision o of section 603 of the retirement and social securi-
 ty law, as amended by chapter 578 of the laws of  1998,  is  amended  to
 read as follows:
   o.  The  service  retirement  benefit specified in section six hundred
 four of this article shall be payable to  members  with  twenty-five  or
 more  years  of  creditable  service,  without  regard  to  age, who are
 employed   as   ambulance   medical   technicians,   ambulance   medical
 technician/supervisors  or a member who performs ambulance medical tech-
 nician related services, OR A POLICE MEDIC, POLICE MEDIC SUPERVISOR OR A
 MEMBER WHO PERFORMS POLICE MEDIC  RELATED  SERVICES  within  the  Nassau
 county  police  department,  as defined in section eighty-nine-s of this
 chapter if: (i) such members have met the minimum  service  requirements
 upon  retirement,  and  (ii)  in  the  case  of  a member subject to the
 provisions of article fourteen of this chapter,  such  member  files  an
 election  therefor  which provides that he or she will be subject to the
 provisions of this article and to none of the provisions of such article
 fourteen. Such election, which shall be irrevocable, shall be  in  writ-
 ing,  duly executed and shall be filed with the comptroller on or before

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 January first, two thousand. For the purposes of this  subdivision,  the
 term  "creditable  service" shall have the meaning as so defined in both
 sections eighty-nine-s and six hundred one of this chapter.
   § 4. Subdivision p of section 604 of the retirement and social securi-
 ty  law,  as  amended  by chapter 578 of the laws of 1998, is amended to
 read as follows:
   p. The early service retirement for a member who  is  employed  as  an
 ambulance medical technician, ambulance medical technician/supervisor or
 a  member who performs ambulance medical technician related services, OR
 A POLICE MEDIC, POLICE MEDIC SUPERVISOR OR A MEMBER WHO PERFORMS  POLICE
 MEDIC RELATED SERVICES as defined in section eighty-nine-s of this chap-
 ter,  shall  be  a pension equal to one-fiftieth of final average salary
 times years of credited service at the completion of  twenty-five  years
 of service, but not exceeding one-half of his or her final average sala-
 ry;  for service beyond twenty-five years the benefits shall increase by
 one-sixtieth of final average salary for each year of additional service
 credit provided, however, that the total allowance payable  pursuant  to
 this section shall not exceed three-fourths of such member's final aver-
 age salary.
   §  5.  The section heading, the opening paragraph of subdivision a and
 subdivision g of section 605-e of the  retirement  and  social  security
 law, as added by chapter 522 of the laws of 2014, are amended to read as
 follows:
   Accidental  disability  retirement  for  ambulance  medical technician
 supervisors, ambulance medical technician coordinators [and],  ambulance
 medical  technicians,  POLICE  MEDIC SUPERVISORS, POLICE MEDIC COORDINA-
 TORS, AND POLICE MEDICS in Nassau county.
   A member employed as [a] AN ambulance medical  technician  supervisor,
 ambulance  medical technician coordinator [and], ambulance medical tech-
 nician, POLICE MEDIC SUPERVISOR, POLICE  MEDIC  COORDINATOR,  OR  POLICE
 MEDIC  in  Nassau  county  shall be entitled to an accidental disability
 retirement allowance if, at the time application therefor is filed, such
 member is:
   g. Notwithstanding any other provision  of  law,  this  section  shall
 apply  to  ambulance  medical  technician supervisors, ambulance medical
 technician coordinators [and],  ambulance  medical  technicians,  POLICE
 MEDIC  SUPERVISORS,  POLICE  MEDIC  COORDINATORS,  AND  POLICE MEDICS in
 Nassau county who were hired on or after July  twenty-seventh,  nineteen
 hundred seventy-six.
   § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.
   FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
   This  bill will add police medic titles and members who perform police
 medic related services in Nassau County to the ambulance medical techni-
 cian titles eligible for certain retirement benefits.
   If this bill is enacted during the  2020  legislative  session,  there
 will  not be a past service cost as these members were previously in the
 ambulance medical technician titles and covered by the same sections  of
 law.
   There  will be no increase in the annual contributions of Nassau Coun-
 ty.
   Summary of relevant resources:
   The membership data used in  measuring  the  impact  of  the  proposed
 change  was  the same as that used in the March 31, 2019 actuarial valu-
 ation.  Distributions and other statistics can  be  found  in  the  2019
 Report  of  the  Actuary  and  the  2019  Comprehensive Annual Financial
 Report.

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   The actuarial assumptions and methods used are described in the  2015,
 2016,  2017, 2018 and 2019 Annual Report to the Comptroller on Actuarial
 Assumptions, and the Codes, Rules and Regulations of the  State  of  New
 York: Audit and Control.
   The Market Assets and GASB Disclosures are found in the March 31, 2019
 New  York  State  and  Local  Retirement System Financial Statements and
 Supplementary Information.
   I am a member of the American Academy of Actuaries and meet the Quali-
 fication Standards to render the actuarial opinion contained herein.
   This fiscal note does not constitute a legal opinion on the  viability
 of  the  proposed change nor is it intended to serve as a substitute for
 the professional judgment of an attorney.
   This estimate, dated December 6,  2019,  and  intended  for  use  only
 during  the  2020  Legislative  Session,  is  Fiscal  Note  No. 2020-16,
 prepared by the Actuary for the New  York  State  and  Local  Retirement
 System.