Senate Bill S6133

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the limitation of overtime compensation in final average salary calculations

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Civil Service And Pensions Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S6133 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
Retirement and Social Security Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1203, R & SS L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S6370
2023-2024: S6343

2019-S6133 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the limitation of overtime compensation in final average salary calculations from fifteen percent to thirty percent.

2019-S6133 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S6133 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6133
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 16, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to
   the limitation of overtime compensation in final average salary calcu-
   lations

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 1203 of the retirement and social security law, as
 added by section 1 of part A of chapter 504 of  the  laws  of  2009,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   §  1203. Overtime. A member's final average salary shall be calculated
 in accordance with such provisions of article eight or article eleven of
 this chapter as govern the member's benefits INCLUDING OVERTIME,  except
 that earnings classified as overtime compensation in an amount in excess
 of [fifteen] THIRTY percent of a member's annual wages not classified as
 overtime compensation shall be excluded from such calculation. "Overtime
 compensation"  shall  mean,  for  purposes of this section, compensation
 paid under any law or policy under which employees are paid  at  a  rate
 greater  than  their  standard  rate  for additional hours worked beyond
 those required, including compensation paid under  section  one  hundred
 thirty-four  of  the civil service law and section ninety of the general
 municipal law.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11906-01-9

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