Senate Bill S4905C

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides earnings limitations for retired police officers employed part-time by certain municipalities

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Current 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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2023-S4905 - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
Retirement and Social Security Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §212, R & SS L

2023-S4905 - Summary

Provides earnings limitations for retired police officers employed part-time by municipalities with a population of less than 25,000; permits such officer to work up to five hundred twenty hours in any consecutive six-month period, with no suspension or diminution of retirement allowance; establishes villages or towns shall report such hours and salary earned on a monthly basis.

2023-S4905 - Sponsor Memo

2023-S4905 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4905
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 16, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- 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
   calculating the earnings limitations for retired law enforcement offi-
   cers employed part-time by certain municipalities

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 212 of the retirement and social  security  law  is
 amended by adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
   4.  NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISIONS ONE AND TWO OF THIS
 SECTION, SUCH EARNINGS LIMITATIONS SHALL NOT  APPLY  TO  A  RETIRED  LAW
 ENFORCEMENT OFFICER EMPLOYED PART-TIME AS A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER IN A
 MUNICIPALITY  WITH A POPULATION OF LESS THAN TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND, WHERE
 AT LEAST SEVENTY  PERCENT  OF  SUCH  MUNICIPALITY'S  ACTIVE-DUTY  POLICE
 FORCE,  NOT  INCLUDING  CIVILIAN  STAFF, CONSISTS OF PART-TIME OFFICERS.
 SUCH PART-TIME OFFICER SHALL BE PERMITTED TO WORK  UP  TO  TWENTY  HOURS
 WEEKLY,  OR  ONE  THOUSAND  FORTY  HOURS ANNUALLY, WITH NO SUSPENSION OR
 DIMINUTION OF RETIREMENT ALLOWANCE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09569-02-3



              

2023-S4905A - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
Retirement and Social Security Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §212, R & SS L

2023-S4905A - Summary

Provides earnings limitations for retired police officers employed part-time by municipalities with a population of less than 25,000; permits such officer to work up to five hundred twenty hours in any consecutive six-month period, with no suspension or diminution of retirement allowance; establishes villages or towns shall report such hours and salary earned on a monthly basis.

2023-S4905A - Sponsor Memo

2023-S4905A - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  4905--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 16, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
   -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
   and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to
   calculating the  earnings  limitations  for  retired  police  officers
   employed part-time by certain municipalities
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 212 of the retirement and social  security  law  is
 amended by adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
   4.  NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISIONS ONE AND TWO OF THIS
 SECTION, SUCH EARNINGS LIMITATIONS SHALL NOT APPLY TO A  RETIRED  POLICE
 OFFICER EMPLOYED PART-TIME AS A POLICE OFFICER IN A VILLAGE OR TOWN WITH
 A POPULATION OF LESS THAN TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND AS DETERMINED BY THE MOST
 RECENT  FEDERAL DECENNIAL CENSUS, WHERE AT LEAST SEVENTY PERCENT OF SUCH
 VILLAGE OR TOWN'S  ACTIVE-DUTY  POLICE  FORCE,  NOT  INCLUDING  CIVILIAN
 STAFF,  CONSISTS  OF  PART-TIME  OFFICERS. SUCH PART-TIME POLICE OFFICER
 SHALL BE PERMITTED TO WORK UP  TO  FIVE  HUNDRED  TWENTY  HOURS  IN  ANY
 CONSECUTIVE SIX-MONTH PERIOD IN A CALENDAR YEAR BASED ON HOURS WORKED AS
 REPORTED  BY  THE VILLAGE OR TOWN ON A MONTHLY BASIS, WITH NO SUSPENSION
 OR DIMINUTION OF RETIREMENT ALLOWANCE. ANY VILLAGE OR TOWN THAT HIRES  A
 RETIRED  POLICE  OFFICER  PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL REPORT SUCH
 OFFICER'S DAYS WORKED AND SALARY EARNED TO THE NEW YORK STATE AND  LOCAL
 POLICE AND FIRE RETIREMENT SYSTEM ON A MONTHLY BASIS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
   FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
   Insofar  as  it  would  affect the New York State and Local Police and
 Fire Retirement System (NYSLPFRS), this bill would allow retired  police
 officers  to continue to receive their full retirement benefit even when
 reemployed as a police officer on a part-time basis for up to 520  hours
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09569-05-3
              

2023-S4905B - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
Retirement and Social Security Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §212, R & SS L

2023-S4905B - Summary

Provides earnings limitations for retired police officers employed part-time by municipalities with a population of less than 25,000; permits such officer to work up to five hundred twenty hours in any consecutive six-month period, with no suspension or diminution of retirement allowance; establishes villages or towns shall report such hours and salary earned on a monthly basis.

2023-S4905B - Sponsor Memo

2023-S4905B - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  4905--B
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 16, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
   -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
   and  recommitted  to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on
   Civil Service and Pensions in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
   committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
   recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to
   calculating the  earnings  limitations  for  retired  police  officers
   employed part-time by certain municipalities
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 212 of the retirement and social  security  law  is
 amended by adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
   4.  NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISIONS ONE AND TWO OF THIS
 SECTION, SUCH EARNINGS LIMITATIONS SHALL NOT APPLY TO A  RETIRED  POLICE
 OFFICER,  WHO  HAS  RETIRED  AFTER  HAVING  TWENTY-FIVE  YEARS OF VESTED
 SERVICE IN A POLICE PENSION SYSTEM THAT FULLY VESTS AT TWENTY YEARS, WHO
 IS EMPLOYED PART-TIME AS A POLICE OFFICER IN A VILLAGE OR  TOWN  WITH  A
 POPULATION  OF  LESS THAN TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND AS DETERMINED BY THE MOST
 RECENT FEDERAL DECENNIAL CENSUS, WHERE AT LEAST SEVENTY PERCENT OF  SUCH
 VILLAGE  OR  TOWN'S  ACTIVE-DUTY  POLICE  FORCE,  NOT INCLUDING CIVILIAN
 STAFF, CONSISTS OF PART-TIME OFFICERS.  SUCH  PART-TIME  POLICE  OFFICER
 SHALL  BE  PERMITTED  TO  WORK  UP  TO  FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY HOURS IN ANY
 CONSECUTIVE SIX-MONTH PERIOD IN A CALENDAR YEAR BASED ON HOURS WORKED AS
 REPORTED BY THE VILLAGE OR TOWN ON A MONTHLY BASIS, WITH  NO  SUSPENSION
 OR  DIMINUTION OF RETIREMENT ALLOWANCE. ANY VILLAGE OR TOWN THAT HIRES A
 RETIRED POLICE OFFICER PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION  SHALL  REPORT  SUCH
 OFFICER'S  DAYS WORKED AND SALARY EARNED TO THE NEW YORK STATE AND LOCAL
 POLICE AND FIRE RETIREMENT SYSTEM ON A MONTHLY BASIS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09569-10-4
              

2023-S4905C (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
Retirement and Social Security Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §212, R & SS L

2023-S4905C (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides earnings limitations for retired police officers employed part-time by municipalities with a population of less than 25,000; permits such officer to work up to five hundred twenty hours in any consecutive six-month period, with no suspension or diminution of retirement allowance; establishes villages or towns shall report such hours and salary earned on a monthly basis.

2023-S4905C (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S4905C (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  4905--C
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 16, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
   -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
   and  recommitted  to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on
   Civil Service and Pensions in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
   committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
   recommitted  to  said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in  relation  to
   calculating  the  earnings  limitations  for  retired  police officers
   employed part-time by certain municipalities
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  212 of the retirement and social security law is
 amended by adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
   4. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISIONS ONE AND TWO OF  THIS
 SECTION,  SUCH  EARNINGS LIMITATIONS SHALL NOT APPLY TO A RETIRED POLICE
 OFFICER, WHO HAS  RETIRED  AFTER  HAVING  TWENTY-FIVE  YEARS  OF  VESTED
 SERVICE IN A POLICE PENSION SYSTEM THAT FULLY VESTS AT TWENTY YEARS, WHO
 IS  EMPLOYED  PART-TIME  AS A POLICE OFFICER IN A VILLAGE OR TOWN WITH A
 POPULATION OF LESS THAN TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND AS DETERMINED BY  THE  MOST
 RECENT  FEDERAL DECENNIAL CENSUS, WHERE AT LEAST SEVENTY PERCENT OF SUCH
 VILLAGE OR TOWN'S  ACTIVE-DUTY  POLICE  FORCE,  NOT  INCLUDING  CIVILIAN
 STAFF,  CONSISTS  OF  PART-TIME  OFFICERS. SUCH PART-TIME POLICE OFFICER
 SHALL BE PERMITTED TO WORK UP  TO  FIVE  HUNDRED  TWENTY  HOURS  IN  ANY
 CONSECUTIVE SIX-MONTH PERIOD IN A CALENDAR YEAR BASED ON HOURS WORKED AS
 REPORTED  BY  THE VILLAGE OR TOWN ON A MONTHLY BASIS, WITH NO SUSPENSION
 OR DIMINUTION OF RETIREMENT ALLOWANCE. ANY VILLAGE OR TOWN THAT HIRES  A
 RETIRED  POLICE  OFFICER  PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL REPORT SUCH
 OFFICER'S DAYS WORKED AND SALARY EARNED TO THE NEW YORK STATE AND  LOCAL
 POLICE AND FIRE RETIREMENT SYSTEM ON A MONTHLY BASIS.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09569-11-4
              

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