Assembly Bill A6447

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Allows retired state police officers to serve as police officers for local police departments without diminution of retirement benefits

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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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2025-A6447 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1521
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
Retirement and Social Security Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§211 & 212, R & SS L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S8950
2019-2020: S1881
2021-2022: A9300, S5499
2023-2024: A4782, S2180

2025-A6447 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows retired state police officers to serve as police officers for local police departments without diminution of retirement benefits; empowers the superintendent of state police to approve such service.

2025-A6447 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6447
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 5, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DeSTEFANO  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Governmental Employees
 
 AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in  relation  to
   allowing retired state police officers to serve as police officers for
   local police departments without diminution of retirement benefits

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph 7 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section
 211 of the retirement and social security law, as amended by chapter 840
 of the laws of 1983, is amended and a new subparagraph  8  is  added  to
 read as follows:
   (7)  the  chief  administrator  of  the courts if such person is to be
 employed in a judicial or nonjudicial  position  in  the  unified  court
 system[.]; OR
   (8)  THE  SUPERINTENDENT  OF  STATE POLICE, IF SUCH PERSON IS A FORMER
 STATE POLICE OFFICER TO BE EMPLOYED AS A  POLICE  OFFICER  FOR  A  LOCAL
 POLICE DEPARTMENT.
   §  2.  Subparagraph 2 of paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 211
 of the retirement and social security law, as amended by chapter 640  of
 the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
   (2) that [he or she] SUCH RETIRED PERSON will earn more than one thou-
 sand dollars in one year, including compensation earned in such position
 under other provisions of this article that there are not readily avail-
 able  for  recruitment  persons  qualified to perform the duties of such
 position; and [(4);]
   § 3. Section 211 of the retirement and social security law is  amended
 by adding a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
   10.  FOR PURPOSES OF PARAGRAPH (B) OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION,
 A RETIRED PERSON WHO SERVED AS A POLICE  OFFICER  FOR  THE  DIVISION  OF
 STATE  POLICE  IS  NOT  IN  SERVICE OF A FORMER EMPLOYER IF SUCH RETIRED

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04381-01-5
 A. 6447                             2

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