NY State Senate Bill 2025-S5934

Senate Bill S5934

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the issuance of retirement service identification cards to auxiliary police officers

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Civil Service And Pensions Committee

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2025-S5934 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A1367
Current Committee:: Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:: Policemen
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:: A9962

2025-S5934 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs local law enforcement agencies in municipalities authorizing an auxiliary police force by local law to provide retirement service identification cards to auxiliary police officers who retire with 10 or more years of service or who are injured in the course of duty and unable to continue duty due to such injury.

2025-S5934 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S5934

SPONSOR: ADDABBO
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act in relation to the issuance of retirement service identification
cards to auxiliary police officers

 
PURPOSE:

Any person serving or who has served as an auxiliary police officer,
providing voluntary participation in a local law enforcement agency
shall be entitled to a retirement service identification card.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Subdivision 2 requires that any person who has served as an auxiliary
police officer shall receive a retirement service identification card.
Such retirement service identification card shall be issued by the sane
entity that issues the identification card carried by auxiliary police
officers during their period of service. These cards will be given out
provided that the officer is in good standing for at least 10 years

prior to retirement or, retired as a result of an injury that occurred
during their duties for the law enforcement agency that rendered them
permanently making them unable to continue service. The retirement
service card shall include the name of the officer, identify the holder
as a retired auxiliary police officer, indicate the years the holder has
served in the force, and issue a thanks to the retired auxiliary officer
for their service. The cost of the card issued shall be borne by the
local law enforcement agency the officer served with, if they had worked
with two or more agencies, the cost should be divided equally among the
agencies.

Subdivision 3 provides that nothing in this act shall be constructed to
grant any pension benefits, entitlement to pension benefits or enroll-
ment in any pension plans for retires auxiliary police officers.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Auxiliary officers serve their communities on a voluntary basis, assist-
ing police officers taking part in crowd control, traffic control, first
responder responsibilities, patrolling, and any other duties that assist
the police force in their area.

Currently, when an auxiliary officer retires from the force, they have
no proof that they served as an auxiliary officer. These auxiliary offi-
cers put in a lot of voluntary, unpaid work that directly benefits and
protects our communities. For these efforts to go unrecognized after
their retirement is unfair especially given the commitment and service
they have provided to our communities.

For such dedication to our communities, auxiliary officers should not be
forgotten after their retirement and they should be awarded recognition.
IDs with proof of their service will serve as a thanks for their
devotion to our communities.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New Bill.
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have
become a law

2025-S5934 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5934
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
 
 AN ACT in relation to the issuance of retirement service  identification
   cards to auxiliary police officers
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. For the purposes of this act,  "auxiliary  police  officer"
 shall  mean  a  member of an auxiliary police organization authorized by
 local law.
   § 2. (a) Any person serving or who has served as an  auxiliary  police
 officer in an auxiliary police organization in a municipality, including
 a  city  having  a  population  of one million or more persons, that has
 authorized the formation of an  auxiliary  police  force  providing  for
 voluntary  participation  by  auxiliary  police  officers in a local law
 enforcement agency shall be entitled to a retirement service identifica-
 tion card as provided in this act. Such retirement  service  identifica-
 tion  card  shall be issued by the entity that issues the identification
 card carried by the auxiliary police officer during such officer's peri-
 od of service.
   (b) A retirement service identification card shall  be  issued  to  an
 auxiliary  police officer upon such officer's retirement from the auxil-
 iary police force provided such officer:
   (i) served as an auxiliary police officer  in  good  standing  for  at
 least ten years prior to retirement; or
   (ii)  retired  as a result of an injury that occurred in the course of
 the auxiliary police officer's duties for the law enforcement agency and
 which rendered  the  auxiliary  police  officer  permanently  unable  to
 continue service as an auxiliary police officer.
   (c)  A retirement service card issued pursuant to this act shall state
 the name of the retired auxiliary police officer, identify the holder of
 the card as a retired auxiliary police officer for the appropriate local
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03945-01-5

 S. 5934                             2
 
 law enforcement agency, and indicate the years the holder served  as  an
 auxiliary  police  officer. The retirement service card shall also thank
 the retired auxiliary police officer for the officer's service.
   (d)  The cost of a retirement service card issued pursuant to this act
 shall be borne by the local law enforcement agency the auxiliary  police
 officer  served  with;  provided  that  if  the auxiliary police officer
 served with two or more local law enforcement agencies, the cost of  the
 retirement  service  card  shall be divided equally between or among the
 local law enforcement agencies, unless otherwise agreed by the agencies.
   § 3. Nothing in this act shall be construed to grant any pension bene-
 fits, entitlement to pension benefits or enrollment in any pension plans
 for retired auxiliary police officers.
   § 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.

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Joseph P. Addabbo Jr.