Bill Text: NY A02680 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides for annual longevity payments for certain state employees designated managerial or confidential.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-22 - referred to governmental employees [A02680 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A02680-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2680

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 22, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Employees

        AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to longevity payments

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The  civil service law is amended by adding a new section
     2  137 to read as follows:
     3    § 137. Longevity payments. 1. Notwithstanding any other  provision  of
     4  law  to  the  contrary, effective the first of April next succeeding the
     5  effective date of this  section  and  annually  thereafter,  each  state
     6  employee  designated  managerial or confidential who as of the preceding
     7  March thirty-first has completed twelve  years  or  more  of  continuous
     8  service  as defined in paragraph (c) of subdivision three of section one
     9  hundred thirty of this article in the  executive  branch  of  the  state
    10  government,  and  has  attained  a performance rating higher than "Below
    11  Minimum" or its equivalent in a graded position shall receive  a  twelve
    12  year performance award of one thousand five hundred dollars.
    13    2.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, effec-
    14  tive the first of April next  succeeding  the  effective  date  of  this
    15  section  and annually thereafter, each state employee designated manage-
    16  rial or confidential who as of  the  preceding  March  thirty-first  has
    17  completed  seventeen  years  or more of continuous service as defined in
    18  paragraph (c) of subdivision three of section one hundred thirty of this
    19  article in the  executive  branch  of  the  state  government,  and  has
    20  attained  a performance rating higher than "Below Minimum" or its equiv-
    21  alent, shall receive a seventeen year performance award of one  thousand
    22  five hundred dollars.  Such employees shall also continue to receive the
    23  twelve-year  performance  award  of  one  thousand  five hundred dollars
    24  pursuant to subdivision one of this section.
    25    3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,  effec-
    26  tive  the  first  of  April  next  succeeding the effective date of this

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04577-01-5

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     1  section and annually thereafter, each state employee designated  manage-
     2  rial  or  confidential  who  as  of the preceding March thirty-first has
     3  completed twenty-two years or more of continuous service as  defined  in
     4  paragraph (c) of subdivision three of section one hundred thirty of this
     5  article  in  the  executive  branch  of  the  state  government, and has
     6  attained a performance rating higher than "Below Minimum" or its  equiv-
     7  alent, shall receive a twenty-two year performance award of one thousand
     8  five  hundred  dollars.    Such employees shall also continue to receive
     9  both the twelve and seventeen-year performance awards  of  one  thousand
    10  five  hundred  dollars each pursuant to subdivisions one and two of this
    11  section.
    12    4. Performance awards made pursuant to this section shall be lump-sum,
    13  non-recurring payments for employees in full-time  status  as  of  March
    14  thirty-first each year, or a pro rata share of such amount for employees
    15  in  part-time employment status on such date, and shall be paid in April
    16  of each year.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next  succeeding
    18  the date on which it shall have become a law.
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