Bill Text: NY A03491 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to permitting retired members to authorize a deduction from retirement benefits for membership dues in not-for-profit membership organizations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to governmental employees [A03491 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A03491-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3491 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 27, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DenDEKKER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to deductions for retiree organization dues The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 110-c of the retirement and social security law, as 2 amended by chapter 165 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 § 110-c. Deductions from benefits of certain retired members. 1. 5 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a retired member shall have 6 the right, at any time after the retiree's retirement, to execute and 7 file a deduction authorization card with the comptroller authorizing the 8 deduction from the retired member's retirement allowance of membership 9 dues and such retired member's share of the cost for employee organiza- 10 tion-sponsored benefit plans and the payment thereof to a retiree organ- 11 ization of which the retired member is then a member and which is then 12 affiliated with either an employee organization certified or recognized 13 as the collective bargaining representative of all employees in the 14 negotiating unit of which the retired member was a part prior to his or 15 her retirement or with an employee organization with which such employee 16 organization is then affiliated. The comptroller shall thereafter deduct 17 from the retirement allowance of such retired member the amount of 18 membership dues and such amounts required to be paid by such retired 19 member for such authorized employee organization-sponsored benefit 20 plans, and shall transmit the sum so deducted to said retiree organiza- 21 tion. Such authorization shall continue in effect until revoked in writ- 22 ing by such retired member. For purposes of this section the term 23 "employee organization-sponsored benefit plans" shall include any and 24 all insurance plans and/or other benefit plans sponsored by such retiree 25 organization whether provided by (a) a not-for-profit corporation EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06049-01-7A. 3491 2 1 licensed under article forty-three of the insurance law; (b) any insur- 2 ance company authorized to do business in this state; (c) a health main- 3 tenance organization issued a certificate of authority pursuant to arti- 4 cle forty-four of the public health law; or (d) a self-insurance 5 arrangement, welfare fund or benefit fund. 6 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a retired member shall 7 have the right, at any time after the retiree's retirement, to execute 8 and file a deduction authorization card with the comptroller authorizing 9 the deduction from the retired member's retirement allowance of member- 10 ship dues in a not-for-profit membership organization of retired public 11 employees. The comptroller shall thereafter deduct from the retirement 12 allowance of such retired member the amount of membership dues and shall 13 transmit the sum so deducted to said retired organization. Such authori- 14 zation shall continue in effect until revoked in writing by such retired 15 member. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
