Bill Text: NY A05135 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes Jaime Laczko to elect to participate in the optional 25 year retirement plan for forest rangers in the service of the department of environmental conservation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-10 - print number 5135b [A05135 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A05135-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5135--B
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 12, 2015
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. STEC -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental  Employees  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered  reprinted  as  amended  and  recommitted to said committee --
          recommitted to the Committee on Governmental Employees  in  accordance
          with  Assembly  Rule  3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to authorize Jaime Laczko to elect to participate in the optional
          twenty-five year retirement plan for forest rangers in the service  of
          the department of environmental conservation
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, Jaime Laczko, a
     2  member of the New York  state  and  local  police  and  fire  retirement
     3  system,  who is employed by the department of environmental conservation
     4  as a full-time forest ranger I,  who  upon  commencing  such  employment
     5  became  a  member of such retirement system subject to the provisions of
     6  section 375-h of the retirement and social security law, who was  eligi-
     7  ble,  at such time, to elect to join the New York state and local police
     8  and fire retirement system subject  to  the  optional  twenty-five  year
     9  retirement  plan  for forest rangers in the service of the department of
    10  environmental conservation pursuant to section 383-c of  the  retirement
    11  and  social security law, and who, for reasons not ascribable to his own
    12  negligence, failed to elect to  participate  in  such  twenty-five  year
    13  retirement  plan,  shall be deemed to have elected to participate in the
    14  retirement plan, established by section  383-c  of  the  retirement  and
    15  social  security  law,  upon  commencement of his employment as a forest
    16  ranger I, if, within 1 year of the effective date of this act, he  shall
    17  file an application therefor with the state comptroller.
    18    §  2.  All  past  costs associated with implementing the provisions of
    19  this act shall be borne by the state of New York.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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