Bill Text: NY A06606 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows certain employees of the Vanderbilt Museum to receive additional service credit from their prior service in the employ of Suffolk county.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-15 - held for consideration in governmental employees [A06606 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A06606-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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6606
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 23, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. RAIA -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Employees
AN ACT in relation to allowing certain employees of the Vanderbilt Muse-
um and Planetarium to receive additional service credit from their
prior service in the employ of Suffolk county
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, Stanley
2 B. Coffield, former employee of the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum
3 and Planetarium in Centerport, Long Island, and a retired member of the
4 New York State and Local Employees' Retirement System, who for reasons
5 not ascribable to his own negligence, was disenrolled from the New York
6 State and Local Employees' Retirement System retroactive to February 1,
7 1973, without notice from such retirement system or his employer, shall
8 be eligible to receive service credit, for any time not already credit-
9 ed, in such system for the period from November 1, 1972 through August
10 1, 1990, during which period he was an employee of the Suffolk County
11 Vanderbilt Museum. Such additional credit shall only be obtained if, on
12 or before the thirty-first day of December next succeeding the date on
13 which this act shall have become a law, he files a written request with
14 the administrative head of the retirement system seeking to receive such
15 service credit.
16 S 2. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, Peter D.
17 Valerio, former employee of the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum and
18 Planetarium in Centerport, Long Island, and member of the New York State
19 and Local Employees' Retirement System, Reg. No. 1321449-9, who for
20 reasons not ascribable to his own negligence, was disenrolled from the
21 New York State and Local Employees' Retirement System retroactive to
22 February 1, 1973, without notice from such retirement system or his
23 employer, shall be eligible to be reinstated to membership with his
24 original date of membership and tier status and receive service credit,
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 for any time not already credited, in such system for the period from
2 November 1, 1972 through August 1, 1990, during which period he was an
3 employee of the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum. Such additional credit
4 shall only be obtained if, on or before the thirty-first day of December
5 next succeeding the date on which this act shall have become a law, he
6 files a written request with the administrative head of the retirement
7 system seeking to receive such service credit.
8 S 3. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, J. Mark
9 Levine, former employee of the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum and
10 Planetarium in Centerport, Long Island, and member of the New York State
11 and Local Employees' Retirement System, Reg. No. 1176603-7, who for
12 reasons not ascribable to his own negligence, was disenrolled from the
13 New York State and Local Employees' Retirement System retroactive to
14 February 1, 1973, without notice from such retirement system or his
15 employer, shall be eligible to be reinstated to membership with his
16 original date of membership and tier status and receive service credit,
17 for any time not already credited, in such system for the period from
18 November 1, 1972 through August 1, 1990, during which period he was an
19 employee of the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum. Such additional credit
20 shall only be obtained if, on or before the thirty-first day of December
21 next succeeding the date on which this act shall have become a law, he
22 files a written request with the administrative head of the retirement
23 system seeking to receive such service credit.
24 S 4. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, Stephen G.
25 Moore, former employee of the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum and Plan-
26 etarium in Centerport, Long Island, and member of the New York State and
27 Local Employees' Retirement System, Reg. No. 1257416-6, who for reasons
28 not ascribable to his own negligence, was disenrolled from the New York
29 State and Local Employees' Retirement System retroactive to February 1,
30 1973, without notice from such retirement system or his employer, shall
31 be eligible to be reinstated to membership with his original date of
32 membership and tier status and receive service credit, for any time not
33 already credited, in such system for the period from November 1, 1972
34 through August 1, 1990, during which period he was an employee of the
35 Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum. Such additional credit shall only be
36 obtained if, on or before the thirty-first day of December next succeed-
37 ing the date on which this act shall have become a law, he files a writ-
38 ten request with the administrative head of the retirement system seek-
39 ing to receive such service credit.
40 S 5. All costs associated with the implementation of the provisions of
41 this act shall be borne by the New York State and Local Employees'
42 Retirement System, except any contributions received by the TIAA-CREF
43 pension fund for the period after August 1, 1990.
44 S 6. In the event that the individuals named in this act retire prior
45 to the effective date of this act, such retirement will not effect the
46 outcome and the member will be deemed to have been restored to his or
47 her prior membership and tier status on the date immediately preceding
48 the effective date of retirement.
49 S 7. This act shall take effect immediately.
FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
This bill will allow four former employees of Suffolk County's Vander-
bilt Museum, a non-participating employer in the New York State and
Local Employees' Retirement System, to receive tier status and service
credit for the service they rendered with the museum from November 1,
1972 through August 1, 1990.
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If this bill is enacted, we anticipate that there will be an increase
of approximately $2,200 in the annual contributions of the State of New
York for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2012.
In addition to the annual cost above, we anticipate that there will be
an immediate past service cost of approximately $925,000, which will be
shared by the State of New York and all the participating employers in
the New York State and Local Employees' Retirement System.
This estimate, dated February 16, 2011 and intended for use only
during the 2011 Legislative Session, is Fiscal Note No. 2011-120,
prepared by the Actuary for the New York State and Local Employees'
Retirement System.
