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History
- Referred to civil service and pensions
- Referred to civil service and pensions
Companion bill
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Allows certain members of public retirement systems to file for retroactive membership in such system by filing on or before December 31, 2009
In Assembly Committee · Governmental Employees · Sponsor Peter Abbate
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Sponsor's memo
Title of bill
An act to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to date of membership in public retirement systems
Purpose
This bill intends to provide those public employees who were not. aware of their ability to seek redress of retirement system membership errors an opportunity to do so.
Summary of provisions
This bill extends the provisions of section 803 of the Retirement and social Security Law until December 31, 2007 and permit those who were members of the retirement system as of December 31, 1995 to be eligible to file for the benefits of this law.
Justification
Section 803 of the Retirement and Social Security Law gave public retirement systems the authority to grant retroactive membership to eligible retirement system members who showed that they were not properly notified of their ability to join the retirement system.
That law helped many members resolve retirement system membership problems concerning prior service credit as well as tier status. However, Section 803 expired on October 24, 1996 but not all were aware of its existence. Enactment of this legislation would extend the provisions of section 803 until December 31, 2007, thus allowing additional members to correct the improper loss of pension benefits. In addition, relief for many school districts would be created as many members who would obtain earlier memberships would then become eligible to retire at an earlier date.
Legislative history
2007-08: A.8558 - Referred to Governmental Employees 2006: A.11084 - Referred to Governmental Employees 2004: A.6800 - Reported to WAM 2002: A.11293 - Reported to WAM 1997-1998: S.6976 VETO MEMO 1400
Fiscal implications
See Fiscal Note.
Effective date
Immediately.
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