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History
- Vetoed memo.48
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to senate
- Passed assembly
- Home rule request
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.619
- Substituted for A8290A
- Referred to ways and means
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 62–0
- Home rule request
- Ordered to third reading cal.1535
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- Referred to rules
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Relates to service retirement benefits for persons engaged in criminal law enforcement and employed in the office of district attorney in Tompkins county
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor Barbara Lifton
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S5804
Title of bill
An act to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to service retirement benefits for persons engaged in criminal law enforcement and employed in the office of district attorney of Tompkins county
Purpose
To amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to service retirement benefits for persons engaged in criminal law enforcement and employed in the office of the district attorney of Tompkins County.
Summary of provisions
The bill adds subdivision u to section 603 of the retirement and social security law to allow the County of Tompkins to adopt at its own option a twenty-year retirement plan for Detective Investigators within the office of the Tompkins County District Attorney.
Existing law
Section 603 of the retirement and social security law.
Justification
Tomkins County seeks the option to provide retirement benefits for anyone employed in the office of the District Attorney as chief criminal investigator/detective, deputy chief criminal investigator, criminal investigator, senior criminal investigator, confidential criminal investigator, assistant criminal investigator, criminal investigator-electronics, criminal investigator-child abuse, confidential investigator or criminal investigator/arson. The option to offer retirement benefits will improve the quality of applicants and will lead to better investigative services for Tompkins County.
Legislative history
None.
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None.
Effective date
Immediately.
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