What's happening
This bill allows retired police officers and firefighters to work as faculty or public safety directors at SUNY or community colleges without losing retirement benefits.
Why it matters
Expands post-retirement job options for police and fire retirees. , making it easier for them to continue contributing their specialized knowledge as faculty or public safety directors within public higher education, without risking loss of pension income.
Addresses staffing needs at SUNY and community colleges. by allowing these institutions to recruit experienced public safety professionals for faculty or leadership positions, potentially improving campus safety and education in criminal justice or related fields.
Creates a defined exception to existing earnings limitations. , but specifically excludes retirees from working in university law enforcement titles under this waiver, signaling an intent to separate instructional or administrative roles from active police work on campus.
Has negligible fiscal impact. , according to the official actuarial estimate, suggesting that the policy is unlikely to create significant additional costs for the state retirement system, while potentially benefiting both retirees and educational institutions.
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Let Retired Officers Teach
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Let Retired Officers Teach
In Assembly Committee · Governmental Employees · Sponsor Toby Ann Stavisky
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STATE OF NEW YORK
10119
IN ASSEMBLY
March 16, 2018
Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, JEAN-PIERRE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to a waiver of earnings limitation for certain retirees of the New York state and local police and fire retirement system who are employed by the state university
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subparagraphs 6 and 7 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 211 of the retirement and social security law, subparagraph 6 as amended by chapter 753 of the laws of 1976 and subparagraph 7 as amended by chapter 840 of the laws of 1983, are amended and a new subparagraph 8 is added to read as follows:
(6) the chancellor of state university if such person is to be employed in the unclassified service of the state university of New York, or in the professional service at the state colleges of agriculture, home economics, veterinary medicine or industrial and labor relations, the state agricultural experiment station at Geneva or any other institution or agency under the management and control of Cornell university as representative of the board of trustees of the state university of New York, or at the state college of ceramics under the management and control of Alfred university as representative of the board of trustees of the state university of New York or in the unclassified service of a community college other than those in the city of New York, or if such person is a retired member of the New York state and local police and fire retirement system and is to be employed as a faculty member, provided, however, that no waiver shall be granted pursuant to this subdivision for any university law enforcement title; or
(7) the chief administrator of the courts if such person is to be employed in a judicial or nonjudicial position in the unified court system[.]; or
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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(8) the president of a community college under a program of the state university of New York, if such person is a retired member of the New York state and local police and fire retirement system and is to be employed as a member of the faculty or as director of public safety.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
This bill will allow retired police officers and retired firefighters
of the New York State and Local Police and Fire Retirement System to
work as an employee of the state university as a faculty member or to
work as an employee of a community college as a faculty member or direc-
tor of public safety and continue to receive their retirement benefits,
without suspension or diminution of such benefits, provided they have
been granted a waiver of retirement earnings limitations by the chancel-
lor of the state university of New York or the president of a community
college under a program of the state university.
If this bill is enacted, we expect few retirees of the New York State
and Local Police and Fire Retirement System to be affected. There would
be negligible additional annual costs.
Summary of relevant resources:
The membership data used in measuring the impact of the proposed
change was the same as that used in the March 31, 2017 actuarial valu-
ation. Distributions and other statistics can be found in the 2017
Report of the Actuary and the 2017 Comprehensive Annual Financial
Report.
The actuarial assumptions and methods used are described in 2015,
2016, and 2017 Annual Report to the Comptroller on Actuarial Assump-
tions, and the Codes Rules and Regulations of the State of New York:
Audit and Control.
The Market Assets and GASB Disclosures are found in the March 31, 2017
New York State and Local Retirement System Financial Statements and
Supplementary Information.
I am a member of the American Academy of Actuaries and meet the Quali-
fication Standards to render the actuarial opinion contained herein.
This estimate, dated January 31, 2018, and intended for use only
during the 2018 Legislative Session, is Fiscal Note No. 2018-50,
prepared by the Actuary for the New York State and Local Retirement
System.
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