Authorizes Ryan J. St. Gelais and Aaron M. St. Gelais, police officers in the village of Menands, county of Albany, to receive certain credit under section 384-d of the retirement and social security law and to apply for reinstatement with the NY state and local police and fire retirement system.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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11279
IN ASSEMBLY
May 4, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to authorize Ryan J. St. Gelais and Aaron M. St. Gelais, police
officers in the village of Menands, county of Albany, to receive
certain credit under section 384-d of the retirement and social secu-
rity law
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 the law, Ryan J. St.
2 Gelais and Aaron M. St. Gelais, currently village of Menands police
3 officers and members of the New York state and local police and fire
4 retirement system covered by section 384-d of the retirement and social
5 security law, who were members of the New York State local retirement
6 system, and who, for reasons not ascribable to their own negligence,
7 were not granted service credit under section 384-d of the retirement
8 and social security law for the period of employment, shall be granted
9 such service credit under section 384-d of the retirement and social
10 security law and shall be entitled to the full rights and benefits asso-
11 ciated with coverage under such section, provided a request to that
12 effect is filed with the state comptroller within one year from the
13 effective date of this act. Prior to Ryan J. St. Gelais and Aaron M. St.
14 Gelais submitting such request, they must first file an application for
15 tier reinstatement with the New York state and local police and fire
16 retirement system, as they have previously withdrawn their membership
17 with the New York state and local employees' retirement system. Once any
18 costs associated with Ryan J. St. Gelais and Aaron M. St. Gelais's tier
19 reinstatement to their prior membership are paid in full by them, they
20 may be granted the service credit and such service credit will be cred-
21 itable service under section 384-d of the retirement and social security
22 law for Ryan J. St. Gelais and Aaron M. St. Gelais.
23 § 2. All past service costs incurred in implementing the provisions of
24 this act shall be borne by the village of Menands.
25 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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This bill would grant police officers Ryan St. Gelais and Aaron St.
Gelais, members of the New York State and Local Police and Fire Retire-
ment System (NYSLPFRS) employed by the village of Menands, to receive
service credit under section 384-d of the Retirement and Social Security
Law (RSSL) for correction officer service and age-based plan service.
Currently, correction officer service and age-based plan service are not
creditable in a NYSLPFRS twenty-year retirement plan.
This bill will not increase the village of Menands' annual contrib-
utions.
There will be an immediate past service cost of $260,000 borne by the
village of Menands as a one-time payment. This cost assumes that payment
will be made on February 1, 2027.
Ryan St. Gelais and Aaron St. Gelais must complete and file applica-
tions for tier reinstatement with NYSLPFRS for service credit to be
granted.
Summary of relevant resources:
Membership data as of March 31, 2025 was used to measure the impact of
the bill, the same data used in the Actuarial Valuations dated April 1,
2025. Distributions and other statistics can be found in the 2025 Report
of the Actuary and the 2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report. The
actuarial assumptions and methods used are described in the 2025 Annual
Report to the Comptroller on Actuarial Assumptions, and the Codes, Rules
and Regulations of the State of New York: Audit and Control. The fair
value of assets and GASB disclosures can be found in the 2025 Financial
Statements and Supplementary Information.
Assumptions, demographics, and other considerations may have been
modified to better reflect specific provisions of any proposed benefit
change(s).
This fiscal note does not constitute a legal opinion on the viability
of the bill, nor is it intended to serve as a substitute for the profes-
sional judgment of an attorney.
This estimate, dated May 4, 2026, and intended for use only during the
2026 Legislative Session, is Fiscal Note Number 2026-185. As Chief Actu-
ary of the New York State and Local Retirement System (NYSLRS), I, Aaron
Schottin Young, hereby certify that this analysis complies with applica-
ble Actuarial Standards of Practice as well as the Code of Professional
Conduct and Qualification Standards for Actuaries Issuing Statements of
Actuarial Opinion of the American Academy of Actuaries, of which I am a
member. I am a member of NYSLRS but do not believe it impairs my objec-
tivity.
