Authorizes members or officers of the state police who were previously firefighters receive credit for such previous firefighter service for the purposes of retirement.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8350
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 13, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BUTTENSCHON -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to
authorizing members or officers of the state police who were previous-
ly firefighters to count such firefighter service towards such
member's or officer's retirement plan
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The subdivision heading of subdivision c of section 381-b
2 of the retirement and social security law, as amended by chapter 581 of
3 the laws of 2001, is amended and a new paragraph 3 is added to read as
4 follows:
5 Credit for previous [police] service.
6 (3) Career firefighter service. In computing the years of total cred-
7 itable service in such division each member who was previously a fire-
8 fighter of any county, city, town, village or fire district and a member
9 of the New York state and local police and fire retirement system shall
10 receive full credit and be given full allowance for service previously
11 rendered as a firefighter.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
This bill would allow service rendered as a firefighter to be credita-
ble under § 381-b of the Retirement and Social Security Law. A member
would be eligible to receive credit for service previously rendered as a
firefighter of any county, city, town, village or fire district,
provided they were a member of the New York State and Local Police and
Fire Retirement System (NYSLPFRS) at the time of such employment.
If this bill is enacted during the 2025 Legislative Session, we antic-
ipate that there will be an immediate past service cost of approximately
$2 million which will be borne by the State of New York as a one-time
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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payment. This estimate assumes that payment will be made on March 1,
2026.
This bill is not expected to increase the future annual contributions
of the State of New York. These estimated costs are based on nine known
affected members employed by the State of New York, with annual salary
of approximately $1.50 million as of March 31, 2024.
Summary of relevant resources:
Membership data as of March 31, 2024 was used in measuring the impact
of the proposed change, the same data used in the April 1, 2024 actuari-
al valuation. Distributions and other statistics can be found in the
2024 Report of the Actuary and the 2024 Annual Comprehensive Financial
Report. The actuarial assumptions and methods used are described in the
2024 Annual Report to the Comptroller on Actuarial Assumptions, 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, 2024 New York State and Local Retirement System Financial Statements
and Supplementary Information.
This fiscal note does not constitute a legal opinion on the viability
of the proposed change nor is it intended to serve as a substitute for
the professional judgment of an attorney.
This estimate, dated May 2, 2025, and intended for use only during the
2025 Legislative Session, is Fiscal Note No. 2025-97. As Chief Actuary
of the New York State and Local Retirement System, I, Aaron Schottin
Young, hereby certify that this analysis complies with applicable Actu-
arial Standards of Practice as well as the Code of Professional Conduct
and Qualification Standards for Actuaries Issuing Statements of Actuari-
al Opinion of the American Academy of Actuaries, of which I am a member.
