Authorizes certain persons in an optional twenty year retirement plan of the police and fire retirement system to receive credit for previous service as a uniformed court officer title series employed by the Unified Court System or a correction officer employed by a county, a municipality or the state.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10387
IN SENATE
May 15, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. BYNOE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to
authorizing certain persons in an optional twenty year retirement plan
to receive credit for previous service as a uniformed court officer
title series employed by the Unified Court System of the State of New
York, or any correction officer employed by a county, municipality, or
the state
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 384-e of the retirement and social security law is
2 amended by adding two new subdivisions d and e to read as follows:
3 d. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, upon
4 completion of twenty years of service, and upon retirement, each such
5 member who was previously credited with service credit in the New York
6 state and local employees' retirement system or the New York state and
7 local police and fire retirement system as a uniformed court officer
8 title series employed by the unified court system of the state of New
9 York who is a participant in a public retirement system of the state may
10 receive for each such year of previous service, up to a total of no
11 greater than five years of previous service, additional pension equal to
12 one-sixtieth of such member's final average salary. To obtain such cred-
13 it a member shall pay such retirement system, for deposit in the fund
14 used to accumulate employer contributions, a sum equal to the product of
15 the number of years of service being claimed and three percent of such
16 member's compensation earned during the twelve months of credited
17 service immediately preceding the date that the member made application
18 for credit pursuant to this section.
19 e. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, upon
20 completion of twenty years of service, and upon retirement, each such
21 member who was previously credited with service credit in the New York
22 state and local employees' retirement system or the New York state and
23 local police and fire retirement system as a correction officer employed
24 by a county, municipality, or the state who is a participant in a public
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 retirement system of the state may receive for each such year of previ-
2 ous service, up to a total of no greater than five years of previous
3 service, additional pension equal to one-sixtieth of such member's final
4 average salary. To obtain such credit a member shall pay such retirement
5 system, for deposit in the fund used to accumulate employer contrib-
6 utions, a sum equal to the product of the number of years of service
7 being claimed and three percent of such member's compensation earned
8 during the twelve months of credited service immediately preceding the
9 date that the member made application for credit pursuant to this
10 section.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
