STATE OF NEW YORK
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10405
IN SENATE
May 15, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. JACKSON -- 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
service retirement of uniformed members of the New York city fire
department pension fund
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision d of section 505 of the retirement and social
2 security law, as added by section 3 of part SS of chapter 55 of the laws
3 of 2025, is amended to read as follows:
4 d. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other law,
5 police/fire members of the New York city police pension fund and the New
6 York city fire department pension fund shall be eligible for a normal
7 service retirement benefit in lieu of an early service retirement bene-
8 fit upon completing twenty years of service pursuant to subdivision d of
9 section five hundred three of this article.
10 § 2. Paragraph 2 of subdivision b of section 510 of the retirement and
11 social security law, as amended by chapter 18 of the laws of 2012, is
12 amended to read as follows:
13 2. (i) The first day of the month following the date on which a member
14 completes or would have completed twenty-five years of credited service,
15 with respect to service retirement benefits for police/fire members and
16 their beneficiaries, New York city uniformed correction/sanitation
17 revised plan members and their beneficiaries or investigator revised
18 plan members and their beneficiaries, except for uniformed members of
19 the New York city fire department pension fund and their beneficiaries.
20 (ii) The first day of the month following the date on which the
21 uniformed member becomes eligible for service retirement benefits for
22 uniformed members of the New York city fire department pension fund.
23 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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