STATE OF NEW YORK
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10406
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
permitting certain twenty-five year retirement program dispatcher
members to file elections not to participate
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 604-e of the retirement and social security law, as
2 added by chapter 576 of the laws of 2000, is amended by adding a new
3 subdivision f to read as follows:
4 f. 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a
5 dispatcher member who exceeded age thirty upon employment as a dispatch-
6 er member and failed to file their election not to participate with the
7 retirement system within one hundred eighty days of becoming a dispatch-
8 er member, as required by paragraph three of subdivision b of this
9 section, may file such an election with the retirement system within one
10 hundred eighty days of the effective date of this subdivision.
11 2. The retirement system shall post, and announce on its homepage the
12 posting of, the form and corresponding instructions for dispatcher
13 members to elect not to participate on its website no later than thirty
14 days after the effective date of this subdivision.
15 3. If the retirement system fails to post and announce the form and
16 corresponding instructions no later than thirty days after the effective
17 date of this subdivision, as prescribed by paragraph two of this subdi-
18 vision, the period for a dispatcher member to elect not to participate
19 prescribed by paragraph one of this subdivision shall be extended by
20 sixty days for each month or part thereof that such form and
21 instructions are not posted to the retirement system's website.
22 § 2. 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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