Provides for salary bonuses for members of the uniformed service with the New York city fire department who retire with at least twenty-five, thirty or thirty-five years of service, including an additional bonus for each year after year twenty-five.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10437
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 Cities 1
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to longevity bonuses for members of the uniformed service
with the New York city fire department
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
2 by adding a new section 15-110.1 to read as follows:
3 § 15-110.1 Longevity bonuses. a. (1) Notwithstanding any provision of
4 law to the contrary, when a member shall have accrued twenty-five years
5 of uniformed service with the New York city fire department, and retires
6 in any rank, they shall have five per centum of the highest grade of pay
7 under the applicable collective bargaining agreement of such rank in
8 which they retire, added to the applicable salary, used for the purposes
9 of computing pension benefits under the plan in which they are enrolled
10 with the New York city fire department pension fund; or
11 (2) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, when a
12 member shall have accrued thirty years of uniformed service with the New
13 York city fire department, and retires in any rank, they shall have ten
14 per centum of the highest grade of pay under the applicable collective
15 bargaining agreement of such rank in which they retire, added to the
16 applicable salary, used for the purposes of computing pension benefits
17 under the plan in which they are enrolled with the New York city fire
18 pension fund; or
19 (3) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, when a
20 member shall have accrued thirty-five years of uniformed service with
21 the New York city fire department, and retires in any rank, they shall
22 have fifteen per centum of the highest grade of pay under the applicable
23 collective bargaining agreement of such rank in which they retire, added
24 to the applicable salary, used for the purposes of computing pension
25 benefits under the plan in which they are enrolled with the New York
26 city fire pension fund.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 b. In addition to the increases set forth in subdivision a of this
2 section, commencing with the twenty-sixth year of service and for each
3 year thereafter, such member shall receive an additional one per centum
4 annually, added to the applicable salary used for the purposes of
5 computing pension benefits under the plan in which they are enrolled
6 with the New York city fire pension fund, provided, however, that the
7 combined total additional credit shall not exceed fifteen per centum and
8 shall be capped upon the completion of thirty-five years of uniformed
9 service with the department.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
