STATE OF NEW YORK
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1739
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 13, 2025
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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 civil service law, in relation to longevity payments
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The civil service law is amended by adding a new section
2 137 to read as follows:
3 § 137. Longevity payments. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of
4 law to the contrary, effective the first of April next succeeding the
5 effective date of this section and annually thereafter, each state
6 employee designated managerial or confidential who as of the preceding
7 March thirty-first has completed twelve years or more of continuous
8 service as defined in paragraph (c) of subdivision three of section one
9 hundred thirty of this article in the executive branch of the state
10 government, and has attained a performance rating higher than "Below
11 Minimum" or its equivalent in a graded position shall receive a twelve
12 year performance award of one thousand five hundred dollars.
13 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, effec-
14 tive the first of April next succeeding the effective date of this
15 section and annually thereafter, each state employee designated manage-
16 rial or confidential who as of the preceding March thirty-first has
17 completed seventeen years or more of continuous service as defined in
18 paragraph (c) of subdivision three of section one hundred thirty of this
19 article in the executive branch of the state government, and has
20 attained a performance rating higher than "Below Minimum" or its equiv-
21 alent, shall receive a seventeen year performance award of one thousand
22 five hundred dollars. Such employees shall also continue to receive the
23 twelve-year performance award of one thousand five hundred dollars
24 pursuant to subdivision one of this section.
25 3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, effec-
26 tive the first of April next succeeding the effective date of this
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 section and annually thereafter, each state employee designated manage-
2 rial or confidential who as of the preceding March thirty-first has
3 completed twenty-two years or more of continuous service as defined in
4 paragraph (c) of subdivision three of section one hundred thirty of this
5 article in the executive branch of the state government, and has
6 attained a performance rating higher than "Below Minimum" or its equiv-
7 alent, shall receive a twenty-two year performance award of one thousand
8 five hundred dollars. Such employees shall also continue to receive
9 both the twelve and seventeen-year performance awards of one thousand
10 five hundred dollars each pursuant to subdivisions one and two of this
11 section.
12 4. Performance awards made pursuant to this section shall be lump-sum,
13 non-recurring payments for employees in full-time status as of March
14 thirty-first each year, or a pro rata share of such amount for employees
15 in part-time employment status on such date, and shall be paid in April
16 of each year.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
18 the date on which it shall have become a law.
