STATE OF NEW YORK
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3513--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 28, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
-- recommitted to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions in
accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to authorize Lois J. Reid to apply for ordinary disability
retirement benefits from the New York state and local employees'
retirement system
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, Lois J. Reid,
2 who was employed by the Erie County Youth Board on March 6, 1970, and
3 who was employed by the New York state department of social services on
4 May 16, 1985, was a member of the New York state and local employees'
5 retirement system for approximately 17.5 years, was diagnosed with
6 chronic fatigue syndrome in 1990, which is a symptom of mitochondrial
7 disease, of which was diagnosed on March 1, 2011, and which was only
8 recently identified by the medical community, was declared to be totally
9 and permanently disabled by the New York state department of social
10 services in 1990, and who was declared to be totally and permanently
11 disabled by the United States social security administration in the
12 early 1990s, and who was denied ordinary disability retirement benefits,
13 shall be allowed to reapply for ordinary disability retirement benefits
14 from the New York state and local employees' retirement system covering
15 the period from June 19, 1992 through March 1, 2003 if, within one year
16 of the effective date of this act, she shall file a written request to
17 that effect with the state comptroller.
18 § 2. All costs associated with the implementation of this act shall be
19 borne by the state.
20 § 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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FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
This bill would allow Lois J. Reid, a service retiree of the New York
State and Local Employees' Retirement System with a date of retirement
of March 1, 2003, to apply for a temporary ordinary disability retire-
ment benefit for the period from June 19, 1992 through March 1, 2003.
There will be an immediate past service cost of approximately $127,000
which will be borne by the State of New York as a one-time payment. This
estimate assumes that payment will be made on March 1, 2027.
Summary of relevant resources:
Membership data as of March 31, 2025 was used to measure the impact of
the bill, the same data used in the Actuarial Valuations dated April 1,
2025. Distributions and other statistics can be found in the 2025 Report
of the Actuary and the 2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report. The
actuarial assumptions and methods used are described in the 2025 Annual
Report to the Comptroller on Actuarial Assumptions, and the Codes, Rules
and Regulations of the State of New York: Audit and Control. The fair
value of assets and GASB disclosures can be found in the 2025 Financial
Statements and Supplementary Information.
Assumptions, demographics, and other considerations may have been
modified to better reflect specific provisions of any proposed benefit
change(s).
This fiscal note does not constitute a legal opinion on the viability
of the bill, nor is it intended to serve as a substitute for the profes-
sional judgment of an attorney.
This estimate, dated January 27, 2026, and intended for use only
during the 2026 Legislative Session, is Fiscal Note Number 2026-75. As
Chief Actuary of the New York State and Local Retirement System
(NYSLRS), I, Aaron Schottin Young, hereby certify that this analysis
complies with applicable Actuarial Standards of Practice as well as the
Code of Professional Conduct and Qualification Standards for Actuaries
Issuing Statements of Actuarial Opinion of the American Academy of Actu-
aries, of which I am a member. I am a member of NYSLRS but do not
believe it impairs my objectivity.
