Permits reemployment of retired first responders who participated in the World Trade Center rescue and recovery operations without diminution of retirement allowance.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6015
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 26, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. PALUMBO, ASHBY, DeSTEFANO, GIGLIO, MORINELLO --
read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to
employment of retired first responders who participated in the World
Trade center rescue and recovery operations without diminution of
retirement allowance
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 212 of the retirement and social security law is
2 amended by adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
3 4. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivisions one and two of this
4 section such earnings limitations shall not apply to a certified first
5 responder as defined in section three thousand one of the public health
6 law, who participated in the World Trade Center rescue and recovery
7 operations at the World Trade Center site on September eleventh, two
8 thousand one and such person may be employed and earn compensation in a
9 position or positions in the public service without any effect on his or
10 her status as retired and without suspension or diminution of his or her
11 retirement allowance.
12 § 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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