STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN ASSEMBLY
June 12, 2018
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Finch) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to authorize the town of Camillus, in the county of Onondaga, to
offer certain retirement options to police officer Erik Sauer
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 to the contrary,
2 the town of Camillus, in the county of Onondaga, a participating employ-
3 er in the New York state and local police and fire retirement system,
4 which previously elected to offer the optional retirement plan estab-
5 lished pursuant to section 384-d of the retirement and social security
6 law to police officers employed by such town, is hereby authorized to
7 make participation in such plan available to Erik Sauer a police officer
8 employed by the town of Camillus, who, on the effective date of this act
9 is covered under the provisions of section 375-c of the retirement and
10 social security law, and who, for reasons not ascribable to his own
11 negligence failed to make a timely application to participate in such
12 optional retirement plan. The town of Camillus may so elect by filing
13 with the state comptroller, within 180 days of the effective date of
14 this act, a resolution of its legislative body together with certif-
15 ication that such police officer did not bar himself from participation
16 in such retirement plan as a result of his own negligence. Thereafter,
17 such police officer may elect to be covered by the provisions of section
18 384-d of the retirement and social security law, and shall be entitled
19 to the full rights and benefits associated with coverage under such
20 section, by filing a request to that effect with the state comptroller
21 within one year of the effective date of this act.
22 § 2. All past service costs associated with implementing the
23 provisions of this act shall be borne by the town of Camillus.
24 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
This bill will allow the town of Camillus to elect to reopen the
provisions of Section 384-d of the Retirement and Social Security Law
for police officer Erik Sauer.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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If this bill is enacted during the 2018 legislative session and Erik
Sauer becomes covered under the provisions of Section 384-d, we antic-
ipate that there will be an increase of approximately $7,100 in the
annual contributions of the town of Camillus for the fiscal year ending
March 31, 2019. In future years, this cost will vary as the billing rate
and salary of Erik Sauer change.
In addition to the annual contributions discussed above, there will be
an immediate past service cost of $39,300 which will be borne by the
town of Camillus as a one-time payment. This estimate is based on the
assumption that payment will be made on February 1, 2019.
Summary of relevant resources:
The membership data used in measuring the impact of the proposed
change was the same as that used in the March 31, 2017 actuarial valu-
ation. Distributions and other statistics can be found in the 2017
Report of the Actuary and the 2017 Comprehensive Annual Financial
Report.
The actuarial assumptions and methods used are described in the 2015,
2016, and 2017 Annual Report to the Comptroller on Actuarial Assump-
tions, and the Codes Rules and Regulations of the State of New York:
Audit and Control.
The Market Assets and GASB Disclosures are found in the March 31, 2017
New York State and Local Retirement System Financial Statements and
Supplementary Information.
I am a member of the American Academy of Actuaries and meet the Quali-
fication Standards to render the actuarial opinion contained herein.
This estimate, dated June 12, 2018, and intended for use only during
the 2018 Legislative Session, is Fiscal Note No. 2018-124, prepared by
the Actuary for the New York State and Local Retirement System.
