Prohibits the receipt of pension benefits by an elected official who has been convicted of a designated felony offense relating to such person's performance of official duties or responsibilities, regardless of when the official became a member of the retirement system.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2680
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 27, 2015
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Introduced by Sens. KRUEGER, ADDABBO, AVELLA, HOYLMAN, STEWART-COUSINS
-- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to
forfeiture of pension rights or retirement benefits upon conviction of
a felony related to public employment
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 157 of the retirement and social
2 security law, as added by section 1 of part C of chapter 399 of the laws
3 of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
4 1. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, it shall be a term
5 and condition of membership for every public official [who becomes a
6 member of any retirement system on or after the effective date of the
7 chapter of the laws of two thousand eleven which added this article,]
8 that such public official's rights to a pension in a retirement system
9 that accrue in such retirement system after his or her date of initial
10 membership in the retirement system shall be subject to the provisions
11 of this article.
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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