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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         5631--A
 
                               2009-2010 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      May 22, 2009
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities --  recommitted  to
          the  Committee  on  Cities in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee
 

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  administrative code of the city of New York, in
          relation to the effect of discharge or dismissal of a  police  officer
          or firefighter with twenty years of creditable retirement service
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is  amended
     2  by adding a new section 13-256.1 to read as follows:
     3    § 13-256.1 Discharge or dismissal. Notwithstanding any other provision
     4  of  law,  when a member has attained at least twenty years of creditable
     5  police service in the retirement system, the discharge or dismissal from
     6  employment of such person shall not preclude such person from  receiving

     7  any rights or benefits to which he or she shall otherwise be entitled as
     8  a  member or retired member of the retirement system nor upon retirement
     9  shall his or her benefits be in any way diminished as a result  of  such
    10  discharge or dismissal.
    11    §  2.  The  administrative  code of the city of New York is amended by
    12  adding a new section 13-361.1 to read as follows:
    13    § 13-361.1 Discharge or dismissal. Notwithstanding any other provision
    14  of law, when a member has attained at least twenty years  of  creditable
    15  fire  uniformed force service in the retirement system, the discharge or
    16  dismissal from employment of such person shall not preclude such  person
    17  from receiving any rights or benefits to which he or she shall otherwise

    18  be  entitled  as a member or retired member of the retirement system nor
    19  upon retirement shall his or her benefits be in any way diminished as  a
    20  result of such discharge or dismissal.
    21    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09108-02-0