STATE OF NEW YORK
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5964--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 16, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. GALLIVAN, KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and
Pensions -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to authorize John Lake to receive certain credit under section
384-d of the retirement and social security law
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, John Lake,
2 currently a Town of West Seneca police officer and member of the New
3 York state and local police and fire retirement system covered by
4 section 384-d of the retirement and social security law, who between
5 January 27, 1997 and January 26, 2006 was employed by the Erie County
6 Sheriff's Department where he was a member of the New York state and
7 local employees' retirement system, and who, for reasons not ascribable
8 to his own negligence, was not granted service credit under section
9 384-d of the retirement and social security law for his period of
10 employment with the Erie County Sheriff's Department, shall be granted
11 such service credit under section 384-d of the retirement and social
12 security law and shall be entitled to the full rights and benefits asso-
13 ciated with coverage under such section, provided a request to that
14 effect is filed with the state comptroller within one year from the
15 effective date of this act.
16 § 2. All past service costs incurred in implementing the provisions of
17 this act shall be borne by the Town of West Seneca.
18 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11836-02-9