STATE OF NEW YORK
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7021
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
ment Operations
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to defining the
terms "retiree" and "beneficiary" within the freedom of information
law
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 86 of the public officers law is amended by adding
2 two new subdivisions 6 and 7 to read as follows:
3 6. "Retiree" means a former officer or employee of an agency, the
4 state legislature, or the judiciary who was a member of a public retire-
5 ment system of the state, as such term is defined in subdivision twen-
6 ty-three of section five hundred one of the retirement and social secu-
7 rity law and is receiving, or entitled to receive, a benefit from such
8 public retirement system.
9 7. "Beneficiary" means a person designated by a member or retiree of a
10 public retirement system of the state to receive retirement or death
11 benefits following the death of the member or retiree.
12 § 2. Subdivision 7 of section 89 of the public officers law, as added
13 by chapter 783 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows:
14 7. Nothing in this article shall require the disclosure of the home
15 address of an officer or employee, former officer or employee, or of a
16 retiree of a public [employees'] retirement system of the state, as such
17 term is defined in subdivision twenty-three of section five hundred one
18 of the retirement and social security law; nor shall anything in this
19 article require the disclosure of the name or home address of a benefi-
20 ciary of a public [employees'] retirement system of the state, as such
21 term is defined in subdivision twenty-three of section five hundred one
22 of the retirement and social security law, or of an applicant for
23 appointment to public employment; provided however, that nothing in this
24 subdivision shall limit or abridge the right of an employee organiza-
25 tion, certified or recognized for any collective negotiating unit of an
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 employer pursuant to article fourteen of the civil service law, to
2 obtain the name or home address of any officer, employee or retiree of
3 such employer, if such name or home address is otherwise available under
4 this article.
5 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
