STATE OF NEW YORK
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8292
IN SENATE
April 26, 2018
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Introduced by Sen. LITTLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
AN ACT to authorize Jaime Laczko to elect to participate in the optional
twenty-five year retirement plan for forest rangers in the service of
the department of environmental conservation
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, Jaime Laczko, a
2 member of the New York state and local police and fire retirement
3 system, who is employed by the department of environmental conservation
4 as a full-time forest ranger I, who upon commencing such employment
5 became a member of such retirement system subject to the provisions of
6 section 375-h of the retirement and social security law, who was eligi-
7 ble, at such time, to elect to join the New York state and local police
8 and fire retirement system subject to the optional twenty-five year
9 retirement plan for forest rangers in the service of the department of
10 environmental conservation pursuant to section 383-c of the retirement
11 and social security law, and who, for reasons not ascribable to his own
12 negligence, failed to elect to participate in such twenty-five year
13 retirement plan, shall be deemed to have elected to participate in the
14 retirement plan, established by section 383-c of the retirement and
15 social security law, upon commencement of his employment as a forest
16 ranger I, if, within 1 year of the effective date of this act, he shall
17 file an application therefor with the state comptroller.
18 § 2. All past costs associated with implementing the provisions of
19 this act shall be borne by the state of New York. Jaime Laczko shall
20 bear no costs associated with the implementation of the provisions of
21 this act.
22 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
This bill will deem Jaime Laczko, a Forest Ranger currently covered
under an age 55 retirement plan, to have elected to participate in the
25 year retirement plan established by Section 383-c of the Retirement
and Social Security Law.
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, we antic-
ipate that there will be an increase of approximately $3,900 in the
annual contributions of the State of New York for the fiscal year ending
March 31, 2019. In future years, this cost will vary as the billing
rates and salary of Jaime Laczko change.
In addition to the annual contributions discussed above, there will be
an immediate past service cost of $102,000 which would be borne by the
State of New York as one-time payment. This estimate is based on the
assumption that payment will be made on March 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 April 25, 2018, and intended for use only during
the 2018 Legislative Session, is Fiscal Note No. 2018-93, prepared by
the Actuary for the New York State and Local Retirement System.
