S7172-2011 Actions

• May 1, 2012: REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

S7172-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S7172

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to authorize the St. Paul fire district to offer an optional twenty year
retirement plan to firefighters Robert J. Anderson, Edmond Kaspar,
Timothy J. Kohlmeier, Kevin Magin,
Jeremy Schaeffer, John Semmler and Timothy Warth

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
To allow firefighters Robert J.
Anderson, Edmond Kaspar, Timothy J. Kohlmeier, Kevin Magin, Jeremy
Schaeffer, John Semmler, and Timothy Warth, of the St. Paul Fire
District in Rochester, to participate in the twenty year retirement
plan that they had elected to be in.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1 states that the six
firefighters are to be placed in the twenty year retirement plan,
established pursuant to subdivision f of section 384 of the
retirement and social security law.

Section 2 states that all employer costs associated with implementing
this act shall be borne by the St. Paul Fire District and that
employer past service costs may be paid in ten equal annual
installments.

Section 3 sets the effective date.

JUSTIFICATION:
Six firefighters of the St. Paul Fire District in
Rochester who, due to clerical error and at no fault of their own,
were placed under retirement plans different than the ones they had
elected to be in. This bill would correct this error and place the
firefighters in their desired plans.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
To be determined.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.

S7172-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                         7172
 I N  SENATE
 May 1, 2012
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ALESI  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
 

AN ACT to authorize the St. Paul fire  district  to  offer  an  optional
 twenty year retirement plan to firefighters Robert J. Anderson, Edmond
 Kaspar,  Timothy  J.  Kohlmeier,  Kevin  Magin, Jeremy Schaeffer, John
 Semmler and Timothy Warth
 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
 the  St.  Paul  fire  district, a participating employer in the New York
 state police and fire retirement system,  which  previously  elected  to
 offer  additional  pension  benefits  for members of the optional twenty
 year retirement plan, established pursuant to subdivision f  of  section
 384  of the retirement and social security law, to firefighters employed
 by such district, is hereby authorized to  make  participation  in  such
 plan available to Robert J. Anderson, Edmond Kaspar, Timothy J. Kohlmei
 er, Kevin Magin, Jeremy Schaeffer, John Semmler and Timothy Warth, fire
 fighters  employed  by the St. Paul fire district in the city of Roches
 ter, who, for reasons not ascribable to their own negligence, failed  to
 make  a  timely  application to participate in such optional twenty year
 retirement plan. The St. Paul fire district may so elect by filing  with
 the  state  comptroller, on or before December 31, 2012, a resolution of
 its local legislative body together with certification that  such  fire
 fighters  did  not  bar themselves from participation in such retirement
 plan as a result of their own negligence. Thereafter, such  firefighters
 may  elect  to  be covered by the provisions of subdivision f of section
 384 of the retirement and social security law, and shall be entitled  to
 the  full  rights  and  benefits  associated  with  coverage  under such
 section, by filing a request to that effect with the  state  comptroller
 on or before June 30, 2013.
 

S  2. All employer past service costs associated with implementing the
 provisions of this act shall be borne by the St. Paul fire district  and
 the past service costs associated with this act may be paid in ten equal
 annual installments.
 

S 3. 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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