Senate Bill S2680

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Prohibits the receipt of pension benefits by an elected official who has been convicted of certain criminal conduct

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Civil Service And Pensions Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-S2680 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
Retirement and Social Security Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §157, R & SS L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S1733
2011-2012: S416
2013-2014: S3421

2015-S2680 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the receipt of pension benefits by an elected official who has been convicted of a designated felony offense relating to such person's performance of official duties or responsibilities, regardless of when the official became a member of the retirement system.

2015-S2680 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S2680 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  2680

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 27, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sens. KRUEGER, ADDABBO, AVELLA, HOYLMAN, STEWART-COUSINS
  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
  the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions

AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in  relation  to
  forfeiture of pension rights or retirement benefits upon conviction of
  a felony related to public employment

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 157 of the retirement  and  social
security law, as added by section 1 of part C of chapter 399 of the laws
of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
  1.  Notwithstanding  any other law to the contrary, it shall be a term
and condition of membership for every public  official  [who  becomes  a
member  of  any  retirement system on or after the effective date of the
chapter of the laws of two thousand eleven which  added  this  article,]
that  such  public official's rights to a pension in a retirement system
that accrue in such retirement system after his or her date  of  initial
membership  in  the retirement system shall be subject to the provisions
of this article.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05548-01-5


              

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