BILL NUMBER: S6053
SPONSOR: JACKSON
 
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the civil service law, in relation to granting a retro-
active parity payment to certain management and confidential retirees
 
PURPOSE:
This bill grants a retroactive parity payment to certain management and
confidential retirees.
 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 adds new Section 137 to the Civil Service Law, which provides
for a rebate payment to certain employees designated managerial or
confidential and retired between April 1, 2009, and March 31, 2015, and
had an authorized salary increase that was withheld.
Section 2 is the effective date.
 
JUSTIFICATION:
During the 2008 recession, management confidential employees (M/Cs) had
their authorized salary increases withheld by the state in an effort to
reduce expenditures.
While many M/Cs ultimately received their withheld pay raises, thousands
of M/Cs retired during the "withheld period" and thus were denied this
rightful benefit. This measure provides a rebate to those management
confidential employees that retired after having salary increases with-
held for 2009 and/or 2010. New York saved over $450,000 million in sala-
ries and fringe benefits from the withholding of salary increases for
2019 and 2010. No more than 4,000 eligible retirees are expected to take
advantage of this rebate.
While this measure does not wholly recover those lost wages, it is only
fair to restore some of the lost value of the withheld salaries.
 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2021-2022: S.2866 - Reported and Committed to Finance/A.4885 - Referred
to Governmental Employees
2019-2020: S.4079 - Reported and Committed to Finance/A.2462 - Referred
to Governmental Employees
 
STATE AND LOCAL FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
See fiscal note.
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.