BILL NUMBER: S7363
SPONSOR: BYNOE
 
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to
authorizing certain persons in an optional twenty year retirement plan
to receive credit for previous service as a state university police
officer, a regional state park police officer or a detective investi-
gator for the office of the attorney general
 
PURPOSE:
The purpose of this bill is to allow members of the New York State
Police & Fire Retirement Systems to use up to five years of their prior
service credit as a State University Police Officer, or State Park
Police Officer, or investigators in a detective investigator role
employed by the Attorney General's Office towards creditable time for
use in their 20-year special plans upon completion of 20 years of
service.
 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 allows members of the New York State Police & Fire Retirement
Systems to use up to five years of their prior service credit as a State
University Police Officer towards creditable time for use in their 20
year special plans upon, completion of 20 years of service and also
allows members of the New York State Police & Fire Retirement Systems to
use up to five years of their prior service credit as a State Park
Police Officer or investigators in a detective investigator role
employed by the Attorney General's Office towards creditable time for
use in their 20-year special plans upon completion of 20 years of
service.
Section 2 contains the effective date.
 
JUSTIFICATION:
State University Police Officers, State Park Police Officers, and inves-
tigators in a detective investigator role employed by the Attorney
General's Office go through the same amount of law enforcement training
and largely perform the same police tasks as their counterpart officers
in city, county, towns and village police forces. The time they earned
in the retirement system as a State University Police Officer, a State
Park Police Officer, or a Special investigator of the Attorney General's
Office should be recognized as creditable service time in their new
police pension plan if they transfer to one of these police forces. They
perform a dangerous job and their pension credits are well earned and
should be credited.
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
See Fiscal Note
 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2024: S.7108-B: Referred to Civil Service and Pension
2023: S.7108: Referred to Civil Service and Pension
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

Statutes affected:
S7363: 384-e retirement and social security law