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S10406 • 2025

Permits certain twenty-five year retirement program dispatcher members to file elections not to participate

Permits certain twenty-five year retirement program dispatcher members to file elections not to participate

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Sponsor
Robert Jackson
Last action
2026-05-15
Official status
In Senate Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Permits certain twenty-five year retirement program dispatcher members to file elections not to participate

Permits certain twenty-five year retirement program dispatcher members to file elections not to participate Permits certain twenty-five year retirement program dispatcher members to file elections not to participate.

What This Bill Does

  • Permits certain twenty-five year retirement program dispatcher members to file elections not to participate Permits certain twenty-five year retirement program dispatcher members to file elections not to participate.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-15 Senate

    REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Official Summary Text

Permits certain twenty-five year retirement program dispatcher members to file elections not to participate
Permits certain twenty-five year retirement program dispatcher members to file elections not to participate.

Current Bill Text

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

                                          10406

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                      May 15, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- 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
          permitting  certain  twenty-five  year  retirement  program dispatcher
          members to file elections not to participate

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

     1    Section 1. Section 604-e of the retirement and social security law, as
     2  added  by  chapter  576  of the laws of 2000, is amended by adding a new
     3  subdivision f to read as follows:
     4    F. 1.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  PROVISION  OF  LAW  TO  THE  CONTRARY,  A
     5  DISPATCHER MEMBER WHO EXCEEDED AGE THIRTY UPON EMPLOYMENT AS A DISPATCH-
     6  ER  MEMBER AND FAILED TO FILE THEIR ELECTION NOT TO PARTICIPATE WITH THE
     7  RETIREMENT SYSTEM WITHIN ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY DAYS OF BECOMING A DISPATCH-
     8  ER MEMBER, AS REQUIRED BY PARAGRAPH  THREE  OF  SUBDIVISION  B  OF  THIS
     9  SECTION, MAY FILE SUCH AN ELECTION WITH THE RETIREMENT SYSTEM WITHIN ONE
    10  HUNDRED EIGHTY DAYS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SUBDIVISION.
    11    2.  THE RETIREMENT SYSTEM SHALL POST, AND ANNOUNCE ON ITS HOMEPAGE THE
    12  POSTING OF, THE  FORM  AND  CORRESPONDING  INSTRUCTIONS  FOR  DISPATCHER
    13  MEMBERS  TO ELECT NOT TO PARTICIPATE ON ITS WEBSITE NO LATER THAN THIRTY
    14  DAYS AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SUBDIVISION.
    15    3. IF THE RETIREMENT SYSTEM FAILS TO POST AND ANNOUNCE  THE  FORM  AND
    16  CORRESPONDING INSTRUCTIONS NO LATER THAN THIRTY DAYS AFTER THE EFFECTIVE
    17  DATE  OF THIS SUBDIVISION, AS PRESCRIBED BY PARAGRAPH TWO OF THIS SUBDI-
    18  VISION, THE PERIOD FOR A DISPATCHER MEMBER TO ELECT NOT  TO  PARTICIPATE
    19  PRESCRIBED  BY  PARAGRAPH  ONE  OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE EXTENDED BY
    20  SIXTY  DAYS  FOR  EACH  MONTH  OR  PART  THEREOF  THAT  SUCH  FORM   AND
    21  INSTRUCTIONS ARE NOT POSTED TO THE RETIREMENT SYSTEM'S WEBSITE.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10892-04-5