S10452 • 2025

Authorizes Nigel Barnett to receive certain retirement service credit in the New York state and local police and fire retirement system

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Sponsor: Pete Harckham
Last action: 2026-05-15
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Authorizes Nigel Barnett to receive certain retirement service credit in the New York state and local police and fire retirement system

Authorizes Nigel Barnett to receive certain retirement service credit in the New York state and local police and fire retirement system Authorizes Nigel Barnett to receive certain retirement service credit in the New York state and local police and fire retirement system for service as a correction officer with the county of Dutchess.

What This Bill Does

Authorizes Nigel Barnett to receive certain retirement service credit in the New York state and local police and fire retirement system Authorizes Nigel Barnett to receive certain retirement service credit in the New York state and local police and fire retirement system for service as a correction officer with the county of Dutchess.

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Bill History

2026-05-15 Senate
REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Official Summary Text

Authorizes Nigel Barnett to receive certain retirement service credit in the New York state and local police and fire retirement system
Authorizes Nigel Barnett to receive certain retirement service credit in the New York state and local police and fire retirement system for service as a correction officer with the county of Dutchess.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          10452

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                      May 15, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions

        AN ACT authorizing Nigel Barnett to receive certain  retirement  service
          credit  in  the  New  York  state and local police and fire retirement
          system

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

     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
     2  Nigel  Barnett,  a  former member of the New York State and local police
     3  and fire retirement system, who was employed with the division of  state
     4  police from May 3, 2006 through September 16, 2025, and who was a member
     5  of  the  New  York  state  and  local employees' retirement system while
     6  employed as a correction officer with the county of Dutchess,  state  of
     7  New York, from November 18, 2002 until May 3, 2006, which service is not
     8  deemed to be police service for purposes of the New York state and local
     9  police  and  fire  retirement  system  pursuant  to section 381-b of the
    10  retirement and social security law, shall be granted retirement  service
    11  credit  pursuant  to section 381-b of the retirement and social security
    12  law for such employment as a  correction  officer  with  the  county  of
    13  Dutchess,  state  of  New  York as if such service was rendered with the
    14  division of state police beginning on May 3, 2006, and  shall  have  his
    15  retirement  benefit  recalculated,  if  within one year of the effective
    16  date of this act, his estate representative or the superintendent  shall
    17  file a written request to that effect with the state comptroller.
    18    §  2.  In  the  event  the beneficiary is required to make an election
    19  prior to the enactment of this legislation, the pension reserve shall be
    20  awarded minus any death benefit previously paid to said beneficiary.
    21    § 3. All past service costs associated with the implementation of this
    22  act shall be borne by the state of New York.
    23    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14567-02-6