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S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5053
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
February 18, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- 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
increasing the mandatory retirement age for New York police department
members
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 15 of section 501 of the retirement and social
2 security law, as added by chapter 890 of the laws of 1976, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 15. "Mandatory retirement age" shall mean age seventy, for general
5 members, and age sixty-two, for police/fire members, AND AGE SIXTY-FIVE,
6 FOR POLICE MEMBERS WHO BECOME SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ARTICLE
7 ON OR AFTER JULY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE.
8 § 2. Subdivision d of section 503 of the retirement and social securi-
9 ty law, as amended by chapter 18 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read
10 as follows:
11 d. The normal service retirement benefit specified in section five
12 hundred five of this article shall be paid to police/fire members, New
13 York city uniformed correction/sanitation revised plan members and
14 investigator revised plan members without regard to age upon retirement
15 after twenty-two years of service. Early service retirement shall be
16 permitted upon retirement after twenty years of credited service or
17 attainment of age sixty-two OR ATTAINMENT OF AGE SIXTY-FIVE FOR POLICE
18 MEMBERS WHO BECOME SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ARTICLE ON OR AFTER
19 JULY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE, provided, however, that New York
20 city police/fire revised plan members, New York city uniformed
21 correction/sanitation revised plan members and investigator revised plan
22 members shall not be eligible to retire for service prior to the attain-
23 ment of twenty years of credited service.
24 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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