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S8094 • 2025

Provides for retirement credit to fire protection inspector members for a child care leave of absence

Provides for retirement credit to fire protection inspector members for a child care leave of absence

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Robert Jackson
Last action
2026-05-11
Official status
In Senate Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Provides for retirement credit to fire protection inspector members for a child care leave of absence

Provides for retirement credit to fire protection inspector members for a child care leave of absence Provides for retirement credit to fire protection inspector members for a child care leave of absence.

What This Bill Does

  • Provides for retirement credit to fire protection inspector members for a child care leave of absence Provides for retirement credit to fire protection inspector members for a child care leave of absence.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-11 Senate

    AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

  2. 2026-05-11 Senate

    PRINT NUMBER 8094B

  3. 2026-01-07 Senate

    REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

  4. 2025-06-12 Senate

    AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

  5. 2025-06-12 Senate

    PRINT NUMBER 8094A

  6. 2025-05-15 Senate

    REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Official Summary Text

Provides for retirement credit to fire protection inspector members for a child care leave of absence
Provides for retirement credit to fire protection inspector members for a child care leave of absence.

Current Bill Text

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

                                          8094

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                      May 15, 2025
                                       ___________

        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
          providing retirement credit to fire protection inspector members for a
          child care leave of absence

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

     1    Section 1. Section 609 of the retirement and social  security  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new subdivision i to read as follows:
     3    I. 1. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER LAW OR CODE PROVISION THAT PROHIBITS A
     4  MEMBER  FROM RECEIVING RETIREMENT CREDIT FOR ANY PERIOD DURING WHICH THE
     5  MEMBER WAS ABSENT ON LEAVE WITHOUT PAY, INCLUDING BUT  NOT  LIMITED  TO,
     6  SUBDIVISION  C OF THIS SECTION, ANY FIRE PROTECTION INSPECTOR MEMBER, AS
     7  DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH TWO OF THIS SUBDIVISION, WHO IS ABSENT WITHOUT  PAY
     8  FOR  A CHILD CARE LEAVE OF ABSENCE PURSUANT TO THE TERMS OF A COLLECTIVE
     9  BARGAINING AGREEMENT COVERING THE FIRE PROTECTION INSPECTOR MEMBER SHALL
    10  BE ELIGIBLE FOR CREDIT FOR SUCH PERIOD OF CHILD CARE LEAVE PROVIDED SUCH
    11  MEMBER FILES A CLAIM FOR SUCH SERVICE CREDIT WITH THE  PENSION  FUND  BY
    12  DECEMBER  THIRTY-FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE OR WITHIN NINETY DAYS
    13  FOLLOWING TERMINATION OF THE CHILD CARE LEAVE, WHICHEVER IS  LATER,  AND
    14  CONTRIBUTES  TO  THE PENSION FUND AN AMOUNT WHICH SUCH MEMBER WOULD HAVE
    15  CONTRIBUTED DURING THE PERIOD OF SUCH CHILD CARE  LEAVE,  TOGETHER  WITH
    16  INTEREST  THEREON.  SERVICE CREDIT PROVIDED PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION
    17  SHALL NOT EXCEED ONE YEAR OF CREDIT FOR EACH PERIOD OF AUTHORIZED  CHILD
    18  CARE LEAVE.
    19    2. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THE TERM "FIRE PROTECTION INSPEC-
    20  TOR  MEMBER" SHALL MEAN A MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK CITY EMPLOYEES' RETIRE-
    21  MENT SYSTEM WHO IS EMPLOYED BY THE CITY OF NEW YORK OR BY THE  NEW  YORK
    22  CITY  FIRE  DEPARTMENT  IN  A  TITLE  WHOSE  DUTIES  ARE THOSE OF A FIRE
    23  PROTECTION INSPECTOR OR ASSOCIATE FIRE PROTECTION  INSPECTOR,  OR  IN  A
    24  TITLE WHOSE DUTIES REQUIRE THE SUPERVISION OF EMPLOYEES WHOSE DUTIES ARE
    25  THOSE  OF  A  FIRE  PROTECTION  INSPECTOR  OR  ASSOCIATE FIRE PROTECTION
    26  INSPECTOR.
    27    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11197-02-5