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S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8094
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
May 15, 2025
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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.
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