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S8111 • 2025

Provides for retirement credit to emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical technicians for a child care leave of absence

Provides for retirement credit to emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical technicians 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 emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical technicians for a child care leave of absence

Provides for retirement credit to emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical technicians for a child care leave of absence Provides for retirement credit to emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical technicians for a child care leave of absence.

What This Bill Does

  • Provides for retirement credit to emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical technicians for a child care leave of absence Provides for retirement credit to emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical technicians 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 8111B

  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 8111A

  6. 2025-05-15 Senate

    REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Official Summary Text

Provides for retirement credit to emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical technicians for a child care leave of absence
Provides for retirement credit to emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical technicians 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
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8111

                               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  emergency  medical  technicians and
          advanced emergency medical technicians  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.  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 EMT MEMBER, AS DEFINED  IN  PARAGRAPH
     7  TWO  OF SUBDIVISION A OF SECTION FOUR HUNDRED FORTY-FIVE-E OF THIS CHAP-
     8  TER AND PARAGRAPH ONE OF SUBDIVISION A OF SECTION SIX HUNDRED FOUR-E  OF
     9  THIS ARTICLE, AS ADDED BY CHAPTER FIVE HUNDRED SEVENTY-SEVEN OF THE LAWS
    10  OF  TWO  THOUSAND,  WHO  IS ABSENT WITHOUT PAY FOR A CHILD CARE LEAVE OF
    11  ABSENCE PURSUANT TO THE  TERMS  OF  A  COLLECTIVE  BARGAINING  AGREEMENT
    12  COVERING  THE EMT MEMBER SHALL BE ELIGIBLE FOR CREDIT FOR SUCH PERIOD OF
    13  CHILD CARE LEAVE PROVIDED SUCH MEMBER FILES A  CLAIM  FOR  SUCH  SERVICE
    14  CREDIT  WITH  THE  PENSION  FUND  BY DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND
    15  TWENTY-FIVE OR WITHIN NINETY DAYS FOLLOWING  TERMINATION  OF  THE  CHILD
    16  CARE  LEAVE,  WHICHEVER IS LATER, AND CONTRIBUTES TO THE PENSION FUND AN
    17  AMOUNT WHICH SUCH MEMBER WOULD HAVE CONTRIBUTED  DURING  THE  PERIOD  OF
    18  SUCH  CHILD  CARE  LEAVE, TOGETHER WITH INTEREST THEREON. SERVICE CREDIT
    19  PROVIDED PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL NOT EXCEED ONE YEAR OF CRED-
    20  IT FOR EACH PERIOD OF AUTHORIZED CHILD CARE LEAVE.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11193-02-5