New York A 11279: Authorizes Ryan J. St. Gelais and Aaron M. St. Gelais, police officers in the village of Menands, county of Albany, to receive certain credit under section 384-d of the retirement and social security law

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A11279 Summary:

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Authorizes Ryan J. St. Gelais and Aaron M. St. Gelais, police officers in the village of Menands, county of Albany, to receive certain credit under section 384-d of the retirement and social security law and to apply for reinstatement with the NY state and local police and fire retirement system.

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BILL NOA11279 

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05/04/2026referred to governmental employees

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 11279

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 4, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Governmental Employees

 AN ACT to authorize Ryan J. St. Gelais and Aaron M. St. Gelais, police
 officers in the village of Menands, county of Albany, to receive
 certain credit under section 384-d of the retirement and social secu-
 rity law

 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 the law, Ryan J. St.
 2 Gelais and Aaron M. St. Gelais, currently village of Menands police
 3 officers and members of the New York state and local police and fire
 4 retirement system covered by section 384-d of the retirement and social
 5 security law, who were members of the New York State local retirement
 6 system, and who, for reasons not ascribable to their own negligence,
 7 were not granted service credit under section 384-d of the retirement
 8 and social security law for the period of employment, shall be granted
 9 such service credit under section 384-d of the retirement and social
 10 security law and shall be entitled to the full rights and benefits asso-
 11 ciated with coverage under such section, provided a request to that
 12 effect is filed with the state comptroller within one year from the
 13 effective date of this act. Prior to Ryan J. St. Gelais and Aaron M. St.
 14 Gelais submitting such request, they must first file an application for
 15 tier reinstatement with the New York state and local police and fire
 16 retirement system, as they have previously withdrawn their membership
 17 with the New York state and local employees' retirement system. Once any
 18 costs associated with Ryan J. St. Gelais and Aaron M. St. Gelais's tier
 19 reinstatement to their prior membership are paid in full by them, they
 20 may be granted the service credit and such service credit will be cred-
 21 itable service under section 384-d of the retirement and social security
 22 law for Ryan J. St. Gelais and Aaron M. St. Gelais.
 23 § 2. All past service costs incurred in implementing the provisions of
 24 this act shall be borne by the village of Menands.
 25 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD15499-02-6

 A. 11279 2

 This bill would grant police officers Ryan St. Gelais and Aaron St.
 Gelais, members of the New York State and Local Police and Fire Retire-
 ment System (NYSLPFRS) employed by the village of Menands, to receive
 service credit under section 384-d of the Retirement and Social Security
 Law (RSSL) for correction officer service and age-based plan service.
 Currently, correction officer service and age-based plan service are not
 creditable in a NYSLPFRS twenty-year retirement plan.
 This bill will not increase the village of Menands' annual contrib-
 utions.
 There will be an immediate past service cost of $260,000 borne by the
 village of Menands as a one-time payment. This cost assumes that payment
 will be made on February 1, 2027.
 Ryan St. Gelais and Aaron St. Gelais must complete and file applica-
 tions for tier reinstatement with NYSLPFRS for service credit to be
 granted.
 Summary of relevant resources:
 Membership data as of March 31, 2025 was used to measure the impact of
 the bill, the same data used in the Actuarial Valuations dated April 1,
 2025. Distributions and other statistic