New York A 7999: Allows the granting of academic credit at city or state operated institutions to veterans

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A07999 Summary:

BILL NOA07999 

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SAME ASSAME AS S07757

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SPONSORLupardo

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Authorizes Scott Pavlick to receive certain service credit under a twenty-five year retirement plan offering one-sixtieths after twenty-five years of total creditable service for service with the Binghamton Fire Department.

Go to top A07999 Actions:

BILL NOA07999 

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04/16/2025referred to governmental employees

05/28/2025reported referred to ways and means

01/07/2026referred to governmental employees

Go to topA07999 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES Chair:Pheffer Amato 
DATE:05/28/2025AYE/NAY:14/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Ways and Means Pheffer AmatoAyeDeStefanoAye

ColtonAyeReillyAye

SantabarbaraAyeGiglioAye

EichensteinAyeTannousisAye

McDonaldAye

BurkeAye

GriffinAye

CarrollAye

RomeroAye

YegerAye

Go to topA07999 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA07999 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7999

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 April 16, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. LUPARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Governmental Employees

 AN ACT to authorize the city of Binghamton to offer an optional retire-
 ment plan to firefighter Scott Pavlick

 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 law to the contrary,
 2 the city of Binghamton, in the county of Broome, a participating employ-
 3 er in the New York state and local police and fire retirement system,
 4 which previously elected to offer the optional one-sixtieths after twen-
 5 ty-five years of total creditable service, established pursuant to
 6 subdivision f of section 384 of the retirement and social security law,
 7 to firefighters employed by such city who are covered by section 384 of
 8 the retirement and social security law, is hereby authorized to make
 9 participation in such plan available to Scott Pavlick, a firefighter
 10 employed by the city of Binghamton, who, for reasons not ascribable to
 11 his own negligence, failed to make a timely application to participate
 12 in such optional one-sixtieths for his twenty-five year retirement plan.
 13 The city of Binghamton may so elect by filing with the state comp-
 14 troller, within nine months of the effective date of this act, a resol-
 15 ution of its own common council together with certification that such
 16 firefighter did not bar himself from participation in such retirement
 17 plan as a result of his own negligence. Thereafter, such firefighter may
 18 elect to be covered by the provisions of subdivision f of section 384 of
 19 the retirement and social security law, and shall be entitled to the
 20 full rights and benefits associated with coverage under such section, by
 21 filing a request to that effect with the state comptroller within one
 22 year of the effective date of this act.
 23 § 2. All employer past service costs associated with implementing the
 24 provisions of this act shall be borne by the city of Binghamton and may
 25 be amortized over a ten-year period.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10869-02-5

 A. 7999 2

 1 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
 This bill would allow the City of Binghamton to reopen the provisions
 of section 384.f. of the Retirement and Social Security Law (RSSL) for
 firefighter Scott Pavlick, who is currently covered under §384 of the
 RSSL.
 If this bill is enacted during the 2025 Legislative Session, we antic-
 ipate that there will be an increase of approximately $2,000 in the
 annual contributions of the City of Binghamton for the fiscal year
 ending March 31, 2026. In future years this cost will vary as the bill-
 ing rates and salary of Scott Pavlick change.
 In addition to the annual contributions discussed above, there will be
 an immediate past service cost of approximately $33,200 which will be
 borne by the City of Binghamton as a one-time payment. This estimate
 assumes that payment will be made on Fe