New York A 8669: Requires that all special education students attending schools scheduled to be closed or to undergo a significant change be assigned to new schools prior to the implementation of the closing or change

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A08669 Summary:

BILL NOA08669 

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SAME ASSAME AS S08121-A

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SPONSORPheffer Amato

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd 604-e, R & SS L

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Permits certain twenty-five year retirement program dispatcher members to file elections not to participate.

Go to top A08669 Actions:

BILL NOA08669 

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05/27/2025referred to governmental employees

06/13/2025reference changed to ways and means

06/16/2025reported referred to rules

06/16/2025reported 

06/16/2025rules report cal.844

06/16/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.844

06/16/2025substituted by s8121a

&nbspS08121 AMEND=A JACKSON

&nbsp05/15/2025REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

&nbsp05/19/2025AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

&nbsp05/19/2025PRINT NUMBER 8121A

&nbsp06/12/2025COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

&nbsp06/12/2025ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.2013

&nbsp06/13/2025HOME RULE REQUEST

&nbsp06/13/2025PASSED SENATE

&nbsp06/13/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp06/13/2025referred to governmental employees

&nbsp06/16/2025substituted for a8669

&nbsp06/16/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.844

&nbsp06/16/2025home rule request

&nbsp06/16/2025passed assembly

&nbsp06/16/2025returned to senate

&nbsp12/08/2025DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR

&nbsp12/19/2025VETOED MEMO.159

Go to topA08669 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:WAYS AND MEANS Chair:Pretlow 
DATE:06/16/2025AYE/NAY:32/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules PretlowAyeRaAye

GlickAyeFitzpatrickAye

ColtonAyeHawleyAye

CookAyeBlankenbushAye

BenedettoAyePalmesanoAye

WeprinAyeWalshAye

RamosAbsentDeStefanoAye

BraunsteinAyeManktelowAye

McDonaldAyeSmullenAye

RozicExcusedGiglioAye

DinowitzAye

MagnarelliAye

BronsonAye

DilanAye

SeawrightAye

HyndmanAye

WalkerAye

Bichotte HermelAye

SimonAye

CruzAye

OtisAye

SolagesAye

HunterAye

EpsteinAye

SeptimoAbsent

Committee:RULES Chair:Glick 
DATE:06/16/2025AYE/NAY:29/0 Action: Favorable HeastieExcusedBarclayAye

PretlowAyeHawleyAye

CookAyeBlankenbushAye

GlickAyeRaAye

DinowitzAyeBrabenecAye

ColtonAyePalmesanoAye

MagnarelliAyeReillyAye

PaulinAyeSmithAye

Peoples-StokesAyeJensenAye

BenedettoAye

LavineAye

LupardoAye

BraunsteinAye

DavilaAye

HyndmanAye

RozicExcused

BronsonAye

HevesiAye

HunterAye

TaylorAye

CruzAye

VanelAye

Go to topA08669 Floor&nbspVotes:

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

Go to topA08669 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8669

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 27, 2025
 ___________

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

 AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to
 permitting certain twenty-five year retirement program dispatcher
 members to file elections not to participate

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 604-e of the retirement and social security law, as
 2 added by chapter 576 of the laws of 2000, is amended by adding a new
 3 subdivision f to read as follows:
 4 f. 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a
 5 dispatcher member who exceeded age thirty upon employment as a dispatch-
 6 er member and failed to file their election not to participate with the
 7 retirement system within one hundred eighty days of becoming a dispatch-
 8 er member, as required by paragraph three of subdivision b of this
 9 section, may file such an election with the retirement system within one
 10 hundred eighty days of the effective date of this subdivision.
 11 2. The retirement system shall post, and announce on its homepage the
 12 posting of, the form and corresponding instructions for dispatcher
 13 members to elect not to participate on its website no later than thirty
 14 days after the effective date of this subdivision.
 15 3. If the retirement system fails to post and announce the form and
 16 corresponding instructions no later than thirty days after the effective
 17 date of this subdivision, as prescribed by paragraph two of this subdi-
 18 vision, the period for a dispatcher member to elect not to participate
 19 prescribed by paragraph one of this subdivision sh