New York A 8444: Enacts the unified economic development budget act

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A08444 Summary:

BILL NOA08444A

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SAME ASSAME AS S07916-A

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SPONSORPheffer Amato

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §13-157.5, amd §13-125.2, NYC Ad Cd; amd §§444, 445, 604-e, 613 & 603, add §§445-j & 604-k, R & SS L

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Relates to the establishment of a twenty-two and one-half year retirement program for members of the New York city employees' retirement system employed as emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical technicians and to the establishment of such program for such members who are subject to articles 11 and 15 of the retirement and social security law.

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BILL NOA08444A

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05/16/2025referred to governmental employees

01/07/2026referred to governmental employees

04/20/2026amend and recommit to governmental employees

04/20/2026print number 8444a

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8444--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 16, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Governmental Employees -- recommitted to the Committee on
 Governmental Employees in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
 committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
 recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
 relation to the establishment of a twenty-two and one-half year
 retirement program for members of the New York city employees' retire-
 ment system employed as emergency medical technicians and advanced
 emergency medical technicians; and to amend the retirement and social
 security law, in relation to the establishment of twenty-two and one-
 half year retirement programs for such members who are subject to
 articles 11 and 15 of such law

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

 1 Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
 2 by adding a new section 13-157.5 to read as follows:
 3 § 13-157.5 Twenty-two and one-half year retirement program for EMT
 4 members. a. Definitions. The following words and phrases as used in
 5 this section shall have the following meanings unless a different mean-
 6 ing is plainly required by the context.
 7 1. "EMT member" shall mean (i) a member of the retirement system who
 8 is employed by the city of New York or by the New York city health and
 9 hospitals corporation in a title whose duties are those of an emergency
 10 medical technician or advanced emergency medical technician, as those
 11 terms are defined in section three thousand one of the public health
 12 law, and (ii) a member of the retirement system who, on the effective
 13 date of this section or thereafter, was employed by the city of New York
 14 or by the New York city health and hospitals corporation in a title
 15 whose duties are those of an emergency medical technician or advanced
 16 emergency medical technician, as those terms are defined in section

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00483-05-6

 A. 8444--A 2

 1 three thousand one of the public health law and who, subsequent thereto,
 2 became employed by the city of New York or by the New York city health
 3 and hospitals corporation in a title whose duties require the super-
 4 vision of employees whose duties are those of an emergency medical tech-
 5 nician or advanced emergency medical technician, as those terms are
 6 defined in section three thousand one of the public health law.
 7 2. "Twenty-two and one-half year retirement program" shall mean all
 8 the terms and conditions of this section.
 9 3. "Starting date of the twenty-two and one-half year retirement
 10 program" shall mean the effective date of this section, as such date is
 11 certified pursuant to section forty-one of the legislative law.
 12 4. "Participant in the twenty-two and one-half year retirement
 13 program" shall mean any EMT member who, under the applicable provisions
 14 of subdivision b of this section