New York A 8350: Authorizes members or officers of the state police who were previously firefighters receive credit for such previous firefighter service

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A08350 Summary:

BILL NOA08350A

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SAME ASSAME AS S07986-A

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SPONSORButtenschon

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COSPNSRColton, Griffin, Steck, Stirpe, Lunsford, Conrad, Burdick, Pheffer Amato, Jones, Sayegh, Woerner,
 Fall, Shimsky, Clark, Kassay, Hevesi, Jacobson, Santabarbara, Carroll P, Kay, Eachus, McDonald,
 Simpson

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §381-b, R & SS L

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Authorizes members or officers of the state police who were previously firefighters receive credit for such previous firefighter service for the purposes of retirement.

Go to top A08350 Actions:

BILL NOA08350A

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05/13/2025referred to governmental employees

05/28/2025reported referred to ways and means

01/07/2026referred to governmental employees

01/16/2026amend and recommit to governmental employees

01/16/2026print number 8350a

Go to topA08350 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 topA08350 Floor&nbspVotes:

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

Go to topA08350 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8350--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 13, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. BUTTENSCHON, COLTON, GRIFFIN, STECK, STIRPE,
 LUNSFORD, CONRAD, BURDICK, PHEFFER AMATO, SAYEGH, WOERNER, FALL, SHIM-
 SKY, CLARK, KASSAY, HEVESI, JACOBSON, SANTABARBARA, P. CARROLL, KAY,
 EACHUS, McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Committee on Govern-
 mental Employees -- reported and referred to the Committee on Ways and
 Means -- 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 commit-
 tee

 AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to
 authorizing members or officers of the state police who were previous-
 ly firefighters to count such firefighter service towards such
 member's or officer's retirement plan

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

 1 Section 1. The subdivision heading of subdivision c of section 381-b
 2 of the retirement and social security law, as amended by chapter 581 of
 3 the laws of 2001, is amended and a new paragraph 3 is added to read as
 4 follows:
 5 Credit for previous [police] service.
 6 (3) Career firefighter service. In computing the years of total cred-
 7 itable service in such division each member who was previously a fire-
 8 fighter of any county, city, town, village or fire district and a member
 9 of the New York state and local police and fire retirement system shall
 10 receive full credit and be given full allowance for service previously
 11 rendered as a firefighter.
 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
 This bill would expand the definition of creditable service in section
 381-b of the Retirement and Social Security Law to include firefighter

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10354-03-6

 A. 8350--A 2

 service credit. Currently, a New York State Trooper does not receive
 service credit for time worked as a firefighter.
 There will be an immediate past service cost of $2.32 million borne by
 the State of New York as a one-time payment. This cost assumes that
 payment will be made on March 1, 2027.
 This bill will marginally increase the State of New York's annual
 contributions beginning FYE 2027.
 These estimated costs are based on 9 affected members employed by the
 State of New York, with annual salary of approximately $1.60 million as
 of March 31, 2025.
 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 statistics can be found in the 2025 Report
 of the Actuary and the 2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report. The
 actuarial assump