New York A 8628: Authorizes the county of Rockland to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to John F. Leonard, Jr., a deputy sheriff employed by such county

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A08628 Summary:

BILL NOA08628 

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SAME ASSAME AS S08164

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SPONSORCarroll P

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Authorizes the county of Rockland to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to John F. Leonard, Jr., a deputy sheriff employed by such county.

Go to top A08628 Actions:

BILL NOA08628 

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05/22/2025referred to governmental employees

06/11/2025reference changed to ways and means

06/16/2025reported referred to rules

06/16/2025reported 

06/16/2025rules report cal.842

06/16/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.842

06/16/2025substituted by s8164

&nbspS08164 AMEND= WEBER

&nbsp05/16/2025REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

&nbsp06/11/2025COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

&nbsp06/11/2025ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1854

&nbsp06/11/2025HOME RULE REQUEST

&nbsp06/11/2025PASSED SENATE

&nbsp06/11/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp06/11/2025referred to ways and means

&nbsp06/16/2025substituted for a8628

&nbsp06/16/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.842

&nbsp06/16/2025home rule request

&nbsp06/16/2025passed assembly

&nbsp06/16/2025returned to senate

&nbsp11/17/2025DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR

&nbsp11/21/2025SIGNED CHAP.562

Go to topA08628 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 topA08628 Floor&nbspVotes:

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

Go to topA08628 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 8628

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 22, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. P. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Governmental Employees

 AN ACT in relation to authorizing the county of Rockland to offer an
 optional twenty year retirement plan to John F. Leonard, Jr., a deputy
 sheriff employed by such county

 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 county of Rockland, a participating employer in the New York state
 3 employees' retirement system, which has elected to offer the optional
 4 twenty year retirement plan, established pursuant to article 14-B of the
 5 retirement and social security law, to deputy sheriffs employed by such
 6 county, is hereby authorized to make participation in such plan avail-
 7 able to John F. Leonard, Jr., a deputy sheriff employed by the county of
 8 Rockland with a start date of August 1, 2020, who, through no fault of
 9 his own, was not enrolled to participate in such optional twenty year
 10 plan contained in article 14-B of the retirement and social security
 11 law. The county of Rockland may so elect by filing with the state comp-
 12 troller, on or before 180 days after this act shall have become a law, a
 13 resolution of its governing body together with certification that such
 14 deputy sheriff did not bar themself from participation in the retirement
 15 plan as a result of their own negligence. Thereafter, such deputy sher-
 16 iff may individually elect to be covered by the provisions of sections
 17 552 and 553 of the retirement and social security law, and the retire-
 18 ment system shall credit service from August 1, 2020 to present under
 19 sections 552 and 553 of the retirement and social security law. Such
 20 membe