New York S 7866: Establishes a twenty-two year retirement program for deputy sheriff members

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S07866 Summary:

BILL NOS07866A

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SAME ASSAME AS A08520

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SPONSORJACKSON

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd R & SS L, generally

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Establishes a twenty-two year retirement program for deputy sheriff members who are employed by the city of New York as a deputy city sheriff level one, deputy city sheriff level two, supervising deputy sheriff or administrative sheriff.

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BILL NOS07866A

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05/12/2025REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

05/15/2025AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

05/15/2025PRINT NUMBER 7866A

05/27/2025REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7866--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 May 12, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
 and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to
 establishing a twenty-two year retirement program for deputy sheriff
 members

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 5, 7, 12 and 17 of section 501 of the retire-
 2 ment and social security law, subdivisions 5 and 12 as amended by chap-
 3 ter 18 of the laws of 2012, subdivision 7 as amended by chapter 457 of
 4 the laws of 2017, and subdivision 17 as amended by section 1 of part SS
 5 of chapter 55 of the laws of 2025, are amended to read as follows:
 6 5. "Early retirement age" shall mean age fifty-five, for general
 7 members, and the age on which a member completes or would have completed
 8 twenty years of service, for police/fire members, New York city
 9 uniformed correction/sanitation revised plan members [and], investigator
 10 revised plan members and New York city deputy sheriff revised plan
 11 members.
 12 7. "Eligible beneficiary" for the purposes of section five hundred
 13 nine of this article shall mean the following persons or classes of
 14 persons in the order set forth: (a) a surviving spouse who has not
 15 renounced survivorship rights in a separation agreement, until remar-
 16 riage, (b) surviving children until age twenty-five, (c) dependent
 17 parents, determined under regulations promulgated by the comptroller,
 18 (d) any other person who qualified as a dependent on the final federal
 19 income tax return of the member or the return filed in the year imme-
 20 diately preceding the year of death, until such person reaches twenty-
 21 one years of age, (e) with respect to members of the New York city
 22 employees' retirement system (other than a New York city uniformed

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10888-04-5

 S. 7866--A 2

 1 correction/sanitation revised plan member [or], an investigator revised
 2 plan member or a New York city deputy sheriff revised plan member) and
 3 the board of education retirement system of the city of New York, a
 4 person whom the member shall have nominated in the form of a written
 5 designation, duly acknowledged and filed with the head of the retirement
 6 system for the purpose of section five hundred eight of this article. In
 7 the event that a class of eligible beneficiaries consists of more than
 8 one person, benefits shall be divided equally among the persons in such
 9 class. For the purposes of section five hundred eight of this article
 10 the term "eligible beneficiary" shall mean such person as the member
 11 shall have nominated to receive the benefits provided in this article.
 12 To be effective, such a nomination must be in the form of a written
 13 designation, duly acknowledged and filed with the head of the retirement
 14 system for this specific purpose. In the event such designated benefici-
 15 ary does not survive [him] such member, or if [he] such member shall not
 16 have so designated a beneficiary,