New York A 6450: Provides an optional twenty-five year retirement plan for 911 operators

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A06450 Summary:

BILL NOA06450A

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SAME ASSAME AS S03608-A

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SPONSORBailey

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COSPNSRDeStefano, Bologna

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §89-z, amd §§445, 603 & 604, R & SS L

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Provides an optional twenty-five year retirement plan for county 911 operators throughout the state.

Go to top A06450 Actions:

BILL NOA06450A

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03/05/2025referred to governmental employees

05/28/2025held for consideration in governmental employees

01/07/2026referred to governmental employees

02/17/2026amend and recommit to governmental employees

02/17/2026print number 6450a

Go to topA06450 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES Chair:Pheffer Amato 
DATE:05/28/2025AYE/NAY:10/4 Action: Held for Consideration Pheffer AmatoAyeDeStefanoNay

ColtonAyeReillyNay

SantabarbaraAyeGiglioNay

EichensteinAyeTannousisNay

McDonaldAye

BurkeAye

GriffinAye

CarrollAye

RomeroAye

YegerAye

Go to topA06450 Floor&nbspVotes:

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

Go to topA06450 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6450--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 5, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. BAILEY, DeSTEFANO, BOLOGNA -- 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 retirement and social security law, in relation to
 the retirement of county 911 operators

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

 1 Section 1. The retirement and social security law is amended by adding
 2 a new section 89-z to read as follows:
 3 § 89-z. Optional twenty-five year retirement plan for county police
 4 communications operators, police communications operator supervisors,
 5 assistant bureau directors (police 911 communications) and bureau direc-
 6 tors (police 911 communications). a. Any member who is a county police
 7 communications operator, police communications operator supervisor,
 8 assistant bureau director (police 911 communications) or bureau director
 9 (police 911 communications) in an electing county, shall be eligible to
 10 retire pursuant to the provisions of this section. Such eligibility
 11 shall be an alternative to the eligibility provisions available under
 12 any other plan of this article to which such member is subject. The
 13 comptroller shall have the authority to include positions herein that
 14 comprehend the same duties and responsibilities, but are named differ-
 15 ently.
 16 b. Such member shall be entitled to retire upon the completion of
 17 twenty-five years of total creditable service by filing an application
 18 therefor in the manner provided for in section seventy of this article.
 19 c. Upon completion of twenty-five years of such service and upon
 20 retirement, each such member shall receive a pension which, together
 21 with an annuity which shall be the actuarial equivalent of such member's
 22 accumulated contributions at the time of retirement and an additional

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01079-08-6

 A. 6450--A 2

 1 pension which is the actuarial equivalent of the reserved-for-in-
 2 creased-take-home-pay to which such member may then be entitled shall be
 3 sufficient to provide such member with a retirement allowance equal to
 4 one-half of their final average salary.
 5 d. As used in this section "creditable service" shall include any and
 6 all services performed as a county police communications operator,
 7 police communications operator supervisor, assistant bureau director
 8 (police 911 communications) and bureau director (police 911 communi-
 9 cations).
 10 e. Credit for service as a member or officer of the state police or as
 11 a paid firefighter, police officer or officer of any organized fire
 12 department or police force or department of any county, city, village,
 13 town, fire district or police district, or as a criminal investigator in
 14 the office of a district attorney, or as a probation assi