New York A 10164: Authorizes the county of Dutchess to offer an optional twenty-five year retirement plan to certain deputy sheriffs employed by such county

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A10164 Summary:

BILL NOA10164 

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SAME ASSAME AS S08006-A

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SPONSORPheffer Amato

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Authorizes the county of Dutchess to offer an optional twenty-five year retirement plan to certain deputy sheriffs employed by such county.

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BILL NOA10164 

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02/12/2026referred to governmental employees

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 10164

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 12, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Governmental Employees

 AN ACT in relation to authorizing the county of Dutchess to offer an
 optional twenty-five year retirement plan to certain deputy sheriffs
 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 provision of law to the contrary, the
 2 county of Dutchess, a participating employer in the New York state and
 3 local retirement system that elected to make the twenty-five year
 4 retirement plan provided in section 551 of the retirement and social
 5 security law available to deputy sheriffs employed by the county of
 6 Dutchess is hereby authorized to make such plan available to certain
 7 deputy sheriffs who, for reasons not ascribable to their own negligence,
 8 failed to make a timely application to participate in such twenty-five
 9 year retirement plan. Such employees are Arthur Hart with a start date
 10 of November 30, 1998, Stephen J Reverri Jr. with a start date of May 7,
 11 2001, Robert M Freer II with a start date of November 5, 2001, Phillip
 12 Lemere with a start date of December 3, 2001, Corey Ritch with a start
 13 date of February 7, 2004, Dawn Bonds with a start date of February 9,
 14 2004, Brian Wilber with a start date of October 12, 2004, Joel R Petrus
 15 with a start date of July 11, 2005, Stephen Slattery with a start date
 16 of July 11, 2005, Dominick Marcello with a start date of September 23,
 17 2006, Ryan Griffin with a start date of May 7, 2007, Adam Harris with a
 18 start date of May 7, 2007, Kate Capalbo with a start date of April 11,
 19 2009, Jared T Griffin with a start date of May 9, 2009, Jeffrey Cohen
 20 with a start date of March 31, 2012, Adrienne Licari with a start date
 21 of July 2, 2012, William Butler with a start date of April 1, 2013,
 22 Christopher Sheridan with a start date of October 21, 2013, Paul Digiov-
 23 anni with a start date of April 28, 2014, Justin Hogan with a start date
 24 of June 8, 2015, James Flanagan with a start date of February 29, 2016,
 25 Kyle Esposito with a start date of September 19, 2016, Paul Reinheimer
 26 with a start date of October 11, 2016, Christian Robillard with a start
 27 date of May 1, 2017, Ryan Duval with a start date of January 2, 2018,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11927-08-6

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