New York A 8610: Authorizes the county of Rockland to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to Matthew Donovan, a deputy sheriff employed by such county

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A08610 Summary:

BILL NOA08610A

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SAME ASSAME AS S08208-A

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Authorizes the county of Rockland to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to Matthew Donovan, a deputy sheriff employed by such county.

Go to top A08610 Actions:

BILL NOA08610A

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05/22/2025referred to governmental employees

06/06/2025amend and recommit to governmental employees

06/06/2025print number 8610a

06/15/2025reference changed to ways and means

06/16/2025reported referred to rules

06/16/2025reported 

06/16/2025rules report cal.841

06/16/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.841

06/16/2025substituted by s8208a

&nbspS08208 AMEND=A WEBER

&nbsp05/21/2025REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

&nbsp06/02/2025AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

&nbsp06/02/2025PRINT NUMBER 8208A

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

&nbsp06/11/2025ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1857

&nbsp06/11/2025HOME RULE REQUEST

&nbsp06/11/2025PASSED SENATE

&nbsp06/11/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp06/11/2025referred to governmental employees

&nbsp06/16/2025substituted for a8610a

&nbsp06/16/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.841

&nbsp06/16/2025home rule request

&nbsp06/16/2025passed assembly

&nbsp06/16/2025returned to senate

&nbsp11/17/2025DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR

&nbsp11/21/2025SIGNED CHAP.566

Go to topA08610 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 topA08610 Floor&nbspVotes:

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

Go to topA08610 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8610--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 22, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. WIEDER -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Governmental Employees -- committee discharged, bill amended,
 ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT in relation to authorizing the county of Rockland to offer an
 optional twenty year retirement plan to Matthew Donovan, 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 Matthew Donovan, 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 individ