New York S 7115: Relates to supplemental military retirement allowances for members of public retirement systems of the state

Bill Text

Bill Search and Legislative Information | New York State Assembly 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

 Skip to main content 

 New York State Assembly

 Speaker Carl E. Heastie

 --> 
 --> 

 --> 

• 
 Assembly Members 

• 
 Legislative Info 

• 
 Public Hearings 

• 
 Speaker's Press 

• 
 Assembly Reports 

• 
 Committees & More 

• Bill Search Home
• Laws
• Legislative Calendar
• Public Hearing Schedule
• Assembly Calendars
• Assembly Committee Agenda 

 Javascript must be enabled to properly view this page. 

 Bill No.: 

• Summary 
• Actions 
• Committee&nbspVotes 
• Floor&nbspVotes 
• Memo 
• Text 
• LFIN 
• Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript 
S07115 Summary:

BILL NOS07115 

&nbsp

SAME ASNo Same As

&nbsp

SPONSORSCARCELLA-SPANTON

&nbsp

COSPNSR

&nbsp

MLTSPNSR

&nbsp

Amd §§1000, 78-a & 378-a, R & SS L; amd §532-a, Ed L; amd §13-696, NYC Ad Cd

&nbsp

Relates to supplemental military retirement allowances for members of public retirement systems of the state.

Go to top S07115 Actions:

BILL NOS07115 

&nbsp

04/01/2025REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

04/29/2025REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Go to topS07115 Committee&nbspVotes:

Go to topS07115 Floor&nbspVotes:

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

Go to topS07115 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7115

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 April 1, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
 and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and
 Pensions

 AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, the education
 law and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation
 to supplemental military retirement allowances for members of public
 retirement systems of the state

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

 1 Section 1. Section 1000 of the retirement and social security law is
 2 amended by adding a new subdivision 8-a to read as follows:
 3 8-a. A person who retired prior to May thirty-first, two thousand
 4 seventeen and who would have been entitled to the provisions of this
 5 section, may make application to such retirement system no later than
 6 December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-five for a supplemental mili-
 7 tary retirement allowance pursuant to this subdivision. The supple-
 8 mental retirement allowance provided by this subdivision shall be in
 9 lieu of any benefit otherwise provided pursuant to this section and any
 10 credit granted for military service with any retirement system of this
 11 state pursuant to any other section of law. Upon receipt of an applica-
 12 tion, the retirement system shall determine the amount of service credit
 13 such person would have been entitled to receive pursuant to subdivisions
 14 one and two of this section, subject to the limitations contained in
 15 this section. The supplemental military retirement allowance shall equal
 16 the retirement allowance of such person, computed without optional
 17 modification and not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars, multiplied by
 18 twenty-five one-hundredths of one percent per month of the service cred-
 19 it as determined pursuant to this subdivision. One-twelfth of the
 20 supplemental military retirement allowance shall be added to the retire-
 21 ment allowance of such person each month. The benefit payable pursuant
 22 to this section shall commence on the next retirement allowance payable

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08346-02-5

 S. 7115 2

 1 at least thirty days after the receipt of an application from such
 2 person. For the purposes of this subdivision, retirement allowance shall
 3 exclude any annuity derived from voluntary contributions made by the
 4 individual, except those made pursuant to elections under subdivision
 5 one of section five hundred eleven-a or paragraph c of subdivision three
 6 of section five hundred sixteen of the education law, but shall include
 7 any cost of living adjustment derived from sections seventy-eight-a and
 8 three hundred seventy-eight-a of this chapter or section five hundred
 9 thirty-two-a of the education law, as applicable. The benefit payable
 10 pursuant to this subdivision shall be payable for the life of the
 11 retired member only, except that the surviving spouse of a deceased
 12 member who retired under an option providing a benefit to be continued
 13 for life to the surviving spouse after the death of the member shall be
 14 entitled to receive fifty percent of the monthly benefit that the
 15 retired member would be receiving pursuant to this subdivision, if
 16 living, commencing with the next retirement allowance payable at least
 17 thirty days after receipt of an applicati