New York S 9476: Relates to service rendered by police officers in the agency police services unit

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S09476 Summary:

BILL NOS09476A

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SAME ASSAME AS A10787

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SPONSORJACKSON

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COSPNSRADDABBO, CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK, CLEARE, COONEY, FERNANDEZ, GOUNARDES, HARCKHAM, HELMING, HINCHEY,
 MARTINEZ, MAYER, OBERACKER, PALUMBO, SCARCELLA-SPANTON, SERRANO, SKOUFIS, STAVISKY

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §381-b, R & SS L

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Relates to service rendered by police officers in the agency police services unit.

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BILL NOS09476A

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03/16/2026REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

04/07/2026AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

04/07/2026PRINT NUMBER 9476A

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 9476--A

 IN SENATE

 March 16, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. JACKSON, CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK, CLEARE, HARCKHAM,
 HELMING, HINCHEY, MARTINEZ, MAYER, OBERACKER, PALUMBO, SCARCELLA-SPAN-
 TON, SERRANO, STAVISKY -- 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
 service rendered by police officers in the agency police services unit

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision a of section 381-b of the retirement and social
 2 security law, as amended by section 6 of part L of chapter 58 of the
 3 laws of 2024, is amended to read as follows:
 4 a. Membership. (1) Every member or officer of the division of state
 5 police in the executive department who enters or re-enters service in
 6 the division on or after April first, nineteen hundred sixty-nine, and
 7 every member or officer of the division of state police in the executive
 8 department in such service on such date may elect to be covered by the
 9 provisions of this section by filing an election therefor with the comp-
 10 troller on or before March thirty-first, nineteen hundred seventy-two.
 11 To be effective, such election shall be duly executed and acknowledged
 12 on a form prepared by the comptroller for that purpose.
 13 (2) Every investigator or sworn officer employed by the commission
 14 created by section six of chapter eight hundred eighty-two of the laws
 15 of nineteen hundred fifty-three, constituting the waterfront commission
 16 act, as amended, on or after July first, two thousand twenty-three, and
 17 every investigator or sworn officer employed by the New York Waterfront
 18 Commission in the executive department shall be covered by the
 19 provisions of this section[, and every member or officer of the division
 20 of state police in the executive department in such service on such date
 21 may elect to be covered by the provisions of this section by filing an
 22 election therefor with the comptroller on or before March thirty-first,
 23 nineteen hundred seventy-two. To be effective, such election must be

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD14774-04-6

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 1 duly executed and acknowledged on a form prepared by the comptroller for
 2 that purpose].
 3 (3) Every non-seasonally appointed sworn member or officer of the
 4 division of law enforcement in the department of environmental conserva-
 5 tion, a forest ranger in the service of the department of environmental
 6 conservation, which shall mean a person who serves on a full-time basis
 7 in the title of forest ranger I, forest ranger II, forest ranger III,
 8 assistant superintendent of forest fire control, superintendent of
 9 forest fire control or any successor titles or new titles in the forest
 10 ranger title series in the department of environmental conservation, a
 11 police officer in the department of environmental conservation, the
 12 regional state park police, and university police officers shall be
 13 covered by the provisions of this section.
 14 § 2. Subdivision c of section 381-b of the retirement and social secu-
 15 rity law, as amended by chapter 581