New York A 8544: Relates to making technical corrections to the 2017-18 capital projects budget

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A08544 Summary:

BILL NOA08544 

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SAME ASSAME AS S08219

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SPONSORKelles

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Authorizes the village of Trumansburg to offer an optional twenty-year retirement plan to Mackenzie M. Covert under section 384-d of the retirement and social security law.

Go to top A08544 Actions:

BILL NOA08544 

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05/20/2025referred to governmental employees

06/11/2025reference changed to ways and means

06/16/2025reported referred to rules

06/16/2025reported 

06/16/2025rules report cal.835

06/16/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.835

06/16/2025substituted by s8219

&nbspS08219 AMEND= WEBB

&nbsp05/22/2025REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

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

&nbsp06/11/2025ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1859

&nbsp06/11/2025HOME RULE REQUEST

&nbsp06/11/2025PASSED SENATE

&nbsp06/11/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp06/11/2025referred to ways and means

&nbsp06/16/2025substituted for a8544

&nbsp06/16/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.835

&nbsp06/16/2025home rule request

&nbsp06/16/2025passed assembly

&nbsp06/16/2025returned to senate

&nbsp11/17/2025DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR

&nbsp11/21/2025SIGNED CHAP.568

Go to topA08544 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 topA08544 Floor&nbspVotes:

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

Go to topA08544 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8544

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 20, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. KELLES -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Governmental Employees

 AN ACT in relation to authorizing Mackenzie M. Covert to receive certain
 service credit under a twenty year retirement plan

 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 Mackenzie M. Covert, a member of the New York state and local police and
 3 fire retirement system, who was appointed as a police officer with the
 4 Trumansburg Police Department, in the village of Trumansburg, county of
 5 Tompkins, on February 13, 2017, and who, through no fault of her own,
 6 was enrolled to participate in the retirement plan contained in section
 7 375-i of the retirement and social security law, shall be given full
 8 credit in the special twenty year retirement plan contained in section
 9 384-d of the retirement and social security law for such service upon
 10 the election of the village of Trumansburg to assume the additional cost
 11 of such service. The village of Trumansburg may so elect by filing with
 12 the state comptroller, no later than one year from the effective date of
 13 this act, a resolution of its local legislative body, together with
 14 certification that such police officer did not bar herself from partic-
 15 ipation in such retirement plan as a result of her own negligence. Ther-
 16 eafter, such police officer may elect to be covered by the provisions of
 17 section 384-d of the retirement and social security law, and shall be
 18 entitled to the full rights and benefits associated with coverage under
 19 such section, by filing a request to such effect with the state comp-
 20 troller no later than one year from t