New York S 6321: Authorizes the county of Suffolk and the village of Nissequogue, in the county of Suffolk, to offer the 20-year retirement option to Bridget Topping, a police officer employed by such county and village

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S06321 Summary:

BILL NOS06321 

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SAME ASSAME AS A06303

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Authorizes the county of Suffolk and the village of Nissequogue, in the county of Suffolk, to offer the 20-year retirement option to Bridget Topping, a police officer employed by such county and village.

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03/10/2025REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6321

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 10, 2025
 ___________

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

 AN ACT to authorize the county of Suffolk and the village of Nissequogue
 to offer an optional twenty-year retirement plan to police officer
 Bridget Topping

 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 Suffolk and the village of Nissequogue, in the county of
 3 Suffolk, participating employers in the New York state and local police
 4 and fire retirement system, which previously elected to offer the
 5 optional twenty-year retirement plan, established pursuant to section
 6 384-d of the retirement and social security law, to police officers
 7 employed by such county and village, are hereby authorized to make
 8 participation in such plan available to Bridget Topping, a police offi-
 9 cer employed full-time by the county of Suffolk and part-time by the
 10 village of Nissequogue, who, for reasons not ascribable to her own
 11 negligence, failed to make a timely application to participate in such
 12 optional twenty-year retirement plan. The county of Suffolk and the
 13 village of Nissequogue may so elect by separately filing with the state
 14 comptroller, within nine months of the effective date of this act,
 15 resolutions of its own county legislature and the village board of trus-
 16 tees together with certification that such police officer did not bar
 17 herself from participation in such retirement plan as a result of her
 18 own negligence. Thereafter, such police officer may elect to be covered
 19 by the provisions of section 384-d of the retirement and social security
 20 law and shall be entitled to the full rights and benefits associated
 21 with coverage under such section as well as section 384-e of such law,
 22 by filing a request to that effect with the state comptroller within one
 23 year of the effective date of this act.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04419-02-5

 S. 6321 2

 1 § 2. All employer past service costs associated with implementing the
 2 provisions of this act shall be borne by the county of Suffolk and may
 3 be amortized over a ten-year period.
 4 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
 This bill would allow Suffolk County and the Village of Nissequogue to
 reopen the provisions of section 384-d, together with section 384-e, of
 the Retirement and Social Security Law for police officer Bridget
 Topping.
 If this bill is enacted during the 2025 Legislative Session, we antic-
 ipate that there will be an increase of approximately $20,000 in the
 annual contributions of Suffolk County and $1,400 in the annual contrib-
 utions of the Village of Nissequogue for the fiscal year ending March
 31, 2026. In future years this cost will vary as the billing rates and
 salary of Bridget Topping change.
 In addition to the annual contributions discussed above, there will be
 an immediate past service cost of approximately $726,000 which will be
 borne by Suffolk County as a one-time payment. This estimate assumes
 that payment will be made on February 1, 2026. If Suffolk County elects
 to amortize this cost over a 10-year period, the cost for the first year
 including interest would be $92,700.
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