New York S 7973: Amends chapter 238 of the laws of 1963 relating to incorporating the Port Jefferson Volunteer Firemen's Benevolent Association, in relation to its purpose and the use of foreign fire insurance premium taxes

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S07973 Summary:

BILL NOS07973A

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SAME ASSAME AS A08865

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SPONSORMAYER

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §212, R & SS L

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Provides earnings limitations for retired police officers employed part-time by municipalities with a population of less than 7,500; permits such officer to work up to five hundred twenty hours in any consecutive six-month period, with no suspension or diminution of retirement allowance; establishes villages or towns shall report such hours and salary earned on a monthly basis and shall contribute a percentage of the officer's excess earnings to the New York state and local police and fire retirement system.

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BILL NOS07973A

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05/15/2025REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

05/27/2025REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

06/06/2025AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO FINANCE

06/06/2025PRINT NUMBER 7973A

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7973--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 May 15, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. MAYER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
 -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Commit-
 tee on Finance -- 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
 calculating the earnings limitations for retired police officers
 employed part-time by certain municipalities

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

 1 Section 1. Section 212 of the retirement and social security law is
 2 amended by adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
 3 4. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivisions one and two of this
 4 section, such earnings limitations shall not apply to a retired police
 5 officer, who has retired after having twenty years of vested service in
 6 a police pension system that fully vests at twenty years, who is
 7 employed part-time as a police officer in a village or town with a popu-
 8 lation of less than seven thousand five hundred as determined by the
 9 most recent federal decennial census, where at least seventy percent of
 10 such village or town's active-duty police force, not including civilian
 11 staff, consists of part-time officers. Such part-time police officer
 12 shall be permitted to work up to five hundred twenty hours in any
 13 consecutive six-month period in a calendar year based on hours worked as
 14 reported by the village or town on a monthly basis, with no suspension
 15 or diminution of retirement allowance. Any village or town that hires a
 16 retired police officer pursuant to this subdivision shall report such
 17 officer's days worked and salary earned to the New York state and local
 18 police and fire retirement system on a monthly basis. For any such
 19 officer whose earnings exceed the earnings limitations in subdivisions
 20 one and two of this section, the village or town employing such officer
 21 shall contribute to the New York state and local police and fire retire-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD13074-03-5

 S. 7973--A 2

 1 ment system a percentage of such officer's excess earnings equivalent to
 2 the normal contribution rate as described in paragraph one of subdivi-
 3 sion b of section three hundred twenty-three of this chapter.
 4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
 This bill would allow retired police officers to continue to receive
 their full retirement benefit when reemployed as a police officer on a
 part-time basis for up to 520 hours in any consecutive six-month period,
 when such employment is by a village or town where (1) the municipal
 population is less than 7,500, and (2) at least 70% of the police force
 is employed on a part-time basis. Such retired police officers must have
 retired from a twenty-yea