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NY A09162
Bill
Status
10/17/2025
Primary Sponsor
Stacey Pheffer Amato
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AI Summary
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Creates an optional 25-year retirement plan allowing 911 operators, public safety dispatchers, telecommunicators, communications officers, and emergency services dispatchers employed by state, county, or municipal emergency services departments to retire regardless of age after 25 years of service
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Retirement benefit equals 50% of final average salary upon completing 25 years of creditable service, with an additional 1/60th of final average salary for each year beyond 25 years, capped at 75% of final average salary
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Employers must elect to provide these benefits by adopting a resolution and filing it with the comptroller, and employers bear all costs including past service costs (payable over 5 or 10 years)
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Estimated fiscal impact includes approximately 6% increase in annual employer contributions for eligible member salaries, plus a one-time past service cost of approximately 17% of eligible member salaries
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Service credit includes time as state police, firefighter, police officer, correction officer, or criminal investigator in a district attorney's office, as well as military service during wartime
Legislative Description
Establishes an optional twenty-five year retirement plan for certain public safety dispatchers, public safety telecommunicators, 911 operators, communications officers, police communication technicians, emergency services operators and emergency services dispatchers employed by the state, or a county or municipal emergency services department.
Last Action
print number 9162a
2/24/2026