Governmental Employees

Grants retroactive tier V membership in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Marca McClenon.

Authorizes the county of Erie to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to Nicholas Cervoni, Thomas Makin, and Sarah Murphy, deputy sheriffs employed by such county.

Provides that service retirement benefits for members of the NYC police pension fund shall not be reduced by the primary social security retirement benefit commencing at age sixty-two.

Authorizes Robin Garfinkle, the widow of Howard Mahler, to file a retirement option election on behalf of her deceased husband.

Relates to increasing the earnings limitation for positions of public service; increases the earnings limitation from $35,000 to $65,000 in 2027 and thereafter.

Provides that for New York city uniformed sanitation revised plan members of the New York city employees' retirement system, the service retirement benefit shall not be reduced by the primary social security retirement benefit commencing at age sixty-two.

Provides that public officers and employees of the state who are members of the United States Air Force Auxiliary Civil Air Patrol or the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Pilots shall be granted leave from work with pay to participate in emergency services during certain air force assigned missions.

Increases the amount of years of military service credit a member may purchase from three years to four years; provides that the provisions of such act shall not be subject to the requirement that the state shall make an equal payment to the retirement system.

Provides a heart disease presumption for correction officers, correction supervisors, deputy sheriff patrol or deputy sheriff patrol supervisors.

Relates to increasing the earnings limitation for positions of public service; increases the earnings limitation from $35,000 to $65,000 in 2027 and thereafter.

Provides for salary bonuses for members of the uniformed service with the New York city fire department who retire with at least twenty-five, thirty or thirty-five years of service.

Requires dental insurance plans to automatically carry over a portion of the enrollee's unused benefit amount of up to 25% of the total benefit amount for use in the succeeding year.

Grants retroactive Tier IV membership in the New York city teachers' retirement system to certain employees employed by the city of Yonkers parks department for the period beginning in 2009 and ending in 2014.

Authorizes Christine Hasseler to apply for a recalculation of her retirement benefits.

Relates to death benefits for members of the uniformed force of the New York city department of sanitation and members of the uniformed force of the New York city department of correction; establishes that the beneficiaries of a member who would have been entitled to a service retirement benefit at the time of such member's death may elect to receive, in a lump sum, an amount payable which shall be equal to the pension reserve that would have been established had the member retired on the date of such member's death, or the value of the death benefit and the reserve-for-increased-take-home-pay, if any, whichever is greater.

Establishes a retirement service credit for volunteer fire or emergency service.

Establishes a twenty-five year retirement program for members of the NYC employees' retirement system employed as water supply police; provides for employer pick-up of certain additional member contributions required to be made by certain participants in the 25-year retirement programs.

Provides for longevity bonuses relating to first grade firefighters and promotions from the firefighter rank.

Includes prior service with certain agencies in creditable service for the purposes of the New York city police pension fund.

Authorizes the county of Warren to offer an optional twenty-year retirement plan to Bradley Murphy, a patrol officer employed by such county.

Provides for certain death benefits to correction officers, correction officer-sergeants, correction officer-captains, assistant wardens, associate wardens or wardens employed by Orange county.

Extends the benefits of the variable supplements fund for transit police members of the New York city employees' retirement system for persons who retired on or after October 1, 1968.

Relates to providing state correction officers with a special optional twenty year retirement plan.

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.

Relates to the determination of salary base for members of the New York city police pension fund; provides that the salary base for members of the New York city police pension fund whose employment with the police department of the city of New York commenced on or after July 1, 2000 shall be determined in the same manner as members whose employment commenced prior to such date.

Provides that the civil service commission may determine that one in every thirty-six positions with duties which can be performed by persons with autism spectrum disorder.

Authorizes an optional 20-year retirement plan for traffic officers employed by the town of Elmira, who submit an application therefor within one year of the effective date of such provisions, or within one year of start of employment.

Authorizes the participation by free association libraries in the New York state and local employees' retirement system.

Provides that for each fiscal year commencing on or after July 1, 2025, the city of New York shall provide an excess differential offset to each person who was employed by the board of education as a paraprofessional for all or part of such year.

Relates to the effectiveness of provisions of law relating to the department of civil service allowing municipalities to post municipal employment positions on the department of civil service's state jobs website.

Authorizes the county of Dutchess to offer an optional twenty-five year retirement plan to certain deputy sheriffs employed by such county.

Establishes an optional twenty-five year retirement plan for employees of the New York Power Authority with the job title of mechanic, technician, electrician, equipment operator, power plant operator, utility security officer, or lineperson who are a member of the public employee organization certified or recognized to represent employees of such authority.

Grants Nassau county fire marshals, supervising fire marshals, fire marshals, assistant fire marshals, assistant chief fire marshals or chief fire marshals pension benefits for service rendered beyond twenty-five years.

Restores the 20 year service retirement for certain New York city corrections officers and sanitation workers.

Permits New York City correction and sanitation members to borrow from accumulated contributions to their retirement plans.

Authorizes Tina Russo to receive certain service credit with the New York state teachers' retirement system.

Grants retroactive tier IV membership in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Katie Adamek, who is an employee of the Schenectady City School District beginning November 23, 2009.

Authorizes Michael V. Layman to receive state police retirement credit for services performed as a SUNY police officer.

Authorizes Susan Gillinder, the widow of Robert C. Ritchie, to file a new service retirement application and an option election form on behalf of her deceased husband with the New York state and local employees' retirement system.

Relates to hearing procedures for certain public employees; provides that the recommendation of a hearing officer in relation to designated managerial and confidential employees shall be considered final and not subject to change or modification.

Requires subsidiaries of certain authorities and their employees to submit all unresolvable contract negotiations to binding arbitration.

Relates to accidental disability retirement for sheriffs; provides that sheriffs shall receive a pension of three-quarters of their final average salary.

Requires the office of renewable energy siting and electric transmission to establish a mapping, installation and efficiency plan for the purpose of building new electric transmission lines.

Provides a cost-of-living adjustment for members of retirement systems by increasing the base benefit amount for computation to $21,000.

Provides a presumption for accidental disability benefits for certain deputy sheriff members in the sheriff's department of a city with a population of one million or more who in performance of their duties contract human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), tuberculosis or hepatitis.

Relates to veterans' preferences with respect to civil service promotions; removes requirement of service during a time of war for additional points on civil service examinations for veterans.

Authorizes Melissa Baker to receive certain service credit under a twenty year retirement plan for service with the village of Blasdell Police Department.

Relates to veterans' preferences with respect to civil service promotions; removes requirement of service during a time of war for additional points on civil service examinations for veterans.

Relates to changes of membership eligibility in a New York state retirement system.

Requires the same benefits and services for post-traumatic stress disorder for emergency dispatchers and correction officers as are afforded police and firefighters.

Requires health benefits for state and retired state employees have the option to only cover the employee or retiree and their spouse or domestic partner.

Relates to protecting retiree health insurance benefits; provides that the health insurance benefits provided to retired officers, employees, and their dependents by the state and its political subdivisions shall not be diminished or impaired below the actuarial value of the benefits provided as of December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-one.

Authorizes members or officers of the state police who were previously firefighters receive credit for such previous firefighter service for the purposes of retirement.

Authorizes members or officers of the state police who were previously firefighters receive credit for such previous firefighter service for the purposes of retirement.

Requires subsidiaries of certain authorities and their employees to submit all unresolvable contract negotiations to binding arbitration.

Relates to the election of retirement benefits for certain members of the New York state and local employees' retirement system who are employed by the office of mental health.

Establishes a defined contribution plan for all non-civil service appointees and elected officials of the New York state and local employees' retirement system who are not yet vested in a state retirement system or who are hired after the effective date of this section; authorizes elected officials to join such defined contribution plan; defines terms; provides for contributions to such defined contribution plan; authorizes the promulgation of any necessary rules and regulations.

Provides cost-of-living adjustments for certain public retirees, including an adjusted benefit in monthly installments that is equal to the percentage of the change in consumer price index according to the included schedule.

Grants retroactive membership with Tier IV status in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Philip Apruzzese.

Prevents an agency, department, division, commission, bureau or any other entity under the authority of the executive department from contracting, subcontracting or hiring any third party during a hiring freeze.

Grants retroactive tier IV membership in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Kenneth Panaro.

Provides that where an active or retired police officer dies by suicide and is enrolled in a health insurance plan, the surviving dependents of such police officer shall be entitled to such health insurance coverage for ninety days following such police officer's death.

Directs the state civil service commission to amend the sick leave accrual rates for state employees designated managerial or confidential to be credited with sick leave at the rate of 13 days per year.

Enacts the State Police Retention act; provides a deferred retirement option plan payable to members and officers of the division of state police.

Provides that a member of a public retirement system of the state who is a disabled veteran may retire without reduction of their retirement benefit upon their attainment of at least fifty-five years of age and completion of at least thirteen years of credited service in such retirement system.

Provides for retirement credit to emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical technicians for a child care leave of absence.

Authorizes Liliana Fernandez-Clemente, the widow of Daniel Clemente, to file a new service retirement application and option election form with the New York state and local employees' retirement system on behalf of such deceased member.

Authorizes the New York state and local employees' retirement system to accept an application for disability retirement benefits from Andrew Reilly, Jr.

Changes the due date by which the New York State teachers' retirement system is required to submit the annual MWBE report to on or before December thirty-first following the end of the teachers retirement system's fiscal year.

Provides for children who were under the age of 25 when the death of the member occurred to receive an accidental death benefit for their lifetimes.

Provides for a heart disease presumption for certain New York police department traffic enforcement agents.

Relates to the creation of an annual report on the race and ethnic data of individuals who have taken a civil service examination.

Establishes a credit for military spouses and surviving spouses of veterans for competitive examinations whether for original appointment or promotion.

Exempts certain military service credit from being included in calculations of up to three years of military service credit for a public retirement system of the state.

Relates to disability retirement benefits for the presumption of cancer affecting the endocrine and thyroid systems and Parkinson's Disease for certain firefighters.

Authorizes Thomas Collins to file a request for change of benefit coverage with the New York state teachers' retirement system.

Grants retroactive tier IV membership in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Richard J. Vogt, III.

Authorizes Judy A. Lynch, the widow of James G. Lynch, to file a new service retirement application and an option election form on behalf of her deceased husband with the New York state and local employees' retirement system.

Clarifies that the New York state health insurance program remains subject to certain provisions of the financial services law and coverage for usual and customary costs for out-of-network health care service.

Establishes a managerial or confidential higher education differential for employees designated managerial or confidential who hold an earned associate's degree, bachelor's degree, master's degree, or doctorate (e.g., MD, JD, Ph.D.) from a college or university or a professional license issued by the New York state education department are eligible to receive a higher education differential of up to six hundred dollars retroactively for state fiscal year two thousand twenty-four-two thousand twenty-five and for state fiscal year two thousand twenty-five-two thousand twenty-six.

Provides that the maximum age requirement of 35 years for police officers to take a competitive examination shall not apply to any police officer of any county, city, town or village police force not otherwise provided for in this section if such officer is a part-time police officer in a non-competitive position and is vested in the New York state and local police and fire retirement system.

Removes post-retirement earnings restrictions for New York city department of correction uniformed personnel with respect to a retiree subsequent to such member's earliest eligibility date for service retirement.

Grants retroactive tier II membership in the New York state and local police and fire retirement system to Daniel Rizzo.

Authorizes Daniel Woolley to file for an accidental disability retirement.

Provides a performance of duty presumption for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis for paid members of a fire department in a city with a population of one million or more.

Authorizes active members of the New York state and local police and fire retirement system to purchase service credit for service with the Long Island Railroad Company police department.

Relates to increasing the mandatory retirement age for New York police department members from 62 to 65.

Enacts the "building recruitment and incentives for dedicated government employees (BRIDGE) act" which provides a service credit for members who were previously employed by the federal government.

Recalibrates the final average salary retirement calculations in the New York state teachers' retirement system for Joanne Halverson by including certain earnings from the 2020-2021 year.

Establishes maximum age requirements for New York city correction officers; provides that the commissioner of correction shall not appoint a person as a correction officer if such person is more than thirty-five years of age as of the date of the applicant's appointment or eligibility to compete in a promotion examination.

Provides for a grace period until July 1, 2025, in which former employees of the department of corrections and community supervision that participated in a strike may return to full duty without discipline.

Restores the 20 year service retirement for certain New York city sanitation workers.

Allows members of a public retirement system who retired prior to applying for credit for military service because such credit was not available at the time of their retirement to receive such credit if they apply prior to December 31, 2026.

Establishes a supplemental burial allowance for certain first responders.

Provides that where a board of cooperative educational services has made a provisional appointment to a position and no civil service examination for such position has been conducted within nine months of such appointment, the provisional appointment shall not expire and shall be considered permanent.

Authorizes Kevin Burns to receive certain service credit under a twenty year retirement plan for service with the Binghamton Fire Department.

Authorizes Olivia Rae Salta, the daughter of Dawn Jimenez-Salta, to file a new service retirement application and option election form with the New York state and local employees' retirement system on behalf of her deceased mother.

Grants retroactive membership with Tier 1 status in the New York state teachers' retirement system to James J. DeMarco.

Relates to obtaining military credit for members of the New York state and local police and fire retirement system; provides that the calculation for military credit shall be equal to the product of the number of years of military service being claimed and three percent of such member's compensation earned during the twelve months of credited service.

Authorizes Michael J. Cappiello to purchase service credit for service with the Long Island Railroad Company police department prior to its merger with the MTA and the state retirement system.

Relates to authorizing geographic pay differentials for certain police officers; authorizes a pay differential for regional state park police, forest ranger, environmental conservation officer, and university police officer titles when wage rates of police officers in a given location are substantially higher than the wage rates paid by the state.

Grants Lawrence Korzeniewski, the statutory beneficiary of Janice Korzeniewski, accidental death benefits because Janice Korzeniewski was directed by her employer to return to work and contracted COVID-19 within 45 days of reporting to work and died from such disease.

Relates to improper employer practices relating to the continuation of pay, vacation and health care benefits; relates to eligible employees for retirement plans; relates to compensation items in disputed agreements.

Provides for benefits for certain emergency medical technicians or advanced emergency medical technicians in the city of New York who suffer any condition or impairment of health caused by a stroke resulting in disability or death.

Authorizes Susan Gillinder, the widow of Robert C. Ritchie, to file a new service retirement application and an option election form on behalf of her deceased husband with the New York state and local employees' retirement system.

Increases earning limitations for certain retired persons from $35,000 to $60,000.

Provides certain enhanced disability retirement benefits for Kyle Brower relating to participation in World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations, and who retired in 2013.

Allows Andriel Santana to be eligible to take the civil service exam for the position of Columbia county deputy sheriff.

Grants retroactive tier IV membership in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Karen Siegel.

Provides a heart disease presumption for members employed as a fire alarm dispatcher, a supervising fire alarm dispatcher level one or a supervising fire alarm dispatcher level two of a fire department in a city with a population of one million or more.

Provides procedures to be followed in appointing a hearing officer for removal and disciplinary action against certain public employees not in the service of the city of New York, including the fees to be paid for such hearing officer; provides for suspension, with pay, pending the determination.

Provides for the indefinite suspension of New York city police officers without pay pending the disposition of charges of incompetence or misconduct resulting in death or serious physical injury as defined in section 10.00 of the penal law.

Grants retroactive retirement membership in the New York state teachers' retirement system to Eileen Saumell.

Relates to primary social security retirement benefits for certain members; provides that in the computation of the normal service retirement benefit of members of the New York city fire department pension fund, there shall be no reduction for the primary social security retirement benefit.

Increases the amount of money a public retirement system retiree may earn in a position of public service in the year 2026 and thereafter to $50,000.

Allows New York state employees to use accrued vacation time toward student loan payments; defines terms; requires the president of the civil service commission to promulgate necessary rules and regulations.

Grants service credit to members of the uniformed correction force of the New York city department of correction covered by provisions of law for over 25 years.

Prohibits a person convicted of rebellion or insurrection under federal law from state or municipal employment.

Extends the benefits of the variable supplements fund to all New York city police officers, firefighters, housing police, transit police, correction officers and registered domestic partners.

Grants NYC board of education employee Gabrielle Tessler continued health coverage in retirement.

Relates to the award of competitive civil service status for the spouse or children of military service persons killed in the line of duty.

Ensures that public retirees are not having their skilled nursing care benefits reduced under the state health benefit plan at the time they enroll for medicare.

Amends the definition of public employee to include persons holding positions by appointment or employment in the organized militia of the state.

Provides for cost-of-living adjustments; provides that the base benefit amount shall be increased annually by reference to the consumer price index for each applicable calendar year beginning on September 1, 2025.

Authorizes an optional twenty-five year retirement plan for uniformed court officers and peace officers employed by the unified court system.

Increases the amount of money a public retirement system retiree may earn in a position of public service in the year 2025 and thereafter to $100,000.

Provides for a paid leave of absence for public officers and certain other employees to volunteer as a poll worker.

Provides that a member of a public retirement system of the state may obtain a total not to exceed three years of service credit for up to three years of military duty if the member has completed a term of state service, under orders from the governor of the state of New York, and as certified by a letter of release from such orders issued by the state division of military and naval affairs.

Establishes a twenty-five year retirement plan for firefighters employed by the division of military and naval affairs.

Establishes a four-day workweek pilot program for state employees; requires the division of the budget and the state department of civil service to identify state agencies or other jobs in the performance of any function of state government for which a four-day workweek is feasible and beneficial for at least sixty percent of state employees employed in such agency or job in the performance of such function of state government, and to implement a four-day workweek for such state employees.

Relates to promotions of police detectives, sergeants, and lieutenants for retirement purposes.

Provides that no person shall be eligible for appointment as a police officer who was previously employed as a police officer and who: was dismissed for malfeasance or other serious misconduct calling into question such person's fitness to serve as a police officer; or resigned or retired from such officer's position while under investigation for such malfeasance or other serious misconduct; defines terms; makes related provisions.

Prohibits persons affiliated with terror organizations from being appointed to permanent, temporary or provisional positions in the state civil service system.

Relates to waiving the earning limitations for retired sworn officers employed by a district attorney as investigators.

Directs the department of financial services to conduct a comprehensive study on how the department of financial services may create a compensation system commensurate with the compensation systems of similar federal financial regulators and to issue a report of its findings.

Requires the payment of regular wages to bay constables employed by the town of Hempstead, Nassau county, who have sustained injuries or illnesses in the line of duty.

Authorizes the Nassau county public library system to choose from one of five instead of one of three persons from an eligible civil service list; authorizes such library system to hire from outside of Nassau county; exempts the Nassau county public library system from the tax cap requirements; makes related provisions.

Prohibits the use of investment managers to assist with investments of monies in the common retirement fund; requires that all current contracts with investment managers not be renewed after a period of one year.

Eliminates the maximum age for taking the civil service examination for appointment as a police officer or as an environmental conservation officer.

Prohibits public employers from diminishing health insurance benefits provided to Medicare-eligible retirees and their Medicare-eligible dependents or the contributions such employer makes for such health insurance coverage below the level of such benefits or contributions made on behalf of such retirees and dependents by the public employer as of December 31, 2021.

Authorizes the New York state and local employees' retirement system to accept an application for disability retirement benefits from Andrew Reilly, Jr.

Allows school districts to canvass from the five highest civil service examination ratings.

Eliminates earning limitations for retired persons in positions of public service from 2025 forward.

Requires the reinstatement of certain officers and employees of the city of New York who were dismissed from employment due to a COVID-19 vaccine requirement including retirees, vested members and members terminated without a one-year limit on return.

Relates to unlawful strikes by public employees; provides for the settlement of certain disputes relating to terms and conditions of employment of certain transit and transportation authorities.

Relates to the removal of certain policemen.

Relates to lifting mandatory hiring and retirement ages for municipal police.

Relates to the investment of public funds in companies doing business in Iran.

Relates to establishing a variable supplements fund for sanitation members of the New York city employees' retirement system; creates a board to manage such fund and to make payments.

Allows for NYSTRS retirees to change their retirement plan beneficiary to a spouse at any time either prior to or after retirement.

Establishes a dangerous employment benefit of five hundred thousand dollars for law enforcement officers who become seriously physically or mentally incapacitated or dies as the result of an injury, sustained in the performance or discharge of duties or as the natural and proximate result of an incident that occurred during such performance of duties.

Establishes the customized employment demonstration program whereby certain positions are divided into sub-positions by the civil service commission to provide for employment of persons with developmental disabilities who are able to perform a portion of the duties of such position.

Provides for comparable salary and other benefits for state employees designated managerial or confidential to ensure such employees receive an increase in salary at least equal to the percentage of the general salary increases provided to employees in a bargaining unit that receives the highest percentage general salary increase and other benefits.

Authorizes Daniel Montalto to take the competitive civil service exam for the position of police officer and be placed on the eligible civil service list for employment as a full-time police officer for the town of Shawangunk.

Grants David Morse, the parent of firefighter Peyton Morse, who was employed by the city of Watertown, accidental death benefits.

Allows first responders who are diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder to request line of duty sick leave.

Allows reservists who have served or who are currently serving in the United States armed forces to be eligible for 2.5 points on civil service examinations.

Authorizes former full-time police officers with the New York city police department to be eligible to take the competitive civil service examination for the position of police officer and contingent on their score, to be placed on the eligible list for appointment as a full-time police officer for the city of New York.

Grants excused leave to civil service employees during states of emergency as declared by the federal, state or a municipal government, when such employees are members of a volunteer fire department or a volunteer ambulance or rescue squad.

Relates to compensation paid to persons employed in positions requiring foreign language skills; establishes career ladders for persons holding such positions; establishes supervisory positions for persons required to have foreign language skills.

Authorizes Kevin Donohue to take the competitive civil service examination for the position of full-time police officer for the town of Goshen.

Establishes the teachers' fossil fuel divestment act; requires the New York state teachers' retirement system to divest the retirement system of any stocks, securities, equities, assets, or other obligations of corporations or companies included on an exclusion list of coal producers and oil and gas producers.

Allows the implementation of body cameras on police officers notwithstanding binding arbitration.

Prohibits the comptroller from using environment, social, and governance criteria as a screening method for selecting companies and funds to invest the state pension fund in.

Increases the age of eligibility for provisional or permanent appointment of certain police officers from thirty-five to forty.

Provides that candidates who have provided firefighting service may deduct up to a maximum of six years from their age for purposes of meeting the age requirements.

Relates to the definition of overtime ceiling for members who first become members of a public retirement system of the state on or after April first, two thousand twelve.

Provides for the transfer of service credit by a member of the New York city police pension fund into the New York city police pension fund.

Provides for eligibility of certain participants in the New York City employees retirement system to opt into the twenty-five year retirement program for EMT members.

Provides for a line of duty presumption for disabilities of deputy sheriffs in a city with a population of one million or more.

Provides for a line of duty disability presumption for any condition of impairment of health caused by diseases of the lung, resulting in total or partial disability or death of certain deputy sheriff members of a retirement system in certain cities.

Provides a performance of duty presumption for diseases of the heart for members who serve as an ambulance medical technician, ambulance medical coordinator, ambulance medical technician/supervisor or a member who performs ambulance medical technician related services, or a police medic, police medic coordinator, police medic supervisor, bureau director police emergency ambulance services - county, assistant bureau director police emergency ambulance services - county, or a member who performs police medic or police emergency ambulance related services and is employed in the Nassau county police department.

Grants Nassau county fire marshals, supervising fire marshals, fire marshals, assistant fire marshals, assistant chief fire marshals or chief fire marshals pension benefits for service rendered beyond twenty-five years.

Requires the department of civil service to allow municipalities to post municipal employment positions on the department of civil service's state jobs website; requires such municipal employment opportunities to be posted in a format searchable by municipality and employment position type.

Authorizes a thirty year retirement benefit for certain members in Nassau county; provides a retirement allowance equal to 60 percent of a member's final average salary.

Provides for certain death benefits to correction officers, correction officer-sergeants, correction officer-captains, assistant wardens, associate wardens or wardens employed by Orange county.

Grants members of the city of New York's police force eligibility for retirement and pension based on previous service as traffic enforcement agents.

Authorizes the county of Rockland to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to Matthew Donovan, a deputy sheriff employed by such county.

Authorizes Scott Hoag, a city of Rome police officer, to receive certain credit under section 384-d of the retirement and social security law.

Authorizes David Edwards to receive certain service credit under a twenty-five year retirement plan offering one-sixtieths after twenty-five years of total creditable service for service with the Binghamton Fire Department.

Authorizes Karol Hughes, a part-time police officer, with the town/village of East Rochester police department to take the civil service examination and be eligible for appointment as a full time police officer for the town/village of East Rochester.

Authorizes the county of Monroe to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to Gregory M. Prokop, a deputy sheriff/investigator employed by the county of Monroe.

Authorizes the county of Monroe to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to Christopher R. Fay, a deputy sheriff employed by the county of Monroe.

Provides notification of employment or promotion of applicable employees to organizations of state employees designated managerial or confidential for purposes of employee representation in determining the terms and conditions of employment.

Relates to filing timely notices of participation in World Trade Center rescue efforts for the purposes of receiving World Trade Center benefits.

Provides additional credits to children and siblings of New York city sanitation members who died in the performance of duty as the natural and proximate result of the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001.

Establishes an optional twenty-five year retirement plan for employees of the New York Power Authority who are a member of the public employee organization certified or recognized to represent employees of such authority.

Allows a beneficiary of a member whose death occurs on or after July 1, 2025 and who would have been entitled to a service credit at the time of such member's death to elect to receive a lump sum payment equal to the pension reserve that would have been established had the member retired on the date of such member's death.

Grants Ethan Czyzewski tier II status in the New York state and local police and fire retirement system.

Requires that all procedures and other matters related to the receipt or discontinuation of benefits available under section two hundred seven-c of the general municipal law shall be subject, upon request of the affected employee, to a de novo evidentiary hearing.

Repeals provisions relating to resolutions of disputes in the course of collective negotiations with certain deputy sheriffs to provide such deputy sheriffs with the same interest arbitration scope as municipal police officers.

Provides that no provision of section eighty of the civil service law shall modify, replace or supersede any provision of a collective bargaining agreement that provides for greater rights than required by such section.

Increases certain special accidental death benefits for state and local retirement system members.

Provides accidental disability retirement benefits for deputy sheriff Richard Stueber, a participant in World Trade Center rescue, recovery, and cleanup operations.

Grants Nassau county fire marshals, supervising fire marshals, fire marshals, assistant fire marshals, assistant chief fire marshals or chief fire marshals pension benefits for service rendered beyond twenty-five years.

Provides a performance of duty presumption for diseases of the heart for members who serve as an ambulance medical technician, ambulance medical coordinator, ambulance medical technician/supervisor or a member who performs ambulance medical technician related services, or a police medic, police medic coordinator, police medic supervisor, bureau director police emergency ambulance services - county, assistant bureau director police emergency ambulance services - county, or a member who performs police medic or police emergency ambulance related services and is employed in the Nassau county police department.

Permits certain twenty-five year retirement program dispatcher members to file elections not to participate.

Authorizes the county of Rockland to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to John F. Leonard, Jr., a deputy sheriff employed by such county.

Authorizes the county of Rockland to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to Matthew Donovan, a deputy sheriff employed by such county.

Provides for a line of duty disability presumption for any condition of impairment of health caused by diseases of the lung, resulting in total or partial disability or death of certain deputy sheriff members of a retirement system in certain cities.

Provides a heart disease presumption for members employed as a probation officer, supervising probation officer or probation officer trainee of a department of probation in a city with a population of one million or more.

Provides for the transfer of service credit by a member of the New York city police pension fund into the New York city police pension fund.

Provides that the normal service retirement benefit for police/fire members who are members of the New York city fire department pension fund shall be paid to such members of the New York city fire department pension fund without regard to age upon retirement after twenty years of service.

Relates to filing timely notices of participation in World Trade Center rescue efforts for the purposes of receiving World Trade Center benefits.

Authorizes the village of Trumansburg to offer an optional twenty-year retirement plan to Daniel H. Austic under section 384-d of the retirement and social security law.

Authorizes the county of Tompkins to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to Kyle Davenport, a deputy sheriff employed by such county upon such officer's election to participate in such plan.

Provides an option for beneficiaries of NYC transit authority members to receive a lump sum equal to the pension reserve where a member who is eligible for a service retirement dies prior to filing for retirement.

Authorizes Justin Finkle to take the competitive civil service examination for the position of police officer and be placed on the eligible list for employment as a full-time police officer for the Albany county sheriff's office; requires that Justin Finkle be otherwise subject to the merit and fitness provisions of the civil service law applicable to full-time police officers.

Increases certain special accidental death benefits for state and local retirement system members.

Provides notification of employment or promotion of applicable employees to organizations of state employees designated managerial or confidential for purposes of employee representation in determining the terms and conditions of employment.

Provides for the transfer of the regional state park police to the division of state police.

Relates to allowing certain members of the New York city fire department pension fund to receive a membership date in such fund attributable to service in the titles of police cadet program and police cadet program II in the New York city police department cadet program.

Expands the authority of hearing officers regarding judgments about an employee's inability to perform their duties due to a disability to be provided to the employee and the authorized representative of such employee.

Relates to the appointment and promotion of supervisors of the fire alarm dispatcher service; requires that a promotion be based on merit and fitness as determined by competitive examination, due weight being given to seniority.

Allows a beneficiary of a member whose death occurs on or after July 1, 2024 and who would have been entitled to a service credit at the time of such member's death to elect to receive a lump sum payment equal to the pension reserve that would have been established had the member retired on the date of such member's death.

Allows retired employees of the New York state teachers' retirement system who return to active service and suspend their pension benefit to elect to combine their service credit earned prior to retirement with the service credit earned after their restoration to active service, provided they have earned at least two years of service credit since such restoration.

Provides an option for beneficiaries of NYC transit authority members to receive a lump sum equal to the pension reserve where a member who is eligible for a service retirement dies prior to filing for retirement.

Exempts the chief of police of the town of Southampton, county of Suffolk, from mandatory age requirements; authorizes such chief of police to remain in service until such member has attained the age of 65.

Relates to requiring the commissioner of the department of civil service to prepare a report on civil service titles which require an appointee to possess a license and current registration as a mental health practitioner in one or more professions under article 163 of the education law.

Relates to establishing a twenty year retirement plan for members or officers of law enforcement; includes every non-seasonally appointed sworn member or officer of the division of law enforcement in the department of environmental conservation, a forest ranger in the service of the department of environmental conservation, a police officer in the department of environmental conservation, the regional state park police, and university police officers in such twenty year plan.

Authorizes the city of Buffalo to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to firefighters Rhiannon Maguire and Jeffrey Brett.

Provides for crediting of time spent as a provisional appointee for promotional examinations and eligibility for appointment from the resulting eligible lists.

Requires that applicants not be prohibited from taking competitive civil service exams if they will meet the minimum age requirement or attain the minimum education requirement within twelve months.

Authorizes Michael Kurtz, a part-time police officer, with the village of Warsaw police department to take the civil service examination and be eligible for appointment as a full time police officer for the village of Warsaw.

Authorizes Judy A. Lynch, the widow of James G. Lynch, to file a new service retirement application and an option election form on behalf of her deceased husband with the New York state and local employees' retirement system.

Provides that a provisional employee at a school district or board of cooperative educational services who exhausted the nine month provisional appointment limitation shall be granted permanent status if such employee has exceeded the probationary term or, if such employee has not exceeded the probationary term, such provisional service shall count as service towards the probationary term.

Prohibits public employers from diminishing health insurance benefits provided to retirees and their dependents or the contributions such employer makes for such health insurance coverage below the level of such benefits or contributions made on behalf of such retirees and dependents by the public employer as of December 31, 2021.

Authorizes the beneficiaries of a member of the state and local employees' retirement system who dies after filing a retirement application to choose pension benefits rather than a death benefit.

Extends provisions related to public arbitration panels until 2029.

Prohibits a person convicted of rebellion or insurrection under federal law from state or municipal employment.

Authorizes the county of Monroe to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to Carl J. Zimmerman, a deputy sheriff employed by the county of Monroe.

Authorizes the county of Monroe to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to Christopher R. Fay, a deputy sheriff employed by the county of Monroe.

Provides for eligibility of certain participants in the New York City employees retirement system to opt into the twenty-five year retirement program for EMT members.

Authorizes the granting of retirement service credit in the optional twenty year retirement plan to Duane A. Palma for service as a correction officer at the Monroe county sheriff's office jail bureau.

Extends provisions extending the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) benefit for public employee death benefits until July 31, 2025.

Authorizes Michael Winston Hoard, the widower of Kathy Marie Dwyer-Hoard, to file a new service retirement application and an option election form on behalf of his deceased wife with the New York state and local employees' retirement system.

Provides WTC-related benefits to certain employees who worked at the Verrazano Bridge Toll Facility.

Authorizes Richard Lee Johnson to take the competitive civil service examination for the position of police officer and be placed on the eligible list for employment as a full-time police officer for the village of Canastota police department.

Relates to the annual maintenance allowance received by employees of the unified court system who are required to wear an employer-approved blazer; categorizes such allowance as compensation for retirement purposes, rather than part of the employee's basic annual salary.

Authorizes Lee Weinstein to receive certain service credit under section 384-d of the retirement and social security law.

Provides health insurance coverage for surviving spouses or domestic partners of fire protection inspectors of the New York city fire department.

Authorizes the village of Clayton to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to Joshua David, a police officer employed by such village.

Deems an application filed with the New York state and local police and fire retirement system by the widow of Paul C. Adam as timely filed.

Relates to allowing certain members of the New York city fire department pension fund to receive a membership date in such fund attributable to service in the titles of police cadet program and police cadet program II in the New York city police department cadet program.

Grants retroactive membership with Tier IV status in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Dawn Ward.

Provides additional benefits for certain county correction officers in Suffolk county; provides benefits to retirement system members with credited service of thirty years.

Relates to increasing the earnings limitation for positions of public service; increases the earnings limitation from $35,000 to $50,000 in 2024 and thereafter.

Provides for a line of duty disability presumption for any condition of impairment of health caused by diseases of the lung, resulting in total or partial disability or death of certain deputy sheriff members of a retirement system in certain cities.

Relates to the appointment and promotion of supervisors of the fire alarm dispatcher service; requires that a promotion be based on merit and fitness as determined by competitive examination, due weight being given to seniority.

Requires governmental entities to, whenever possible and feasible, consider implementing multifactor authentication for local and remote network access; requires public websites to encrypt all exchanges and to comply with privacy standards.

Expands disability benefits for firefighters who suffered any condition or impairment of health caused by endocrine/thyroid cancer resulting in total or partial disability.

Relates to unclassified civil service of the state; authorizes the Syracuse Hancock International Airport to hire and promote employees on a permanent basis.

Authorizes Susan Gillinder, the widow of Robert C. Ritchie, to file a new service retirement application and an option election form on behalf of her deceased husband with the New York state and local employees' retirement system.

Provides that a member with credited service in excess of twenty-five years shall receive an additional retirement allowance equal to one-sixtieth of such member's final average salary for each year of creditable service in excess of twenty-five years; makes related provisions.

Prohibits persons affiliated with terror organizations from being appointed to permanent, temporary or provisional positions in the state civil service system.

Authorizes Susan Gillinder, the widow of Robert C. Ritchie, to file a new service retirement application and an option election form on behalf of her deceased husband with the New York state and local employees' retirement system.

Provides that members of a retirement system who retire from such system and later rejoin the retirement system are reinstated with the same rights, benefits and privileges they had prior to retirement.

Allows certain employees to transfer or receive sick time from a fellow employee.

Relates to hearing procedures for certain public employees; provides that the recommendation of a hearing officer in relation to designated managerial and confidential employees shall be considered final and not subject to change or modification.

Makes eligible for provisional appointment and authorizes Matthew A. Jones to take the competitive civil service examination for the position of police officer and be placed on the eligible list for employment as a full-time police officer for the village of Liverpool police department.

Grants certain members or officers of the state police credit for service as a deputy sheriff, county corrections officer, or state corrections officer; two years credit; provides cost shall be borne by member.

Grants Ethan Czyzewski tier II status in the New York state and local police and fire retirement system.

Relates to the promotion of sergeants; grants a sergeant who has served for a period of fifteen years the same rights in respect to the police pension fund as a sergeant detailed to act as sergeant commander detective squad or sergeant special assignment.

Affords certain uniformed members of the fire department pension fund with an increased pension benefit of one-fortieth of their average annual earnings for each year of additional service beyond his or her required minimum service.

Prevents an agency, department, division, commission, bureau or any other entity under the authority of the executive department from contracting, subcontracting or hiring any third party during a hiring freeze.

Relates to changes of membership eligibility in a New York state retirement system.

Authorizes Scott Hoag, a city of Rome police officer, to receive certain credit under section 384-d of the retirement and social security law.

Permits NYC correction officers to borrow from accumulated contributions.

Establishes an age 55/25 temporary retirement incentive for certain public employees who are members of the teachers' retirement system.

Relates to increasing the earnings limitation for positions of public service; increases the earnings limitation from $35,000 to $50,000 in 2024 and thereafter.

Grants Peter Guarino retroactive membership with Tier IV status in the New York state teachers' retirement system.

Authorizes Brian Levy of the village of Wappingers Falls to take the competitive civil service examination for the position of police officer and be placed on the eligible list for employment as a full-time police officer for the village of Wappingers Falls police department.

Authorizes Christopher Walser to take the competitive civil service examination for the position of police officer and be placed on the eligible list for employment as a full-time police officer for the village of Skaneateles police department.

Provides that a member of a public retirement system of the state may obtain a total not to exceed three years of service credit for up to three years of military duty if the member has completed a term of state service, under orders from the governor of the state of New York, and as certified by a letter of release from such orders issued by the state division of military and naval affairs.

Authorizes Lawrence Ecker to receive certain service credit with the New York state and local employees' retirement system for his time as a state supreme court judge from approximately June 2021 through June 2022.

Authorizes Christopher Walser to take the competitive civil service examination for the position of police officer and be placed on the eligible list for employment as a full-time police officer for the village of Skaneateles police department.

Grants David M. Sturtz retroactive retirement service credit.

Relates to promotions of lieutenants; grants a lieutenant who has served for a period of fifteen years the same rights in respect to the police pension fund as a lieutenant detailed to act as lieutenant commander detective squad or lieutenant special assignment.

Requires the reinstatement of certain officers and employees of the city of New York who were dismissed from employment due to a COVID-19 vaccine requirement including retirees, vested members and members terminated without a one-year limit on return.

Relates to promotions of detectives; grants detectives of the third grade and detectives of the second grade the same rights in respect to the police pension fund as detectives of a grade higher after a certain period of time.

Authorizes the New York state and local employees' retirement system to accept an application for disability retirement benefits from Andrew Reilly, Jr.

Permits a retired member to change his or her option election or designate a new beneficiary where the beneficiary has been convicted of a family offense.

Provides increases of cost-of-living adjustments for public retirees; allows increases of up to five percent.

Relates to providing state correction officers with a special optional twenty year retirement plan.

Enacts the "Nassau future protectors act" to provide additional credits to the Nassau county law enforcement explorers in competitive civil service examinations; makes related provisions.

Provides that a member of the New York state teachers' retirement system or the New York city teachers' retirement system, and certain members of the New York state and local employees' retirement system who are employed by teaching institutions, shall be entitled to obtain credit for up to 5 years of service rendered as a teacher employed by a private elementary or secondary school or by a private college in New York state.

Authorizes Janice Middlebrooks, the widow of William James Middlebrooks, to file a retirement option election on behalf of her deceased husband.

Authorizes Christopher Walser to take the competitive civil service examination for the position of police officer and be placed on the eligible list for employment as a full-time police officer for the village of Skaneateles police department.

Provides that the normal service retirement benefit for police/fire members who are members of the New York city fire department pension fund shall be paid to such members of the New York city fire department pension fund without regard to age upon retirement after twenty years of service.

Enacts the "New York state agency BIPOC asset management and financial institution strategy act" to ensure the promotion of equity, diversity, and inclusion within the state pension system and the New York city pension system's investments by mandating a minimum allocation of assets to BIPOC asset managers, BIPOC financial institutions, and BIPOC financial or professional service firms; addresses disparities in investment opportunities and fosters economic growth within BIPOC communities, aligning with best practices in investment management and bolstering the financial well-being of New York City and state and residents thereof.

Relates to the calculation of past service credit for members in the title of deputy sheriff who provided police protection or correction officer service transferring between the New York state and local employees' retirement system to the New York state and local police and fire retirement system.

Grants Peter Guarino retroactive membership with Tier IV status in the New York state teachers' retirement system.

Relates to granting retroactive Tier II membership in the New York state and local police and fire retirement system for Giuseppe T. Rosini.

Authorizes Joanne De Vito to receive retroactive tier IV status in the New York state and local employees' retirement system.

Affords certain police/fire members who are members of the fire department pension fund to continue in service past normal retirement age with an additional pension benefit for each year of additional service; provides an additional amount computed at the rate of one-fortieth of his or her final salary for each year of such additional service.

Relates to disability retirement benefits for the presumption of post-traumatic stress disorder for communications technicians, communications specialists, communications operators, radio dispatchers, or emergency dispatchers by any state agency, department, or division, county 911 dispatchers, county 911 dispatcher supervisors, New York city fire alarm dispatchers, supervising fire alarm dispatchers level one and supervising fire alarm dispatchers level two.

Authorizes an optional twenty-five year retirement plan for uniformed court officers and peace officers employed by the unified court system.

Authorizes Robin Garfinkle, the widow of Howard Mahler, to file a retirement option election on behalf of her deceased husband.

Grants NYC board of education employee Gabrielle Tessler continued health coverage in retirement.

Enables public employers to offer an age fifty-five with ten years of service or age fifty with twenty-five years of service temporary retirement incentives for certain public employees.

Grants Michael Quatrocci a presumption of disability regarding accidental disability retirement.

Authorizes Janice Middlebrooks, the widow of William James Middlebrooks, to file a retirement option election on behalf of her deceased husband.

Establishes twenty-five year retirement programs for members of the New York city employees' retirement system employed as fire protection inspectors and associate fire protection inspectors.

Provides for cost-of-living adjustments; provides that the base benefit amount shall be increased annually by reference to the consumer price index for each applicable calendar year beginning on September 1, 2024.

Establishes the Medicare maximization and assistance program to assist eligible state retirees in obtaining certain Medicare benefits; provides for the investing of any net savings realized by the program back into the New York state health insurance program for the purpose of eliminating or limiting the impact of any premium rate or other cost increases that would be the responsibility of an employee or retiree.

Authorizes Carl Spatola to receive a refund from the New York state teachers' retirement system due to overpayment.

Authorizes an optional 20-year retirement plan for traffic officers employed by the town of Elmira, who submit an application therefor within one year of the effective date of such provisions, or within one year of start of employment.

Provides for background checks for police transfer candidates.

Grants service credit to members of the uniformed correction force of the New York city department of correction covered by provisions of law for over 25 years.

Increases the amount of money a public retirement system retiree may earn in a position of public service in the year 2024 and thereafter to $100,000.

Provides a lung disease presumption for correction officers, correction supervisors, deputy sheriff patrol or deputy sheriff patrol supervisors.

Modifies eligibility for ordinary disability benefits and re-employment of disability retirees of the New York city police pension fund Tier III plans.

Provides that New York city correction officers may file for disability without ten years of service.

Authorizes the commissioner of the department of civil service to reinstate Jarrod Iler on the eligible civil service list for employment as a police officer in the city of Saratoga Springs.

Authorizes Lt. Thomas Cleere to change his service credit from the improved career retirement plan to a 20 year retirement plan.

Authorizes Sergeant Angela Anderson to receive certain service credit under a twenty year retirement plan for service with the Seneca Falls Police Department.

Provides additional benefits for certain county correction officers in Westchester county; provides benefits to retirement system members with credited service in excess of twenty-five years.

Authorizes the villages of Malone, Saranac Lake and Tupper Lake, in the county of Franklin, to employ retired former members of the division of state police as part-time village police officers.

Provides WTC-related benefits to certain employees who worked at the Verrazano Bridge Toll Facility.

Authorizes Frank Smith, a New York city police detective, to receive accidental performance of duty disability retirement benefits for illness suffered as a result of exposure to disease during undercover assignments as a member of the police department of the city of New York.

Provides accidental disability retirement benefits for deputy sheriff Richard Stueber, a participant in World Trade Center rescue, recovery, and cleanup operations.

Provides that a corrections officer who contracts COVID-19 while employed as a uniformed personnel in institutions under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections and community supervision and suffers a permanent disability or death shall be presumed to have contracted COVID-19 in the performance and discharge of duty and shall be eligible for a performance of duty disability retirement benefit.

Increases the base benefit amount for computation of pension cost-of-living adjustments.

Extends the benefits of the variable supplements fund for transit police members of the New York city employees' retirement system for persons who retired on or after October 1, 1968.

Authorizes the hiring and promotion of employees on a permanent basis at municipal and/or authority owned or operated airports.

Relates to accidental disability retirement for deputy sheriffs; provides that deputy sheriffs shall receive a pension of three-quarters of their final average salary.

Increases the limitation of overtime compensation in final average salary calculations from fifteen percent to thirty percent.

Provides accidental disability retirement benefits for Lawrence R. Hrazanek, a participant in World Trade Center rescue, recovery, and cleanup operations.

Requires the department of civil service to establish an accessible list of persons with disabilities and veterans with disabilities employed by the state; and to make persons with disabilities and veterans with disabilities employed by the state eligible for the HELP program.

Relates to primary social security retirement benefits for certain members; provides that in the computation of the normal service retirement benefit of members of the New York city fire department pension fund, there shall be no reduction for the primary social security retirement benefit.

Provides a cost-of-living adjustment for New York public retirement systems.

Allows for participants in World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations who were not members of a New York state retirement system at the time of such participation but who are now currently active members in such retirement systems to be eligible for disability benefits.

Authorizes the transfer of memberships for certain members of the New York state and local police and fire retirement system who previously held a membership with the New York state and local employees' retirement system back to such retirement system.

Requires subsidiaries of certain transportation authorities and their employees to submit all unresolvable contract negotiations to binding arbitration.

Relates to improper employer practices relating to the continuation of pay, vacation and health care benefits; relates to eligible employees for retirement plans; relates to compensation items in disputed agreements.

Clarifies certain requirements for issuing civil service examination announcements.

Grants retroactive membership with Tier IV status in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Ronald Bower, provided he files an application with the head of the NYSLRS within one year.

Relates to calculating certain pensions; increases pension calculation from thirty-five to forty per centum of final average salary.

Relates to establishing a defined contribution program for which elected officials are deemed mandatory members.

Provides procedures to be followed in appointing a hearing officer for removal and disciplinary action against certain public employees not in the service of the city of New York, including the fees to be paid for such hearing officer; provides for suspension, with pay, pending the determination.

Provides for crediting of probationary service when a person appointed provisionally receives a permanent appointment to the same title immediately following the provisional period.

Relates to the secure choice savings program and participating individuals; authorizes freelancers and the self-employed the option of enrolling in such program.

Relates to veterans' preferences with respect to civil service promotions; removes requirement of service during a time of war for additional points on civil service examinations for veterans.

Authorizes the town of Seneca Falls to offer an optional twenty-year retirement plan to Jamie Buffone under section 384-d of the retirement and social security law.

Provides that for New York city uniformed correction revised plan members of the New York city employees' retirement system, the service retirement benefit shall not be reduced by the primary social security retirement benefit commencing at age sixty-two.

Provides that for New York city uniformed sanitation revised plan members of the New York city employees' retirement system, the service retirement benefit shall not be reduced by the primary social security retirement benefit commencing at age sixty-two.

Provides for the pension benefits for first grade police officers of the city of New York who have served for 25 or 30 years.

Relates to authorizing service credit for unpaid or reduced paid child care leave for members of the state police twenty year retirement plan.

Relates to authorizing service credit for unpaid or reduced paid child care leave for members of the state police twenty year retirement plan.

Relates to enrollees in the New York state secure choice savings program.

Requires health benefits for state and retired state employees have the option to only cover the employee or retiree and their spouse or domestic partner.

Relates to mandatory retirement age; increases the age at which a member must retire to receive an additional pension from sixty-two to sixty-five.

Prevents an agency, department, division, commission, bureau or any other entity under the authority of the executive department from contracting, subcontracting or hiring any third party during a hiring freeze.

Provides for background checks for police transfer candidates.

Designates Richard Ernyey eligible to take the competitive civil service examination for the position of police officer and contingent on his score, to be placed on the eligible list for appointment as a full-time police officer for the city of New York.

Allows school districts to canvass from the five highest civil service examination ratings.

Provides for the transfer of the regional state park police to the division of state police.

Relates to the removal of certain policemen.

Authorizes the widow of Peter Sistrom to file a retirement option election on behalf of her deceased husband.

Grants retroactive membership with Tier II status in the New York state teachers' retirement system to Lori Cohen.

Grants retroactive membership with Tier IV status in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Christine Fernandez, formerly Christine Lennard, for her 1984--1985 employment with the Voorheesville public library.

Requires that all procedures and other matters related to the receipt or discontinuation of benefits available under section two hundred seven-c of the general municipal law shall be mandatorily negotiable terms and conditions of employment.

Allows for Genesis Villella to qualify for and receive certain spousal accidental death benefits; splits such benefit equally between Genesis Villella and dependents Deliliah Vega and Peter Vega for the rest of such dependents' lifetimes, once the youngest dependent reaches the age of twenty-five.

Relates to obtaining military credit for members of the New York state and local police and fire retirement system; provides that the calculation for military credit shall be equal to the product of the number of years of military service being claimed and three percent of such member's compensation earned during the twelve months of credited service.

Grants David Morse, the parent of firefighter Peyton Morse, who was employed by the city of Watertown, accidental death benefits.

Provides that the governmental agency shall notify any person on a special eligible list, in writing, that their name will remain on such list for two years after the termination of military duty and shall be removed at the end of the two year period unless such person requests to remain on such list.

Relates to calculating the final average salary for members of the New York state and local police and fire retirement system; provides that final average salary shall be equal to one-third of the highest total wages earned during any continuous period of employment for which the member was credited with three years of service credit.

Authorizes the widow of Gerald J. Sullivan to file an application with the New York state and local police and fire retirement system on behalf of such deceased member and deem such application as timely filed.

Relates to certain benefits provided pursuant to collective bargaining agreements; provides that the temporary president of the senate and speaker of the assembly shall approve changes to health benefits for employees or retirees not subject to a collective bargaining agreement.

Enacts the "police and fire employees retention act"; provides for a deferred retirement option plan payable to members of optional twenty-year retirement plans; outlines eligibility and payout of such plan; makes related provisions.

Grants retroactive membership with Tier IV status in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Christine Fernandez, formerly Christine Lennard, for her 1984--1985 employment with the Voorheesville public library.

Allows members of a public retirement system who retired prior to applying for credit for military service because such credit was not available at the time of their retirement to receive such credit if they apply prior to December 31, 2024.

Relates to the re-assignment of police officers pending certain investigations of incompetency or misconduct involving egregious behavior including, but not limited to, police brutality, intimidation, racial profiling, planting or fabricating evidence, unwarranted search and seizure, violating department procedures, and abuse of authority, and provides for an expeditious investigation of such incidents.

Provides for certain death benefits to correction officers, correction officer-sergeants, correction officer-captains, assistant wardens, associate wardens or wardens employed by Westchester county.

Authorizes Anthony A. Fede Tier I status in the New York state and local employees' retirement system.

Authorizes a public retirement system, as defined in section 501 of the retirement and social security law, mutual fund, or other institutional investor to bring actions for damages sustained due to the commission of certain prohibited and criminal acts in violation of the Martin Act (Fraudulent Practice in Respect to Stocks, Bonds and other Securities).

Directs the department of civil service to conduct a study on Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) employment in the public sector workforce including the current levels of employment and how to increase participation in the state and local public sector workforce.

Allows for NYSTRS retirees to change their retirement plan beneficiary to a spouse at any time either prior to or after retirement.

Provides for the indefinite suspension of New York city police officers without pay pending the disposition of charges of incompetence or misconduct resulting in death or serious physical injury as defined in section 10.00 of the penal law.

Allows cities with a population of one million or more to amend point credits on the open competitive firefighter examination.

Grants retroactive Tier 5 status in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Barbara Juh.

Provides for the extension of NYSLRS service credit for any service credit lost due to either furlough or layoff of a member from the period beginning when executive order 202 of 2020 was issued through December 31, 2020.

Grants a retroactive parity payment to certain management and confidential retirees who retired between April 1, 2009 and March 31, 2015, not to exceed $5,000.

Authorizes Lawrence Ecker to receive certain service credit with the New York state and local employees' retirement system for his time as a state supreme court judge from approximately June 2021 through June 2022.

Implements a presumption of performance of duty disability for post-traumatic stress disorder in certain employees of Suffolk county.

Relates to increasing the mandatory retirement age of New York state regional park police from 62 to 65 years old.

Relates to compensation paid to persons employed in positions requiring foreign language skills; establishes career ladders for persons holding such positions; establishes supervisory positions for persons required to have foreign language skills.

Provides for certain death benefits to county fire marshals, supervising fire marshals, fire marshals, assistant fire marshals, assistant chief fire marshals, chief fire marshals and division supervising fire marshals employed by Nassau county.

Relates to additional credit allowed veterans in competitive examinations; expands the definition of "veteran" and "non-disabled veteran" to include the spouse and/or children of a member of the armed forces of the United States who served therein in time of war and was subsequently killed in the line of duty.

Authorizes Kim Bowers to receive certain service credit with the New York state and local employees' retirement system for her employment with the town of Orchard Park Zoning Board of Appeals.

Authorizes the promotion of personnel to the positions of General Superintendent 2 and General Superintendent 3; provides that such positions shall be filled as far as practicable by promotion from among persons holding competitive class positions in a lower grade in the sanitation department of the city of New York in which the vacancy exists.

Relates to the effect and rebuttal of certain medical presumptions relating to heart disease; provides that, for certain members, any condition of impairment of health caused by a disease of the heart, resulting in disability, shall be presumptive evidence that such disability was incurred in the performance and discharge of duty and the natural and proximate result of an accident.

Provides that a collective bargaining agreement or employment contract shall not require that an emergency dispatcher employed by a municipality obtain approval from, or provide notice to, a supervisor to access mental or behavioral health care services.

Authorizes the participation by free association libraries in the New York state and local employees' retirement system.

Allows retired state police officers to serve as police officers for local police departments without diminution of retirement benefits; empowers the superintendent of state police to approve such service.

Relates to disputes arising from collective negotiations; addresses strikes which occur on a date or dates more than one year after the expiration of the last agreement between the employee's public employer and the public employee organization representing such employee; relates to impasse resolution.

Allows the implementation of body cameras on police officers notwithstanding binding arbitration.

Relates to certain medical record requirements for participants in the World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations; extends the registration period for participation in the World Trade Center rescue, recovery and clean-up operations to September 11, 2027.

Establishes a temporary task force on the variable supplements fund program to make findings and recommendations.

Relates to the investment of public funds in companies doing business in Iran.

Establishes a model racial equity, social justice, and implicit bias training program.

Prohibits the comptroller from using environment, social, and governance criteria as a screening method for selecting companies and funds to invest the state pension fund in.

Relates to establishing a variable supplements fund for sanitation members of the New York city employees' retirement system; creates a board to manage such fund and to make payments.

Provides that state employees designated managerial or confidential shall receive an increase in salary comparable to the percentage of the general salary increases provided to employees in the state's professional, scientific, and technical services bargaining unit.

Relates to hearing procedures for certain public employees; provides that the recommendation of a hearing officer in relation to designated managerial and confidential employees shall be considered final and not subject to change or modification.

Prohibits the diminution of health insurance benefits of public employee retirees and their dependents or reducing the employer's contributions for such insurance; defines employers to include the state, municipalities, school districts, and public authorities and commissions.

Provides for hazard duty pay of an additional twenty-five hundred dollars for essential work performed in accordance with a state emergency disaster declaration.

Relates to waiving the earning limitations for retired sworn officers employed by a district attorney as investigators.

Requires the New York state power authority and its employees to submit all unresolvable contract negotiations to binding arbitration.

Relates to authorizing geographic pay differentials for certain police officers; authorizes a pay differential for regional state park police, forest ranger, environmental conservation officer, and university police officer titles when wage rates of police officers in a given location are substantially higher than the wage rates paid by the state.

Increases the amount of years of military service credit a member may purchase from three years to ten years.

Authorizes James E. McTammany to receive an accidental disability retirement.

Removes the requirement that a public employer continue terms of an expired agreement until a new agreement is negotiated with an employee organization.

Grants members of the city of New York's police force eligibility for retirement and pension based on previous service as traffic enforcement agents.

Requires that any person applying for appointment as a fire fighter in civil service be not more than 29 years of age on the date he or she takes the written competitive examination for such appointment, however any time spent on military duty or terminal leave, not to exceed 6 years, shall be subtracted from such age limit.

Requires the payment of regular wages to bay constables employed by the town of Hempstead, Nassau county, who have sustained injuries or illnesses in the line of duty.

Allows reservists who have served or who are currently serving in the United States armed forces to be eligible for 2.5 points on civil service examinations.

Relates to the management of retirement loans.

Eliminates the maximum age for taking the civil service examination for appointment as a police officer or as an environmental conservation officer.

Allows reservists with twenty years of service to be eligible for 2.5 points on entrance exams and 1 point on promotional exams.

Provides that a public employer is not required to pay increases in wages or benefits after the expiration of collective bargaining agreement pending negotiation of a new collective bargaining agreement.

Establishes the reputational insight and oversight transparency act; restricts investments by certain firms that receive investments from any public retirement system or pension funds.

Relates to use of accrued sick time, compensation time or vacation time.

Provides that no person shall be eligible for appointment as a police officer who was previously employed as a police officer and who: was dismissed for malfeasance or other serious misconduct calling into question such person's fitness to serve as a police officer; or resigned or retired from such officer's position while under investigation for such malfeasance or other serious misconduct; defines terms; makes related provisions.

Provides that it shall not be an improper practice for a public employer to immediately refer to the appropriate district attorney any issue regarding the alleged improper conduct of a police officer within forty-eight hours of such conduct.

Requires the termination of any police officer or peace officer who uses physical force which is not justifiable or which is not part of procedure regardless of if harm is done any person or if any complaint is filed against such police officer or peace officer.

Establishes a retirement benefit review panel.

Relates to powers of the public employment relations board to assess damages; authorizes the board to assess exemplary damages upon a finding that an offending party has committed repeated improper practices or an egregious practice.

Directs the president of the civil service commission to collect health care claims data relating to the price and utilization of hospital benefits by active employees, retired employees and their dependents and to publish a New York State health benefit plan hospital pricing report.

Provides for the automatic enrollment of employees of the city of New York eligible to join the New York city board of education retirement system.

Provides for accidental disability retirement for deputy sheriffs in Suffolk county.

Provides for accidental disability retirement for deputy sheriffs in Nassau county.

Relates to reopening the age 55 improved benefit retirement program and the 25-year early retirement program to active and retired members and staff of the NYC council.

Establishes a twenty-five year retirement plan for firefighters employed by the division of military and naval affairs.

Relates to age and service eligibility requirements for ordinary retirement for members of the unified court system; restores 55/30 for all members; reduces the retirement age from 63 to 62.

Relates to establishing a twenty year retirement plan for members or officers of law enforcement; includes every non-seasonally appointed sworn member or officer of the division of law enforcement in the department of environmental conservation, a forest ranger in the service of the department of environmental conservation, a police officer in the department of environmental conservation, the regional state park police, and university police officers in such twenty year plan.

Directs employers to provide the home address of employees of a bargaining unit to the employee organization.

Conforms the suspension or demotion upon the abolition or reduction of non-competitive or labor class positions in the state service with such treatment for competitive class positions.

Authorizes the village of Dobbs Ferry to offer an optional twenty-year retirement plan to Gabriel Bonilla, former police officer employed by such village.

Authorizes the city of Binghamton to offer an optional twenty-five year retirement plan to firefighter Scott Pavlick.

Eliminates the "wartime service" requirement to expand the number of qualified veterans eligible for certain civil service positions.

Relates to the compensation of deputy public administrators in the city of New York; permits them to be paid at least two-thirds the amount paid to public administrators within the same county.

Provides for crediting of probationary service when a person appointed provisionally in accordance with section sixty-five of the civil service law receives a permanent appointment to the same title.

Requires the suspension of retirement allowance upon re-employment with a public authority or public benefit corporation.

Authorizes Douglas Brenning of the village of New York Mills to take the competitive civil service examination for the position of police officer and be placed on the eligible list for employment as a full-time police officer for the village of New York Mills police department.

Relates to the calculation of past service credit for police officers employed by the division of law enforcement in the department of environmental protection in the city of New York transferring between the New York city employees' retirement system to the New York state and local police and fire retirement system.

Relates to a child care leave credit for New York city uniformed correction officers who are members of the New York city uniformed correction/sanitation revised plan.

Includes thyroid cancer in the list of cancers presumed to be incurred in the performance of duty for purposes of disability retirement for firefighters in a city with a population of one million or more.

Provides for health insurance coverage for surviving spouses or domestic partners of deceased active members of the New York city fire department who are enrolled in a health insurance plan.

Permits a member of the New York city teachers' retirement system, the New York city employees' retirement system, or the New York city board of education retirement system who is eligible to join any other retirement system maintained by the city due to a separate, concurrent eligible employment with a participating employer to become a member of the subsequent city funded retirement system provided such benefits in the first system of membership are suspended during their active membership in the subsequent retirement system.

Provides for a line of duty presumption for disabilities of deputy sheriffs in a city with a population of one million or more.

Grants retroactive tier V membership in the NY state and local employees' retirement system for Daniel Miller.

Provides that certain members of the police and fire retirement system shall have final average salary be calculated as the regular compensation earned during the twelve months of actual service immediately preceding the date of such member's retirement.

Authorizes Tier IV status in the New York state and local employees' retirement system for Marc Del Prado.

Authorizes Isaac B. Bertos to take the competitive civil service examination for the position of police officer and be placed on the eligible list for employment as a full-time police officer for the village of Ilion, notwithstanding the age requirements under the civil service law.

Relates to the transfer of reserves between public employee retirement systems of the state.

Relates to additional member contributions for certain members under the age fifty-seven retirement program; provides that members holding certain titles who due to their age at the time of enrollment in the age fifty-seven retirement program will not obtain twenty-five years of service credit and therefore will not be eligible for a refund of their additional member contributions shall not be required to make additional member contributions.

Relates to the rate of interest used in the actuarial valuation of liabilities for the purpose of calculating contributions to the New York city employees' retirement system, the New York city teachers' retirement system, the police pension fund, subchapter two, the fire department pension fund, subchapter two and the board of education retirement system of such city by public employers and other obligors required to make employer contributions to such retirement systems, the crediting of special interest and additional interest and additional interest to members of such retirement systems, and the allowance of supplementary interest on the funds of such retirement systems; extends such provisions until June 30, 2025.

Directs the president of the civil service commission to collect health care claims data relating to the price and utilization of hospital benefits by active employees, retired employees and their dependents and to publish a New York State health benefit plan hospital pricing report.

Deems an application filed with the New York state and local police and fire retirement system by the widow of Lawrence Lakeman as timely filed.

Establishes a retirement service credit for volunteer fire or emergency service.

Implements certain collective bargaining agreements relating to terms and conditions of employment of certain nonjudicial officers and employees of the unified court system.

Grants retroactive tier IV status to Kimberly Kinblom.

Relates to additional member contributions for certain members under the age fifty-seven retirement program; provides that members holding certain titles who due to their age at the time of enrollment in the age fifty-seven retirement program will not obtain twenty-five years of service credit and therefore will not be eligible for a refund of their additional member contributions shall not be required to make additional member contributions.

Relates to injunctive relief in improper practice cases; makes provisions of the civil service law relating to injunctive relief in improper practice cases permanent.

Provides that extrinsic evidence shall be admissible to determine whether certain health insurance benefits are intended to vest beyond the term of a collective bargaining agreement.

Authorizes the county of Clinton to offer an optional twenty-five year retirement plan to Tanner Hooker, Timothy Schwartz, and Ian Vanier, deputy sheriffs employed by such county.

Authorizes Kimberly A. Cooney of the village of Cambridge to take the competitive civil service examination for the position of police officer and be placed on the eligible list for employment as a full-time police officer with the Cambridge-Greenwich Police Department.

Authorizes Jeffrey Chase of the village of New York Mills to take the competitive civil service examination for the position of police officer and be placed on the eligible list for employment as a full-time police officer for the village of New York Mills police department.

Increases the amounts of certain special accidental death benefits.

Authorizes Joseph Murphy, a former employee of the NYS department of corrections and community supervision, to receive a refund for military service credit purchased in the New York state and local employees' retirement system.

Relates to establishing a special accidental death benefit for deputy sheriff members of the New York city employees' retirement system.

Enacts the "police and fire employees retention act"; provides for a deferred retirement option plan payable to members of optional twenty-year retirement plans; outlines eligibility and payout of such plan; makes related provisions.

Provides one additional service credit for members of the New York state teachers' retirement system for each day of accumulated unused sick leave at the time of a member's retirement.

Modifies the retirement program for Triborough bridge and tunnel members to a twenty-year retirement program; clarifies the statutory peace officer designation of certain employees of the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority.

Provides a special accidental death benefit to the parents of a deceased member if such member has no spouse or child under the age of eighteen or twenty-three if a student.

Authorizes Donald Quehl, who has been continuously employed by the village of Pulaski as a part-time police officer, to take the competitive civil service examination and be placed on the eligible list for appointment as a full-time police officer for such village in the county of Oswego.

Relates to allowing certain members of the New York city police pension fund to borrow from contributions.

Grants Peter Guarino retroactive membership with Tier IV status in the New York state teachers' retirement system.

Authorizes Harvey Eilbaum to file a request to nominate an additional beneficiary with the New York state and local employees' retirement system.

Authorizes Jodi Manne to receive a refund from the New York state teachers' retirement system.

Grants retroactive membership with Tier II status in the New York state teachers' retirement system to Lori Cohen.

Authorizes Thomas Collins to file a request for change of benefit coverage with the New York state teachers' retirement system.

Grants retroactive membership with Tier II status in the New York state teachers' retirement system to Lori Cohen.

Authorizes Janice Middlebrooks, the widow of William James Middlebrooks, to file a retirement option election on behalf of her deceased husband.

Authorizes police/fire members of the New York city fire department pension fund to obtain credit for certain prior service as an EMT member.

Provides that a retired state employee who does not have the required years of service to continue in the health benefit plan shall be eligible to continue in the health benefit plan, if such employee has purchased military service credit and the sum of the employee's years of service and purchased military service credit is equal to or exceeds the years of service required to continue in the health benefit plan in retirement.

Relates to granting retroactive Tier IV membership in the New York state and local employees' retirement system for Maureen Sullivan Nasca.

Authorizes Michael J. Cappiello to purchase service credit for service with the Long Island Railroad Company police department prior to its merger with the MTA and the state retirement system.

Authorizes retired firefighters to be employed as fire science instructors by career and technical education centers without a reduction of their retirement benefits.

Authorizes Michael J. Cappiello to purchase service credit for service with the Long Island Railroad Company police department prior to its merger with the MTA and the state retirement system.

Authorizes the widow of Gerald J. Sullivan to file an application with the New York state and local police and fire retirement system on behalf of such deceased member and deem such application as timely filed.

Requires subsidiaries of the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority and their employees to submit all unresolvable contract negotiations to binding arbitration.

Authorizes the villages of Malone, Saranac Lake and Tupper Lake, in the county of Franklin, to employ retired former members of the division of state police as part-time village police officers.

Authorizes Kevin Brischoux to receive certain service credit under section 384-d of the retirement and social security law.

Authorizes Christopher Walser to take the competitive civil service examination for the position of police officer and be placed on the eligible list for employment as a full-time police officer for the Onondaga County Sheriff's Office.

Relates to providing reforms to employee pension contributions; provides that members of Tier 6 shall contribute three percent of annual wages to their retirement system.

Grants retroactive eligibility to apply for enhanced Tier 3 status to former New York City police officer Mark Rivera.

Provides for the pension benefits for first grade police officers of the city of New York who have served for 25 or 30 years.

Provides a cost-of-living adjustment for New York public retirement systems.

Directs the department of civil service to conduct a study on competitive examinations for public employment held by the state department of civil service and by municipal commissions to determine whether the contents of such examinations have a discriminatory effect on minority examinees; requires a report on such findings to be delivered to the governor and legislature.

Grants retroactive membership in Tier II of the New York state and local police and fire retirement system to Paul Valentine Jr.

Provides cost-of-living adjustments for certain public retirees, including an adjusted benefit in monthly installments that is equal to the percentage of the change in consumer price index according to the included schedule.

Grants members or officers of the state police credit for service as a deputy sheriff, county corrections officer, or state corrections officer; two years credit; cost borne by member.