S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3168
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 3, 2015
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       Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
       AN ACT relating to a waiver of earnings limitation for certain  retirees
         of  the New York state and local police and fire retirement system who
         are employed by the state university
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of general or special
    2  law, local law and/or charter, the earnings limitations contained in any
    3  such general or special law, local law and/or charter and applicable  to
    4  the  employment  of persons in a position or positions in public service
    5  in any calendar year while retired and receiving a retirement  allowance
    6  shall  not apply to persons employed by the state university of New York
    7  or by a community college under a program of the state university  serv-
    8  ing  in  certain capacities during the whole of any calendar year begin-
    9  ning with the calendar year in which this act shall have  become  a  law
   10  who meets all of the following requirements; such person may continue as
   11  retired and without loss, suspension or diminution of his or her retire-
   12  ment allowance, provided:  (a) such person retired while a member of the
   13  New  York  state  and  local police and fire retirement system; (b) such
   14  person is entitled to receive a retirement allowance from  such  retire-
   15  ment  system  immediately prior to the commencement date of such employ-
   16  ment by the state university or community college under a program of the
   17  state university, as the case may be; (c) such person is hired only as a
   18  member of the faculty by the state university of New York or as a member
   19  of the faculty or as director of public safety by a  community  college;
   20  and  (d)  such retired person is granted a waiver of retirement earnings
   21  limitation by the chancellor of the state university of New York or  the
   22  president  of a community college under a program of the state universi-
   23  ty, as the case may be.
   24    S 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2016.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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