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A05864 Summary:

BILL NOA05864
 
SAME ASSAME AS S06053
 
SPONSORFahy
 
COSPNSRSimon, Steck, Simone, McDonald, Eachus
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add §137, Civ Serv L
 
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.
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A05864 Actions:

BILL NOA05864
 
03/23/2023referred to governmental employees
01/03/2024referred to governmental employees
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A05864 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A5864
 
SPONSOR: Fahy
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the civil service law, in relation to granting a retro- active parity payment to certain management and confidential retirees   PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: Grants a retroactive parity payment to certain management and confiden- tial retirees   SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 adds new section 137 to the civil service law, which provides for a rebate payment to certain employees designated managerial or confidential and retired between April 1, 2009 and March 31, 2015 and had an authorized salary increase that was withheld. Section 2 sets the effective date.   JUSTIFICATION: During the 2008 recession, management confidential employees (M/Cs) had their authorized salary increases withheld by the state in an effort to reduce expenditures. While many M/Cs ultimately received their withheld pay raises, thousands of M/Cs retired during the withheld period" and thus were denied this rightful benefit. This measure provides a rebate to those management confidential employees that retired after having salary increases with- held for 2009 and/or 2010. New York saved over $450,000 million in sala- ries and fringe benefits from the withholding of salary increases for 2019 and 2010. No more than 4,000 eligible retirees are expected to take advantage of this rebate. While this measure does not wholly recover those lost wages, it is only fair to restore some of the lost value of the withheld salaries.   PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: A2462 2019-20 A4885 2021-22   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: For the 4/1/2009-3/31/2015 period the NYS Division of the Budget utilized an average M/C annual salary of $72,000. Using data and service records from New York State and Local Employees Retirement System there were 2608 M/C retirees whose salary restoration through this proposal would cost approximately $6.5 million. The total. cost for this proposal is estimated at $9 million.   EFFECTIVE DATE: Immediately
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A05864 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          5864
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     March 23, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Employees
 
        AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to granting a  retro-
          active parity payment to certain management and confidential retirees
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. The civil service law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  137 to read as follows:
     3    §  137.  Management and confidential retiree parity payment.  Notwith-
     4  standing any provision of law, rule or regulation to the  contrary,  any
     5  retiree  who served in a position or positions in the classified service
     6  of the state designated managerial or confidential pursuant  to  article
     7  fourteen  of this chapter and who retired between April first, two thou-
     8  sand nine and March thirty-first, two thousand fifteen, and had a salary
     9  increase authorized under chapter ten of the laws of two thousand  eight
    10  which  was  withheld for state fiscal years two thousand nine and/or two
    11  thousand ten shall receive a seventy dollar  rebate  payment  for  every
    12  month  of  withholding  from  April  first, two thousand nine until such
    13  retiree's  date  of  retirement  or  March  thirty-first,  two  thousand
    14  fifteen,  whichever  is  earlier, not to exceed a total of five thousand
    15  dollars. The comptroller shall certify to the division of the  budget  a
    16  listing of all such retirees deemed eligible pursuant to this section.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10111-01-3
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