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.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A6300
SPONSOR: Bronson TITLE OF BILL:
An act to authorize the county of Monroe to offer an optional twenty
year retirement plan to Carl J. Zimmerman, a sergeant employed by such
county
PURPOSE:
The purpose of this bill is to allow the county of Monroe to offer an
optional twenty-year retirement plan to Carl J. Zimmerman.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section one authorizes Monroe County to make participation in the
optional twenty-year retirement plan as established by section 552 and
553 of the retirement and social security law.
Section two specifies that all costs associated with this act shall be
borne by Monroe County.
Section three sets the effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
Sargent Carl J. Zimmerman began when he was hired into the jail on Octo-
ber 29, 1990. On May 25, 1998 he was transferred to the Road Patrol
Division. For reasons not ascribable to his own negligence, he should
have been placed into Article 14B Section 553, but retirement was never
transferred over from the jail retirement. It was not until much later
that he understood that he was still in the jail retirement. At that
time, he was told it was not possible to switch over to his correct
retirement system. Sargent Zimmerman was denied credit time for his
service. This bill allows Sargent Zimmerman the option to join this
retirement plan to rectify this error.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2024: A10626 - Referred to Governmental Employees
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
If this bill is enacted during the 2025 Legislative Session, we antic-
ipate that there will be an increase of approximately $13,000 in the
annual contributions of Monroe County for the fiscal year ending March
31, 2026. In future years this cost will vary as the billing rates and
salary of Carl J. Zimmerman change. In addition to the annual contrib-
utions discussed above, there will be an immediate past service cost of
approximately $120,000 which will be borne by Monroe County as a one-
time payment. This estimate assumes that payment will be made on Febru-
ary 1, 2026. If Monroe County elects to amortize this cost over a five-
year period, the cost for each year including interest would be $26,800.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6300
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 3, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to authorize the county of Monroe to offer an optional twenty
year retirement plan to Carl J. Zimmerman, a sergeant employed by such
county
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 law to the contrary,
2 the county of Monroe, a participating employer in the New York state
3 employees' retirement system, which has elected to offer the optional
4 twenty year retirement plan, established pursuant to article 14-B of the
5 retirement and social security law, to sergeants employed by such coun-
6 ty, is hereby authorized to make participation in such plan available to
7 Carl J. Zimmerman, a sergeant employed by the county of Monroe with a
8 start date of October 29, 1990, who, for reasons not ascribable to his
9 own negligence, failed to make a timely application to participate in
10 such optional twenty year plan contained in article 14-B of the retire-
11 ment and social security law. The county of Monroe may so elect by
12 filing with the state comptroller, on or before 180 days after this act
13 shall have become a law, a resolution of its governing body together
14 with certification that such sergeant did not bar themself from partic-
15 ipation in the retirement plan as a result of their own negligence.
16 Thereafter, such sergeant may individually elect to be covered by the
17 provisions of sections 552 and 553 of the retirement and social security
18 law, and the retirement system shall credit service from October 29,
19 1990 to present under sections 552 and 553 of the retirement and social
20 security law. Such member may effectuate by filing an election with the
21 retirement system within one year of the effective date of this act.
22 § 2. All employer past service costs associated with implementing the
23 provisions of this act shall be borne by the county of Monroe and may be
24 amortized over a five-year period.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
This bill would allow Carl J. Zimmerman, a current member of the New
York State and Local Employees' Retirement System employed as a sergeant
by Monroe County and covered under the 25-year retirement plan of §89-p
of the Retirement and Social Security Law (RSSL), to elect to be covered
under the 20-year plan of §552 and §553 of the RSSL.
If this bill is enacted during the 2025 Legislative Session, we antic-
ipate that there will be an increase of approximately $13,000 in the
annual contributions of Monroe County for the fiscal year ending March
31, 2026. In future years this cost will vary as the billing rates and
salary of Carl J. Zimmerman change.
In addition to the annual contributions discussed above, there will be
an immediate past service cost of approximately $120,000 which will be
borne by Monroe County as a one-time payment. This estimate assumes that
payment will be made on February 1, 2026. If Monroe County elects to
amortize this cost over a five-year period, the cost for each year
including interest would be $26,800.
Summary of relevant resources:
Membership data as of March 31, 2024 was used in measuring the impact
of the proposed change, the same data used in the April 1, 2024 actuari-
al valuation. Distributions and other statistics can be found in the
2024 Report of the Actuary and the 2024 Annual Comprehensive Financial
Report. The actuarial assumptions and methods used are described in the
2024 Annual Report to the Comptroller on Actuarial Assumptions, and the
Codes, Rules and Regulations of the State of New York: Audit and
Control. The Market Assets and GASB Disclosures are found in the March
31, 2024 New York State and Local Retirement System Financial Statements
and Supplementary Information.
This fiscal note does not constitute a legal opinion on the viability
of the proposed change nor is it intended to serve as a substitute for
the professional judgment of an attorney.
This estimate, dated February 19, 2025, and intended for use only
during the 2025 Legislative Session, is Fiscal Note No. 2025-59. As
Chief Actuary of the New York State and Local Retirement System, I,
Aaron Schottin Young, hereby certify that this analysis complies with
applicable Actuarial Standards of Practice as well as the Code of
Professional Conduct and Qualification Standards for Actuaries Issuing
Statements of Actuarial Opinion of the American Academy of Actuaries, of
which I am a member.
