Retirement
Community Correctional Center Assistants
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4412--A
2003-2004 Regular Sessions
April 14, 2003
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Introduced by Sen. MAZIARZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
-- recommitted to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions in
accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to
community correctional center assistants
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision i of section 89 of the retirement and social
2 security law, as amended by chapter 578 of the laws of 1989, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 i. As used in this section, "uniformed persons" or "uniformed person-
5 nel" in institutions under the jurisdiction of the department of correc-
6 tional services or "security hospital treatment assistants" under the
7 jurisdiction of the office of mental health mean officers or employees
8 holding the titles hereinafter set forth in institutions under the
9 jurisdiction of the department of correctional services or under the
10 jurisdiction of the office of mental health, namely: correction offi-
11 cers, prison guards, correction sergeants, correction lieutenants,
12 correction captains, deputy assistant superintendent or warden, deputy
13 warden or deputy superintendent, superintendents and wardens, assistant
14 director and director of correction reception center, director of
15 correctional program, assistant director of correctional program, direc-
16 tor of community correctional center, community correctional center
17 assistant, correction hospital officers, male or female, correction
18 hospital senior officers, correction hospital charge officer, correction
19 hospital supervising officer, correction hospital security supervisor,
20 correction hospital chief officer, correction youth camp officer,
21 correction youth camp supervisor, assistant supervisor, correctional
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 camp superintendent, assistant correctional camp superintendent, direc-
2 tor of crisis intervention unit, assistant director of crisis inter-
3 vention unit, security hospital treatment assistants, security hospital
4 treatment assistants (Spanish speaking), security hospital senior treat-
5 ment assistants, security hospital supervising treatment assistants and
6 security hospital treatment chiefs. Previous service rendered under the
7 titles by which such positions were formerly designated and previous
8 service rendered as a narcotic addiction control commission officer
9 shall constitute creditable service. Notwithstanding any provision of
10 law to the contrary, any employee of the department of correctional
11 services who became enrolled under this section by reason of employment
12 as a uniformed person in an institution under the jurisdiction of the
13 department of correctional services shall be entitled to full retirement
14 credit for, and full allowance shall be made under this section for the
15 service of such employee, not to exceed ten years, in the following
16 titles, namely: correction officer, correction sergeant, correction
17 lieutenant, or correction captain assigned to a training academy or to
18 the central office.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
This bill would amend subdivision i of Section 89 of the Retirement
and Social Security Law to provide the same plan benefits to community
correctional center assistants as those provided to the New York State
Correction Officers.
If this bill is enacted, we anticipate that there will be an increase
of approximately $48,000 in the annual contributions of the State of New
York for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2005.
In addition to the annual contributions discussed above, there will be
an immediate past service cost of approximately $255,000 which would be
borne by the State of New York as a one-time payment. This estimate is
based on the assumption that payment will be made on March 1, 2005.
These estimated costs are based on thirty (30) known affected members
having an estimated total annual salary for the fiscal year ending March
31, 2004 of approximately $1.5 million.
This estimate, dated December 1, 2003 and intended for use only during
the 2004 Legislative Session, is fiscal note No. 2004-11 prepared by the
Actuary for the New York State and Local Employees' Retirement System.
