S 7973: Provides earnings limitations for retired police officers employed part-time by municipalities with a population of less than 7,500; permits such officer to work up to five hundred twenty hours in any consecutive six-month period, with no suspension or diminution of retirement allowance; establishes villages or towns shall report such hours and salary earned on a monthly basis and shall contribute a percentage of the officer's excess earnings to the New York state and local police and fire retirement system.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7973 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE May 15, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MAYER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to calculating the earnings limitations for retired police officers employed part-time by certain municipalities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 212 of the retirement and social security law is 2 amended by adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows: 3 4. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivisions one and two of this 4 section, such earnings limitations shall not apply to a retired police 5 officer, who has retired after having twenty-five years of vested 6 service in a police pension system that fully vests at twenty years, who 7 is employed part-time as a police officer in a village or town with a 8 population of less than fifteen thousand as determined by the most 9 recent federal decennial census, where at least seventy percent of such 10 village or town's active-duty police force, not including civilian 11 staff, consists of part-time officers. Such part-time police officer 12 shall be permitted to work up to five hundred twenty hours in any 13 consecutive six-month period in a calendar year based on hours worked as 14 reported by the village or town on a monthly basis, with no suspension 15 or diminution of retirement allowance. Any village or town that hires a 16 retired police officer pursuant to this subdivision shall report such 17 officer's days worked and salary earned to the New York state and local 18 police and fire retirement system on a monthly basis. For any such 19 officer whose earnings exceed the earnings limitations in subdivisions 20 one and two of this section, the village or town employing such officer 21 shall contribute to the New York state and local police and fire retire- 22 ment system a percentage of such officer's excess earnings equivalent to 23 the normal contribution rate as described in paragraph one of subdivi- 24 sion b of section three hundred twenty-three of this chapter. 25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD13074-01-5