S 8121: Permits certain twenty-five year retirement program dispatcher members to file elections not to participate.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8121 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE May 15, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. JACKSON -- 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 permitting certain twenty-five year retirement program dispatcher members to file elections not to participate The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 604-e of the retirement and social security law, as 2 added by chapter 576 of the laws of 2000, is amended by adding a new 3 subdivision f to read as follows: 4 f. 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a 5 dispatcher member who exceeded age thirty upon employment as a dispatch- 6 er member and failed to file their election not to participate with the 7 retirement system within one hundred eighty days of becoming a dispatch- 8 er member, as required by paragraph three of subdivision b of this 9 section, may file such an election with the retirement system within one 10 hundred eighty days of the effective date of this subdivision. 11 2. The retirement system shall post, and announce on its homepage the 12 posting of, the form and corresponding instructions for dispatcher 13 members to elect not to participate on its website no later than thirty 14 days after the effective date of this subdivision. 15 3. If the retirement system fails to post and announce the form and 16 corresponding instructions no later than thirty days after the effective 17 date of this subdivision, as prescribed by paragraph two of this subdi- 18 vision, the period for a dispatcher member to elect not to participate 19 prescribed by paragraph one of this subdivision shall be extended by 20 sixty days for each month or part thereof that such form and 21 instructions are not posted to the retirement system's website. 22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10892-01-5