Provides earnings limitations for retired police officers employed part-time by certain municipalities

Latest action Jan 7, 2026

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.

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Where it stands

Out of committee and scheduled for a vote by the full chamber.

Introduced
In committee
Up for a vote
Passed one chamber
Passed
Enacted

New York State Senate

Same as A8865, the matching bill in the Assembly.

Amends the Retirement and Social Security Law.

Committee

Civil Service And Pensions · New York State Senate

Also referred to Governmental Employees · New York State Assembly.

Purpose, from the sponsor's memo

Section 1 amends section 212 of the retirement and social security law by adding a new subdivision four exempting certain retired police offi- cers employed as part-time police officers in certain municipalities from the earnings limitation provisions in subdivisions one and two of section 212 while requiring the municipality employing such retired police officer to contribute a percentage of the officer's excess earn- ings, equivalent to the normal contribution rate, to the New York state and local police and fire retirement system. Section 2 establishes the effective date.

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Recorded votes

Vote: Committee vote · Civil Service And Pensions
Senate Civil Service And PensionsMay 27, 2025Result: passed
(6) (0) (0) (1)

Cosponsors

Jo Anne Simon

Democratic1

Jo Anne Simon

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The sponsor's argument

Why Shelley Mayer says this is needed

Certain municipal police departments in Westchester County, such as the Pound Ridge Police Department, are staffed in whole or in substantial part by part-time police officers. Many of these part-time officers are retired police officers who face suspension or diminution of retirement allowance should their earnings exceed a statutory cap. The Pound Ridge Police Department and others have difficulty retaining sufficient numbers of experienced officers to staff their departments, since these officers can easily find employment across the border in Connecticut where their earnings are not subject to the limitation. This bill will enable police departments such as Pound Ridge to retain experienced officers and to adequately staff their departments. This bill will provide relief to these municipalities, allowing certain retired police officers who work as active police officers in munici- palities with populations of less than 7,500 to work up to up to five hundred twenty hours in any consecutive six-month period in a calendar year with no suspension or diminution of retirement allowance, if at least seventy per cent of such municipality's active duty police force, not including civilian staff, consists of part-time officers. To defray costs to the retirement system, municipalities employing such retired police officers would contribute a percentage of the officer's excess earnings, equivalent to the normal contribution rate, to the New York state and local police and fire retirement system.

This is the sponsor's own case for the bill, quoted from their memorandum. It is not Agora's description of what the bill does.

Full history

Jan 7, 2026
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS
NY Senate
Jan 7, 2026
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES
NY Assembly
Jun 9, 2025
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES
NY Assembly
Jun 6, 2025
Amend and Recommit to Finance
AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO FINANCE
NY Senate
May 27, 2025
Reported out of committee
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
NY Senate

Show full history (1 earlier event)

May 15, 2025
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS
NY Senate

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