New York Consolidated Laws, Retirement and Social Security Law - RSS § 110-b. Deduction of dues and insurance premiums from benefits of certain retired members

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary and subject to the provisions of a collective negotiating agreement between the state and an employee organization representing employees whose positions are in collective negotiating units designed as the administrative services unit, operational services unit, institutional services unit or division of military and naval affairs unit established pursuant to article fourteen of the civil service law, the comptroller is hereby authorized to deduct from the retirement allowance of any retired member of such negotiating units who retired on or after January first, nineteen hundred eighty-seven an amount of membership dues as the retired member may specify in writing filed with the comptroller for the payment of such employee organization membership dues and premiums for employee organization sponsored group insurance plans.  Any such written authorization may be withdrawn by such retired member at any time upon filing written notice of such withdrawal with the comptroller.   Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, the employee organization certified, pursuant to article fourteen of the civil service law, to represent the collective negotiating unit from which the member retired shall have exclusive payroll deduction of membership dues and premiums for insurance and mass-merchandized automobile and homeowners' insurance policies for retired members of such collective negotiating unit.   Deductions for such dues and premiums shall not be authorized for any other employee organization or group except by express written approval of such appropriate certified employee organization.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a retired member shall have the right, at any time after his or her retirement, to execute and file a deduction authorization card with the retirement system authorizing the payment of voluntary contributions to the political committee, as defined in section 14-100 of the election law, of such member's employee organization, provided such organization is certified or recognized pursuant to article fourteen of the civil service law as the representative of all employees in the negotiation unit in which such member was then employed.  Such authorization shall continue in effect until revoked in writing by such member.  The comptroller shall determine the cost of administering deductions for voluntary contributions to the political committee and the cost incurred by the retirement system in administering such contributions shall be paid from the funds of the political committee.