2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 11 - State Teachers' Retirement System for Public School Teachers › 536 - Deductions From Benefits of Certain Retired Members.

§ 536. Deductions   from  benefits  of  certain  retired  members.  1.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pensioner who  is  retired
  from  the retirement system shall have the right, at any time after such
  pensioner's retirement, to execute and file  a  deduction  authorization
  card  with  the  retirement  board  authorizing  the deduction from such
  pensioner's retirement allowance of membership dues and such pensioner's
  share of the cost for employee organization-sponsored benefit plans  and
  the  payment thereof to a retiree organization of which the pensioner is
  then a member and which is  then  affiliated  with  either  an  employee
  organization  certified  or  recognized  as  the  collective  bargaining
  representative of all employees in the negotiating  unit  of  which  the
  pensioner  was a part prior to his or her retirement or with an employee
  organization with which such employee organization is  then  affiliated.
  The  retirement  board  shall  thereafter  deduct  from  the  retirement
  allowance of such pensioner the  amount  of  membership  dues  and  such
  amounts  required  to  be  paid  by  such  pensioner for such authorized
  employee organization-sponsored benefit plans, and  shall  transmit  the
  sum  so  deducted to said retiree organization. Such authorization shall
  continue in effect until revoked  in  writing  by  such  pensioner.  For
  purposes  of  this  section,  the  term "employee organization-sponsored
  benefit plans" shall include any and all insurance  plans  and/or  other
  benefit plans sponsored by such retiree organization whether provided by
  (a)  a  not-for-profit corporation licensed under article forty-three of
  the insurance law; (b) any insurance company authorized to  do  business
  in   this   state;  (c)  a  health  maintenance  organization  issued  a
  certificate of authority pursuant to article forty-four  of  the  public
  health law; or (d) a self-insurance arrangement, welfare fund or benefit
  fund.
2.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 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  board
  authorizing the payment of  voluntary  contributions  to  the  political
  committee,  as  defined  in  subdivision  one  of  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
  negotiating  unit  in  which such retired member was then employed. Such
  authorization shall continue in effect until revoked in writing by  such
  member.  The  board 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.