---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizes the village of Port Chester to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to a certain police officer employed by such village"
description: "Authorizes the village of Port Chester to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to Police Officer Michael Sprague who is employed by such village."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "S 5551"
citation: "New York S 5551 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["LATIMER"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-04-11"
last_action: "2017-08-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/490e23b7-aa0f-444b-8bf1-c917ed0efc0c"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/S5551"
source_hash: "5613bce02f7f458d2b1746fed31e54065382b841857b90827322d9c659dbdb93"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York S 5551 (2017-2018) — Authorizes the village of Port Chester to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to a certain police officer employed by such village

Authorizes the village of Port Chester to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to Police Officer Michael Sprague who is employed by such village.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S5551 HTML** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S5551&term=2017&Text=Y)
2. **S5551 PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2017/S5551)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **62–0** (pass) · upper
- Rules Vote — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **139–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- LATIMER — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-04-11** REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-19** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-19** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1894
- **2017-06-19** HOME RULE REQUEST
- **2017-06-19** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2017-06-19** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2017-06-19** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-20** SUBSTITUTED FOR A7507
- **2017-06-20** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.501
- **2017-06-20** HOME RULE REQUEST
- **2017-06-20** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2017-06-20** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2017-08-09** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2017-08-21** SIGNED CHAP.252 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/490e23b7-aa0f-444b-8bf1-c917ed0efc0c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).