---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizes Matthew J. McFadden and Richard Gage, police officers in the village of Avon, in the county of Livingston, to elect to participate in an optional 20 year retirement program"
description: "Authorizes Matthew J. McFadden and Richard Gage, police officers in the village of Avon, in the county of Livingston, to elect to participate in an optional 20 year retirement program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "S 4254"
citation: "New York S 4254 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["GALLIVAN"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-07"
last_action: "2017-08-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a66dc7fe-c46a-49ab-b3b0-e3645733099c"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/S4254"
source_hash: "ba78b97427ae2641e8cd51114a6fdc6c90ff936345e5296609ae3ccaf40036e1"
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 4254 (2017-2018) — Authorizes Matthew J. McFadden and Richard Gage, police officers in the village of Avon, in the county of Livingston, to elect to participate in an optional 20 year retirement program

Authorizes Matthew J. McFadden and Richard Gage, police officers in the village of Avon, in the county of Livingston, to elect to participate in an optional 20 year retirement program.

## Version chain

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

1. **S4254 HTML** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S4254&term=2017&Text=Y)
2. **S4254 PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2017/S4254)

## Votes

- Rules Vote — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **140–3** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote — **60–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- GALLIVAN — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-07** REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-14** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-14** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1718
- **2017-06-15** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2017-06-15** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2017-06-15** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-20** SUBSTITUTED FOR A6364
- **2017-06-20** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.486
- **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.237 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a66dc7fe-c46a-49ab-b3b0-e3645733099c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).