---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizes the city of Syracuse to offer an optional twenty year retirement program to police officer Thomas R. Nicolini"
description: "Authorizes the city of Syracuse to offer an optional twenty year retirement program to police officer Thomas R. Nicolini."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "S 5955"
citation: "New York S 5955 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["MAY"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-05-16"
last_action: "2019-09-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff97abe6-f02a-47cf-b507-f8e6027184a1"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/S5955"
source_hash: "30d38b33b9bbbf72ded0fbaafc70547126d001a12fdb9e5797539cc9bd55f0c1"
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 5955 (2019-2020) — Authorizes the city of Syracuse to offer an optional twenty year retirement program to police officer Thomas R. Nicolini

Authorizes the city of Syracuse to offer an optional twenty year retirement program to police officer Thomas R. Nicolini.

## Version chain

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

1. **S5955** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S5955&term=2019&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **62–0** (pass) · upper
- Rules Vote — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **146–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- MAY — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-16** REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-18** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-18** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1575
- **2019-06-18** HOME RULE REQUEST
- **2019-06-18** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2019-06-18** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2019-06-19** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-19** SUBSTITUTED FOR A7890
- **2019-06-19** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.466
- **2019-06-19** HOME RULE REQUEST
- **2019-06-19** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2019-06-19** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2019-09-13** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2019-09-13** SIGNED CHAP.304 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ff97abe6-f02a-47cf-b507-f8e6027184a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).