Senate Bill S3414

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides cost-of-living adjustments for certain public retirees

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Civil Service And Pensions Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-S3414 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
Retirement and Social Security Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§78-a & 378-a, R & SS L; amd §532-a, Ed L; amd §13-696, NYC Ad Cd
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S6060
2023-2024: S6252

2025-S3414 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides cost-of-living adjustments for certain public retirees, including an adjusted benefit in monthly installments that is equal to the percentage of the change in consumer price index according to the included schedule.

2025-S3414 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S3414 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3414
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 27, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. JACKSON, ADDABBO, HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered
   printed,  and  when  printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil
   Service and Pensions
 
 AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security  law,  the  education
   law  and  the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation
   to providing cost-of-living adjustments

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision f of section 78-a of the retirement and social
 security law, as added by chapter 125 of the laws of 2000, is amended to
 read as follows:
   f. Commencing September first, two thousand, all retired  members  who
 have  retired  prior  to the calendar year nineteen hundred ninety-seven
 and who meet the eligibility criteria set forth in subdivision a of this
 section shall be paid an adjusted benefit in monthly installments on the
 basis provided for in this subdivision. Said adjusted benefit  shall  be
 equal  to  a percentage of the change in consumer price index (all urban
 consumers, CPI-U, U.S. city average, all items, 1982-84=100),  published
 by  the United States bureau of labor statistics, measured from the year
 of  retirement  through  calendar  year  nineteen  hundred  ninety-seven
 according to the following schedule:
 
       Year of retirement                     Percentage
       1968 through 1996                      50%
       1966 and 1967                          55%
       1965                                   60%
       1964                                   65%
       1963                                   70%
       1962                                   80%
       1961                                   90%
       prior to 1961                          100%
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06255-02-5
              

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