Senate Bill S7783

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to providing increases of cost-of-living adjustments

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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-S7783 (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: S6030
2023-2024: S6158

2025-S7783 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides increases of cost-of-living adjustments for public retirees; allows increases of up to five percent.

2025-S7783 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S7783 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7783
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 6, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. JACKSON, 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 d 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:
   d.  The  percentage  referred  to  in this section shall be determined
 annually by reference to the 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, for each  applicable  calendar
 year. Said percentage shall equal fifty percent of the annual inflation,
 as  determined  from the increase in the consumer price index in the one
 year period ending on the March thirty-first prior to the cost-of-living
 adjustment effective on the ensuing  September  first.  Said  percentage
 shall then be rounded up to the next higher one-tenth of one percent and
 shall  not  exceed three percent nor be less than one percent AND EFFEC-
 TIVE THE FIRST DAY OF SEPTEMBER, TWO THOUSAND  TWENTY-SEVEN,  SHALL  NOT
 EXCEED FIVE PERCENT NOR BE LESS THAN ONE PERCENT.
   § 2. Subdivision d of section 378-a of the retirement and social secu-
 rity  law,  as  added  by chapter 125 of the laws of 2000, is amended to
 read as follows:
   d. The percentage referred to in  this  section  shall  be  determined
 annually  by reference to the 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, for each applicable calendar
 year. Said percentage shall equal fifty percent of the annual inflation,

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08218-03-5
              

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