New York A 8207: Relates to applying cost-of-living adjustments

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A08207 Summary:

BILL NOA08207A

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SAME ASSAME AS S07614-A

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SPONSORPheffer Amato

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§78-a & 378-a, R & SS L; amd §532-a, Ed L; amd §13-696, NYC Ad Cd

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Provides a cost-of-living adjustment for New York public retirement systems.

Go to top A08207 Actions:

BILL NOA08207A

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05/05/2025referred to governmental employees

01/07/2026referred to governmental employees

05/06/2026amend and recommit to governmental employees

05/06/2026print number 8207a

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8207--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 5, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Governmental Employees -- recommitted to the Committee on
 Governmental Employees in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
 committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
 recommitted to said committee

 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:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision a of section 78-a of the retirement and social
 2 security law, as added by chapter 125 of the laws of 2000, is amended to
 3 read as follows:
 4 a. [A] Effective on the first day of September, two thousand twenty-
 5 six, a cost-of-living adjustment shall be payable on the basis provided
 6 for in this section to: (i) all pensioners who have attained age
 7 [sixty-two] fifty-five and have been retired for five years; (ii) [all
 8 pensioners who have attained age fifty-five and have been retired for
 9 ten years; (iii)] all disability pensioners regardless of age who have
 10 been retired for five years; and [(iv)] (iii) all recipients of an acci-
 11 dental death benefit regardless of age who have been receiving such
 12 benefit for five years.
 13 § 2. Subdivision a of section 378-a of the retirement and social secu-
 14 rity law, as added by chapter 125 of the laws of 2000, is amended to
 15 read as follows:
 16 a. [A] Effective on the first day of September, two thousand twenty-
 17 six, a cost-of-living adjustment shall be payable on the basis provided
 18 for in this section to: (i) all pensioners who have attained age
 19 [sixty-two] fifty-five and have been retired for five years; and (ii)
 20 [all pensioners who have attained age fifty-five and have been retired

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11216-08-6

 A. 8207--A 2

 1 for ten years; and (iii)] all disability pensioners regardless of age
 2 who have been retired for five years.
 3 § 3. Subdivision a of section 532-a of the education law, as added by
 4 chapter 125 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
 5 a. [A] Effective on the first day of September, two thousand twenty-
 6 six, a cost-of-living adjustment shall be payable on the basis provided
 7 for in this section to: (i) all pensioners who have attained age
 8 [sixty-two] fifty-five and have been retired for five years; (ii) [all
 9 pensioners who have attained age fifty-five and have been retired for
 10 ten years; (iii)] all disability pensioners regardless of age who have
 11 been retired for five years; and [(iv)] (iii) all recipients of an acci-
 12 dental death benefit regardless of age who have been receiving such
 13 benefit for five years.
 14 § 4. Subdivision a of section 13-696 of the administrative code of the
 15 city of New York, as amended by chapter 288 of the laws of 2001, is
 16 amended to read as follows:
 17 a. [A] Effective on the first day of September, two thousand twenty-
 18 six, a cost-of-living adjustment shall be payable to retired members of
 19 the New York city employees' retirement system, the New York city teach-
 20 ers' retirement system, the New York city police pension fund, the New
 21 York city fire department pension fund, the New York city board of