A9593 • 2025

Requires the court to treat the date of dissolution as if a spouse retired from employment with New York state when calculating the distribution of a pension

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Josh Jensen
Last action: 2026-05-06
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the court to treat the date of dissolution as if a spouse retired from employment with New York state when calculating the distribution of a pension

Requires the court to treat the date of dissolution as if a spouse retired from employment with New York state when calculating the distribution of a pension Requires the court to treat the date of dissolution as if a spouse retired from employment with New York state when calculating the distribution of a pension for the purposes of divorce.

What This Bill Does

Requires the court to treat the date of dissolution as if a spouse retired from employment with New York state when calculating the distribution of a pension Requires the court to treat the date of dissolution as if a spouse retired from employment with New York state when calculating the distribution of a pension for the purposes of divorce.

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Bill History

2026-05-06 Assembly
AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO JUDICIARY
2026-05-06 Assembly
PRINT NUMBER 9593A
2026-01-21 Assembly
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY

Official Summary Text

Requires the court to treat the date of dissolution as if a spouse retired from employment with New York state when calculating the distribution of a pension
Requires the court to treat the date of dissolution as if a spouse retired from employment with New York state when calculating the distribution of a pension for the purposes of divorce.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          9593

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                    January 21, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. JENSEN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Judiciary

        AN  ACT to amend the domestic relations law, in relation to the distrib-
          ution of New York state pensions at the time of divorce

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph 4 of paragraph d of subdivision 5 of part B of
     2  section  236 of the domestic relations law, as amended by chapter 281 of
     3  the laws of 1980, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (4) the loss of inheritance and pension rights upon dissolution of the
     5  marriage as of the date of dissolution, PROVIDED, HOWEVER,  WHEN  CALCU-
     6  LATING SUCH PENSION RIGHTS, THE COURT SHALL CONSIDER THE DATE OF DISSOL-
     7  UTION FOR PERSONS WHO WORK FOR THE STATE OF NEW YORK THE SAME AS IF SUCH
     8  PERSON RETIRED FROM THE STATE OF NEW YORK;
     9    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    10  have become a law and shall apply to matrimonial actions commenced on or
    11  after such effective date.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14408-01-6