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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9593--A
IN ASSEMBLY
January 21, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. JENSEN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Judiciary -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
as amended and recommitted to said committee
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 those who retire on or after such
11 effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14408-02-6
