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Read. Follow. Verify.Kansas creates a cost-of-living adjustment commission for public employee retirement systems
Last action · April 10, 2026: Died in Committee
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What This Bill Proposed
Senate Bill 500 establishes a 13-member cost-of-living adjustment commission to study public retirement benefits and recommend annual adjustment rates for Kansas public retirees beginning in 2026. The commission includes appointees from the governor, legislative leaders, and the retirement system board of trustees, and excludes registered lobbyists. Its recommendations must be submitted to the legislature by December 1 of the appointed year for review and potential enactment into law.
Public retirees and beneficiaries under the Kansas public employees retirement system, police and firemen's retirement system, state school retirement system, and retirement system for judges face a structured quadrennial review process that determines recommendations for their cost-of-living adjustment rates.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
retirants and beneficiaries
Their retirement system benefits and cost-of-living adjustment rates are subject to comprehensive study and recommendations by the newly established commission.
state and local public employees
Represented through designated board appointees and subject to future cost-of-living adjustment determinations recommended by the commission.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died in committee.
Procedural history
4 actions- Apr 10, 2026SenateDied in Committee
- Feb 10, 2026SenateCommitteeReferred to Senate Committee on Ways and Means
- Feb 10, 2026SenateWithdrawn from Senate Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance; Referred to Senate Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance
- Feb 9, 2026SenateIntroducedIntroduced
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 45)
- Controversy15Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
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