An Act to Remove Certain Cost-of-living Adjustment Restrictions
Maine Legislature, Session 132, LD 1021
Sponsors: BRENNER, MURPHY
Amends: 5 MRSA §17806

Legislative Document
No. 1021
S.P. 439
In Senate, March 13, 2025
An Act to Remove Certain Cost-of-living Adjustment Restrictions 
for Retired Members of the Law Enforcement Bargaining Unit Who 
Are 65 Years of Age or Older
(EMERGENCY)
Received by the Secretary of the Senate on March 12, 2025.  Referred to the Committee on 
Labor pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed.
DAREK M. GRANT
Secretary of the Senate
Presented by Senator BRENNER of Cumberland.
Cosponsored by Representative MURPHY of Scarborough and
Senators: CYRWAY of Kennebec, HARRINGTON of York, Representatives: ARDELL of 
Monticello, PERKINS of Dover-Foxcroft.
Emergency preamble.  Whereas, acts and resolves of the Legislature do not 
become effective until 90 days after adjournment unless enacted as emergencies; and
Whereas, cost-of-living adjustments are applied to the applicable portion of an 
eligible retiree’s benefit amount beginning in September of each year; and
Whereas, this legislation may affect the percentage increase to be applied to the 
applicable portion of an eligible law enforcement officer's retirement benefit amount 
beginning in September 2025; and
Whereas, in the judgment of the Legislature, these facts create an emergency within 
the meaning of the Constitution of Maine and require the following legislation as 
immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety; now, 
therefore,
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1.  5 MRSA §17806, sub-§1, ¶A, as amended by PL 2021, c. 635, Pt. NN, §1, 
is further amended to read:
A.  Except as provided in paragraphs A‑1, A‑2 and, A‑3 and A-4, whenever there is a 
percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index from July 1st to June 30th, the board 
shall automatically make an equal percentage increase in retirement benefits, beginning 
in September, up to a maximum annual increase of 3%.  Effective July 1, 2011, the 
increase applies to that portion of the retirement benefit up to $20,000, which amount 
must be indexed in subsequent years by the same percentage adjustments granted under 
this section.  Effective July 1, 2022, the increase applies to that portion of the retirement 
benefit up to $24,186.25, which amount must be indexed in subsequent years by the 
same percentage adjustments granted under this section.
Sec. 2.  5 MRSA §17806, sub-§1, ¶A-4 is enacted to read:
A-4. Beginning in 2025, whenever there is a percentage increase in the Consumer Price 
Index from July 1st to June 30th, the board shall automatically make an equal 
percentage increase in retirement benefits, beginning in September, up to a maximum 
annual increase of 3% for retirement benefits paid to individuals who are 65 years of 
age or older and who qualify for a service retirement benefit for one of the following 
positions:
(1) A game warden, game warden investigator, game warden pilot and game 
warden specialist in the employment of the Department of Inland Fisheries and 
Wildlife; 
(2) A marine patrol officer and marine patrol specialist in the employment of the 
Department of Marine Resources; 
(3) A correctional detective and corrections resource coordinator of the 
Department of Corrections employed in a correctional facility, as defined in Title 
34-A, section 1001, subsection 6, or whose duties involve contact with prisoners, 
probationers, parolees or juvenile offenders;
(4) A state fire marshal investigator and a state fire marshal senior investigator in 
the Department of Public Safety; 
(5) A detective in the employment of the office of investigations within the 
Department of the Secretary of State, Bureau of Motor Vehicles; 
(6) A Baxter Park Ranger I in the employment of the Baxter State Park Authority; 
(7) A deputy judicial marshal, corporal judicial marshal and sergeant judicial 
marshal as defined in Title 25, section 2801-A, subsection 2-A;
(8) A detective in the employment of the Office of the Attorney General;
(9) A capitol police officer in the employment of the Department of Public Safety;
(10) A Forest Ranger I, Forest Ranger II, Forest Ranger III and Ranger Pilot in the 
employment of the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry;
(11) A probation officer in the employment of the Department of Corrections;
(12) A juvenile community corrections officer in the employment of the 
Department of Corrections; and
(13) A military security police officer in the employment of the Department of 
Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management.
Emergency clause.  In view of the emergency cited in the preamble, this legislation 
takes effect when approved.
SUMMARY
This bill provides that, for certain law enforcement officers and certain retired state 
employees who retire at 65 years of age or older, the cost-of-living increases apply to that 
retiree’s entire retirement benefit instead of only to the amount specified under current law.