---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to authorizing and empowering CREF to merge with TIAA; repealer"
description: "Authorizes and empowers the College Retirement Equities Fund (CREF) to merge with the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association (TIAA) with CREF ceasing to be a corporate entity and TIAA as the surviving entity."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "S 2679"
citation: "New York S 2679 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Neil D. Breslin"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-01-24"
last_action: "2023-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0852c175-4e6d-40f5-bbce-88dbbd8be2eb"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S2679"
source_hash: "fcc5fbe2b6fb46faa2af25afcb9fa145cb8564ec5537b5a28372532873b61ae8"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York S 2679 (2023-2024) — Relates to authorizing and empowering CREF to merge with TIAA; repealer

Authorizes and empowers the College Retirement Equities Fund (CREF) to merge with the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association (TIAA) with CREF ceasing to be a corporate entity and TIAA as the surviving entity.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S2679** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S2679&term=2023&Text=Y)
2. **S2679A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2023/S2679A)
3. **S2679B** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2023/S2679B)

## Votes

- Floor Vote - Version: B — **60–1** (pass) · upper
- Insurance Vote - Version: A — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **140–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Neil D. Breslin — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-01-24** REFERRED TO INSURANCE `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-16** AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO INSURANCE `amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-16** PRINT NUMBER 2679A `amendment-passage`
- **2023-05-22** 1ST REPORT CAL.1180
- **2023-05-23** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2023-05-24** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2023-05-30** AMENDED ON THIRD READING (T) 2679B `amendment-passage`
- **2023-06-05** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2023-06-05** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2023-06-05** REFERRED TO INSURANCE `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-10** SUBSTITUTED FOR A6347B
- **2023-06-10** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.825
- **2023-06-10** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2023-06-10** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2023-06-29** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-30** SIGNED CHAP.171 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0852c175-4e6d-40f5-bbce-88dbbd8be2eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).