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S 250Includes wildlife animals as those subject to the animal cruelty provisions of the agriculture and markets law.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 104Removes from admissibility evidence that proves or tends to prove that a victim has been convicted of a prostitution offense within three years prior to the sex offense which is the subject of the prosecution.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 219Enacts the health care tax reform act; eliminates certain taxes and assessments on health insurance.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 76Relates to defining "critical violations" of applicable statutes and regulations by child care providers licensed or registered by the office of children and family services; the imposition of sanctions and penalties for such violations by the office of children and family services; and processes for administrative appeal of such sanctions and penalties.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 201Provides that in the event child protective services receives a duplicate report on an open case that has not been founded, indicated or referred to services, such duplicate report shall merge with the open case and remain open an additional thirty days for further investigation.New York · last action 2026-01-07Passed first houseA 170Requires the metropolitan transportation authority to post signage over mass transit seats indicating that individuals should give up their seats for the elderly, pregnant and disabled; provides such signage shall be conspicuously posted and visible from all seats; provides costs and expenses to be paid through appropriated funds.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 131Extends the timeframe for motor vehicle inspections for new motor vehicles sold within the state to five years from the date of sale.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 142Establishes a mollusk shell recycling tax credit; directs DEC to promulgate necessary regulations.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 168Relates to requiring the establishment of automatic payment plans; requires utility companies headquartered in New York to establish a statewide program to provide eligible participants with affordable payment plans.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 152Enacts the New York religious land use and religious exercise act prohibiting unreasonable restriction on regulations affecting religious land use or affecting religious exercise of institutionalized persons.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 97Offers installment payment plans as an option for persons with violations of toll collection regulations before having their registration suspended.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 236Requires the court to make an individualized determination whether a defendant poses a current physical threat to any person or to public safety when making a bail determination.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 204Appoints a fiscal monitor for five years; defines terms; provides for such appointment; provides for the duties of such fiscal monitor.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 194Enacts the "New York city Caribbean steel pan educational music program act"; requires community school boards in the city of New York to authorize, where reasonable, the use of school grounds in the summer months for use by any steel pan music organization to practice for the Labor Day Parade (West Indian Carnival).New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 157Enacts the "responsible implementation of e-bike regulations for safe cycling (RIDERS) act; defines "electric skateboard" and "electric personal mobility device"; requires the registration of all electric personal mobility devices, including, but not limited to, bicycles with electric assist, electric scooters and electric skateboards; makes related provisions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 208Establishes the state all-electric building plan to require the office of general services to transition all buildings owned by the state to be all-electric buildings.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 248Defines community significant projects as a business creating or retaining current jobs as determined by the commissioner, with particular emphasis on employment and/or training of current public housing residents; currently located or to be located in existing leased space of a building in a public housing development in the state; and which makes significant qualified capital investments to start a business, or improve services and working conditions for an existing business, when located in such public housing space and including such projects in the excelsior jobs program.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 159Allows police vehicles to have one or more forward facing blue lights, provided that such blue light can only be displayed in combination with a red and/or white light.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 175Creates a tax credit for businesses that develop a "college to work" program, paying the tuition of individuals in exchange for the individual committing to work for the business after the individual's graduation from an institution of higher learning; provides the tax credit shall be for twenty-five percent of the individual's tuition expenses not to exceed five thousand dollars.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 275Grants the commissioner of transportation the authority to increase grant awards for airport improvement and revitalization when the total funds available for assistance support higher maximum grants.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 197Relates to creating the Brooklyn health care commission which shall be charged with examining the system of general hospitals, nursing homes, ambulatory and primary care facilities, and medical school facilities in Kings county and recommending changes to that system.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 259Establishes the crimes of criminal trespass on a school bus, school grounds or children's camp; requires the commissioner of motor vehicles, in consultation with the commissioner of transportation, to promulgate rules and regulations for certain signage on school buses; relates to professional development school bus driver safety training seminars statewide.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 191Removes labor market attachment requirements for cases of permanent partial disability.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 169Removes the $250 amount of damage from cemetery desecration in the second degree; makes cemetery desecration in the second degree a class E felony to apply to any damage or theft regardless of value; adds crime of cemetery desecration in the first degree and makes such crime a class D felony.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 89Relates to residency requirements for police officers in a city with a population of one million or more; provides that any person appointed as a paid member of the police force of such city shall become a resident of any political subdivision or municipal corporation within such city within one year of their appointment and shall continue to reside within any political subdivision or municipal corporation.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 111Prohibits certain surcharges on certain credit or debit card transactions in the city of New York; provides that no agency or department of the city of New York, or any tribunal located therein, shall be authorized to impose a surcharge on a holder who elects to use a credit or debit card in lieu of payment by cash, check, or similar means to pay any fine, civil penalty, or fee owed.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 92Requires certain notices in communications by mercantile establishments attempting to settle civil actions deriving from larceny prosecutions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 186Prohibits tail docking of cattle.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 113Provides an exemption to the prohibition on tinted windows in automobiles for emergency ambulance service vehicles.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 127Provides for findings of the state board of parole necessary for discretionary release of incarcerated individuals on parole.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 215Requires the commissioner of general services to ensure clean, safe drinking water is available in easily accessible locations for all public employees in state office buildings.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 266Provides a religious exemption from vaccination requirements for school attendance.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 224Increases the designation of certain offenses relating to unlawfully fleeing a police officer and makes such offenses eligible for bail.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 181Creates a task force on animal laws; requires reporting to the governor and legislature of recommendations on how to increase statewide uniformity of such.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 192Directs the state commission of correction to promulgate rules and regulations for strip searches in correctional facilities which at a minimum include a requirement that no fewer than two staff members shall be present for any strip search.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 145Requires the development and implementation of written workplace sexual harassment, sexual assault, and discrimination policies by corporations; requires reporting and eligibility for tax credits based on a corporation's record of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and discrimination among and between employees of such corporation; requires the division of human rights to promulgate standards relating to eligibility for state tax credits.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 83Establishes St. Patrick's day, March 17th, as a school holiday for all city school districts of cities of one million inhabitants or more.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 179Authorizes the commissioner of environmental conservation to establish a stream maintenance and flood control program; allows for the local governing body of a county to elect to pass a local law providing for a local option into such program; provides for the county to be responsible for performing the work outlined in an approved stream maintenance and flood control plan.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 135Relates to allowing a physically disabled surviving spouse who was married to an enhanced STAR qualifying individual to continue to receive the exemption even if the surviving spouse is not sixty-two years of age.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 199Deems home instruction which is compliant with the provisions of article 65 of the education law and the home instruction requirements prescribed in the commissioner of education's regulations to be substantially equivalent in amount and quality to the instruction given to students of like age and attainments at the public schools of the city or district where the student resides.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 193Creates a cyber security enhancement fund to be used for the purpose of upgrading cyber security in local governments, including but not limited to, villages, towns and cities with a population of one million or less; restricts the use of taxpayer moneys in paying ransoms in response to ransomware attacks.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 185Establishes peer crisis diversion homes; requires the commissioner to establish or contract for no less than six peer crisis diversion homes within one year.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 191Provides that the county probation department may apply for a temporary order of protection as part of the adjustment process.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 115Requires the commissioner of health to include in annual reports information regarding the cost and increase in cost of the ten prescription drugs on which the state expends the most money and which have had certain costs increased by fifty percent or more over the past five years or by ten percent or more during the previous calendar year.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 223Exempts from the use of self-defense sprays minors who are at least sixteen years of age and have been granted an order of protection or have been the victim of a crime, including where a criminal proceeding or investigation is still ongoing.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 120Directs the commissioner of education to appoint a media literacy advisory group to study the teaching of media literacy; requires such group to survey all school districts on the media literacy practices of and the current media literacy resources available to each district, to inquire how districts are currently integrating digital citizenship and media literacy education in their curriculum.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 201Relates to notices of violation of the city of New York's solid waste recycling laws; requires a photograph of the alleged violation to be mailed with the ticket.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 285Prohibits administrative agencies from administering or requiring the COVID-19 immunization unless authorized by the legislature.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 241Excludes expenditures for school resource officers employed by a municipality and assigned to a school district from tax levy limitations.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 280Requires sellers of catalytic converters to provide certain information to potential buyers; requires buyers to maintain records of such purchases; makes any violations a class A misdemeanor; imposes a fine of up to $5,000New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 172Directs the department of labor and the office for people with developmental disabilities to study and report on the wages earned by those who help, assist, support, and/or work with the developmentally disabled.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 231Enacts the graduate outreach assistance law to exempt from state income taxation the first two hundred fifty thousand dollars, with a fifty thousand dollar cap per year, earned by a four-year college graduate and the first one hundred fifty thousand dollars, with a twenty-five thousand dollar cap per year, earned by a two-year college graduate.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 207Prohibits the comptroller from using environment, social, and governance criteria as a screening method for selecting companies and funds to invest the state pension fund in.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 212Establishes the veterans' memorials preservation act.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 269Relates to establishing an electronic monitoring program for children diagnosed with developmental disabilities.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 218Authorizes the taking of wildlife by the use of a crossbow; makes related provisions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 209Establishes a Hire-Now tax credit; provides for new job creation; provides for additional credit where the person hired was receiving unemployment.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 190Requires broadband providers to offer high speed broadband service to certain low-income consumers at a cost of not more than five dollars per month.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 146Prohibits the appointment of certain state, municipal or agency employees as impartial hearing officers to hear appeals of determinations regarding children with handicapping conditions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 133Establishes the office of flooding prevention and mitigation to manage and coordinate the work of task forces, commissions, and other bodies and programs tasked with examining issues related to flooding, to review and assess best practices and make recommendations regarding flood prevention and mitigation, and to assist municipalities in developing strategies and policies to combat flooding.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 151Includes all hate crimes as a qualifying offense for the purposes of a court's determination to release the principal pending trial on the principal's own recognizance or under non-monetary conditions, fix bail, or, where the defendant is charged with a qualifying offense which is a felony, the court may commit the principal to the custody of the sheriff.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 162Requires counties and/or cities to establish a plan for providing legal counsel to persons who are defendants or respondents in eviction, ejectment and foreclosure proceedings and who are financially unable to obtain counsel; defines eligible person as one whose gross individual income is not in excess of one hundred twenty-five percent of the federal income official poverty line; requires the state to match dollar for dollar the amount counties appropriate for their plans.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 94Relates to price gouging; imposes criminal penalties for price gouging; removes language relating to the declaration of a state of emergency; increases civil penalty; authorizes a district attorney to enforce provisions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 116Establishes a bicycle and electric scooter operator's safety manual; provides for the issuance of a license for residents who successfully read and comprehend the operator's safety manual; requires residents who operate an electric scooter in New York City to have a license to operate such devices; requires instruction in electric scooter safety as part of the drivers pre-licensing course; requires liability insurance for electric scooters in cities having a population of one million or more; prohibits the sale of an electric scooter to a purchaser unless the purchaser has a license to operate the electric scooter and has insurance in a city having a population of one million or more.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 245Authorizes expedited settlement conference processes for establishing child support orders where both parties voluntarily agree on the process.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 64Requires the court in proceedings in which an order of protection or temporary order of protection has been issued and a child is the protected party to notify such child's school of such order of protection or temporary order of protection on the same day of the issuance of such order of protection or temporary order of protection.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 155Establishes the "Electric Vehicle Infrastructure and Liability Act" which requires additional fees to be collected from electric vehicle owners and operators for fire prevention and infrastructure.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 202Increases the penalty of sex trafficking and sex trafficking of a child from a class B felony to a class A-II felony.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 85Relates to metered in funding for rental assistance for all New York city charter students.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 292Provides that a person convicted of murder in the first or second degree, or aggravated murder, in the death of a minor shall be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 303Enacts the "empire innovation act"; provides that a participant in the excelsior jobs program shall be eligible to claim a credit equal to the portion of the full cost of the participant's research and development expenses incurred that relates to the participant's research and development expenditures in New York state during the taxable year; provided however, if the participant receives a federal research and development tax credit calculated on the full cost of the participant's research and development expenses that relates to the participant's research and development expenditures in New York state during the taxable year, then said participant shall only be eligible to claim a credit equal to fifty percent of the portion of the participant's federal research and development tax credit that relates to the participant's research and development expenditures in New York state during the taxable year.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 299Authorizes school districts with low combined wealth ratios to establish a reserve fund to ensure compliance with the tax cap in future school years.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 288Provides that the commissioner of education may also withhold from any district or city its share of the public money of the state for willfully disobeying any provision of law, or for such decisions, orders or regulations as aforesaid whose willful violation constitutes an immediate threat to the health, safety, education or welfare of students, employees or visitors at such common school, educational institution, school district or public school.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 300Provides a $750 income tax credit for retired disabled police officers.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 295Relates to permitting certain claims for compensation based on a COVID-19 diagnosis which were denied or not timely filed.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 304Simplifies the procedure by which injured workers obtain treatment for injuries covered by the workers' compensation law; provides that the list of pre-authorized procedures is to be used only as a list of treatment that does not require insurance carrier approval.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 301Provides a religious exemption for the requirement to have a photograph taken for a driver's license or learner's permit.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 294Requires such apprenticeship program is specific to the type and scope of work which is being performed and have a graduation rate of at least thirty percent as determined by the department of labor; makes technical corrections.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 289Expands the offense of unlawfully dealing with a child in the second degree to include allowing a child less than eighteen years old to enter or remain in an establishment that serves alcohol and does not have an on-site kitchen.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 287Establishes a distinctive plate honoring the Eagle Scouts for which the regular registration fee will apply plus an initial one time service charge of $25.New York · last action 2026-01-07Passed first houseS 296Elevates assault of a code enforcement official in the second degree to a class D felony.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 302Legalizes, validates, ratifies and confirms certain transportation contracts of the Hicksville union free school district.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 286Requires a government photo identification card to be presented when casting a ballot; provides for a method to receive a government photo identification card at no charge; provides that notaries are not permitted to collect a fee for collecting the documents required.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 305Clarifies that workers who are temporarily partially disabled are entitled to payment of benefits at a reduced rate unless their separation from employment is unrelated to the compensable injury.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 293Requires that a minimum of ten percent of the labor hours of the total construction workforce employed by all contractors and subcontractors performing work pursuant to a construction contract shall be performed by a person or persons participating in a certified apprenticeship program; makes technical amendments.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 297Establishes the task force on daylight saving time to study the effects of New York state opting out of daylight saving time.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 298Provides a state income tax exemption for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers who have qualifying service in the taxable year for which such exemption is sought.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 313Relates to the powers of the New York state industrial development agency.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 320Increases the limited credit time allowances for certain incarcerated individuals serving indeterminate or determinate sentences imposed for specified offenses up to twenty-four months.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 332Relates to conferring youthful offender status upon conviction of an eligible youth for a misdemeanor.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 331Creates a commission to evaluate the need for community colleges to participate in the educational opportunity program.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 316Prohibits governmental entities from entering into agreements to house individuals in immigration detention facilities; requires governmental entities to terminate existing contracts for the detention of individuals in immigration detention facilities.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 323Requires that certain companies pay an annual tax if the chief executive receives compensation 100 to 250 times greater than the median pay of all their employees.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 327Relates to confidential informants; defines terms; requires the law enforcement agencies which use confidential informants to establish policies and procedures to assess the suitability of using a person as a confidential informant; makes related provisions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 306Provides that a non-network pharmacy that provides causally related medications to a claimant shall be entitled to payment at the network rate negotiated between the carrier and the pharmacy network if the carrier's network provides mail order service or is located within a reasonable distance from the claimant; reduces costs of treatment by requiring out of network providers accept payment at the carrier's negotiated network rate, while at the same time allowing injured workers to obtain treatment in a timely manner by providing for payment to the provider when they do not obtain the treatment within the network; provides that any special diagnostic tests, x-ray examinations, magnetic resonance imaging or other radiological examinations or tests costing more than one thousand dollars performed by a provider who is not a member of the carrier's, self insured's or state insurance fund's diagnostic networks, shall be entitled to payment at the negotiated network rate.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 308Allows members of the Nassau County auxiliary police force to possess a police baton when authorized by the police commissioner of such county.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 330Enables appellate review of the fairness and appropriateness of an imposed criminal sentence.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 314Provides a personal income tax credit in the amount of any fishing and/or hunting fees paid by members of the United States armed forces in active service.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 311Relates to the operation of vehicles when approaching a parked, stopped or standing authorized emergency vehicle or hazard vehicle or vehicle displaying a blue or green light; provides for mandatory revocation of a driver's license for a period of six months where a person violates section 1144-a of the vehicle and traffic law and causes serious physical injury or death to another person; directs the division of criminal justice services to establish a public information campaign to instruct the public that operating a motor vehicle when approaching a parked, stopped or standing authorized emergency vehicle or hazard vehicle or vehicle displaying a blue or green light that results in physical injury, serious physical injury or death as a result of the operator recklessly failing to exercise due care to avoid a collision can result in serious criminal penalties.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 326Increases medicaid reimbursement payment aggregate for private duty nursing services and care by 15 million dollars for period 7/1/26 to 3/31/27, and by 20 million dollars annually thereafter for each period from April 1 to March 31.New York · last action 2026-01-07Introduced
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