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S 4618Excludes volunteer firefighters and emergency medical services employees from the permissive use of marijuana.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4935Relates to dependent workers; defines the term "dependent worker"; requires the commissioner of labor to hold public meetings to examine state laws relating to dependent workers.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4654Establishes the New York state museum partnership trust to serve as a focal point for the receipt and administration of private gifts, devises and bequests of real and personal property donated to further historic preservation, advance cultural education, and enhance the state museum.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4975Repeals provisions of law requiring certain cities pay for certain charter school rents.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5022Establishes the New York state worker protection and labor enforcement fund to supplement the department of labor's labor law enforcement duties.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4990Establishes the disability benefits maximization and assistance program to assist eligible state retirees in obtaining certain disability benefits; provides for the investing of any net savings realized by the program back into the New York state health insurance program for the purpose of eliminating or limiting the impact of any premium rate or other cost increases that would be the responsibility of an employee or retiree.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4650Provides that a mental health certificate shall be requested from each student at the same time health certificates are required; provides that an assessment and mental health history of any child may be requested by the local school authorities at any time in their discretion to promote the educational interests of such child; makes related provisions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4900Prohibits members of the legislature from obtaining funding through state grants or member items and subsequently providing such funding to any business entities or not-for-profit entities in which such officials, members, domestic partners or certain relatives hold official or legal positions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5005Provides that members of a retirement system who retire from such system and later rejoin the retirement system are reinstated with the same rights, benefits and privileges they had prior to retirement.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4635Provides for the return of persons to custody for violations of conditions of presumptive release, parole, conditional release or post-release supervision.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4628Enables the victim of a misdemeanor to make a statement at the sentencing of the defendant.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4926Relates to the definition of an indoor area.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4620Designates offenses against law enforcement officers, firefighters and emergency medical services personnel as hate crimes.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4913Allows taxpayers to contribute to the tuition assistance program fund on personal income tax forms; establishes the gifts to the tuition assistance program fund.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4624Establishes the crime of assault on a pregnant individual as a class D felony.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4890Requires forfeiture of vehicles for six months for a second DWI offense and permanent forfeiture and registration denial for the third DWI offense; prohibits the issuance of a new license where there are two DWI convictions where physical injury has resulted from each offense.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4896Designates ordinance officers of the city of Mount Vernon police department as peace officers; authorizes such officers to carry a firearm while performing duties as a peace officer if appropriate license has been issued therefor.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5004Provides for a 5% automobile insurance premium reduction for non-commercial passenger motor vehicles equipped with an operating dashboard camera; establishes means for certification of the installation of such camera; establishes civil penalties for false certification of such installation; provides for insurer review during claims settlement of the images from dashboard cameras; provides for the certification of the installation of operating dashboard cameras during the annual motor vehicle inspection; directs the commissioner of motor vehicles to establish standards for dashboard cameras; provides for the introduction as evidence of dashboard camera images into evidence in civil and criminal proceedings.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4883Establishes the right to inspection of residential real properties, condominium units, and cooperative apartments.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4882Provides that if it appears that a death may have resulted from the commission of a crime, the coroner or medical examiner in any county with geographic jurisdiction over the crime shall have concurrent jurisdiction and authority to investigate the death.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4963Includes New York guard members to the recruitment incentive and retention program for members of the New York state organized militia; permits tuition benefits for post-graduate study.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5016Creates a temporary state commission to study and investigate sexual misconduct in state correctional facilities among incarcerated individuals and employees; devises a reporting system for notification of such misconduct to appropriate authorities; establishes duties and membership of such commission.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4937Relates to certain economic development programs; requires reporting on the use of fiber-optic technology in certain economic development grant programs; adds access to high-speed broadband internet service as consideration in certain competitive grant projects.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4888Relates to a parent's right to know if an employee, volunteer or an administrator of a school district is reprimanded for inappropriate conduct towards their child; enacts "parent's right to know" act.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5009Relates to the sale or transfer of certain real property by the state or public authorities; requires mandatory review by the attorney general and comptroller of the sale of certain real property; requires notice to members of the legislature and county executives in districts and counties in which land subject to transfer is located of the proposed transfer of state property between state departments, divisions, bureaus, agencies, state agencies, or to a public authority or public benefit corporation.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4957Authorizes the New York city council to oversee the activities of the New York city housing authority.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4970Relates to classroom safety mechanisms, emergency medical equipment, and evidence-based best practices for school safety planning and training.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4917Prohibits the use of chemical agents by police officers against minors under the age of eighteen.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4653Enacts the "television subscriber choice act" to enhance consumer choice and ensure that multichannel video programming distributors have the flexibility to offer programming packages that best meet the needs and preferences of their subscribers; requires that a video programmer shall offer each channel for license to a multichannel video programming distributor without requiring channel bundling requirements as a condition of carriage of such channel; makes it unlawful for a video programmer to demand unreasonable fees or other financial obligations for channel carriage; defines terms; makes related provisions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4941Makes possession and sale of armor piercing ammunition a class B felony; includes exchanging and disposing of armor piercing ammunition.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4911Increases penalties from $1000 to $2000 for violations relating to test agencies and standardized testing.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4625Provides for the addition of aggravated assault in the third degree to the penal law.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4965Establishes a five-year moratorium on foreign entities purchasing homes in New York state unless the purchase is for a primary residence; directs the department of state to conduct a study on the effects of the moratorium on the housing market and to send a report on the study to the legislature; specifies data and indicators to analyze for the study; defines terms.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5015Waives Unemployment Pandemic Benefits repayments in whole or in part if the payment of such pandemic unemployment assistance was without fault on the part of the claimant and such repayment would be contrary to equity and good conscience.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4895Requires every general hospital to report within seven days to the US consumer product safety commission with any report of any examination or inquiry prepared with respect to any death or serious injury occurring to a child determined to be caused by either a children's product or a durable juvenile product.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4632Provides that any entity subject to the provisions of article six of the public officers law which does not grant or deny a request for a record within twenty-five days of such request shall be deemed to have denied the request for such record; makes related provisions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4998Relates to allowing, for a fee, one license plate to be issued and displayed on the rear of a vehicle; directs funds gathered to be deposited in the New York state wireless telephone emergency account.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4619Provides that the issue of military deployment shall not be considered as a factor in the awarding of custody in marital actions where a suitable child care plan is presented.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4634Creates the crime of unlawful dissemination or publication of discovery material; defines the circumstances under which a person is guilty of such crime; establishes that such crime is a class E felony.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4971Establishes safety requirements for operators who use bicycles with electric assist for commercial purposes and the businesses that employ such operators.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4905Requires a surety bond for contractors and subcontractors where no public fund has been established for the financing of a public improvement.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4637Relates to the disclosure of law enforcement personnel records; provides that law enforcement personnel records shall be considered confidential and not subject to inspection or review without the express written consent of such law enforcement officers except as mandated by lawful court order.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4981Relates to advanced recycling and advanced recycling facilities.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4920Establishes Three King's day as a school holiday for all public schools in a city school district of a city having a population of one million or more inhabitants.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4925Relates to waiving the earning limitations for retired sworn officers employed by a district attorney as investigators.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4976Adds drug and domestic violence offenses and crimes that result in death or serious physical injury as qualifying offenses for bail.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4994Provides grounds for attachment; relates to procedures where employees may hold shareholders of non-publicly traded corporations personally liable for wage theft; relates to rights for victims of wage theft to hold the ten members with the largest ownership interests in a company personally liable for wage theft; relates to penalties for certain wage violations.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4886Provides a tax credit for certain taxpayers who suffer the birth of a stillborn child.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5001Relates to the cost effectiveness of consultant contracts by state agencies; defines "consultant services".New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4621Implements driving privilege licenses for applicants with alternative forms of identification; requires a social security number to register to vote on an application for a motor vehicle driver's license.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4951Relates to pass-through manufacturers zero percent tax rate; extends a zero percent franchise tax to all manufacturers.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5019Creates the mobile high-technology training facilities program to award one to one matching grants on a competitive basis to qualified applicants for the design, development and/or outfit of mobile high-technology training facilities that complement certificate, degree or other recognized credentialing programs.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4645Requires unanimous agreement by the parole board to release an incarcerated individual on parole.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4992Clarifies the standard for intentional discrimination or retaliation claims by requiring a person or persons prove that an unlawful motivation was a motivating factor and not "the sole motivating factor" or a "but-for cause" of the challenged treatment.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4924Provides for parental notification when charter schools receive a corrective action plan or are given a short-term renewal.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4916Enacts the safer consumption services act which provides for the establishment of a program to provide safe injection sites.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4979Relates to the term "income" for purposes of the school tax relief exemption; adds 401(k) and 403(b) accounts to the list of eligible income deductions when determining Enhanced STAR eligibility.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4964Memorializes Robert F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos by naming spans of the Triborough bridge after them.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4893Establishes the manufactured home community preservation act to provide financial and technical assistance, within funds available to counties, municipalities, rural preservation companies, and other non-profit housing organizations for their housing preservation efforts; provides that funds in the mortgage insurance fund can be used to provide financial support to local governments and eligible non-profit housing organizations.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4644Allows employees that refuse a coronavirus vaccine to be eligible for unemployment insurance.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4932Establishes January 30th of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution".New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4649Imposes fines for failure to exercise due care and move over when approaching parked, stopped or standing motor vehicles on the shoulder of a highway.New York · last action 2026-01-07Passed first houseA 5011Requires public corporations and agencies to provide written notice to each minority- or women-owned business enterprise that unsuccessfully bid on a contract of the reason or reasons why the business enterprise was unsuccessful in obtaining the contract.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4953Creates a temporary state commission to study and investigate issues affecting reentry of incarcerated individuals released from correctional facilities; appropriates $250,000 therefor.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5013Directs the department of financial services to conduct a comprehensive study on how the department of financial services may create a compensation system commensurate with the compensation systems of similar federal financial regulators and to issue a report of its findings.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5012Relates to the definition of employer and the duty of public employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4629Provides that where the board has made a determination granting discretionary release to an incarcerated individual pursuant to this section, the crime victim or the victim's representative, where the crime victim is deceased or is mentally or physically incapacitated, has the right to file an appeal of such determination.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4952Directs the commissioner of agriculture and markets, in consultation with the commissioner of the office of temporary and disability assistance, to establish a grant program to provide funding to emergency food providers to purchase prepared meals from New York restaurants and deliver them to families in need.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4885Prohibits elementary schools and secondary schools from withholding student transcripts for failure to pay tuition.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4642Exempts Amityville union free school district from laws, rules, or regulations regarding the use of indigenous names, mascots, and logos.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4939Directs the office of information technology services to contract with a private entity to conduct an examination and evaluation of New York state's information technology infrastructure, data use and management, policies, procedures and operational processes.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4942Provides that an applicant with a bachelor's degree or higher in engineering technology and an applicant with a bachelor's degree or higher in engineering shall have the same number of education and experience credit requirements, shall have the same eligibility for an identification card as "an engineer in training", as well as examination and examination eligibility requirements.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4996Requires employers of domestic workers to provide annual sick leave to such workers.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4993Establishes a claim for strict liability against the state for any injury caused by the administration of an immunization which is mandated by a state law; gives the court of claims the power and jurisdiction to hear such a claim.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4974Directs the commissioner of health to establish a cannabis awareness program for youths age eighteen and younger designed to educate about the effects and risks associated with cannabis use, including that it is illegal for persons under the age of twenty-one.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5021Enacts the New York state senior housing opportunities partnership act; establishes the New York state senior housing opportunities partnership authority; provides that such authority will finance or collaborate in the financing of senior housing opportunities facility projects.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4889Regulates commercial finance licensing; sets forth the application process for such licensing; makes conforming technical changes thereto.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4904Requires county clerks to designate one newspaper or journal for the publication of every notice and advertisement of judicial proceedings in the county.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5002Establishes a small business tax credit for salary and wages paid to employees for time spent at sexual harassment prevention training.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4891Authorizes the city of Yonkers to establish a separate fund into which revenue earmarked for the safe city streets, safe streets, safe schools program will be deposited.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4626Relates to lyme disease and tick-borne infection awareness and prevention for children's overnight, summer day and traveling summer day camps; provides guidelines for treatment and notification; provides for the development of materials.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4969Specifies methods of calculating deposits and reserves for the aggregate trust fund and reserves of the state insurance fund; provides that all computations made or directed by the workers' compensation board shall be on the basis of the survivorship annuitants table of mortality, the remarriage tables of the Dutch Royal Insurance Institution applicable to claims for accidents occurring on or before December 31, 2025, and beginning January 1, 2026 and on January 1 of each tenth year thereafter, the United States life table for the total population published by the department of health and human services and the remarriage table published by the department of health and human services and the remarriage table published by the United States railroad retirement board applicable to claims for accidents occurring on or after January first of the year following the adoption of any revision of such tables; makes related provisions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4903Establishes a career and technical education (CTE) diploma; establishes a CTE pathway to a diploma shall be based on a curriculum designed to provide students with technical skills and shall demonstrate that the student is ready for a career as determined by regulations of the commissioner.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4651Establishes an economy-wide cap and invest program to support greenhouse gas emissions reductions in the state by setting a maximum allowable amount of greenhouse gas emissions by covered entities and regulating the sale or auction of greenhouse gas emissions allowances to covered entities.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4989Establishes a task force to be called the "office of asylum management" to study, evaluate, and develop recommendations relating to the management of asylum seekers in this state; requires reporting to the governor and the legislature.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4962Relates to establishing an automatic expunction system for certain records including unconstitutional stops that occurred between January two thousand four and June two thousand twelve by the New York city police department that either resulted in the completion of a UF-250 form or a Form 61 complaint in which the SQF section was completed and led to arrests for either resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, criminal possession of a weapon, and offenses involving marihuana.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4928Includes within the class D felony of assault in the second degree, the intentional causing of physical injury to an election officer while such person is performing their assigned duties; amends aggravated harassment and obstruction of governmental administration to include election officers.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4627Requires the department of health in conjunction with the department of corrections and community supervision to identify the short-term and long-term effects of fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, synthetic hallucinatory substances and certain prescription drug exposure on law enforcement officers and correctional officers who repeatedly come into contact with such substances during screening efforts at correctional facilities, raids and arrests.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4968Relates to being a good samaritan; adds "reasonable intervention" as a reason to be protected from liability; provides that a person may use physical force when and to the extent that such person reasonably believes that reasonable intervention is necessary to maintain order, but may use deadly physical force only when such person reasonably believes that reasonable intervention is necessary to prevent death or serious physical injury; appropriates $500,000 for public service announcements and community-based training programs aimed at educating people about the legal protections and responsibilities of being a good samaritan.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4908Prohibits medical assistance providers from refusing to furnish care, services or supplies to any person who is entitled to receive such care, services or supplies under this title if such medical assistance provider furnishes the same care, services or supplies under the Medicare program pursuant to title XVIII of the federal social security act and the person is dually eligible under that program.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4973Relates to authorizing voting by incarcerated individuals in correctional facilities; requires the department of corrections and community supervision, in collaboration with the state and county boards of election, to establish a program to facilitate incarcerated individuals voter registration and voting.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4955Establishes a tax credit for homeowners and businesses to build permeable surfaces.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4936Requires training to reduce abusive conduct and bullying in the workplace as part of a written workplace violence prevention program.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4960Provides that all residential leases shall contain a detailed description of tenant's statutory rights including among others, warranty of habitability, willful violation of lease, right to participate in tenants' associations, no eviction for good faith complaint, utility payment offset and sublet rights; grants tenant the right to install extra locks; sets out landlord obligations with respect to heating and oil delivery.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4929Eliminates criminal and civil penalties for possession of controlled substances; establishes the drug decriminalization task force to develop recommendations for reforming state laws, regulations and practices so that they align with the stated goal of treating substance use disorder as a disease, rather than a criminal behavior.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4980Adds training of school personnel in non-lethal defense skills to requirements for school safety plans.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4966Exempts private and parochial schools and day care centers from immunization requirements.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4987Enacts the "New York veteran digital navigator program act"; requires the state commissioner of the department of veterans' services to establish a program to promote digital citizenship, through which the state commissioner shall award grants to eligible entities.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4959Provides for advance payment of the earned income credit by employers, the commissioner of the department of taxation and finance and the commissioner of New York City's department of finance.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4907Repeals and reenacts statute of limitation provisions on wrongful death, personal injury and property damage actions against professional engineers, architects, landscape architects, land surveyors, geologists and construction contractors to provide for a limitations period of ten years after completion of improvement to real property; "completion", which constitutes the accrual date for the limitations period, is defined; provides for a one year extension for injuries to person or property or wrongful death which occur during the tenth year after completion.New York · last action 2026-01-07Introduced
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