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A 5050Requires state and municipal facilities program grants be issued only with governor, senate or assembly sponsor.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Jonathan JacobsonA 5042Relates to updating the driver's manual provided to accepted learner's permit applicants and driver education courses to include a description of law enforcement procedures during traffic stops and the actions a motorist shall take during such stop including appropriate interactions with such officers.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Jonathan JacobsonA 5023Provides that election contributions made in cash, or in bitcoin or any other form of cryptocurrency are not matchable for purposes of public financing.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Jonathan JacobsonA 5027Requires the department of health to develop rules for all courts in New York state to protect the court employees and the public from COVID-19.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Jonathan JacobsonS 4699Requires electronic cigarettes and e-liquid products to be sold in separate specific locations where only persons of at least twenty-one years of age are allowed to enter.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Cordell CleareA 5030Authorizes the city of Poughkeepsie to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands for the purpose of constructing a new emergency services communications tower.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Jonathan JacobsonS 4696Establishes a tax credit for individuals who serve or are employed as a direct support professional, or direct care worker, up to five thousand dollars for taxpayers who make less than fifty thousand dollars and phased out for individuals who make over one hundred thousand dollars.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Cordell CleareA 5064Prohibits a retail business from directing an employee to engage in human billboard activities during extreme temperatures.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Jonathan JacobsonA 5051Requires that candidates for certain offices be residents and registered voters in the district containing the public office or party position sought at certain times during the electoral process.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedELNAsm. Jonathan JacobsonS 4704Repeals provisions relating to the biofuel production credit.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Liz KruegerA 5055Requires employees and independent contractors to notify employers and contractors within three hours after receiving a positive result of a test for COVID-19; provides penalties for violations.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Jonathan JacobsonA 5062Requires the commissioner of health to promulgate rules and regulations requiring nursing homes and residential health care facilities to test all residents of such nursing homes and residential healthcare facilities for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Jonathan JacobsonA 5041Prohibits fraudulent absentee ballot drop-off boxes or receptacles by making it a felony for anyone other than the board of elections to erect, display or maintain an absentee ballot drop-off box or receptacle.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Jonathan JacobsonA 5040Provides reimbursement to districts for any student attending a boards of cooperative educational services program.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedEDNAsm. Jonathan JacobsonS 4700Requires the registration and regulation of non-bank automated teller machines.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Cordell CleareS 4694Requires the suspension of the collection of tolls on public roads during a state declaration of disaster emergency on the New York state thruway.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Cordell CleareA 5047Relates to the definition of "population" for purposes of providing substantially equal weight for the population of that local government in the allocation of representation in the local legislative body.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Jonathan JacobsonA 5065Directs the public service commission to formulate a process, rules and regulations for the regulation of the charges and fees of internet and cable providers.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Jonathan JacobsonA 5039Requires the state to provide reimbursement of certain costs and benefits incurred as a result of an injury occurring during a mutual aid call.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedVOLAsm. Jonathan JacobsonS 4701Requires degree-granting institutions of higher education to make certain biennial disclosures and to conspicuously publish the report on the website of such institution and submit the website address of such report to the department.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Cordell CleareS 4702Establishes a housing task force addressing affordable housing for millennials in suburban counties to provide a continuing forum to discuss concerns and issues related to the formulation of state policy designed to help address this issue.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Cordell CleareS 4695Relates to enacting the intergenerational poverty mitigation act; creates a commission to study intergenerational poverty and a pilot program to address intergenerational poverty subject to appropriation.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Cordell CleareA 5044Requires that internet providers who provide service in a municipality provide basic internet service to each residential dwelling or residential dwelling unit in that municipality at no cost.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Jonathan JacobsonA 5045Requires hospitals and medical facilities to notify nursing homes or assisted living facilities upon receipt of a positive COVID-19 test result for a resident of such nursing home or assisted living facility; provides penalties for violations.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Jonathan JacobsonA 5123Requires genetic testing results only be received by patients and health care providers providing direct care while health insurance companies only receive a record that the genetic testing was performed; provides insurers cannot require access to genetic testing results and cannot take adverse action against someone for not providing genetic testing results.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Michaelle SolagesS 4732Prohibits the diminution of health insurance benefits of public employee retirees and their dependents or reducing the employer's contributions for such insurance; defines employers to include the state, municipalities, school districts, and public authorities and commissions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. James SandersS 4723Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities to produce and publish a report to assess the staffing and other issues causing the continued displacement of individuals with developmental disabilities from various state-operated institutions under the jurisdiction of the office for people with developmental disabilities.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Patricia FahyA 5140Requires health insurance policies to include coverage for doula services as required coverage for maternity care.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Michaelle SolagesA 5099Adds xylazine to the depressants designated as controlled substances with the exception of use in cattle or other nonhuman species if approved by the federal food and drug administration.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Steve SternA 5111Relates to guidance to facilities and programs overseen by state agencies on interactions with Federal immigration authorities.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Michaelle SolagesA 5083Enacts the "NYCHA utility accountability act"; requires the NYCHA to provide a rent reduction to tenants who experience a disruption in utility service.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Khaleel AndersonA 5078Establishes an indoor air quality inspection and evaluation program which shall: promulgate regulations for inspections, evaluations, acceptable levels of hazardous air pollutants, ventilation standards, notifications and best practices to improve indoor air quality in covered entities; enter into any necessary interagency agreements to coordinate the indoor air quality inspection and evaluation program; inspect a covered entity, upon their own initiative or upon complaint to the department regarding indoor air quality; provide results of an inspection with any appropriate local health authority, and any other person or department the department deems necessary; assist covered entities in developing reasonable plans to improve indoor air quality conditions including but not limited to those found during inspection; and develop and implement community outreach programs to educate the public on indoor air quality and risk reduction.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Khaleel AndersonA 5102Requires certain colleges and universities vet all information displayed on their websites and marketing materials to ensure the information is accurate and impartial.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedEDNAsm. Keith BrownA 5101Establishes Davina's driver accountability law which requires the commissioner of motor vehicles to establish a uniform curriculum for accident prevention courses for use by all sponsoring agencies, delivery agencies and instructors in this state; provides for the repeal of certain provisions upon the expiration thereof.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Khaleel AndersonA 5073Provides that contract cost adjustments in the middle of contract terms for school districts transportation contracts shall be at no additional cost to the state, locality or school district unless such amendment is necessary to comply with the statewide transition to zero-emission buses and provided that it has been established by the contractor that there has been at least an equivalent increase in the amount of such contractor's cost of operation.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Kwani O'PharrowA 5154Directs the office of children and family services to study, make recommendations on and report on child day care and child care assistance and the availability of funding therefor.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Jo Anne SimonA 5144Permits award of crime victim assistance funds to victims of overdoses, where such overdoses cause death and were the result of deception, surreptitious delivery, or third-party administration of a controlled substance.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. MaryJane ShimskyA 5107Provides grants to nonprofit organizations that provide eligible home reading programs that provide independent reading level books that are individually mailed to the residences of kindergarten through fifth grade students on a weekly basis.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Michaelle SolagesA 5084Requires social services districts to maintain a waiting list of certain families applying for child care assistance.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Michaelle SolagesA 5172Authorizes funeral directing apprenticeships as an alternative to licensing examinations; requires such apprenticeships to be one- to four-year programs led by licensing funeral directors; makes related provisions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedPBHAsm. Marianne ButtenschonA 5074Requires insurance coverage for the cost of donated breast milk.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedISCAsm. Michaelle SolagesA 5077Requires municipal corporations to approve any facility intending to house asylum seekers prior to their establishment; establishes a review process that incorporates notice to the public and the opportunity for the public to comment; renders a decision within 8 weeks.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Scott GrayS 4731Establishes the small contractors relief act; creates the New York small contractor safety group, inc. pilot program; appropriates money therefor.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. James SandersA 5166Requires utility companies to provide written notice to the owner of a residential property of the date and approximate time the utility company will enter onto the property and the purpose for which the utility company employee or contractor shall be entering onto the property.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Michaelle SolagesA 5138Restructures the form of ballot proposals on election ballots; requires the creation and distribution of ballot publicity pamphlets; creates ballot proposal hearings.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Keith BrownA 5114Requires online products targeted towards children provide features to protect child users including providing screen time controls, prohibiting the promotion of harmful or illegal activities, and removing features which inappropriately amplify the level of engagement a child user has with the online product.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Keith BrownA 5120Requires the commissioner of education to establish a uniform dress code across all public high schools.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedEDNAsm. Keith BrownS 4729Establishes the college of renewable energy and sustainability in the city university of New York which shall offer majors relating to the field of renewable energy and sustainability.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. James SandersS 4718Relates to access to reports of child abuse and maltreatment by criminal justice agencies; requires the office of children and family services to establish a centralized database of reports of child abuse and maltreatment for criminal justice agencies to access in the performance of their duties; defines criminal justice agencies.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Patricia FahyA 5160Requires diversity, inclusion and elimination of bias training for physicians, physician assistants and nurses as part of continuing medical education requirements; establishes such training shall be a biennial requirement.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Michaelle SolagesA 5117Requires every department, bureau, board, commission, authority, or any other agency or instrumentality of the state, when relying on statistics in planning, policy enforcement and reporting, to base such planning, policy enforcement and reporting on the worst-case scenario.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Keith BrownS 4730Prohibits state officers and employees from official involvement with a state project where the officer or employee acted as a consultant on such project.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. James SandersA 5103Permits facilities to be dually licensed under the office of mental health and the office of addiction services and supports.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedMHYAsm. Keith BrownS 4714Relates to reimbursement for coroner and medical examiner fees from the county where the decedent resided.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Patricia FahyA 5091Authorizes and directs the public service commission and the New York state energy research and development authority to conduct a study on peaker plant electric generating facilities on Long Island.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Keith BrownA 5075Requires the owner of sites where any action is or was taken which may have a significant impact on the environment to establish and maintain an environmental maintenance trust fund.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Keith BrownA 5118Requires public hospitals to establish auto-immune disease treatment centers; authorizes the commissioner of health, with the assistance of the office of health equity, to make funds available to public hospitals for such purpose.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Khaleel AndersonS 4740Relates to the disposal of seized perishable or canned foods; provide such foods should not be disposed of but should be donated to a food relief organization or homeless shelter.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Luis SepúlvedaS 4734Relates to requiring certain employers to provide workforce demographics and equity measurements to the division of human rights annually, including each employee's race, ethnicity, age, and sex or gender identity or expression, as well as the employee's job category, date of hire, salary or wages, training received, raises, promotions, disciplinary actions, terminations and benefits, including but not limited to unpaid benefits or privileges such as flexible scheduling, the ability to work from home, or the ability to bring children to work.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Luis SepúlvedaA 5080Authorizes the department of veterans' affairs to provide eligible veterans with financial assistance for purchasing, training and the upkeep of service dogs and emotional support dogs.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Pamela HunterA 5092Requires the department of criminal justice services to monitor desk appearance tickets and report on the rate which principals appear in court on such tickets.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Keith BrownA 5089Requires the state police to conduct active shooter drills in the state Capitol and the legislative office building.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Keith BrownS 4717Relates to the purchase of personal protective equipment and medical supplies produced or manufactured in the state of New York.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Patricia FahyS 4735Prohibits immigration enforcement in school settings; prohibits all public and charter schools from allowing law enforcement officials inside school property to access a student, except to address an imminent safety situation or if they have an appropriate judicial warrant or judicial order.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Luis SepúlvedaA 5105Relates to the criminal possession of a ghost gun; makes such possession a class C felony unless you are a licensed gunsmith or dealer in firearms with intent to manufacture and/or distribute such firearms; requires educational materials shall be provided for no less than 2 years after the effective date of such provisions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Khaleel AndersonA 5104Requires a public engagement process to guide the investment of resources under the New York state climate leadership and community protection act to maximize the involvement of disadvantaged community members in the development of local clean energy and energy efficiency programs.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Khaleel AndersonA 5106Prohibits an insurer or health maintenance organization from including certain requirements in insurance contracts.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedPBHAsm. Pamela HunterA 5108Establishes the housing for an equitable reentry and opportunity (HERO) act to prohibit housing discrimination on the basis of criminal legal system involvement; defines criminal legal system involvement.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Michaelle SolagesS 4716Prohibits the withholding of state funding for service providers for people with developmental disabilities due to the receipt of certain COVID-19 federal funds.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Patricia FahyA 5088Removes the phrase E pluribus unum from the arms of the state and the state flag.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Michaelle SolagesS 4709Relates to requiring rate components for the non-capital component of rates of payment by governmental agencies for inpatient services provided by residential health care facilities to be updated no later than 1/1/2027, and every 5 years thereafter using the most currently available cost report data.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Jacob AshbyS 4738Creates the New York state commission on sex offender supervision and management; provides that such commission shall consist of thirteen members; requires the commission to make a report of its findings.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Luis SepúlvedaS 4711Directs the commissioner of health to authorize additional reimbursement to providers of health and dental care primarily serving individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities for uncompensated time, use of staff, and services that are necessary to support treatment of a patient as a result of the patient's physical, intellectual, or developmental disability.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Patricia FahyA 5130Permits the performance of medical services by a physician assistant without the supervision of a physician as appropriate to the physician assistant's scope of practice, education and training where such physician assistant has practiced for more than three thousand six hundred hours.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedEDNAsm. Michaelle SolagesA 5097Relates to a podiatry study and report by the commissioner of education, in consultation with the commissioner of health on the implementation of chapter 438 of the laws of 2012, as amended, authorizing the issuance of a privilege to perform podiatric standard or advanced ankle surgery and the impact of granting such a privilege on access to and quality of podiatric ankle surgery; makes related provisions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedEDNAsm. Michaelle SolagesA 5110Authorizes the imposition of bail for certain felony offenses involving the manufacture, sale, distribution, or possession with intent to sell synthetic opioids.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Steve SternS 4737Ensures language assistance services by state agencies; requires state agencies to maintain records of the primary language spoken by any individual seeking such assistance; requires state agency to submit an annual report on language services.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Luis SepúlvedaA 5082Authorizes the department of environmental conservation to establish the Lake Deforest Flood Control Pilot Program.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Patrick CarrollS 4743Permits a distinctive plate for active duty military service members.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Patrick GallivanA 5071Allows the thruway authority to offer discounted tokens to residents of Rockland and Westchester counties for Mario M. Cuomo bridge crossings.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Patrick CarrollA 5072Implements a one year phase-in period for a local law, ordinance or resolution imposing a paper carryout bag reduction fee where forty percent of such fees are returned to such county or city for the purpose of purchasing and distributing reusable bags, with priority given to low- and fixed-income communities, and after the first year, such forty percent of fees shall be remitted to the person who collected the fees.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Jo Anne SimonA 5142Allows commuter vans to accept hails from prospective passengers in the street; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Alec Brook-KrasnyA 5096Withholds the governor's salary until the legislative passage of the budget occurs; provides such salary should be withheld if the budget has not passed prior to the first day of the fiscal year and shall not be paid until such passage occurs.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Khaleel AndersonA 5085Relates to authorizing the superintendent of financial services to grant three credit hours of continuing education for a licensees' active membership in a statewide professional insurance producer association.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Pamela HunterS 4739Relates to prohibiting transportation network companies from including mandatory arbitration clauses in user agreements for certain offenses including assault and sex offenses; provides all user agreements issued with such clause shall be considered null and void and new agreements without such clause shall be issued within 14 days of the effective date of this legislation.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Luis SepúlvedaA 5150Enacts the "harmful algal bloom monitoring and prevention act"; establishes the harmful algal bloom monitoring and prevention fund.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Anna KellesS 4726Requires agencies and public employers to provide notice and a review period to employees whose personnel records have been provided pursuant to the state's freedom of information law.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Robert JacksonA 5094Requires the department of motor vehicles compile a list of veterans who apply for a veteran driver's license and provide such list to the department of veterans' services to aid in outreach efforts by the department of veterans' services.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Kwani O'PharrowA 5112Extends the powers of the monitor of the Wyandanch union free school district to include overriding of any resolutions or motions; authorizes the monitor to direct the board, superintendent, and/or other school district officers to undergo any necessary training; grants the monitor the power to approve or disapprove the appointment of the superintendent by the board of education; requires an academic improvement plan to be developed by the board of education and the monitor.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Kwani O'PharrowA 5068Restricts electioneering on polling place property.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Jo Anne SimonA 5126Implements provisions to protect credit reports of certain consumers.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Michaelle SolagesA 5070Provides that the commissioner of taxation and finance shall convene a ten member real estate appraiser task force to investigate and identify the misevaluation of the asset of this category of professionals and develop ways to overcome the biased behavior; makes related provisions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Kwani O'PharrowA 5086Extends provisions of law relating to monitor of the Wyandanch union free school district from June 30, 2025 until June 30, 2030.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Kwani O'PharrowS 4741Restructures the crimes of schemes to defraud; establishes the crime of harassment of a legal services client.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Luis SepúlvedaA 5069Enacts "Chelsey's law"; provides that a person commits the crime of manslaughter or aggravated manslaughter when such person knows or has reasonable grounds to know that a controlled substance is likely to cause the death of another person and sells, administers, delivers, or causes the delivery of a controlled substance to another person and such substance causes, contributes to, or aids in the death of such other person.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedPenalAsm. Steve SternA 5095Requires VA home loan training in the required training for real estate brokers.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Kwani O'PharrowA 5081Relates to prohibitions on rebating and discrimination in rates and payments under insurance policies; provides that certain services shall not be considered to be an inducement or rebate unless the superintendent determines that the offer and sale of such services constituted the sole reason for the purchase of such insurance policy.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Pamela HunterA 5090Prohibits certain persons from receiving compensation for legal fees, consulting, or other work performed for an industrial development agency, an economic assistance corporation or state or local authority; relates to consultant disclosure requirements.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedPBAAsm. Michaelle SolagesS 4742Provides a real property tax exemption for property owned by active duty service members of the armed forces of the United States in taxing jurisdictions which elect to provide a veterans exemption.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Patrick GallivanS 4712Exempts athletic club membership dues from a sales tax where such dues are spent on the improvement, maintenance or operation of the athletic club's activities occurring solely on the premises of a municipal parkland.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedTAXSen. Patricia Fahy

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