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25,446 bills · Page 160 of 255 · New York 2025–2026 Legislative Session · updated October 27, 2026
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S 4761Enacts the Educational Rights Transparency for New York Families Act, to establish standards for resource based educational rights of students within the state and implement a system of self-assessment and reporting by schools and school districts.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5153Relates to advanced metering infrastructure devices for residential services.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5249Prohibits members of the state police, police officers, and peace officers from intentionally covering their badges.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5156Creates a Great Lakes and state waters bill of rights that declares the right of the Great Lakes and state waters to exist, flourish and naturally evolve.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5272Creates a day care assistance program for members of the organized militia serving federal active duty outside the United States; appropriates $500,000 therefor.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5303Provides motor fuel tax exemption for sales of diesel motor fuel used in vessels used directly in a business providing sport fishing opportunities for hire to the general public from the tax on petroleum businesses and from sales and compensating use taxes.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5209Facilitates compliance with the sex offender registry for offenders without a registerable residence; defines "homeless sex offender" and "sex offender registration officer"; makes related provisions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5250Requires annual reporting by city school districts in cities with a population of over two hundred fifty thousand regarding the arbitration process in teacher disciplinary proceedings.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5162Creates the "I love NY outdoors" program; such program shall require the commissioner of economic development to develop a marketing strategy that would promote New York as a premiere destination for hunting and fishing; appropriates $2,500,000 therefor.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4775Safeguards cash accounts for people with developmental disabilities in a facility under the control of the commissioner of mental health, the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities and the commissioner of alcoholism and substance abuse services.New York · last action 2026-01-07Passed first houseA 5235Makes reclassification of rent controlled dwelling retroactive to time of decrease in income of members of household of dwelling.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5195Creates a crime data clearinghouse within the department of criminal justice services; requires such department produces a report on such data.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5282Relates to access to appropriate drugs at reasonable prices, formulary exceptions, standing prior authorizations and external appeals; to access to retail pharmacies, prescription synchronization, limits on patient drug costs, explanations of benefits and rebates; to prescription drug synchronization; to pharmacy benefit management; and to limits on copayments and drug substitutions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5161Provides pregnant persons with alternative birth choices to preserve the life of a fetus when electing to have an abortion by health care practitioners offering sedated birth and perinatal hospice procedures.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5273Implements a state-wide plan to prevent and reduce the use of seclusion and physical restraint in schools; prohibits the use of seclusion, mechanical restraint, chemical restraint, and dangerous restraints that restrict breathing on students; authorizes annual appropriations to provide grants to school districts; provides for more rapid notice to parents if restraints or seclusion is used on a student.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5226Designates Broadway and Lake Street in the city of Newburgh as state highways.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5211Relates to librarians of school libraries.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5208Requires general hospitals to have a registered professional nurse as a sitting and voting member of the governing entity responsible for developing a hospital's strategic plan, structure, systems, policies and programs.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5176Requires the New York state cancer services program to provide various cancer screenings and diagnostic services at no cost to certain persons and to provide informational pamphlets on such cancers.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5237Designates Water Street, Leroy Place, North Street, Plank Road, and South Street in the city of Newburgh as state highways.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5137Directs municipalities to permit the construction and occupation of dwelling units with a density of at least twenty-five dwelling units per acre, on any land wherein residential construction and occupation is otherwise permitted if such land is within one-half mile of any covered transportation facility.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5178Prohibits the use of cannabis in public places, unless approved by the applicable local government.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5299Expands the Doctors Across New York program to include dentists.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4759Provides that when the division of criminal justice services conducts a search of its criminal history records and returns a report thereon, all references to undisposed cases shall be excluded.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5212Allows judges more options for when to impose bail or commit the principal to the custody of the sheriff for burglary in the second degree, robbery in the second degree and crimes which resulted in death or serious physical injury.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5241Includes peace officers in offenses of unlawful fleeing in a motor vehicle.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5296Relates to county-wide shared services panels; includes library districts within county-wide shared services panels; establishes the municipal efficiency fund to provide counties with awards of matching funds upon certification by the department of state.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5182Enacts the "frontline worker assistance act" to establish a one thousand dollar tax credit shall apply to such public employees performing their duties while remaining at their worksite or job location during the pandemic and have not received additional compensation pursuant to a federal, state or local award, grant or retention payment.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4770Authorizes lifetime sporting licenses, which includes hunting and fishing licenses and turkey permits, to be purchased by permanently disabled veterans at a discounted rate of sixty-five dollars.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5242Imposes certain restrictions on catalytic converters; requires all vehicle catalytic converters to be indelibly marked or engraved with a readily observable unique serial number; provides a reduction in premium charges for certain motor vehicle liability, comprehensive and collision insurance rates with respect to automobiles equipped with a catalytic converter which contains such unique marking or engraving.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5180Requires school districts to refer a newly-registering child with a disability for evaluation within forty-eight hours of the time of the first contact between the school district and the person or entity registering the student with the school district, provided a request for referral has been made.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5183Directs the state board of elections to create a plan to permit voting by mail in the event of a natural disaster or state of emergency.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5214Establishes the "Not on our dollar!: Ending New York funding of Hamas violence act" to prohibit not-for-profit corporations from engaging in unauthorized support of Hamas and nations known to fund middle-eastern terrorist group activity; allows for recovery of a civil penalty by the state attorney general; creates a private right of action for violations.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4777Relates to first responders, including correction officers, coming into contact with saliva by spitting, throwing, tossing, or expelling from or by an individual.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5210Allows for the taking of deer with a crossbow in Suffolk county.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5157Prohibits insurance companies from imposing a co-pay pursuant to a follow up visit with a physician in order to receive a refill on an opioid drug prescription which was initially written for seven days or less.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5270Relates to the right to hold race meetings and races after sunset at Belmont Park, only at the main track in its current configuration, but only if such races conclude before 10:30 P.M. and only occur on Thursdays, Fridays or Saturdays.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5294Permits alternate members of certain planning boards and zoning boards of appeals for any reason the town board deems necessary pursuant to local law, rule, regulation or ordinance.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4785Establishes local labor requirements as part of the approval to receive a real property tax business investment exception; requires eighty-five percent of workers hired by a contractor or developer for a project to be from the same county or an adjoining county or, in certain circumstances, the state of New York.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5190Requires that correction officers employed in correctional facilities be identified by badge number only.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5229Directs the commissioner of health to establish a blood clot and pulmonary embolism policy workgroup.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5158Prohibits the New York state safety inspection of vehicles used for a for-hire service if such vehicles have out-of-state license plates.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5264Creates a tax exemption for certain over the counter family planning supplies from sales and compensating use taxes.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5232Implements automatic enrollment for the tax abatement program for rent-controlled and rent-regulated property occupied by senior citizens; provides for a check box for a taxpayer to opt-out of data sharing and automatic enrollment on their tax return.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5261Prevents the use of funds, financial incentives, subsidies or tax exemptions for projects where the occupier of the project is not disclosed.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5192Prohibits the sale of certain hazardous inhalants to persons under the age of twenty-one.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5149Relates to school property and real property taxes; establishes the blue ribbon commission on property tax reform; relates to state assistance for local real property reassessment, state assistance to assessing units within a school district, providing a fixed real property assessed value for residential real property owned by certain persons over the age of 65 and providing state reimbursement to municipalities for lost real property tax revenue; requires the state to fund certain programs mandated for municipal corporations or school districts.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5133Requires choices of a question or proposal printed on a ballot include a brief phrase stating the effect of such choice should such choice win such question or proposal.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5243Establishes the high school peer mentoring pilot program.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5280Provides that entities soliciting a recurring contribution to a political campaign, political committee, party committee, or not-for-profit or for-profit entity shall receive the affirmative consent of the contributor at the time of arrangement of the recurring contribution; provides for refund of recurring contributions; provides penalties for violations.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5271Implements oral fluid tests which tests a person's saliva for the presence of cannabis.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5141Prohibits persons affiliated with terror organizations from being appointed to permanent, temporary or provisional positions in the state civil service system.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4768Includes solicitation or facilitation of certain crimes as a specified offense for the purposes of a hate crime.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4749Requires financial security for reclamation for solar and wind electric generating systems.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5218Relates to concealment and/or mutilation of a human corpse by any person; exempts practice of funeral direction and organ donation.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5248Enacts the "New York state waste recycling and reduction act" to require each commercial building in the state to recycle paper products and single-use plastic products produced or used on site.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5147Establishes a Green New Deal for New York task force; requires such task force to develop a detailed statewide, industrial, economic mobilization plan for the transition of the New York economy to become greenhouse gas emissions neutral by 2030 and to significantly draw down greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and oceans and to promote economic and environmental justice and equality.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5205Establishes the crime of coordinated petit larceny; permits a principal to be eligible to be held on bail for coordinated petit larceny; directs the division of criminal justice services to conduct a public awareness campaign on larceny.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5234Eliminates the ability of judicial candidates for office who are enrolled in a particular party to automatically be allowed to run as a candidate in another party's primary election.New York · last action 2026-01-07Passed first houseS 4790Requires a purchaser of any firearm, rifle or shotgun to submit to a mental health evaluation and provide the seller with such purchaser's approval to purchase such firearm.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5198Requires individuals arrested in connection with a felony to submit a DNA sample; makes related provisions and technical corrections.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5257Establishes the "Defund Municipalities that Defund the Police Act" which provides for a withholding of a certain amount of state funding for a defunding municipality.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5286Establishes a home repair project revolving loan program and revolving loan fund for emergent or essential home repair projects for low and middle-income households.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5259Relates 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 4782Prevents certain public institutions of higher education from using the scholastic aptitude test and ACT assessment in the admissions process on and after the two thousand twenty-six--two thousand twenty-seven academic year for New York resident applicants; requires SUNY and CUNY to create a new standardized test by the two thousand thirty--two thousand thirty-one academic year.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4760Relates to collective bargaining rights for college athletes; authorizes the public employment relations board to exercise jurisdiction over institutions of higher education and college student athlete employees of such institutions in relation to all collective bargaining matters.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5199Ensures that temporary protected status beneficiaries continue to receive Medicaid benefits if the federal government ends the program.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4762Relates to establishing state disaster emergency requirements for homeless shelters including placement of individuals and families in shelters and reporting of infections related to the emergency.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5171Prohibits a municipal corporation from prohibiting the issuing of a permit for the construction of any new commercial, residential, or mixed-use building on the basis that such building will be a mixed-fuel building.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5184Requires the department of transportation to determine which entrances to parkways in the state are most frequently accessed by oversized commercial vehicles and to install certain barriers to prevent such vehicles from accessing such entrances.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5163Provides for a deduction from personal gross income for expenses incurred in the adoption of a child in the foster care system.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5269Decreases the distance from the high water mark certain lands under water of Gardiner's and Peconic bays have to be ceded to a county from one thousand feet to five hundred feet.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5265Provides that consent to sexual contact is a knowing, voluntary, and mutual decision among all participants; makes related provisions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5297Authorizes the city of New York to provide for certain residential parking permit systems in certain neighborhoods, including but not limited to, Washington Heights, Harlem, Morningside Heights, Upper West Side, East Harlem, and Upper East Side.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5135Provides all child protective service employees with supportive mental health services and resources.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4766Creates a tax deduction for certain capital gains.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5185Prohibits hotels, motels and lodging establishments from selling prepaid rooms to another person if the original guest fails to check in on the first day of the scheduled reservation or if the guest fails to check in within the first, second or third night for prepaid reservations of seven days or longer; provides penalties for violations.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4774Creates the crime of vehicular homicide; makes such crime a class B felony.New York · last action 2026-01-07Passed first houseA 5220Exempts sales of school supplies from sales tax when purchased between the fourth Thursday in August and the first Monday in September.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5304Requires DOCCS' office of special investigations to send a representative of such office in-person to confirm any reported incident of bodily injury or harm to an incarcerated individual no later than 5 days after receiving such report.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5292Provides that persons with a disability shall be eligible to receive a fishing license for five dollars.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4797Relates to establishing the manufacturing development zone program and tax credits related thereto.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4789Relates to training requirements for attorneys appointed to represent a child in certain proceedings.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4798Authorizes the New York state department of financial services to oversee the planned closing of bank branch offices by federally chartered banking organizations.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4799Creates climate liability for fossil fuel related activity which caused or contributed to climate change; creates a right of action.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4794Alters tax exemption programs for the development of new and affordable housing; defines "initial construction period" and "extended construction period"; makes related changes.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4796Relates to enacting the "Esther Salas candidate privacy act" providing the option for candidates for office and petition witnesses not to put their address on designation petitions but instead file such with the county clerk for a fee.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4838Establishes a pilot program to create an assistance hotline for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and complex behavioral needs.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4839Prohibits the operation of uncrewed aircraft, including drones, over school grounds or critical infrastructure; provides penalties for violations.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4813Establishes the crimes of aggravated threat of mass harm in the first degree and aggravated threat of mass harm in the second degree; makes such crimes hate crimes.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4823Enacts the Kelsey Smith Act to require wireless service providers to provide call location information to law enforcement during an emergency.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4807Relates to limiting the acquisition of a rifle or shotgun to one per ninety-day period.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4855Prohibits recurring campaign donations without affirmative consent; provides that a candidate accepting a recurring contribution shall provide a receipt to the contributor disclosing the terms of the recurring contribution, provide all necessary information to cancel the recurring donation, and immediately cancel the recurring donation upon request.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4843Authorizes payment of additional state aid for certain state-leased or state-owned lands.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4810Requires any dealer where lithium-ion batteries, bicycles with electric assist, micromobility devices and limited use motorcycles are sold at retail or repaired, and/or lithium-ion electric batteries are housed in a storage facility to maintain functional fire protection and suppression measures effective against lithium-ion battery and electrical fires, including but not limited to Class B extinguishers, battery cases, and automatic monitoring and detection; authorizes the department of state to promulgate necessary rules and regulations; imposes a fine of $250 for a knowing violation to comply with such provisions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4811Requires every railroad corporation which operates any freight train within the state to submit quarterly reports to the department of transportation detailing such railroad corporation's inspections of any train yard and freight train operated in the state by such corporation; directs the department of transportation to conduct follow up inspections.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4856Extends the timeline for the return of security deposits for residential rental agreements from fourteen days to thirty days.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4847Establishes a tax deduction for expenses not in excess of five hundred dollars paid by eligible qualified personnel or an eligible service coordinator for early intervention supplies.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4840Requires 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 4835Establishes a curriculum and task force to provide housing navigation services for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.New York · last action 2026-01-07Introduced
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