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A 5855Requires the administration for children's services and New York city public school employees provide a verbal and written warning to students of such student's right to refuse an interview and right to have a supportive adult during the interview.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5520Establishes a COVID-19 essential workers scholarship program to award annual scholarships to essential employees who worked during the outbreak of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and children of essential employees who have died as a result of contracting COVID-19.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5908Authorizes local municipalities and political subdivisions to have final say on if a renewable energy power plant can be sited in such municipalities' or political subdivisions' jurisdiction; establishes conflict of interest standards for approving the siting of a renewable energy power plant in a local municipality or political subdivision; requires the office of renewable energy siting and electric transmissions establish a database to collect and display host agreements and land contracts for renewable energy power plants; establishes contract standards concerning the forfeiture of mineral rights for the siting of renewable energy power plants; regulates the conduct of businesses engaged in the conduct of selling renewable energy power plants.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5523Creates a pre-specialized high schools admissions test and preparation program for all sixth grade students in New York city.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5873Requires persons and parents of children who test positive for sickle cell disease are informed of such diagnosis and provided with educational materials; establishes a registry of persons with sickle cell disease; requires the department of health issue an annual report on sickle cell disease.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5526Relates to providing for rest between work shifts; prohibits the scheduling of an employee to work the first ten hours following the end of the previous calendar day's work shift or on-call shift or the first ten hours following the end of a work shift or on-call shift that spanned two calendar days unless an employee consents or volunteers, in which case the employee shall be paid one and one-half times the regular rate of pay.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5913Clarifies the meaning of actively seeking work for purposes of unemployment benefits when the claimant is a member of a labor organization; defines "union hiring hall".New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5874Establishes the strengthen homes program to promote the strengthening of homes in order to protect against severe weather through remodeling grants and insurance discounts.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5504Provides that property receiving an agricultural assessment which is converted for purposes of oil or gas exploration shall be subject to payments equaling five times the taxes saved in the last year in which the land benefited from an agricultural assessment; exempts property converted for solar development from such payments.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5839Establishes the crime of aggravated obstructing emergency medical services for conduct which obstructs the efforts of certain emergency services, personnel or systems while obstructing traffic or posing a risk of serious physical injury; permits forfeiture.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5842Establishes the New York state infrastructure bank to monitor and oversee infrastructure projects in the state, and to award financial assistance for such projects in the form of bonds.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5890Permits contracts for the purchase of rock salt or sodium chloride mined or hand harvested in Canada to be awarded as if such rock salt or sodium chloride was mined or hand harvested in the United States.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5841Provides that a plan may not be declared effective for conversion to cooperative or condominium ownership until written purchase agreements have been executed and delivered for at least twenty-five percent of all dwelling units in the building or group of buildings and written consent has been obtained from the bona fide tenants who were in occupancy of fifty-one percent of the dwelling units in the building or group of buildings or development on the date a letter was issued by the attorney general accepting the plan for filing.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5863Establishes a statewide program to provide free SUNY, CUNY, and community college tuition to active volunteer firefighters, volunteer emergency medical services providers, and volunteer auxiliary police officers.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5905Requires affordable housing units to be equally distributed throughout building projects.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5915Relates to enacting the "comprehensive passenger safety enhancement act" to enhance passenger safety in commercial passenger vehicles.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5876Enacts "Barreto's law" which establishes the crime of vehicular manslaughter in the third degree.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5895Provides for orders of protection for harassment.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5884Expands eligibility for tax abatement for rent-controlled and rent regulated property occupied by persons with disabilities to include individuals who do not meet the non-medical qualifications for SSDI and SSI but, by reason of the individual's disability, the individual is not able to engage in substantial gainful activity as that term is defined by the federal social security administration.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5844Prevents the overdetention of persons due to an outstanding warrant from another jurisdiction.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5896Establishes the New York youth climate corps to support and grow climate-related service opportunities for young adults with the objective of building low-carbon and climate-resilient communities, ecosystems, and economies while providing education, workforce development, and career pathways to service members, with a focus on disadvantaged communities.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5870Enacts 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 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5515Requires utility corporations and municipalities to ensure that bills for service to residential customers include a line item for cost impact measures taken in accordance with the climate action council's final scoping plan; requires the department of public service to establish a formula to enable utility corporations and municipalities to calculate the cost impact on each residential customer's bill attributed to measures taken in accordance with the climate action council's final scoping plan.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5871Requires assessing units to disclose and publish information relating to the use of a computer assisted mass appraisal system or other statistical formula or computer software at any step during the assessment of taxes on real property; requires assessing units not using a computer assisted mass appraisal system or other statistical formula or computer software at any step during the assessment of taxes on real property to verify that such systems, formula, or software were not used and explaining the methods used by such assessing unit to assess real property taxes.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5878Allows for reasonable accommodations for the examination portion of licensure requirements to become a social worker for individuals for whom English is not their primary language and a test in their primary language is not available.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5903Creates an exemption to the presumption that a child born in wedlock is the child of the birth parent's legal spouse; permits certain actions to be taken by the birth parent without notice to the birth parent's legal spouse.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5867Establishes a space exploration task force to study the potential for economic opportunities, ensuring the future survival of humanity and developing strategic advantages for this state by means of evolving space technology.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5517Provides for dispensing emergency contraception under certain conditions; defines emergency contraception.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5875Provides for cost-of-living adjustments; provides that the base benefit amount shall be increased annually by reference to the consumer price index for each applicable calendar year beginning on September 1, 2025.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5925Relates to utilizing funds from the capital acquisition fund for the payment of salaries and benefits of employees and other expenses of regional off-track betting corporations.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5552Establishes the green accessible transition authority to promote the transition of the for-hire vehicle and other state industries to environmentally sustainable practices and increase universal accessibility of for-hire vehicles, paratransit services, and taxi services statewide; establishes a for-hire vehicle improvement surcharge for each for-hire transportation trip conducted in a transportation network company vehicle or by a high-volume for-hire service; makes an appropriation therefor.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5549Relates to prohibiting exemptions for owners of vacant or unoccupied storefront properties.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5550Authorizes high school students to vote on city-wide education councils regardless of age.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5901Provides for the sharing of thirty percent of revenue from gaming devices located within the county of Oneida; provides for the sharing of twenty-five percent of revenue from gaming devices located within the county of Madison.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5919Provides that the disposition of net revenues of regional off-track betting corporations to participating counties may be divided on an annual, bi-annual or quarterly basis as determined by such corporations.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5547Extends the effectiveness of certain provisions dealing with tax exemptions for rent regulated properties occupied by senior citizens and persons with disabilities.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5537Prohibits mobile sports wagering operators and platforms from sending push notifications or text message notifications.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5541Includes broadband access in the scoring and ranking criteria of the New York State low-income housing tax credit program.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5922Authorizes interactive gaming in the state of New York.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5548Permits a redetermination of a tax abatement for rent-controlled and rent regulated property occupied by senior citizens or persons with disabilities upon a permanent decrease in income.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5923Provides for payments to licensed harness tracks by regional off-track betting corporations.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5542Establishes the professional practice of community midwifery; defines as the management in the home, birth center, or community setting, of normal pregnancies, child birth, and postpartum care, including newborn evaluation, resuscitation and referral for infants; sets requirements for license and practice.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5543Relates to industrial development agencies; relates to such agencies' representation, public hearings, notices of agenda, and school board reporting.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5924Provides for the amount to be paid by off-track betting corporations to regional harness tracks from out-of-state and out-of-country simulcast revenue.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5920Authorizes the state gaming commission to impose monetary fines upon any corporation, association or person participating in a thoroughbred race meeting or off-track betting, whether licensed by such commission or not, for violation of a commission rule or regulation; does not apply to track or parlor patrons.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5540Extends wage parity for home care workers in upstate New York.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5904Relates to creating a racing fan advisory board to provide advice to the state racing and wagering board on issues related to horse racing and wagering; establishes an I Love NY Racing promotion and the New York State Horse Racing Farm of the Year Award.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5544Provides that any person charged with enforcing laws prohibiting cruelty to animals shall cause a report to be made when, in the performance of their duties, such person has reasonable cause to believe that abuse or maltreatment of a child has also occurred; provides that a person charged with the responsibility of filing a report of child abuse or maltreatment shall also file a report of suspected animal cruelty.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5576Establishes the crime of feticide or the intentional killing of an unborn child at any stage of gestation; makes such crime a class A felony.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5572Enacts the child custody reform act to provide uniform statewide standards for the litigation and mediation of child custody disputes; provides for an initial planning conference between the judge and all parties to attempt a settlement; provides for mediation unless the court finds mediation is inappropriate; requires the chief administrator of the courts to establish plans for the conduct of administration of the mediation and preparation of evaluation reports.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5584Directs the commissioner of motor vehicles to establish a yellow dot program under which the medical and emergency contact information of the occupants, aged 55 or older, of a motor vehicle is available to emergency personnel in the glove compartment.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5567Establishes the human services wage commission for the purpose of investigating whether the wages paid to human services workers are sufficient to provide adequate maintenance and to protect the health and welfare of employees; defines terms; provides for the duties of the commission; requires reporting.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5575Establishes fraud relating to voter registration forms as a class B misdemeanor; prohibits individuals and organizations from distributing applications for voter registration forms with marked or checked party affiliation boxes.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5578Provides for a 75-25 percent split in the New York city transit authority's operating surplus between the authority and the Metropolitan transit authority where previously the split was 50-50.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5583Creates a homeowners' bill of rights; directs the superintendent of financial services to issue a consumer guide on insuring against catastrophic losses.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5577Limits the provision of charitable bail to misdemeanor defendants who are first time offenders.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5573Provides that rape in the first degree shall be a class A-I felony and shall be punishable by life imprisonment without parole.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5558Enacts the "interchange fee prohibition act"; prohibits the receipt or charge of interchange fees on the tax amount or gratuity of an electronic payment transaction if the merchant informs the acquirer bank or its designee of the tax or gratuity amount as part of the authorization or settlement process for the electronic payment transaction; establishes penalties.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5570Relates to an electronically submitted absentee ballot application.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5574Directs the division of criminal justice services to annually provide a list of all level 2 and 3 sex offenders residing in a county, to the residents of such county.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5582Requires employees of gaming facilities to undergo human-trafficking recognition training which shall address the nature of human trafficking, how human trafficking is defined in law, how to identify victims of human trafficking, relief and recovery options for survivors, and social and legal services available to victims.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5580Requires the commissioner of health to establish and publish a list of generic drug products.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5566Directs the municipal police training council to develop, and the commissioner of the division of criminal justice services to implement, certain training requirements for police officers on the operation of police vehicles, including a minimum of 40 hours of training for new police officers and 4 hours of training for police in-service training courses.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5562Provides presumptive eligibility for medical assistance benefits for individuals released from correctional facilities for at least sixty days following release.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5581Authorizes cities to request that railroad corporations perform railroad crossing, bridge and right of ways maintenance and to perform such maintenance if the corporation fails to do so.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5579Increases the amount of money a public retirement system retiree may earn in a position of public service in the year 2026 and thereafter to $65,000.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5602Exempts certain timesharing plans involving ten or fewer purchasers from certain filing requirements relating to real estate investments; excludes New York City.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 6006Provides for and requires equine screening and advanced imaging to be conducted by a land grant university within this state at a location proximate to a racetrack owned by the state.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5982Directs the department of corrections and community supervision to conduct a comprehensive study on deaths in correctional facilities within New York state to provide data-driven insights and recommendations to improve prison conditions, healthcare, and policies to prevent future tragedies.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 6027Authorizes interactive gaming and interactive lottery gaming in the state of New York.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5949Mandates the trustees of common school districts and the board of education of every union free school district to establish a code of ethics to be applied to the prohibition of the use of school resources for personal gain.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5985Adopts the PA licensure compact to enhance the portability of a physician assistant license between participating states while safeguarding the safety of patients.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5930Authorizes a building construction, demolition and repair work insurance tax credit for certain qualifying insurance premium payments for personal injury liability insurance and property damage liability insurance.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 6005Establishes the crimes of spoofing a police agency telephone number in the first and second degrees as a class E felony and a class A misdemeanor.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5932Enacts the "elderly abuse protective act" to protect residents 62 years of age or older who suffer abuse or deprivation; requires reports to the commissioner of the office of children and family services of the possible necessity for protective services; specifies action by such commissioner upon receiving such report including evaluation, right of entry, and furnishing of protective services; specifies the authority of the office of children and family services with respect thereto and requires assistance of other agencies in the implementation thereof; provides for judicial and review action against caretakers who abuse elderly; creates statewide central register of elderly abuse; appropriates $600,000 to the office of children and family services.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5952Establishes the crime of falsely filing an extreme risk protection order to be punishable as a class E felony.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5941Relates to the removal of incarcerated individuals diagnosed with mental illness to a residential mental health treatment unit.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 6033Establishes 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 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5995Prohibits libraries and library systems, including school libraries and school library systems from banning books or other materials based on partisan or doctrinal disapproval.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5999Directs the commissioner of health, in consultation with the commissioner of education, the commissioner of mental health, the state board of pharmacy and the commissioner of corrections and community supervision, to promulgate and implement rules and regulations authorizing the use of automated patient dispensing and storage systems for distribution of prescription and non-prescription drugs and medical devices.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5590Authorizes the imposition of late fees for failure to timely complete the on-line training course for lobbyists and clients.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 6016Provides for loan forgiveness for social workers who commit to work in counties with less than two hundred thousand population, or towns which have a population of less than one hundred fifty persons per square mile for the duration of the award.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5613Prohibits the sale of flavored smokeless tobacco within five hundred feet of a public or private elementary or secondary school; defines "flavored smokeless tobacco"; authorizes the commissioner to impose a civil penalty for violations.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5594Establishes a $1,500 tax credit for each eligible immigrant worker hired and retained for at least six months by a small business.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5956Creates a public umbilical cord blood banking program within the department of health to promote public awareness of the potential benefits of public cord banking, to promote research into the uses of cord blood, and to facilitate pre-delivery arrangements for public banking of cord blood donations.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5961Requires the disposal of copies of identification documents by owner, lessee, proprietor or manager of any hotel, motel, steamboat, tourist cabins, camp, resort, tavern, inn, boarding or lodging house.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5943Provides veterans of the armed forces of the United States access to all state parks and recreational facilities without the charge of any admission.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 6019Relates to the transferring of monies held in the non-escrowed account for payment of outstanding winning tickets and for payment of refunds to ticket holders; any amount that remains unclaimed after April first of each year shall be transferred to the regional corporation's operating account.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5948Relates to medical parole and determinations of whether a person released on medical parole is physically or cognitively incapable of presenting a danger to society.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5586Provides for family members of a crime victim and interested parties to make statements to members of the parole board; provides that such oral statement shall be made to the members of the state board of parole who will determine whether the defendant is released.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 6003Removes the exemption for restaurants, taverns or similar food service establishments from the New York state bag waste reduction act.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5588Expands the Gold Star exemption by including the War on Terror as a qualifying period of war and allows for the exemption where the Gold Star Parent's child has died in the United States from a service-connected disability.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5986Establishes the "public interest legal services loan assistance fund" of the state of New York (to consist of a portion of bar examination fees and other funds appropriated by the legislature therefor and such other monies as may be credited or otherwise transferred from any other fund or source pursuant to law, including voluntary contributions); provides for administration of such fund to assist public service attorneys practicing public interest law in repaying their student loans; defines certain terms and adds other related provisions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5931Provides a tax abatement for geothermal well systems in cities of one million or more.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5980Provides that a sponsoring agency must make a presentation at a public hearing before a residential facility for the disabled may be placed in a municipality.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 6009Increases the state code enforcement powers of the secretary of state by establishing a state code enforcement office headed by an ombudsperson.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5615Requires businesses that allow automatic renewals, continuous service offers, and automatic subscription renewals to provide notice regarding cancelling such renewals, services, or subscriptions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5958Directs that any net revenue distributed to participating counties or cities by regional off-track betting corporations shall be used exclusively for real property tax relief.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5988Includes temporary child care employment agencies and child care educational and training institutions as providers authorized to conduct background clearances.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5955Authorizes a study by the department of corrections and community supervision pertaining to the treatment of aging prison populations.New York · last action 2026-01-07Introduced
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