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25,446 bills · Page 182 of 255 · New York 2025–2026 Legislative Session · updated October 27, 2026

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A 6716Relates to chemical testing for prospective foster parents; includes, but is not limited to drug and alcohol testing; authorizes office of children and family services to issue random chemical testing, including but not limited to, drug testing, to foster parents.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSOSAsm. James PretlowA 6711Provides for the award of regents scholarships and loan forgiveness for dentists and podiatrists on the same terms as physicians and dentists.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. James PretlowS 6331Establishes the position of Catskill park coordinator within the department of environmental conservation to build partnerships between the department and other state agencies, municipal governments, businesses and nonprofit entities that will develop a community-based tourism strategy for the forest preserve to help fortify the regional economy and to coordinate implementation of the public access plan and other approved or adopted Catskill park-wide plans.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Michelle HincheyA 6717Directs the commissioner of motor vehicles, in conjunction with the office of court administration, shall redesign the uniform traffic tickets; such new design shall include, but not be limited, increasing the clarity of such ticket and providing clearly on the front of such ticket, the cancellation of the court appearance where a fine is paid prior to the date of such court appearance.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. James PretlowS 6329Relates to the license requirements for the practice of respiratory therapy; requires additional education.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Andrew GounardesS 6346Requires cooperative housing corporations provide a prospective purchaser with a written statement of reasons when withholding consent to a purchase; voids any agreement inconsistent with such requirement.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. James SandersA 6722Authorizes bail for principals charged with aggravated cruelty to animals.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Paula Elaine KayS 6341Amends the membership of the New York city water board to include the five borough presidents, the mayor or a public member appointed by the mayor and a public member appointed by the governor who has experience in the science of water resource development.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. James SandersA 6726Permits the sale of tonic water, bitters, maraschino cherries and dealcoholized wine at liquor stores.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Tony SimoneA 6753Requires financial institutions to send a written notification of overdraft fees charged to account holders every 180 days.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Pamela HunterS 6347Authorizes the commissioner of transportation to conduct a study relating to airborne ultrafine particles; analyzes the impacts of certain large hub commercial airports on airborne ultrafine particles; analyzes the characteristics of such particles; identifies effectiveness of mitigation measures.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. James SandersA 6734Requires certain public authorities to establish a cashless tolling amnesty program between August first, two thousand twenty-five and December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-five for cashless tolls collected between April twenty-third, two thousand sixteen and June twenty-ninth, two thousand twenty-five.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Landon DaisA 6748Relates to a minimum wage reimbursement credit.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Paul BolognaA 6730Requires that an entity which pays funds which are profits from a crime, as defined by statute, to a family member, including a former spouse, of a person charged with or convicted of a crime, give notice of such payment of funds to the office of victim services.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Judy GriffinS 6348Relates to the availability of information regarding day care services; requires disclosure of serious injury or death of child upon application for renewal of license.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSOSSen. James SandersA 6749Requires schools to provide for health education pertaining to cannabis use.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Tony SimoneA 6751Establishes a curriculum and task force to provide housing navigation services for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSOSAsm. Tony SimoneA 6747Relates to additional apportionment of building aid for certain projects; defines an eligible school construction project as one that is entirely funded from capital outlays and has a total project cost of two hundred fifty thousand dollars or less.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Judy GriffinA 6736Establishes certain offenses based on homicide due to criminal sale of a controlled substance; establishes the offense of criminal sale of a controlled substance to a child in the first degree; expands the definition of controlled substances with respect to certain offenses; increases the felony classification of certain controlled substance offenses; includes electronic prescriptions and blank prescription forms in the definition of certain controlled substance offenses.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Judy GriffinA 6740Provides for the waiver of the fee for a replacement driver's license or identification card if the replacement driver's license or identification card is requested solely for the purpose of designating that the applicant is an organ donor.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Tony SimoneA 6719Relates to an electronically submitted absentee ballot application and absentee ballot.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Tony SimoneA 6752Requires the posting of broker and property management information on the window of commercial property that has been vacant for at least one month.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Tony SimoneA 6720Prohibits the use of biometric identifying technology in schools for any reason other than certain specified purposes; adds fingerprint identification of teachers, administrators and students for the purpose of securely logging into a digital device for academic and administrative purpose to allowable purposes.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Tony SimoneA 6724Requires the surrender of registration and license plates for a suspended or revoked license.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Tony SimoneS 6342Establishes the renters' and small homeowners' credit in a city with a population of one million or more.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. James SandersA 6731Lowers the minimum age to vote at school district meetings and for the election of school district officers from 18 to 16.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Tony SimoneA 6757Provides for the regulation of buy-now-pay-later lenders; requires such lenders to be licensed; establishes prohibited acts, limitations on loans, and consumer protections.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Pamela HunterA 6743Enables federal aid municipal street and highway funding for projects for painting, striping and other new infrastructure dedicated primarily for pedestrian or cyclist use notwithstanding the ten year service life requirement.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Tony SimoneA 6728Provides for the confidentiality of personnel records of police officers, firefighters, correction officers and probation officers.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Patrick ChludzinskiA 6737Requires that bridges over the canal system be maintained in a manner to not impede commercial motor vehicles.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Paul BolognaA 6723Authorizes the governing body or agency of a public school building to reject a designation as a polling place or an early polling place.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Paul BolognaS 6345Enacts the New York civil rights cold case records collection act; directs the state archivist to create a civil rights cold case records collection; creates the civil rights cold case records review board which shall assist the archivist in the collection of civil rights cold case records.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. James SandersA 6738Directs the housing trust fund corporation to administer a New York small cities community development program to encourage the rehabilitation and repair of local housing in cities, as accounted in the most recent United State census, with a population less than one hundred thousand.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Paul BolognaA 6758Provides that a pharmacy is obligated to properly dispense or refill a prescription for a drug or device, or a non-prescription drug or device regardless of the ethical, moral or religious beliefs of any employee of such pharmacy.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Tony SimoneA 6739Provides that residential buildings shall be deemed eligible buildings for the green building tax credit.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Tony SimoneA 6727Requires distribution centers which are 50,000 sq. ft. or more to be equipped with electric vehicle charging stations as determined by the secretary of state and NYSERDA.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Anna KellesS 6339Requires contractors to recycle a certain percentage of the waste generated on construction and demolition sites.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. James SandersS 6335Conforms the definition of an incarcerated individual with a serious mental illness to the definition of "person with a serious mental illness" in the mental hygiene law.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Luis SepúlvedaS 6350Requires that correction officers employed in correctional facilities be identified by badge number only.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Mark WalczykA 6735Provides that in cities with a population of one million or more, a tenant or group of tenants, after proper notice to the landlord of the existence of a hazardous violation of housing codes and certification of the existence of such violation by the local agency charged with enforcement of housing codes, may contract for the repair of such condition and offset the price of such repair from their rental payments if the landlord fails to commence work to correct the condition within a certain period after notice is received.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Tony SimoneS 6344Establishes 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 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. James SandersS 6340Makes conducting unlawful surveillance by use of a drone unlawful surveillance in the second degree.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedPenalSen. James SandersA 6754Allows New York state employees to use accrued vacation time toward student loan payments; defines terms; requires the president of the civil service commission to promulgate necessary rules and regulations.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Tony SimoneS 6349Authorizes Franklynn Smith, who has been continuously employed as a part-time police officer, to take the competitive civil service examination and be placed on the eligible list for appointment as a full-time police officer with the village of Perry.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. George BorrelloA 6755Creates an elder court pilot program to study the effectiveness of senior-specific judicial programming especially involving elder abuse and domestic violence.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Tony SimoneA 6729Requires social services districts to distribute educational materials pertaining to sexual health, including information on HIV prevention and pre-exposure prophylaxis to individuals enrolled in Medicaid.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Tony SimoneA 6725Increases the penalties for larceny and fraudulent accosting when the victim is 65 years of age or older.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedPenalAsm. Judy GriffinS 6343Establishes the New York state democracy commission to report on certain democracy issues and how to prevent attempts to illegitimately overturn a lawful election on a local, state and federal level.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. James SandersS 6371Relates to advanced recycling and advanced recycling facilities.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedENVSen. Jeremy CooneyS 6357Increases compensation and maximum compensation for the boards of directors of off-track betting corporations.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Monica MartinezS 6369Enacts "Killian's law"; establishes a timely repair for wheelchair program; extends the warranty period for wheelchairs to 2 years; deems all wheelchair repairs needed within 5 years of initial prescription medically necessary.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. James SkoufisS 6362Relates to protections for victims of real property theft, providing for a rebuttable presumption that a purchaser or incumbrancer has notice of fraud or fraudulent intent in certain circumstances.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Jamaal BaileyS 6352Includes nurse practitioners as a provider of services for purposes of collaborative drug therapy management; makes the authorization for pharmacists to perform such management permanent.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Gustavo RiveraS 6354Prohibits city agencies in a city having a population of one million or more from contracting with a limited liability company unless such limited liability company discloses the names and addresses of persons having limited liability for the contractual obligations and other liabilities of the company.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Leroy ComrieS 6358Enacts the "child sex crime victims protection act"; establishes alternative sentencing procedures for victims of child sex crimes who commit crimes against their abusers.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedCPLSen. Cordell CleareS 6364Relates to insurance fraud; provides a provision for compensation to a person that reports insurance fraud to the authorities; establishes crimes of unlawful procurement of clients, patients or customers; aggravated insurance fraud in the second degree; and aggravated insurance fraud in the first degree; provides that this act also increases the penalty for insurance fraud; appropriates $3,100,000 therefor.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedPenalSen. Pamela HelmingS 6359Enacts the "microbusiness resiliency and growth act"; defines "microbusiness" as a business employing five or fewer persons, is resident in this state, is independently owned and operated, is not dominant in its field, and does not conduct its business transactions primarily over the internet; further provides for a segregated sales tax system for such microbusinesses.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedTAXSen. John LiuS 6356Prohibits increases in rates of homeowners' insurance in excess of twenty-five percent per year except where agreed to in the policy.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. John LiuA 6760Requires every school district to conduct a transition feasibility analysis within the next succeeding school year as of the effective date of this act, and every five years thereafter, to determine the feasibility of using zero-emission school buses on current routes.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedEDNAsm. Carrie WoernerA 6759Establishes a correctional employee protective labor practices board to make recommendations regarding labor practices and working conditions for correctional employees, and institutional safety of both correctional employees and incarcerated individuals.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Carrie WoernerS 6374Increases the number of persons from three hundred to five hundred to be considered a small business for the purposes of MWBE.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Jeremy CooneyS 6379Establishes protections for adults sixty years of age or older, or at least the age of eighteen and who, because of mental or physical impairments, are unable to manage their own resources or protect themselves from financial exploitation without assistance from others.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSOSSen. Cordell CleareS 6381Requires the establishment of a plant-based agriculture grant program to assist small and medium-sized farms transition to plant-based agriculture.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Jabari BrisportS 6382Requires police vehicles, fire vehicles, ambulances and emergency ambulance service vehicles to be equipped with appropriate communication devices to facilitate real-time communication with deaf individuals.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Chris RyanS 6373Requires all vehicles that are capable of traveling over twenty-five miles per hour to be registered and licensed with the department of motor vehicles.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Stephen ChanA 6764Requires certain information to be included in every pharmacy benefit manager's annual report to the superintendent such as the aggregated dollar amount of rebates, fees, price protection payments and any other payments the pharmacy benefit manager received from drug manufacturers through rebate contract, the amount of certain allocations, and information on rebate contracts.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. David WeprinS 6383Authorizes covered agencies and authorities to use weigh-in-motion technology to automatically enforce vehicle weight limits on their facilities.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedPBOSen. Brian KavanaghS 6378Relates to use of public funds for prevailing wage requirements applicable to construction projects performed under private contract.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Jessica RamosA 6765Enacts the preventing algorithmic pricing discrimination act; requires the disclosure of algorithmically set prices.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Emérita TorresS 6415Creates licenses for roadside farm markets to sell beer, cider, and liquor.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedABCSen. James SkoufisS 6397Establishes security deposit options for certain tenants, including but not limited to, an option to pay any deposit or advance to rent or use residential real property or a dwelling unit.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Robert JacksonS 6423Relates to transportation services for the school districts of the cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Jeremy CooneyS 6409Includes comprehensive climate change risk analysis as part of every environmental assessment statement; requires updates to rules and regulations regarding the state environmental quality review no less than every five years.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Robert JacksonA 6767Prohibits the provision of an artificial intelligence companion to a user unless such artificial intelligence companion contains a protocol for addressing possible suicidal ideation or self-harm expressed by a user, possible physical harm to others expressed by a user, and possible financial harm to others expressed by a user; requires certain notifications to certain users regarding crisis service providers and the non-human nature of such companion models.New York · last action 2026-01-07Passed first houseAsm. Clyde VanelS 6414Relates to the weigh in motion monitoring systems and the data generated in conjunction with such systems pursuant to a demonstration program on interstate route 278 in Kings county; extends the authorization for such program.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Andrew GounardesS 6402Authorizes the imposition of a fifty dollar fee on vehicles entering NYC which are registered in states which do not cooperate with New York in the enforcement of traffic infractions through the use of photo-monitoring devices or signal monitoring systems.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Robert JacksonS 6408Relates to eligibility for unemployment benefits for certain New York city emergency medical services personnel under quarantine for coronavirus (COVID-19); provides that such employees shall not be deprived of benefit payments by reason of COVID-19 quarantine.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Robert JacksonS 6387Provides for tax credit for the adoption of pets from an animal shelter up to $250 per pet.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Peter HarckhamS 6384Relates to reporting on the metropolitan transportation authority's state of good repair; requires the reporting to be published on the authority's website, outlining the repairs and investments needed to restore the authority's existing transit systems to a state of good repair.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Dean MurrayS 6405Allows New York state employees to use accrued vacation time toward student loan payments; defines terms; requires the president of the civil service commission to promulgate necessary rules and regulations.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Robert JacksonS 6419Limits retaliation against incarcerated individuals following the filing of a grievance, by requiring more than the oral or written statement of the subject of a grievance filed by an incarcerated individual for the purposes of finding such incarcerated individual guilty at an evidentiary or disciplinary hearing for misbehavior.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedCORSen. Luis SepúlvedaS 6400Requires the commissioner of education to establish and enforce rules and regulations to incorporate at least a three credit course devoted to the instructional techniques necessary for effective literacy instruction which shall include delivering structured, systematic, explicit, evidence-based instruction aligned with the science of reading for prospective teachers.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedEDNSen. Robert JacksonS 6407Extends the duration of tuition assistance awards to five years.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedEDNSen. Robert JacksonS 6398Establishes the class A-I felony of operating as a major firearms trafficker.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Robert JacksonS 6396Provides for the placement of a discreet nonapparent disability designation on non-driver identification cards, drivers' licenses and learners' permits; makes technical and conforming changes.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedEXCSen. Robert JacksonS 6411Restores the 20 year service retirement for certain New York city corrections officers.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Robert JacksonS 6410Provides that each public elementary and secondary school building shall be equipped with at least one panic alarm for use in a school security emergency including, but not limited to, a non-fire evacuation, lockdown, or active shooter situation; defines terms; makes related provisions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Robert JacksonS 6395Imposes an excise tax on the sale of ammunition to be deposited into the gun violence impact fund; establishes the gun violence impact fund; authorizes the director of the office of victim services to administer grants from the gun violence impact fund.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Robert JacksonS 6403Establishes a private cause of action for certain violations regarding machine-guns, assault weapons, disguised guns, ghost guns, and unfinished frames or receivers.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Robert JacksonS 6391Directs the New York state energy research and development authority to develop basic consumer education or guidance about geothermal energy systems and develop business models for geothermal projects in the state to match equivalent programming and guidance for solar energy.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Peter HarckhamS 6431Establishes the child and family well-being program and fund for the distribution of grants to eligible nonprofit community-based providers to respond to children's and families' needs in communities.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Jabari BrisportS 6436Replaces instances of the words or variations of the words American Indian with the words Indigenous peoples or a variation thereof.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Robert JacksonS 6429Authorizes police officers the ability to request a person who is driving a motor vehicle with tinted windows roll down all windows to protect such officer's health or safety; defines "tinted windows".New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Peter OberackerS 6440Authorizes Brian Studley, a police officer employed by the New York state university police department at SUNY Fredonia, to transition his pension from the New York state and local employees' retirement system to the New York state and local police and fire retirement system.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. George BorrelloS 6432Provides New York city fire pension fund benefits to the widow of deceased firefighter Derek Floyd.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Robert JacksonS 6424Establishes a weekend child day care assistance program to provide for child day care at a child care provider for New York army and air national guard members on drill weekends.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Jacob AshbyS 6425Enacts "Barreto's law" which establishes the crime of vehicular manslaughter in the third degree.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Stephen ChanS 6427Grants a total exemption from real property school tax for property owned by a person seventy-five years of age or older, or owned by spouses or siblings if one such person is seventy-five years of age or over, provided the owner has no children in the school district and has resided in the district for 30 years or more.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Bill WeberA 6771Defines the practice of certified registered nurse anesthetist; requires collaboration with a licensed physician qualified to determine the need for anesthesia services; requires licensing; defines qualifications.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Karines ReyesA 6772Provides for automatic voter registration and pre-registration for persons applying for certain department of motor vehicles documentation, and for persons applying for or re-enrolling in Medicaid; allows individuals to decline such automatic registration and pre-registration.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Karines Reyes

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