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A 543Removes the requirement of a sworn statement administered by a notary public for purposes of petitions; requires the notary public to inquire whether the person is the same listed on the address.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 833Relates to providing an exemption for drugs and medicines for companion and farm animals.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 558Requires registration of general aviation aircrafts; aircrafts used for civil aviation; issuance of certificates of registration; proof of insurance.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 850Establishes the "first-time homebuyer tax credit act"; provides that a qualified taxpayer shall be allowed a credit against the taxes imposed by this article for taxes levied on the taxpayer's primary residence by or on behalf of any county, city, town, village, or school district in which such property is located.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 727Prohibits the use of performance-enhancing drugs in horseracing.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 711Requires the office of children and family services to utilize a cost estimation model when determining the actual cost providers incur when providing child care; requires the office to prepare a report detailing such.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 621Relates to permitting support to a vulnerable elderly person testifying in grand jury proceedings; allows a social worker or informal caregiver to accompany a vulnerable elderly person testifying in a grand jury proceeding, concerning any type of offense, provided that the district attorney consents.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 687Provides that certain communications made without malice regarding an incident of sexual assault, harassment or discrimination shall be deemed privileged; provides that a prevailing defendant in an action brought against such defendant for making a communication that is privileged shall be entitled to attorney's fees and costs for such defense.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 501Relates to the payment of shelter and rent arrears; provides that all shelter arrears payments authorized for applicants to receive an emergency grant to pay for rent, property taxes or mortgage arrears shall be limited to once every year unless the district determines at its discretion that additional shelter arrears payments are necessary based on the individual circumstances.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 748Establishes the kinship legal network program in the office of children and family services to provide legal services to kinship caregivers.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 554Provides that a court may require that a new election be held when there is clear and convincing evidence that the wrong candidate was determined to be the winner.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 888Relates to incarcerated individuals wages; provides that incarcerated individuals shall be compensated at a base rate of $1.20 to $10 per day and shall be given biannual raises for adequate performance; provides that incarcerated individuals not participating in a work or program assignment due to age or frailty shall be paid $1.00 per day, adjusted every 5 years for cost of living.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 560Establishes a ranked choice voting method for presidential elections whereby voters rank candidates according to the order of their choice and, if no candidate has received a majority of votes, the candidate with the fewest first choice votes is eliminated and the remaining candidates advance to another counting round until a winner is determined.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 634Relates to prompt payments to counties by the state; provides if prompt payment is not provided an interest payment shall be made to the contractor or county government.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 665Relates to the creation of a crime database of all convictions in New York state of animal cruelty, fighting, neglect, abandonment and mistreatment; makes such crime database available to all law enforcement entities, district attorneys, duly incorporated humane societies, societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, dog or cat protective associations and animal control officers.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 525Allows an adult home, enriched housing facility, assisted living residence or special needs assisted living residence to provide for nursing services in the facility that are not continual, either by arrangement with a provider of nursing services or by employment.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 508Increases the maximum time limits for tuition assistance program awards; increases the maximum number of academic years of study to six.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 473Establishes a nonpartisan poll monitoring program.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 714Relates to the approval of certain public authorities' contracts by the state comptroller.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 496Relates to certain duties and responsibilities of cemetery corporations; requires disclosure of the dimensions of spacing between plots, lots, or parts thereof; provides for the filing of consumer complaints.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 601Establishes the home care jobs innovation program and the home care jobs innovation fund to identify, develop and support projects throughout the state designed to increase the number of individuals who become home care workers and to increase the employment retention of individuals who are employed as home care workers; provides for the granting of awards to such projects; makes an appropriation therefor.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 623Establishes and authorizes telepharmacy in this state; defines terms; creates telepharmacy satellite consultation sites and telepharmacy in hospitals; authorizes the filling of prescriptions at remote sites connected to central pharmacies via computer link, videolink and audiolink; makes exceptions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 713Relates to notifying persons renewing their license of new traffic related laws.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 679Relates to establishing the crime of coercive control; provides that a person is guilty of coercive control when such person engages in a course of conduct against a member of such person's same family or household, without the victim's consent, which results in limiting or restricting, in full or in part, the victim's behavior, movement, associations or access to or use of such victim's own finances or financial information; provides that coercive control is a class E felony.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 695Enacts the "Joseph Fletcher act"; permits certain claims by essential employees for compensation based on death due to COVID-19 which were previously denied or not timely filed.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 886Relates to establishing minimum rules for the treatment of incarcerated individuals; provides that the United Nations standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners, also known as the Nelson Mandela rules, are hereby incorporated by reference.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 709Revises proceedings to recover possession of premises located in a multiple dwelling; requires premises to be registered with the local agency responsible for code enforcement; requires petition shall be stated in plain language and include notice of the rights of the respondent and a statement of any outstanding code violations on the premises and whether rent payments from a public assistance office is being withheld therefor; provides civil penalties for willful misstatements on such petition.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 684Includes intentionally selecting a victim based on certain actual or perceived traits in the crime of murder in the first degree; provides that sentence for commission of certain provisions of murder in the first degree is death or life without parole.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 652Requires a farm owner or operator that produces shell eggs or liquid eggs for human consumption to confine egg-laying hens in a cage-free housing system.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 588Relates to the former crime of loitering for the purpose of engaging in a prostitution offense; expunges criminal records for persons previously convicted of such crime; directs the chief administrator of the courts to provide information regarding such expungement; adds language to identify that the crime of loitering for the purpose of engaging in a prostitution offense is no longer in law.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 614Appropriates $4,000,000 for capital improvements to the historic Forrest Hills Overpass.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 734Relates to reimbursement for coroner and medical examiner fees from the county where the decedent resided.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 545Relates to the proper venue for an impounding organization to file a petition for a security to be paid by the owner of a seized animal currently in the care of such organization.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 831Directs the board of education or the board of trustees of each school district shall establish a policy and adopt procedures permitting the district to confer a diploma on a student posthumously if, at the time of death, such student had completed the eleventh grade class of a public school in the district and was enrolled or expected to be enrolled in the twelfth grade class within the same public school district the following school year.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 613Appropriates $2,000,000 for capital improvements, including but not limited to structural and full remediation of the outside wall of the Kew Gardens, Lefferts Boulevard bridge.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 540Requires helicopters be equipped with flight recorders, cockpit voice recorders and terrain awareness and warning systems.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 526Establishes a cause of action for fertility fraud; allows patients who have undergone assisted reproduction procedures to bring a cause of action if human reproductive material other than that which was consented to by the patient is used in such procedure; allows for compensatory and punitive damages.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 710Relates to the taking of wildlife without a permit; takings may only be done subject to regulations promulgated by the department; regulations shall incorporate the recommendations of the most recent guidelines on euthanasia of the American Veterinary Medical Association; provides that the taking method selected shall be the least stressful, quickest and most painless to the animal available while protecting human health and safety.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 552Includes certain activity in transit and transportation facilities within the crime of criminal trespass in the second degree.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 706Requires at least one full-time guidance counselor to be employed in each elementary, intermediate, middle, junior and senior high school throughout the state; sets duties of guidance counselors.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 876Relates to the manner in which certain provisions of the correction law are enforced.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 506Defines noncompliant state agency; provides for timelines and procedures for state agency contracts involving not-for-profit corporations.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 694Requires courts, prior to accepting a plea, to provide notice to the defendant that such plea and the acceptance thereof could result in deportation, removal from the United States, exclusion from the United States or denial of citizenship, if the defendant is not a citizen of the United States.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 531Establishes the statewide kinship navigator program for kinship caregivers.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 661Requires hospitals to provide medically supervised detoxification services to all patients requiring such services; provides, that if the hospital is at ninety percent capacity or greater, such hospital shall connect the patient to an alternative facility within such patient's network to access such medically supervised detoxification services without any increased risk to the health or life of the patient.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 670Authorizes the establishment of permanent COVID-19 memorials; establishes a COVID-19 permanent memorial fund.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 662Requires the location of a proposed charter school be included in the charter application.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 885Relates to requiring state and local law enforcement officers to identify themselves to the public during law enforcement activities.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 701Repeals the requirement that applicants must pass an examination in order to qualify as a licensed master social worker.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 640Relates to the creation of a court appointed advocate for animals.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 485Provides a personal income tax credit for parents who home school their children equal to the cost of learning materials purchased for home school purposes during the taxable year.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 836Prohibits a municipality from relocating migrants from such municipality to another municipality in New York unless and until a resolution authorizing the relocation has been adopted by the governing bodies of both the municipality to which the migrants are to be relocated and the county in which the receiving municipality is located; mandates written notice prior to location; provides for a fine for violations.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 615Relates to prohibiting civilian drone use within 500 feet of a correctional facility except when in use under the Federal Aviation Administration's authorization.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 458Requires training on how to identify illegal purchasers of firearms for all retailers, dealers and sellers of firearms in New York state; directs the state police to implement such program; makes related provisions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 832Establishes a tax credit for the cost of veterinary services up to two thousand dollars per year.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 667Prohibits the use of leg-gripping traps.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 456Establishes standards for caseloads for child protective services workers; requires the state to pay for one hundred percent of the costs associated with compliance of such caseload standard; makes related provisions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 504Requires quarterly reporting on the opioid settlement fund, including the names of the recipients and the amounts awarded and received.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 666Includes distribution from a thrift savings plan in the definition of income in relation to the enhanced STAR exemption.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 479Entitles employees 45 years of age or older to take one day off every ten years to undergo a colonoscopy.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 611Relates to the disposition of fetal remains.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 459Relates to establishing the municipal severe storm relief fund for Rockaway, Queens to be administered by the division of homeland security and emergency services for damages that occurred as a result of Hurricane Sandy which caused damage from October twenty-ninth through November third, two thousand twelve.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 498Repeals the estate tax.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 503Makes migrant youth under the age of 25 who are receiving runaway and homeless youth services eligible to receive housing vouchers under the family homelessness and eviction prevention supplement ("FHEPS") program.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 638Requires the state to reimburse non-public and private schools for the cost of testing where COVID-19 testing is being mandated by the state.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 553Establishes optional pilot programs for the county of Westchester, for local police departments to use electronic scanning devices to determine whether or not the operator of a vehicle was using a mobile phone or portable electronic device near the time of an accident or collision.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 457Exempts private investigators from restrictions on possessing a weapon in sensitive and restrictive locations while traveling to and from and during the course of their employment and at any necessary and appropriate location during work hours; clarifies that a security guard may possess a weapon going to and from work.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 487Increases the state reimbursement rate for preventative child protective services from 65 to 75 percent.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 610Requires the department of education to develop school health and mental health professionals to student ratios in public schools for students who do not receive services pursuant to the individuals with disabilities education act.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 690Relates to aggravated cruelty to animals in the presence of a child; increases the potential term of imprisonment from two to four years when such crime is committed in the presence of a child; defines presence of a child.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 471Establishes a parking placard review board to undertake a review of the impact of parking placard use within the city of New York.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 669Imposes a commercial vacancy tax on vacant or abandoned commercial storefronts located in a city with a population of one million or more of one percent of the assessed value of the property.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 828Provides that the New York state health care quality and cost containment commission shall: evaluate each mandated benefit; investigate current practices of health plans with regard to the mandated benefit; investigate the potential premium impact of repealing and/or modifying the mandated benefits on all segments of the insurance market; hold at least two public hearings; submit a report to the legislature; makes related provisions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 619Relates to additional state payment assistance; provides that where there is no agreement in effect for federal administration of additional state payments the commissioner of the office of temporary and disability assistance is responsible for providing assistance to applicants for or recipients of such payments as it relates to applying for, modifying or maintaining such benefits.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 491Requires electric corporations build make-ready infrastructure to facilitate the charging of electric public serving fleet vehicles.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 489Establishes the small rental housing development initiative to provide funding to eligible applicants to construct small rental housing developments in eligible areas.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 486Provides for equitable disability policies; prohibits any difference, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, marital status, or national origin in the amount or payment of premiums or rate charges, or in the benefits payable, or in any of the other terms or conditions of any policy of disability insurance under the workers' compensation law.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 575Exempts correction officers of any penal correctional institution from training requirements for security guards.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 583Relates to party nominations for candidates for office, excluding counties located within cities with a population of one million or more.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 840Relates to providing additional reimbursement to school districts for expenses incurred as a result of an influx of migrant students entering the schools of the districts; directs the governor to submit chapter amendments to the Aid to Localities budget.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 860Imposes certain conditions on the approval of a charter school application for the conversion of an existing public school to a charter school.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 576Establishes the "division of research and analysis" which is a part of the legislative library and assists members of the legislature by providing research and analysis on policy.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 557Requires the budget submitted by the governor to include an itemization, by each individual school district, of appropriations for the support of school districts.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 538Relates to the creation of a school-based teen dating violence prevention program designed to be incorporated into a school district's existing health curriculum to prevent and reduce the incidence and prevalence of teen dating violence.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 668Pertains to confinement of animals for food producing purposes; prohibits any person to tether or confine any pig during pregnancy, calf raised for veal, or egg-laying hen who is kept on a farm for all or the majority of any day in a manner that prevents such animal from lying down, standing up and fully extending its limbs and turning around freely; establishes that commission of such crime shall constitute a class A misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for a period not to exceed one year and/or fine not to exceed $1,000.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 500Establishes a generic drug research and development laboratory and production facility to manufacture generic prescription drugs in the state and the empire state biosimilar insulin initiative, which will develop generic forms of the three most widely used forms of insulin.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 873Establishes a healthy savings pilot program within three cities where those in the program can receive discounts on healthier food choices at grocery stores and supermarkets.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 674Establishes the office of the independent intellectual and developmental disability ombudsperson program for the purpose of assisting individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities to ensure that they receive coverage from managed care organizations that is appropriate in meeting their individual service needs; uses a request for proposal process to determine who shall be responsible for such program.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 533Permits court ruling in favor of a petitioner appealing the denial of a disability pension determination to grant disability pension.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 644Provides a reduction in insurance premium charges for insured volunteer firefighters and emergency personnel for a 3 year period after successfully completing the emergency vehicle operator's course as part of their training.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 700Requires certain data to be included in reports on the administration of managed long term care plans; changes reporting period to annually.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 663Establishes the canine officer health monitoring fund which allows for applicants to request reimbursement from the division of criminal justice services for health costs related to regular health or injury associated with canine officers.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 598Provides affordable and accessible dependent care options for working families by including qualified in-home and backup care expenditures paid or incurred with respect to the taxpayer's employees working in the state in the employer provided child care credit criteria; makes technical corrections to make such credit independent of the federal employer-provided child care credit.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 520Establishes a forestry stewardship and habitat conservation credit for personal income and business franchise taxes.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 609Requires insurers to provide coverage for delivery through store and forward technology; requires prescription drug policies to cover the cost of contraceptive care delivered via telemedicine.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 856Increases the number of members on the state commission of correction; provides for the manner of confirmation of such members.New York · last action 2026-01-07Passed first houseA 605Authorizes the issuance of licenses and non-driver identification cards containing a Lifetime Liberty Pass distinguishing mark to certain applicants who were members of the armed forces of the United States.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 681Relates to the installation of water monitoring systems at class C high hazard dams; provides requirements for the provision of information by water monitoring systems installed at certain dams about the water level and flood risk at such dams.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 651Requires the court to advise a defendant that if such defendant is a noncitizen resident and is convicted of a crime, whether by plea or trial, such conviction may result in such defendant's deportation; allows a withdrawal of a plea of guilty by a noncitizen resident if such noncitizen resident is threatened with deportation and such noncitizen resident is not so advised of such threat of deportation.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 657Increases the state excise tax on cigarettes.New York · last action 2026-01-07Introduced
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