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6,000 bills · Page 46 of 60 · New York 2025–2026 Legislative Session · updated October 10, 2026

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A 2486Prohibits the disabling, removal or interference with emission control devices and the use of emission tampering devices; provides remedies for the violation of such provisions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Robert CarrollA 2472Establishes the civil rights restoration act; amends provisions regarding firearm licenses and destruction of firearms; exempts certain individuals from providing photographs in order to obtain a firearm license; expands the definition of immediate family.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedPenalAsm. Stephen HawleyA 2566Relates to the content and procedure for certification by pharmacists of patients using medical cannabis; allows a pharmacist employed by a registered organization and responsible for supervising the dispensing of medical cannabis within a cannabis dispensing facility to recommend and certify patients upon consultation within such dispensing facility.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. John McDonaldA 2523Establishes the New York state auxiliary officer death benefit fund to provide a death benefit to the families of auxiliary officers who died in the line of duty during the state of emergency declared by the governor pursuant to section twenty-nine of the executive law beginning March 7, 2020.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Steve SternA 2492Increases the applicable percentage of the child tax credit allowed in the empire state child tax credit from thirty-three percent to forty-five percent; prescribes how such payment or refund should be made based on amount.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Edward RaA 2513Requires hospitals to provide information on care and resources for brain injuries to patients who have suffered a traumatic brain injury and to also provide such information to a patient's family and/or caregivers.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Edward RaA 2527Relates to funding for the office for people with developmental disabilities; transfers one billion dollars to such office from funds appropriated to the MTA; appropriates funds therefor.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. David DiPietroA 2484Provides specific requirements for a course of instruction relating to the Holocaust and genocide.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Steve SternA 2508Relates to liability for the manufacture, sale, leasing or other disposition of ammunition feeding devices and compensation for damages.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. William ColtonA 2544Requires the office of temporary and disability assistance to establish a universal benefits form for individuals seeking public assistance.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Maritza DavilaA 2490Establishes the senior housing accessibility study group to examine and make recommendations for amending the New York state uniform fire prevention and building code to improve and enhance accessibility requirements for all newly constructed or substantially reconstructed senior housing developments.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Edward RaA 2548Exempts certain large capacity ammunition feeding devices from certain requirements of the penal law.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedPenalAsm. David DiPietroS 2455Establishes the New York state worker protection and labor enforcement fund to supplement the department of labor's labor law enforcement duties.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Jessica RamosA 2517Establishes the police canine vest fund to be used for the purpose of purchasing, maintaining, repairing and replacing soft body ballistic armor vests and other protective equipment for state police and municipal department police canines utilized in the performance of police duties, as well as the purchasing and training of such police canines.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. William ColtonA 2456Prohibits employers from requiring low-wage employees to enter into covenants not to compete; requires employers to notify potential employees of any requirement to enter into a covenant not to compete.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Jeffrey DinowitzA 2557Creates the crime of stolen valor; makes such crime a class A misdemeanor.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Stephen HawleyA 2545Increases foundation aid for school districts that meet five variables impacting academic success: free or reduced lunch, English language learners, wealth ratio, enrollment, special education, and being located in a high wealth ratio county.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Nader SayeghA 2449Requires certain health insurance policies to include coverage for the cost of certain infant and baby formulas.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Catalina CruzA 2543Requires persons or entities providing benefits in the event of disability to not impose "onerous or unreasonable conditions" for the payment or continued payment of benefits thereunder, and provides for the enforcement thereof including actual damages, interest and penalties, reasonable costs and attorney's fees, and in the court's discretion, exemplary damages; exempts worker's compensation and NYS disability insurance.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Jeffrey DinowitzA 2464Provides certified volunteer emergency medical technicians enhanced cancer disability benefits and death benefits for certain cancers.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Steve SternA 2489Relates to paid family leave and bereavement for fetal death, still birth, and an infant being medically not viable to survive.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Scott BendettA 2451Factors domestic violence convictions into family court decisions regarding visitation, custody and parental rights; provides that any parent undergoing mandatory, batterer specific rehabilitation measures shall only be granted supervised visitation.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Catalina CruzA 2552Excepts violations pertaining to mufflers and exhaust systems for cars, motorcycle exhaust devices without internal baffles and motorcycle exhaust devices that are intentionally designed to allow for the internal baffling to be fully or partially removed or interchangeable from having a summons not issued or having a summons dismissed if the violation is corrected.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Nader SayeghA 2455Relates to the creation of the "No Hate NY" license plate and the "No Hate NY fund" to support hate crime awareness and prevention programs.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Jenifer RajkumarS 2441Establishes the community development financial institution disability housing program within the New York state urban development corporation.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Leroy ComrieS 2445Designates February 21st as Mother Language Day, as a day of commemoration.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Nathalia FernandezA 2525Enacts the "small business fairness act" to permit a business that has been ordered to cease or limit operations pursuant to an executive order due to a declared state disaster emergency to continue or resume operations if the products sold or services offered by the business are also available at a business that has not been required to cease or limit operations by the executive order or an order of the health department.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Steve SternS 2443Authorizes industrial development agencies to provide technical and financial assistance to agricultural producers for products grown, harvested or produced within the state.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Leroy ComrieA 2466Directs the superintendent of the New York State Police to prepare a visor card for the deaf or hard of hearing to enable police to respond to traffic stops involving the deaf or hard of hearing and avoid conflict and escalation because of difficulty communicating.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Steve SternA 2463Requires shareholders to approve corporate political expenditures.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. William ColtonA 2522Establishes a qualified transportation fringe benefits program; allows for an itemized deduction for the full amount of expenses for any qualified transportation benefit provided to an employee of the taxpayer.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedTAXAsm. Steve SternA 2500Relates to resource exemptions for applicants for public assistance programs; amends the Welfare Reform Act in relation to the effectiveness thereof.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Maritza DavilaA 2460Relates to small business savings accounts; provides tax incentives for contributions and distributions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedTAXAsm. Steve SternS 2450Adds gaming disorder to the types of disorders classified in the mental hygiene law.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedMHYSen. Leroy ComrieA 2478Requires group health insurance policies offered in the large group market to provide coverage for hearing aids.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedISCAsm. Amy PaulinA 2465Requires long term care insurance carriers who propose to raise long term care insurance premiums to obtain prior approval of the superintendent of financial services.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedISCAsm. Jeffrey DinowitzA 2661Requires businesses which provide for someone to spoof a telephone number to keep records of the phone calls placed with their services.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Nader SayeghS 2504Imposes increasing fines for subsequent speed camera violations in the city of New York.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Andrew GounardesA 2664Expands access to mortgage loans for cooperative properties under the homes for veterans program, as administered by the state of New York mortgage agency.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Brian CunninghamA 2648Provides public access to epinephrine auto-injector devices at schools; establishes public access epinephrine auto-injector device providers.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Nader SayeghA 2610Requires a joint report by the state board of elections and state education department concerning the safety of students and staff at schools used as polling places for elections.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Nader SayeghA 2608Creates parity for incarcerated individual telephone services for international calls to family members outside continental United States, Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam or Central Northern Mariana Islands by requiring identical restrictions on the duration or number of phone calls and use of unit or facility phones made available to incarcerated individuals who are calling family members who are not outside continental United States, Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam or Central Northern Mariana Islands.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Edward GibbsS 2477Relates to utility intervenor reimbursement to a participant for its reasonable costs of participation in any proceeding before the Public Service Commission (PSC).New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Kevin ParkerS 2496Requires that insurers providing no-fault coverage reimburse other insurers for the payment of claims to providers which should have been covered by a no-fault insurer.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Andrew GounardesA 2600Relates to allowing the possession and sale of electronic dart guns and electronic stun guns for self-defense; adds such weapons in the definition of obstructing governmental administration by means of a self-defense spray device.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedPenalAsm. Nader SayeghA 2597Exempts community colleges from the imposition of the metropolitan commuter transportation mobility tax.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Chris EachusA 2670Requires cell towers to be equipped with a back-up power source in case of a power outage.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Nader SayeghA 2618Directs the commissioner of education, in conjunction with the superintendent of state police and the commissioner of the division of homeland security and emergency services, to establish standards for the security and safety of school grounds.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedEDNAsm. Nader SayeghA 2586Limits the authority of cities, villages and towns to impose certain zoning requirements.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedVILAsm. Anna KellesA 2599Requires electric companies to provide alternative measures to ensure customers with documented need for essential electricity for medical needs have access to electricity during power outages; requires electric companies to provide generators or lodging for such individuals and transportation for medical devices.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Nader SayeghA 2591Grants David Morse, the parent of firefighter Peyton Morse, who was employed by the city of Watertown, accidental death benefits.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Scott GrayS 2502Provides for the deduction of student loan interest from federal adjusted gross income.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedTAXSen. Andrew GounardesS 2469Establishes the office of ethnic and community media; provides duties of the executive director; requires each state agency to seek to direct at least fifty percent of its total spending on advertising to ethnic and community media outlets.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Kevin ParkerA 2672Includes a distinctive mark on a person's driver's license if a person has autism spectrum disorder.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Nader SayeghA 2646Provides for the trustees of the state university of New York to establish a four-year college of engineering and applied sciences in the city of Yonkers within the state university system.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Nader SayeghA 2604Provides a reimbursement to small businesses and residential consumers of certain utilities for failure to provide contracted services; requires the Long Island power authority to do the same.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Nader SayeghA 2660Provides for tax credit for the adoption of pets from an animal shelter up to $250 per pet.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Nader SayeghA 2636Establishes a local authorities searchable subsidy and economic development benefits database; relates to the obligations of certain industrial development agencies and local development corporations.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Michaelle SolagesA 2582Provides for supports and services for unaccompanied minors with no lawful immigration status including legal representation.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedPBHAsm. Andrew HevesiA 2607Increases access to resources for culturally diverse arts and culture organizations that advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion, racial and social justice, and cultural preservation.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Brian CunninghamA 2630Provides that the results of urine tests conducted pursuant to a judicial diversion program shall be private and confidential.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Anna KellesA 2587Designates services to be provided by a jail-based substance use disorder treatment, peer led recovery support services, and transition services program as essential medical care services.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Anna KellesA 2623Creates a transportation subsidy to increase access to water safety instruction.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Steven OtisA 2654Clarifies that only persons eighteen years of age and older may be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Edward GibbsA 2583Establishes a tax on noise from non-essential helicopter and seaplane flights in cities with a population of one million or more.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Robert CarrollA 2603Requires SUNY and CUNY campuses to hire energy management, materials management, and sustainability education and engagement employees at each SUNY and CUNY campus in numbers proportionate to campus size.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedEDNAsm. Anna KellesS 2483Directs the New York state energy research and development authority to increase clean energy distribution infrastructure to allow the state to reach peak clean energy consumption and distribution goals.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Kevin ParkerS 2506Establishes the addiction prevention and recovery act; increases taxes on alcohol by fifty percent; allocates the increased revenue to a special fund to be used for the purposes of alcohol and substance abuse addiction prevention and recovery services and programs.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Leroy ComrieA 2632Establishes the first of April as the annual reporting deadline for the basic educational data system (BEDS); imposes some additional requirements for calculating and reporting a school's student population.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Brian CunninghamA 2659Requires a yearly inspection of all audiological testing equipment in all schools.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Nader SayeghS 2490Directs the levy of an efficiency fee or an efficiency rebate based on the MPG or MPGe rating of medium and heavy duty vehicles.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Andrew GounardesS 2492Enacts an advanced clean fleets law to reduce vehicle emissions for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Andrew GounardesA 2634Expands the definition of tuition for children with handicapping conditions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Nader SayeghA 2609Relates to the metropolitan commuter transportation authority establishing and implementing a policy for responsible management of vegetation and other activities that impact neighboring properties in order to preserve the safety and efficiency of commuter rail operations by implementing guidelines for removal and management policies.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedPBAAsm. Steven OtisA 2594Enacts the good jobs guarantee program to provide workforce training and opportunities for employment for residents of New York state to secure high paying jobs through the acquisition of job skills.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Nily RozicA 2663Provides that a judge of a city court outside the city of New York may only serve until the last day of December next after such person shall be seventy-six years of age; makes exceptions for judges already elected or appointed to office.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Nader SayeghS 2466Relates to guidance to facilities and programs overseen by state agencies on interactions with Federal immigration authorities.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Luis SepúlvedaA 2624Relates to expanding the definition of agency; includes entities created by an agency or that are governed by a board of directors or similar body a majority of which is designated by one or more state or local government officials in the definition of agency under the public officers law.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Steven OtisS 2500Requires the commissioner of motor vehicles to promulgate rules and regulations to require that every school bus be equipped with a stop-arm on each side of the bus regardless of seating capacity; prohibits the operation of a school bus on public highways without a functioning stop-arm on each side of such bus.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Andrew GounardesA 2614Relates to strengthening of utility storm response and compliance by reviewing mitigating factors including but not limited to mitigating factors and the specifics surrounding the violation or violations.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedPBSAsm. Steven OtisA 2666Requires all municipal corporations to adopt senior citizen rent increase exemption programs and disability rent increase exemption programs within one year.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Brian CunninghamA 2645Prohibits the purchase of glyphosate by any state department, agency, public benefit corporation or any pesticide applicator employed thereby as a contractor or subcontractor and the application of glyphosate on property owned, operated or leased by the state.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Linda RosenthalA 2665Permits specialist assistants to prescribe controlled substances as a practitioner.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Nader SayeghA 2616Directs 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 2026-01-07IntroducedEDNAsm. Carrie WoernerS 2464Relates to mandatory student enrollment reporting for public schools and charter schools triennially on October thirty-first, January thirty-first, and April thirtieth of each year.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. John LiuA 2641Establishes that any person who knowingly engages in a repeated course of cyberbullying of a minor is guilty of an unclassified misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by a period of imprisonment not to exceed one year, or both.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Nader SayeghA 2649Relates to indoor air quality in schools.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Nader SayeghA 2602Regulates construction employers to keep their employees safe from exposure to extreme heat by implementing heat-related illness prevention plans.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Jen LunsfordA 2674Increases the child and dependent care tax credit to reflect increases in the cost of child and dependent care.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Jen LunsfordS 2472Prohibits horizontal drilling and high-volume hydraulic fracturing.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Kevin ParkerA 2658Establishes an affordable housing program to be administered by the division of homes and community renewal which will provide loans or grants to certain property owners; provides that property owners receiving such loans or grants shall rent such property for no more than thirty-three percent of a tenant's income.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Brian CunninghamS 2488Establishes an emergency heating energy assistance program benefit to provide emergency assistance to certain households where such household is threatened with shut-off or an energy emergency due to nonpayment.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Kevin ParkerA 2585Imposes five points on a person's license for being convicted of participating in speed contests and races.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Nader SayeghA 2662Grants priority to charter school applicants with a board of trustees and school administrators that are at least fifty-one percent minority group members.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Brian CunninghamA 2622Directs the commissioner of the office of addiction services and supports to promulgate rules and regulations for providers operating in rural locations while taking into account the extra challenges encountered by such providers, including but not limited to, increased and additional expenses.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Anna KellesA 2652Extends the timeline for the return of security deposits for residential rental agreements from fourteen days to thirty days.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Nader SayeghS 2495Establishes the New York state pre-paid tuition plan by which a person may contribute to an account for the pre-payment of college tuition, tax free.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedSen. Andrew GounardesA 2593Limits robocalls to state residents; requires telephone service providers to offer free call mitigation technology to telephone customers.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Simcha EichensteinA 2669Establishes a New York state education equity fund; authorizes the dormitory authority of the state of New York (DASNY) to invest $75 million in a public-private partnership revolving loan fund for loan financing to cover capital costs for the construction and improvements of public charter schools.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedPBAAsm. Brian CunninghamA 2667Establishes an independent inspector general in each county to oversee police activity and investigate allegations of police misconduct.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedAsm. Brian Cunningham

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