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S 2536Ensures that construction and fabrication done off of a public work site for specific use only in a public work project be compensated at the prevailing wage rate.New York · last action 2025-12-20Chaptered/SignedS 73Relates to rechargeable battery recycling; adds a battery used as the principal electric power source for an electric scooter or bicycle with electric assist to the definition of "rechargeable battery"; provides that a battery manufacturer may not sell, offer for sale, or distribute rechargeable batteries in the state unless the battery manufacturer is implementing or participating under an approved plan; allows a city with a population of one million or more to enforce through its own agencies.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedS 52Authorizes the use of an electronic signature by a person granted a power of attorney by a taxpayer with respect to documents submitted to the New York state department of taxation and finance and the New York city department of finance.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedA 26Prohibits Medicaid service providers from requiring prior authorization for antiretroviral prescription drugs for the treatment or prevention of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).New York · last action 2025-12-19VetoedS 550Requires a caller making a report of suspected child abuse or maltreatment to the central register to leave their name and contact information; prohibits the office of children and family services from releasing information identifying a person who made such a report.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedS 596Provides a rebuttable presumption relating to recertification as a minority and women-owned business enterprise if there is no change in the ownership of the enterprise and no material change in the nature or management of the enterprise from the time of approval of the previous minority and women-owned business enterprise certification.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedS 683Establishes a real property tax exemption for the primary residences of surviving spouses of police officers killed in the line of duty.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedA 565Prohibits the establishment of new for-profit hospices or increasing the capacity of existing for-profit hospices.New York · last action 2025-12-19VetoedA 612Removes certain requirements on what the office of children and family services can determine to be an appropriate staff/child ratios for family day care homes, group family day care homes, school age day care programs and day care centers.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedA 584Enacts the "trapped at work act"; prohibits the use of employment promissory notes.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedA 744Relates to collecting data regarding alternative living arrangements for children who are at a substantial risk of maltreatment.New York · last action 2025-12-19VetoedA 521Establishes the "recovery ready workplace act" which provides for the certification of an employer to become a recovery ready workplace; defines terms; establishes the recovery-ready workplace program; provides criteria for employers to obtain certification as a recovery ready workplace; provides for employee involvement.New York · last action 2025-12-19VetoedA 804Enacts the consumer litigation funding act to promote consumer protections related to consumer litigation funding transactions; provides for contract requirements, including that the contract contain a no penalty provision for the prepayment of the funded amount prior to the settlement of their case; makes related provisions.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedS 929Provides for the protection of health information; establishes requirements for communications to individuals about their health information; requires either written consent or a designated necessary purpose for the processing of an individual's health information.New York · last action 2025-12-19VetoedS 1069Prohibits the lease of state forests, reforestation areas, wildlife management areas and unique areas for the purpose of gas and oil production.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedS 1099Enacts the "freedom to read act"; requires the commissioner of education and school library systems to develop policies to ensure that school libraries and library staff are empowered to curate and develop collections that provide students with access to the widest array of developmentally appropriate materials available.New York · last action 2025-12-19VetoedS 1183Establishes a real property tax exemption for the primary residence of veterans with a 100 percent service connected disability.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedS 1226Requires public notice and public engagement when a general hospital seeks to close entirely or a unit that provides maternity, mental health or substance use care.New York · last action 2025-12-19VetoedS 1261Allows for no fault separation where the relationship between the spouses has broken down irretrievably for a period of at least six months; requires that issues of support and custody or visitation have been resolved.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedS 1353Prohibits creditors from enforcing a consumer debt incurred as a result of fraud, duress, intimidation, threat, force, identity theft, exploitation of the debtor's personal information or similar economic abuse perpetrated against a debtor; establishes a right of action by the debtor for relief against creditors for violations; makes related provisions.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedS 1548Restricts certain substances from being used in menstrual products.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedS 1744Requires each appropriate institution housing a defendant due to mental disease or defect to assign a critical time intervention care management team to the defendant and make a single point of access referral for the defendant prior to such defendant's discharge.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedA 1778Grants members of the city of New York's police force eligibility for retirement and pension based on previous service as traffic enforcement agents.New York · last action 2025-12-19VetoedS 1926Requires each social services district to maintain a waiting list of eligible families who have applied for child care assistance; requires the local districts to report such list to the office of children and family services who shall then compile such reports and issue one report to the legislature annually; requires the social services districts to collect data regarding the income of families who have applied, were denied and received child care assistance and issue a report to the office of children and family services who shall then compile such reports and issue one report to the legislature annually.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedA 1970Requires the collection and reporting of sexual offense evidence on the statewide electronic tracking system within seven days of permission to release the evidence by the alleged sexual offense victim; relates to additional rules and guidelines.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedS 2068Authorizes municipalities to offer a real property tax exemption for active military service members who at any time during the taxable year performed active duty in the armed forces in a combat zone; defines terms; makes related provisions.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedA 2177Removes expenditures for emergency medical services from the limit on real property tax levies by local governments.New York · last action 2025-12-19VetoedS 2279Excludes food sold to a student purchasing a meal using an approved donation program of funds or food points from sales tax.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedA 2496Includes entities that provide employment or services to formerly incarcerated persons in the preferred source exemption for purposes of state purchasing.New York · last action 2025-12-19VetoedS 2462Enacts the "public renewables transparency act"; relates to the New York power authority's conferral process; requires the conferral report be posted on the authority's website; provides that the authority shall provide an option for stakeholders to submit comments remotely as well, and incorporate feedback from such sessions and written comments into the final draft of the strategic plan; makes related provisions.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedS 2612Relates to welfare, medical, and retirement plans provided by a horsemen's organization in the absence of contractual obligations; provides in the absence of a contract between the licensed harness racing corporation or association and the representative horsemen's organization, the state gaming commission shall require such corporation or association to pay to the horsemen's organization an amount determined in accordance with the previously negotiated contract for welfare, medical, or retirement plans, including any associated costs, provided by the horsemen's organization to participants in racing at the licensed harness racing facility; provides the amounts shall be paid monthly from the horsemen's gross purse enhancement amount from video lottery gaming.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedS 2681Requires the superintendent of state police to develop, maintain and disseminate to all members of the division of state police a critical incident leave policy requiring critical incident paid leave for any members directly involved in a critical incident; prohibits such superintendent from taking any punitive administrative action against any member of the division of state police granted critical incident leave solely on the basis of the provision of such leave.New York · last action 2025-12-19VetoedS 3072Prohibits the use of consumer credit history in hiring, employment and licensing determinations.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedA 3141Provides that receipts from other services and other business receipts, taxpayers, and combined groups including members, engaged in providing professional employer organization services shall include with such receipts amounts received with respect to wages, benefits, and other employee expenses disbursed to or for the benefit of a client's worksite employees and the related employment taxes if the amounts received are included in the calculation of the business income base or the combined business income base, respectively.New York · last action 2025-12-19VetoedS 3070Establishes masked harassment when a person wears a mask or other face covering that intentionally hides or conceals their face for the primary purpose of menacing or threatening another person or placing another person or group of persons in reasonable fear for their physical safety.New York · last action 2025-12-17IntroducedS 123Prohibits the sale of infant walkers; restricts the use of such infant walkers in certain settings.New York · last action 2025-12-12Chaptered/SignedA 203Requires hospitals to establish a violence prevention program which includes a workplace safety and security assessment and develop a safety and security plan that addresses identified workplace violence threats or hazards.New York · last action 2025-12-12Chaptered/SignedS 364Prohibits restrictions on insurance policies based solely on the policyholder harboring or owning any dog of a specific breed or mixture of breeds.New York · last action 2025-12-12VetoedS 405Adds certain properties located in a city of one million or more to the definition of a qualified historic home for the historic homeownership rehabilitation credit.New York · last action 2025-12-12VetoedS 916Raises the minimum fee for temporary interpreters; requires that town and village courts share in the compensation of such temporary interpreters.New York · last action 2025-12-12VetoedS 1218Directs contracting state agencies to develop a growth plan in order to increase participation of minority- and women-owned businesses with respect to state contracts and subcontracts which includes an analyses of the use of discretionary buying.New York · last action 2025-12-12VetoedS 1356Permits the state board of elections to join certain multistate voter list maintenance organizations and provide such organizations with certain voter information; requires the state to join a multistate voter list maintenance organization on or before July 31, 2026.New York · last action 2025-12-12Chaptered/SignedA 1382Provides training to staff members accepting registrations, issuing licenses or conducting inspections of child day care homes, programs or facilities on the detection of controlled substances.New York · last action 2025-12-12Chaptered/SignedS 1525Directs the department of state, in cooperation with other departments, to provide technical assistance to any municipality, upon request, that has had a college or university close within such municipality.New York · last action 2025-12-12Chaptered/SignedA 1819Enacts the monarch preservation plan requiring the department of environmental conservation to take feasible actions to conserve monarch butterflies and the unique habitats they depend upon for successful migration.New York · last action 2025-12-12Chaptered/SignedS 2295Requires police officers to receive training instruction for crimes involving sexual assaults; requires training for child protective services workers in certain instances.New York · last action 2025-12-12Chaptered/SignedA 2736Requires that any proposed capital expenditure to be considered in any matter affecting a major change in rates must be described by the utility and shall include the purpose, cost, and benefits to the ratepayers and shall be posted on the PSC website.New York · last action 2025-12-12Chaptered/SignedA 2739Requires a mortgagee to accept and apply payments.New York · last action 2025-12-12Chaptered/SignedA 2725Requires employers to include an opioid antagonist where first aid kits are required by federal law.New York · last action 2025-12-12Chaptered/SignedA 2748Relates to eligibility for classification as permanent total disability; includes inability to perform the full range of sedentary work or approval for federal social security disability benefits as a result of a compensable accident or occupational disease as constituting permanent total disability.New York · last action 2025-12-12VetoedA 2687Establishes a center for dyslexia and dysgraphia within the department of education.New York · last action 2025-12-11Chaptered/SignedA 387Requires general hospitals to provide language assistance services; requires general hospitals to develop a language assistance program to ensure meaningful access to the general hospital's services and reasonable accommodation for all patients who require language assistance.New York · last action 2025-12-10Chaptered/SignedA 54Prohibits the use of adhesive-based rodent traps in state-owned or state-leased buildings.New York · last action 2025-12-08IntroducedA 55Includes veterans in the definition of military status to protect veterans from being unlawfully discriminated against.New York · last action 2025-12-08IntroducedA 167Relates to authorizing a five mile per hour speed limit for open streets in cities having a population in excess of one million.New York · last action 2025-12-08IntroducedA 495Relates to conditional release for eligible offenders who complete post-secondary degrees or programs; provides release twelve months before the completion of the controlling minimum period of imprisonment for eligible offenders who complete post-secondary degrees or programs.New York · last action 2025-12-08IntroducedA 569Relates to the publication of information on public meetings; requires the office of information technology services to develop a mobile application and website to publish information on every public meeting held by a state or local public body; requires public bodies to report such meetings to the office of information technology services.New York · last action 2025-12-08IntroducedA 776Prohibits dry cleaning establishments from returning clothing to customers in single use garment bags; allows dry cleaning establishments to return clothing to customers in reusable bags provided by such customers or offer for sale a reusable bag.New York · last action 2025-12-08IntroducedA 760Relates to banning the use of non-compostable produce stickers beginning January 1, 2026; provides civil penalties for violations; provides that fines shall be deposited into the environmental protection fund.New York · last action 2025-12-08IntroducedA 702Requires that all special education students attending schools scheduled to be closed or to undergo a significant change be assigned to new schools prior to the implementation of the closing or change.New York · last action 2025-12-08IntroducedA 770Requires school districts to adopt a policy prohibiting the use of cellular telephones during classroom instruction; requires the department of education to adopt a model policy for use by school districts.New York · last action 2025-12-08IntroducedA 1010Provides notice of the death of an incarcerated individual occurring in the custody of the department of corrections and community supervision; requires the department to promptly notify the next kin and any other person designated as the representative of any incarcerated individual whose death takes place during custody.New York · last action 2025-12-08IntroducedA 2098Prohibits early voting on federal holidays; adds an additional day to the early voting period.New York · last action 2025-12-08IntroducedA 2379Establishes state and municipal composting programs; requires all state and municipal agencies to establish a composting program in buildings owned, occupied or operated by such agencies; allows such agencies to arrange for collection of compostable waste by a private carter, transport such waste itself or process such waste on-site; requires reports on the costs and effectiveness of such programs.New York · last action 2025-12-08IntroducedA 2266Relates to providing voice communication services to incarcerated individuals in state correctional facilities at no cost.New York · last action 2025-12-08IntroducedA 2360Provides representation to veterans that are at or below four hundred percent of the federal poverty guidelines for matters involving children, sustenance and real property proceedings.New York · last action 2025-12-08IntroducedA 2367Permits other qualifying members of a household to qualify the household for the disability rent increase exemption when they are not the head of household.New York · last action 2025-12-08IntroducedA 2324Allows certain reusable beverage containers in sports venues.New York · last action 2025-12-08IntroducedA 2354Expands eligibility for the tuition assistance program by restoring eligibility to graduate students; makes optional semesters, quarters or terms eligible for awards.New York · last action 2025-12-08IntroducedA 2273Enacts the state and local government food waste prevention and diversion act; requires facilities generating excess food waste to take measures to minimize such waste.New York · last action 2025-12-08IntroducedA 2423Relates to prohibiting police officers from carrying or using a firearm during any phase of the officer's official duties unless the officer has satisfactorily completed a course of training that meets or exceeds the minimum standards established by the municipal police training council.New York · last action 2025-12-08IntroducedA 2419Requires consideration as a quantitative factor whether the commodities or services were manufactured or will be performed by a labor union with respect to the awarding of certain procurement contracts.New York · last action 2025-12-08IntroducedA 2439Establishes a reproductive health services training and education grant program to train licensed providers and interns or residents who are employed by a hospital or otherwise enrolled in an accredited graduate medical education program in the performance of abortion and related reproductive health services; establishes the reproductive health training and education fund.New York · last action 2025-12-08IntroducedA 2512Establishes a chief sustainability officer to coordinate efforts across state agencies and other state government entities to address climate change mitigation and climate sustainability efforts.New York · last action 2025-12-08IntroducedA 2701Increases fines for the late filing of rent registration statements; provides that a late filing fine shall be one thousand dollars.New York · last action 2025-12-08IntroducedA 34Provides that the thruway authority shall issue permits for ambulances and fire vehicles exempting such vehicles from paying tolls on the thruway when engaged in an emergency operation.New York · last action 2025-12-05VetoedA 33Establishes the task force to promote the employment by state agencies of people with disabilities.New York · last action 2025-12-05VetoedS 279Adds Moodna Creek in Orange County to the definition of inland waterways for waterfront revitalization.New York · last action 2025-12-05Chaptered/SignedS 409Permits on-premises retail licensees to purchase wine and liquor from off-premises retail licensees and off-premises retail licensees to purchase wine and liquor from on-premises retail licensees.New York · last action 2025-12-05Chaptered/SignedA 291Includes the Space Force as being members of the armed forces or veterans eligible for certain credits and benefits that are available to other active and veteran members of the armed forces.New York · last action 2025-12-05Chaptered/SignedS 608Requires the New York state thruway authority to submit biannual reports to the legislature of all fiscal transactions, receipts and expenditures, with each report covering activity from the prior six months.New York · last action 2025-12-05VetoedS 700Provides for the adjustment of the minimum amount of tax delinquency for which the driver's license of a taxpayer may be suspended, based on inflation; prohibits inclusion in the license suspension program of a taxpayer who receives public assistance or supplemental security income, or whose income does not exceed 250% of the poverty level; authorizes the commissioner to grant exemptions to taxpayers whose payment of past due tax liabilities would create a hardship to the taxpayer in meeting necessary living expenses.New York · last action 2025-12-05VetoedS 688Amends the real property tax exemption for surviving spouses of volunteer firefighters or volunteer ambulance workers killed in the line of duty to permit continuation of such exemption for volunteer members with service between two and five years.New York · last action 2025-12-05Chaptered/SignedA 468Directs the commissioner of motor vehicles to conduct a study to examine and update the requirements of safety inspections conducted to ensure the operational safety of all motor vehicles; requires a report; makes related provisions.New York · last action 2025-12-05VetoedS 923Changes party enrollment of voters where the enrolled party contained the word "Independence" or "Independent" to not being enrolled in any party.New York · last action 2025-12-05VetoedS 946Authorizes the removal of police officer candidates from an eligible list when such candidate does not meet psychological fitness requirements or lacks good moral character standards.New York · last action 2025-12-05Chaptered/SignedS 982Adds Fishkill Creek in Dutchess County to the definition of inland waterways.New York · last action 2025-12-05Chaptered/SignedS 1071Directs the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation to establish the state parks passport program allowing visitors to state parks and historic sites to log their visits to such sites in a passport book or electronic application.New York · last action 2025-12-05VetoedS 1030Requires public-facing websites operated by political committees to contain "paid for by" language; adds such public-facing websites to the list of political communications that qualify as independent expenditures.New York · last action 2025-12-05Chaptered/SignedS 1126Directs the department of environmental conservation to conduct a study of ecological restoration needs of Jamaica Bay; imposes a five-year moratorium on placing sediment or fill in the borrow pits in Jamaica Bay.New York · last action 2025-12-05VetoedS 1194Requires gas and electric corporations to provide forty-five days' notice to customers whenever there is a service rate or charge increase.New York · last action 2025-12-05VetoedA 1223Relates to the dates to file a designating petition; provides for the repeal of such provisions.New York · last action 2025-12-05Chaptered/SignedA 1550Prohibits a court from denying class certification for purposes of class action lawsuits solely because the action involves governmental operations.New York · last action 2025-12-05VetoedS 1786Requires the department of health to publish a report on the incidence of tick-borne illnesses annually on the department's website; requires the department to submit an annual report to the governor and the leaders of the legislature; requires the superintendent of financial services to review the status of health insurance coverage for the treatment of Lyme disease and other tick-borne related diseases and to submit a report to the governor and the leaders of the legislature.New York · last action 2025-12-05VetoedS 1848Requires utilities to notify property owners prior to beginning any non-emergency construction or other work that may interfere with a property owner's ability to use, or access such owner's property; requires notice to include, but not limited to, a description of the work to be performed, the expected duration of such work, the location of such work, any road closures or detours that may occur due to such work, any action that may directly and materially impact the use of such property, and the contact information for the utility performing such work; provides notice may include electronic communications, signage, and written materials; exempts cases where a natural or man-made disaster or state of emergency occurs.New York · last action 2025-12-05VetoedA 1820Requires the modification of restrictive covenants prior to the sale of real property when covenants, conditions and restrictions exist which discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, familial status, marital status, disability, national origin, source of income or ancestry.New York · last action 2025-12-05Chaptered/SignedS 1842Relates to split shifts for election inspectors or poll clerks.New York · last action 2025-12-05Chaptered/SignedA 1988Establishes an age-friendly health system technical assistance center to provide assistance in relation to age-friendly health systems; relates to hospital performance data.New York · last action 2025-12-05VetoedA 1914Requires the empire state plaza art commission to examine the historical significance of major rivers in the state of New York in connection with renaming the agency buildings located at the empire state plaza; requires the governor to choose the new agency building names within 60 days after the commission's recommendation.New York · last action 2025-12-05VetoedS 2182Permits the rendering of an estimated bill from a utility corporation or municipality under certain circumstances; requires each utility corporation and municipality within six months to submit to the commission a model for the calculation of and procedures for estimated bills that incorporates best practices and technology and accounts for any barriers to the use of actual meter readings.New York · last action 2025-12-05Vetoed
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