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S 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/SignedSen. Jabari BrisportS 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/SignedSen. Michelle HincheyS 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/SignedSen. Monica MartinezA 565Prohibits the establishment of new for-profit hospices or increasing the capacity of existing for-profit hospices.New York · last action 2025-12-19VetoedAsm. Amy PaulinA 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/SignedAsm. Andrew HevesiA 584Enacts the "trapped at work act"; prohibits the use of employment promissory notes.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedAsm. Phil SteckA 744Relates to collecting data regarding alternative living arrangements for children who are at a substantial risk of maltreatment.New York · last action 2025-12-19VetoedSOSAsm. Andrew HevesiA 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 2025-12-19VetoedAsm. Phil SteckA 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/SignedAsm. William MagnarelliS 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 2025-12-19VetoedSen. Liz KruegerS 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/SignedSen. José SerranoS 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 2025-12-19VetoedEDNSen. Rachel MayS 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/SignedSen. Joseph AddabboS 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 2025-12-19VetoedSen. Gustavo RiveraS 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/SignedDOMSen. Liz KruegerS 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/SignedSen. Cordell CleareS 1548Restricts certain substances from being used in menstrual products.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedSen. Nathalia FernandezS 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/SignedSen. Brad Hoylman-SigalA 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 2025-12-19VetoedAsm. Jenifer RajkumarS 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/SignedSen. Roxanne PersaudA 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/SignedAsm. Amy PaulinS 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/SignedSen. Jessica Scarcella-SpantonA 2177Removes expenditures for emergency medical services from the limit on real property tax levies by local governments.New York · last action 2025-12-19VetoedAsm. Donna LupardoS 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/SignedSen. Lea WebbA 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 2025-12-19VetoedAsm. John McDonaldS 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/SignedSen. Michael GianarisS 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/SignedSen. Joseph AddabboS 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 2025-12-19VetoedSen. Jeremy CooneyS 3072Prohibits the use of consumer credit history in hiring, employment and licensing determinations.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedSen. James SandersA 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 2025-12-19VetoedAsm. Jen LunsfordS 3157Authorizes a licensed dental hygienist, collaborative practice to provide services without supervision in collaboration with a licensed dentist under a collaborative practice agreement.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedSen. Rachel MayS 3259Aligns state and local procurement laws with federal law prohibiting the procurement of certain information and communications technology and electronic parts or products which are determined to pose a risk to state and national security.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedSen. Jeremy CooneyA 3319Relates to including outpatient care provided by creative arts therapists in certain insurance policies covering care for other mental health services.New York · last action 2025-12-19VetoedAsm. Harry BronsonS 3486Relates to providing information to patients and the public on hospital rule-based exclusions; requires the commissioner of health to collect from each hospital a list of its hospital rule-based exclusions and publish such information on the department's website.New York · last action 2025-12-19VetoedISCSen. Michelle HincheyS 3458Provides that beginning in the 2026-2027 academic year, certain graduate students shall be required to pay 25% of all current and future mandatory university fees; provides that in the 2027-2028 academic year and thereafter, no mandatory university fees shall be charged, with the exclusion of the graduate student association student activity fee.New York · last action 2025-12-19VetoedSen. Toby Ann StaviskyS 3488Provides a performance of duty presumption for diseases of the heart for members who serve as an ambulance medical technician, ambulance medical coordinator, ambulance medical technician/supervisor or a member who performs ambulance medical technician related services, or a police medic, police medic coordinator, police medic supervisor, bureau director police emergency ambulance services - county, assistant bureau director police emergency ambulance services - county, or a member who performs police medic or police emergency ambulance related services and is employed in the Nassau county police department.New York · last action 2025-12-19VetoedSen. Robert JacksonA 3516Enacts the "keep police radio public act"; ensures that, except for sensitive information, all radio communications are accessible to emergency services organizations and professional journalists.New York · last action 2025-12-19VetoedAsm. Karines ReyesS 3781Requires the office of children and family services to provide luggage to youth in foster care; provides that such luggage shall be distributed to social services districts for distribution to foster care youth; requires the office of children and family services to submit an annual report to the governor and the legislature about the distribution of luggage to foster care youth.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedSen. Jabari BrisportA 4014Requires 30 hours of mandatory continuing education every three years for coroners and coroner's deputies.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedAsm. John McDonaldA 3986Authorizes an insurer to pay a claim for reimbursement made by a provider using a credit card, virtual credit card or electronic funds transfer payment method that imposes on the provider a free or similar charge to process the payment; defines "virtual credit card" as a single-use series of numbers linked to a fixed dollar amount and provided by an insurer to a provider for the purpose of paying a claim for health care services performed by the provider; makes related provisions.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedAsm. Alex BoresS 3876Requires that a billing statement delivered to the customer by an energy services company include a side-by-side comparison showing both the price charged by the energy service company for commodity and delivery service during the prior billing period, and the price the customer would have paid had they taken commodity and delivery service from their local utility corporation or municipality; requires an energy service company to provide each of its customers with an annual statement comparing the price charged by the energy service company for commodity and delivery services and other energy-related value-added products over the prior twelve-month period with the price such customer would have paid had they taken commodity and delivery service from their local utility corporation or municipality.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedSen. Brad Hoylman-SigalA 3790Requires reporting of statewide training hours allocated to each firefighter; requires such report shall identify the fire department or district providing the training.New York · last action 2025-12-19VetoedAsm. David WeprinA 4040Codifies the disparate impact standard in the human rights law; provides that in cases of alleged housing discrimination, an unlawful discriminatory practice may be established by a practice's discriminatory effect.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedEXCAsm. Micah LasherS 4043Authorizes the Bedford Hills Fire District to file an application for exemption from school and real property taxes for the 2022-2023 assessment years.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedSen. Peter HarckhamS 3967Provides immunity from prosecution for certain individuals engaged in prostitution who are victims of or witnesses to a crime and who report such crime or assist in the investigation or prosecution.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedSen. Luis SepúlvedaS 4358Expands the veterans tuition awards program to allow the transfer of unused benefits to a spouse, survivor or child; defines terms.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedSen. Jamaal BaileyA 4502Relates to access to educational activities by public assistance recipients who are subject to work participation requirements; allows homework expected or required by an educational institution to count towards satisfaction of the work activity requirements for public assistance benefits for participants engaged in certain educational or training activities.New York · last action 2025-12-19VetoedSOSAsm. Brian CunninghamA 4712Authorizes the secretary of state to appoint a person from the utility intervention unit within the consumer protection division to serve on the state energy planning board.New York · last action 2025-12-19Chaptered/SignedAsm. Didi BarrettS 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 2025-12-17IntroducedSen. James SkoufisS 123Prohibits the sale of infant walkers; restricts the use of such infant walkers in certain settings.New York · last action 2025-12-12Chaptered/SignedSen. Cordell CleareA 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/SignedAsm. Catalina CruzS 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 2025-12-12VetoedSen. Michael GianarisS 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 2025-12-12VetoedSen. Zellnor MyrieS 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 2025-12-12VetoedSen. Sean RyanS 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 2025-12-12VetoedSen. Jamaal BaileyS 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/SignedSen. James SkoufisA 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/SignedAsm. Amy PaulinS 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/SignedEXCSen. Rachel MayA 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/SignedAsm. Jo Anne SimonS 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/SignedEXCSen. Jamaal BaileyA 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/SignedAsm. Jonathan JacobsonA 2739Requires a mortgagee to accept and apply payments.New York · last action 2025-12-12Chaptered/SignedAsm. Catalina CruzA 2725Requires employers to include an opioid antagonist where first aid kits are required by federal law.New York · last action 2025-12-12Chaptered/SignedAsm. Amy PaulinA 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 2025-12-12VetoedAsm. Harry BronsonS 3318Authorizes additional paid leave for public employees who are absent on military duty up to sixty days or fifty-two working days.New York · last action 2025-12-12VetoedSen. Jessica Scarcella-SpantonS 3393Requires pharmacies that are permanently discontinuing to notify customers of such discontinuance and provide information including locations of other nearby pharmacies.New York · last action 2025-12-12Chaptered/SignedSen. Andrew GounardesA 3938Authorizes the department of transportation to establish and implement a state memorial sign program to memorialize persons who died due to injuries sustained in a fatal motor vehicle crash on state highways.New York · last action 2025-12-12Chaptered/SignedTRAAsm. Robert SmullenA 4003Requires one caregiver for every two children under eighteen months of age in group family day care homes and family day care homes.New York · last action 2025-12-12VetoedAsm. Sarah ClarkS 4263Relates to the availability of technical assistance grants in brownfield site remedial programs; provides that the commissioner of environmental conservation shall provide grants to the New York city community board with jurisdiction over the site or to any not-for-profit corporation exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code at any site which may be affected by a brownfield site remedial program.New York · last action 2025-12-12VetoedSen. Brian KavanaghA 4649Relates to certificates of honorable separation from or service in the armed forces of the United States; provides that such certificates shall be forwarded to the appropriate local veterans' service agency within 60 days of receipt.New York · last action 2025-12-12VetoedAsm. Jenifer RajkumarA 2687Establishes a center for dyslexia and dysgraphia within the department of education.New York · last action 2025-12-11Chaptered/SignedAsm. Robert CarrollA 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/SignedAsm. Nily RozicA 54Prohibits the use of adhesive-based rodent traps in state-owned or state-leased buildings.New York · last action 2025-12-08IntroducedAsm. Vacant MemberA 55Includes veterans in the definition of military status to protect veterans from being unlawfully discriminated against.New York · last action 2025-12-08IntroducedEXCAsm. Vacant MemberA 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 2025-12-08IntroducedAsm. Vacant MemberA 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 2025-12-08IntroducedAsm. Vacant MemberA 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 2025-12-08IntroducedPBOAsm. Vacant MemberA 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 2025-12-08IntroducedAsm. Vacant MemberA 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 2025-12-08IntroducedAsm. Vacant MemberA 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 2025-12-08IntroducedAsm. Vacant MemberA 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 2025-12-08IntroducedAsm. Vacant MemberA 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 2025-12-08IntroducedAsm. Vacant MemberA 2098Prohibits early voting on federal holidays; adds an additional day to the early voting period.New York · last action 2025-12-08IntroducedAsm. Vacant MemberA 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 2025-12-08IntroducedAsm. Vacant MemberA 2266Relates to providing voice communication services to incarcerated individuals in state correctional facilities at no cost.New York · last action 2025-12-08IntroducedAsm. Vacant MemberA 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 2025-12-08IntroducedAsm. Vacant MemberA 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 2025-12-08IntroducedAsm. Vacant MemberA 2324Allows certain reusable beverage containers in sports venues.New York · last action 2025-12-08IntroducedAsm. Vacant MemberA 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 2025-12-08IntroducedAsm. Vacant MemberA 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 2025-12-08IntroducedAsm. Vacant MemberA 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 2025-12-08IntroducedAsm. Vacant MemberA 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 2025-12-08IntroducedAsm. Vacant MemberA 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 2025-12-08IntroducedAsm. Vacant MemberA 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 2025-12-08IntroducedAsm. Vacant MemberA 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 2025-12-08IntroducedAsm. Vacant MemberA 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 2025-12-05VetoedAsm. Chris EachusA 33Establishes the task force to promote the employment by state agencies of people with disabilities.New York · last action 2025-12-05VetoedAsm. Chris BurdickS 279Adds Moodna Creek in Orange County to the definition of inland waterways for waterfront revitalization.New York · last action 2025-12-05Chaptered/SignedSen. James SkoufisS 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/SignedSen. James SkoufisA 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/SignedAsm. Didi Barrett

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