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S 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 2025-12-05VetoedSen. Leroy ComrieS 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 2025-12-05VetoedSen. Liz KruegerS 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/SignedSen. Monica MartinezA 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 2025-12-05VetoedAsm. William MagnarelliS 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 2025-12-05VetoedSen. James SkoufisS 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/SignedCVSSen. Robert JacksonS 982Adds Fishkill Creek in Dutchess County to the definition of inland waterways.New York · last action 2025-12-05Chaptered/SignedSen. Rob RolisonS 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 2025-12-05VetoedSen. José SerranoS 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/SignedSen. Kristen GonzalezS 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 2025-12-05VetoedSen. Roxanne PersaudS 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 2025-12-05VetoedSen. Joseph AddabboA 1223Relates to the dates to file a designating petition; provides for the repeal of such provisions.New York · last action 2025-12-05Chaptered/SignedELNAsm. Alex BoresA 1550Prohibits a court from denying class certification for purposes of class action lawsuits solely because the action involves governmental operations.New York · last action 2025-12-05VetoedAsm. Michaelle SolagesS 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 2025-12-05VetoedSen. Michelle HincheyS 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 2025-12-05VetoedSen. Peter HarckhamA 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/SignedAsm. Phil SteckS 1842Relates to split shifts for election inspectors or poll clerks.New York · last action 2025-12-05Chaptered/SignedSen. Brad Hoylman-SigalA 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 2025-12-05VetoedPBHAsm. Amy PaulinA 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 2025-12-05VetoedAsm. Amy PaulinS 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 2025-12-05VetoedSen. Michelle HincheyA 2497Establishes a fiscal cliff task force to conduct a study on fiscal cliffs in the state's public assistance programs and to make recommendations related thereto.New York · last action 2025-12-05VetoedAsm. Maritza DavilaA 2468Creates the state office of the utility consumer advocate to represent interests of residential utility customers including a proposed change of rates, charges, terms and conditions of service, the adoption of rules, regulations, guidelines, orders, standards or final policy decisions.New York · last action 2025-12-05VetoedAsm. Jeffrey DinowitzS 2479Requires the New York state energy research and development authority conduct a study on Brooklyn College constructing a micro-grid to study the feasibility, efficiency, and energy saving costs if such a micro-grid was constructed on campus.New York · last action 2025-12-05VetoedSen. Kevin ParkerA 3307Incorporates the 2022 Uniform Law Commission recommended amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code to provide for emerging technologies; addresses emerging technologies, providing updated rules for commercial transactions involving virtual currencies, distributed ledger technologies (including blockchain), artificial intelligence, and other technological developments.New York · last action 2025-12-05Chaptered/SignedAsm. Alex BoresS 3355Includes digital health care service platforms in the definition of temporary health care services agency.New York · last action 2025-12-05Chaptered/SignedSen. Gustavo RiveraA 3343Relates to fines for false alarms by an alarm system; allows a municipality to enact, adopt or enforce any ordinance, resolution or regulation requiring any alarm system company to pay for or be responsible for any fines, fees or other penalties relative to false alarms only when the false alarm is attributed to a deficiency in the alarm system or an error of the alarm system company or central station.New York · last action 2025-12-05Chaptered/SignedAsm. Harry BronsonS 3335Allows for individuals consent to receive information from the C.W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation Program and the national marrow donor program at the time of application for or renewal of a driver's license or non-driver identification card; directs the commissioner of motor vehicles to establish a process by which the department of motor vehicles shall refer driver's license and non-driver identification card applicants who consent to having their information shared with the C.W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation Program and the national marrow donor program for the purposes of receiving information from such programs about enrolling as a potential donor.New York · last action 2025-12-05Chaptered/SignedSen. Jeremy CooneyA 3279Establishes the New York state cryptocurrency and blockchain study task force to provide the governor and the legislature with information on the effects of the widespread use of cryptocurrencies and other forms of digital currencies and their ancillary systems, including but not limited to blockchain technology, in the state.New York · last action 2025-12-05VetoedAsm. Clyde VanelS 3398Relates to prohibiting retaliation against individuals who request a reasonable accommodation.New York · last action 2025-12-05Chaptered/SignedSen. Andrew GounardesS 3390Requires each institution of higher education to make publicly available its policy on notifying the parent, guardian, or emergency contact of a student under twenty-one of certain controlled substance and alcohol violations, including rule infractions, and controlled substance or alcohol related hospitalizations or overdoses; requires such colleges and institutions to conduct regular training on the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.New York · last action 2025-12-05Chaptered/SignedSen. Andrew GounardesA 3665Repeals certain provisions regarding the adoption of a new or revised city charter proposed by a charter commission which limits the submission of questions to a city's qualified electors; eliminates the rule that provides that whenever a city charter commission puts a proposal on the local ballot, all other local referendum proposals are barred from the ballot.New York · last action 2025-12-05VetoedAsm. Tony SimoneA 3698Authorizes localities to provide for an additional real property tax exemption for senior citizens who meet the income eligibility limits and other criteria to the extent of sixty-five percent of the assessed valuation of such real property.New York · last action 2025-12-05Chaptered/SignedAsm. David WeprinS 3786Includes remedial services, homework or childcare as the transportation responsibility of the city school district located in a city having a population of one million or more.New York · last action 2025-12-05VetoedSen. Simcha FelderS 3799Provides an owner or lessee access to adjoining property to make improvements or repairs for certain circumstances.New York · last action 2025-12-05Chaptered/SignedSen. Leroy ComrieA 3939Requires the state office for the aging to publish a "Guide to Actions When Someone Close Dies"; establishes a temporary special advisory committee to create and publish such guide.New York · last action 2025-12-05Chaptered/SignedAsm. Amy PaulinA 4276Directs the commissioner of mental health to conduct a study of child- and youth-targeted mobile crisis outreach teams in New York state, and deliver a report including the findings and recommendations of such study to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, and the speaker of the assembly.New York · last action 2025-12-05VetoedAsm. Brian CunninghamS 4274Requires the board of elections in a city with a population of one million or more to notify by mail state and county party committees and certain elected officials prior to a change of polling place.New York · last action 2025-12-05Chaptered/SignedSen. Brian KavanaghS 4204Relates to port authority organization, appearance and notice; establishes the port authority transportation advisory committee.New York · last action 2025-12-05VetoedSen. Leroy ComrieS 4200Requires student financial aid award letters to contain information on net costs, defined as an estimate of the costs of attendance after financial aid which does not require repayment and options for loans which do require repayment.New York · last action 2025-12-05Chaptered/SignedSen. Andrew GounardesA 4324Allows for the conditional examination of victims who are at least 75 years of age; amends the definition of larceny to ensure that alleged consent by a victim who is mentally disabled is a not a defense to larceny; permits a caregiver to accompany a vulnerable victim into the grand jury.New York · last action 2025-12-05IntroducedPenalAsm. Jeffrey DinowitzS 4423Provides for the types of damages that may be awarded to the persons for whose benefit an action for wrongful death is brought.New York · last action 2025-12-05VetoedSen. Brad Hoylman-SigalA 4723Allows for the donation of personal property of the state to certain not-for-profit organizations that are up to date on annual filings.New York · last action 2025-12-05VetoedAsm. John McDonaldA 1195Requires that health insurance policies shall provide coverage for follow-up screening or diagnostic services for lung cancer; provides that no patient cost sharing shall be imposed for follow-up screening or diagnostic services for lung cancer.New York · last action 2025-12-04Chaptered/SignedISCAsm. Crystal Peoples-StokesS 312Relates to complaints concerning the moral character of individuals who hold or who are applicants for New York State teaching certificates.New York · last action 2025-12-01IntroducedSen. James SkoufisS 408Authorizes retail licenses to sell liquor for on-premises consumption at airline lounges located within an airport and owned, leased, or operated by a United States certified airline.New York · last action 2025-12-01IntroducedABCSen. James SkoufisS 1687Moves the date of the presidential primary to the same date as the state primaries.New York · last action 2025-12-01IntroducedSen. James SkoufisS 1685Allows for additional or relocated motor vehicle dealers to be located within six or ten miles of one another when separated by the Hudson River.New York · last action 2025-12-01IntroducedSen. James SkoufisS 1835Relates to solicitation of donations on state highways.New York · last action 2025-12-01IntroducedSen. James SkoufisS 3655Establishes a twenty-five year retirement plan for firefighters employed by the division of military and naval affairs.New York · last action 2025-12-01IntroducedSen. James SkoufisA 128Requires insurance coverage for one rescue and one maintenance inhaler at no cost.New York · last action 2025-11-21Chaptered/SignedISCAsm. Jessica González-RojasA 761Reduces tuition rates of out of state Olympic athletes who represented Team USA.New York · last action 2025-11-21Chaptered/SignedEDNAsm. Robert CarrollS 1311Authorizes Jonathan Montalvo to be placed on the eligible list for employment for the state university of New York police.New York · last action 2025-11-21Chaptered/SignedSen. Robert JacksonS 1314Provides that a false representation of affiliation or approval, or false implication of such affiliation or approval, of any official, state or local agencies or other official source, shall be false advertising.New York · last action 2025-11-21Chaptered/SignedSen. Andrew GounardesA 1395Permits a close friend to make an anatomical gift of a decedent's body.New York · last action 2025-11-21Chaptered/SignedAsm. Amy PaulinA 1672Prohibits contracts for the purchase or financing of a dog or cat from online websites from including provisions allowing repossession of the animal.New York · last action 2025-11-21Chaptered/SignedAsm. Linda RosenthalA 1797Requires that hair relaxer products display labels when they contain certain dangerous chemicals.New York · last action 2025-11-21Chaptered/SignedAsm. Alicia HyndmanA 1944Relates to birth certificates for foreign adoptions; makes certain provisions retroactive.New York · last action 2025-11-21Chaptered/SignedAsm. Amy PaulinA 2398Replaces the words addict or addicts with the words person with substance use disorder or a variation thereof.New York · last action 2025-11-21Chaptered/SignedAsm. Emily GallagherA 2311Prohibits charging a fee for the issuance of a certificate of still birth or pregnancy loss.New York · last action 2025-11-21Chaptered/SignedPBHAsm. John ZaccaroA 2643Permits certain licensed athletic trainers who are licensed to practice in another state, territory or country to provide athletic training services to athletes and team personnel at a discrete sanctioned team sporting event or performance in this state.New York · last action 2025-11-21Chaptered/SignedEDNAsm. Michaelle SolagesS 2589Clarifies valid reasons to obtain an absentee ballot for elections in school districts which do not utilize poll registration.New York · last action 2025-11-21Chaptered/SignedSen. Shelley MayerS 3161Moves the Amistad Commission from the department of state to the state education department.New York · last action 2025-11-21Chaptered/SignedSen. Robert JacksonS 3294Relates to the medical use of cannabis; repeals controlled substances therapeutic research act.New York · last action 2025-11-21Chaptered/SignedCANSen. Jeremy CooneyS 3236Allows pharmacy technicians to practice in any pharmacy under the supervision of a pharmacist.New York · last action 2025-11-21Chaptered/SignedSen. Jeremy CooneyS 3367Raises the exclusion of certain indebtedness of school districts other than school districts in a city with one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants or more according to the latest federal census.New York · last action 2025-11-21Chaptered/SignedSen. Shelley MayerS 3416Authorizes practitioners in institutional dispensers to dispense controlled substances as emergency treatment for use off the premises of the institutional dispenser; authorizes practitioners to dispense controlled substances for use in maintenance or detoxification treatment to an addict or habitual user.New York · last action 2025-11-21Chaptered/SignedSen. Nathalia FernandezS 3735Empowers the commissioner of education to declare a disaster has substantially impacted an annual meeting and election and to allow school boards to set an additional day for voting if less than eight percent of registered voters cast ballots as a direct consequence of a disaster.New York · last action 2025-11-21Chaptered/SignedSen. Shelley MayerA 4025Waives the residency requirement for certain county attorney positions within Warren county including assistant district attorney, assistant public defender and assistant county attorney.New York · last action 2025-11-21Chaptered/SignedAsm. Matthew SimpsonS 4153Prohibits food stores and retail establishments from refusing to accept payment in cash; provides a civil penalty will be assessed for such actions.New York · last action 2025-11-21Chaptered/SignedSen. James SandersA 4521Defines a "protected consumer" as an individual who is under the age of eighteen years.New York · last action 2025-11-21Chaptered/SignedAsm. Alicia HyndmanA 4683Relates to the date of school district annual organizational meetings; allows boards of education to meet on any date on or before the Monday after July 20th for their annual organizational meeting.New York · last action 2025-11-21Chaptered/SignedAsm. Amy PaulinA 578Requires public bodies to post video recordings of open meetings on their websites within five days of such meetings; requires such recordings be maintained for a period of five years.New York · last action 2025-11-14IntroducedAsm. Amy PaulinA 847Requires each public body to live stream and post video recordings of all open meetings and public hearings; requires each public body to post such recordings for a period of not less than five years.New York · last action 2025-11-14IntroducedPBOAsm. Amy PaulinS 181Expands the membership of the interagency task force on trafficking in persons to include the commissioner of the department of transportation, the commissioner of the department of motor vehicles and the executive director of the New York state thruway authority.New York · last action 2025-11-12Chaptered/SignedSen. Roxanne PersaudS 1704Expands the options for shell color and roof color of petroleum bulk storage tanks to either white or beige/cream or which limits volatile emissions to the same or to a greater extent as a shell color and roof color of white or beige/cream as determined by the department of environmental conservation.New York · last action 2025-11-12Chaptered/SignedSen. Peter HarckhamA 3922Requires the commissioner of economic development, in cooperation with the commissioner of agriculture and markets and the state liquor authority to establish procedures for proposing to the governor nominations for annual awards to be known as "New York state liquor retailers awards", "New York state beer retailers awards", "New York state cider retailer awards", and "New York state mead retailers awards"; requires the commissioner of economic development to promote state policies that will encourage the production and sale of New York labelled beers, ciders, liquors, and mead.New York · last action 2025-11-12Chaptered/SignedAsm. Al StirpeA 29Designates the state of New York a purple heart state.New York · last action 2025-11-05Chaptered/SignedAsm. John McDonaldA 2135Eliminates penalties for mandated reporters who fail to report suspected abuse or neglect of children or people with special needs; repeals certain provisions of law related thereto.New York · last action 2025-10-20IntroducedAsm. Andrew HevesiA 174Prohibits rent minimums in all mortgages regardless of when issued.New York · last action 2025-10-17VetoedAsm. Robert CarrollA 778Directs the department of health to create an informational pamphlet concerning intrauterine devices; requires such informational pamphlet to be available on the department of health's website; requires practitioners to distribute such informational pamphlet to patients seeking contraceptives.New York · last action 2025-10-17VetoedAsm. Linda RosenthalA 1433Provides for the issuance of pet insurance that provides coverage for accidents and illnesses of pets.New York · last action 2025-10-17VetoedAsm. Pamela HunterA 1572Requires the superintendent to promulgate regulations which provide standardized definitions for commonly used terms and phrases in certain insurance policies.New York · last action 2025-10-17VetoedISCAsm. David WeprinA 1817Defines "closed period of eligibility" for purposes of supplemental security income for aged, blind, and disabled persons; includes such time period in the eligibility requirements of such supplemental security income.New York · last action 2025-10-17VetoedAsm. Linda RosenthalA 1890Enacts the low impact landscaping rights act, preventing homeowners' associations from adopting or enforcing any rules or regulations that would effectively prohibit, or impose unreasonable limitations on, the installation or maintenance of low impact landscaping.New York · last action 2025-10-17VetoedAsm. Deborah GlickA 2168Requires the department of health to develop and maternal health care providers to distribute written information about episiotomy to maternity patients.New York · last action 2025-10-17VetoedAsm. Amy PaulinA 2185Defines therapeutic agriculture for the purposes of community gardens as the use of agricultural activities as a means of promoting physical, mental and emotional well-being, rehabilitation and therapy for certain individuals.New York · last action 2025-10-17VetoedAsm. Donna LupardoA 2520Provides parity to durable medical equipment providers by requiring Medicaid managed care organizations to reimburse such providers at no less than one hundred percent of the medical assistance durable medical equipment and complex rehabilitation technology fee schedule for the same service or item.New York · last action 2025-10-17VetoedAsm. John McDonaldA 2581Creates a department of health education and outreach program on reproductive health services for consumers, patients, educators, and health care providers related to reproductive health services available in New York state including, but not limited to: access to family planning services such as contraceptives and pregnancy testing, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections; makes related provisions.New York · last action 2025-10-17VetoedAsm. Jessica González-RojasA 3404Requires hospitals to permit an interpreter to remain with a deaf, hard of hearing or nonverbal patient during admission to a hospital until appropriate hospital staff is assigned to interpret.New York · last action 2025-10-17VetoedAsm. Charles LavineA 56Prohibits residential landlords from charging tenants a fee for a dishonored rent check in excess of the actual costs or fees incurred by such landlord as a result thereof, provided such dishonored check fee was included in the initial lease.New York · last action 2025-10-16Chaptered/SignedAsm. Vacant MemberS 277Authorizes the town of Chester to establish community preservation funds; establishes a real estate transfer tax with revenues therefrom to be deposited in said community preservation fund.New York · last action 2025-10-16Chaptered/SignedSen. James SkoufisA 112Repeals provisions relating to mandatory anti-arson applications for insurance coverage to insure any building against the peril of fire or explosion.New York · last action 2025-10-16Chaptered/SignedAsm. Sam BergerA 355Provides for a partial exemption from taxation of certain residential real property transferred by a governmental entity, nonprofit housing organization, land bank or community land trust to low-income households; sets forth conditions for the discontinuance of such exemption.New York · last action 2025-10-16Chaptered/SignedAsm. Didi BarrettS 598Establishes a state frontotemporal degeneration registry; defines terms; requires every physician, nurse practitioner, nurse physician assistant and general hospital that diagnoses or is treating a patient diagnosed with an FTD disorder to give notice to the department; requires certain information to be confidential; sets forth the duties of the commissioner of health; requires the department of health to create and maintain a webpage.New York · last action 2025-10-16Chaptered/SignedSen. Michelle HincheyS 952Requires that the entire amount of a rental deposit or advance be refundable to the tenant upon the tenant's vacating of the premises except for an amount lawfully retained for non-payment of rent or utilities, damage caused by the tenant, or storage costs; requires landlord to provide an itemized statement of damages and to return the balance of the deposit within 14 days; requires that tenant be given the opportunity to inspect the rental premises prior to signing a lease; allows a grantee or assignee of the leased premises to demand that an escrow account be opened.New York · last action 2025-10-16Chaptered/SignedSen. Brian KavanaghA 934Provides that if there is a tie when there is an even number of defendants, a peremptory challenge must be allowed.New York · last action 2025-10-16Chaptered/SignedAsm. William MagnarelliA 979Relates to contractual liability insurance policies; provides that each provider may maintain a maximum of five service contract reimbursement insurance policies insuring its service contracts actively offered.New York · last action 2025-10-16Chaptered/SignedAsm. Jen LunsfordS 1224Ensures services provided in school-based health centers are not provided to medical assistance recipients through managed care programs.New York · last action 2025-10-16VetoedSen. Gustavo RiveraS 1467Requires the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation to establish standards for the closing of segments of trails on the Empire state trail, and provide notice of such closings to the public.New York · last action 2025-10-16VetoedSen. José SerranoS 1724Provides notification of employment or promotion of applicable employees to organizations of state employees designated managerial or confidential for purposes of employee representation in determining the terms and conditions of employment.New York · last action 2025-10-16VetoedCVSSen. Robert Jackson

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