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S 3879Amends provisions of law governing arbitration proceedings; specifies fees and expenses with regard to employment or consumer arbitration proceedings; directs certain sanctions on a party which breaches an arbitration agreement.New York · last action 2025-06-13Passed first houseSen. Brad Hoylman-SigalA 4135Extends the authorization for the county of Schoharie to impose a county recording tax on obligation secured by a mortgage on real property.New York · last action 2025-06-13IntroducedAsm. Chris TagueA 4067Extends the authorization of the county of Schuyler to impose an additional one percent of sales and compensating use taxes through November 30, 2027.New York · last action 2025-06-13IntroducedAsm. Philip PalmesanoS 4091Prohibits the operation of NYC transit authority subways or trains without at least one conductor on board; requires a conductor on any subway or train operated by such authority whenever the subway or train has more than two cars attached to the engine.New York · last action 2025-06-13IntroducedSen. Kevin ParkerA 4237Dedicates a portion of the state highway system in Nassau county to Trooper James M. MacLarnon.New York · last action 2025-06-13IntroducedAsm. David McDonoughS 4351Requires 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 2025-06-13IntroducedSen. Cordell CleareA 4575Provides 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 2025-06-13IntroducedAsm. Charles FallA 4713Requires utility companies maintain a toll free number for consumers to call to report service outages which shall be made available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.New York · last action 2025-06-13IntroducedAsm. Nader SayeghA 4641Relates 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 2025-06-13IntroducedENVAsm. Deborah GlickS 243Includes 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 2025-06-12IntroducedSen. James SkoufisS 274Requires the department of veterans' services to provide information on the department's website on volunteer opportunities available to veterans and to post relevant application forms that a qualified veteran can use to apply for volunteer opportunities.New York · last action 2025-06-12Passed first houseSen. Monica MartinezS 567Allows a person with a federal basic permit to apply to the liquor authority for a brand owner's license; establishes a fee therefor.New York · last action 2025-06-12IntroducedABCSen. James SkoufisS 590Repeals 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 2025-06-12IntroducedSen. Liz KruegerS 1515Removes expenditures for emergency medical services from the limit on real property tax levies by local governments.New York · last action 2025-06-12IntroducedSen. Rachel MayS 1616Provides 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 2025-06-12IntroducedSen. Gustavo RiveraS 2618Creates the jockey health insurance reserve fund for the payment of premiums not yet paid; provides for the return of funds if such reserve fund becomes no longer necessary.New York · last action 2025-06-12Passed first houseSen. Joseph AddabboS 3330Provides 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 2025-06-12IntroducedSen. Jeremy CooneyS 3361Requires medical evaluations for assisted living eligibility to be conducted within thirty days prior to the date of admission.New York · last action 2025-06-12IntroducedSen. Gustavo RiveraS 3827Prohibits the use of biometric identifying technology in schools for any reason other than certain specified purposes; adds fingerprint identification of teachers, administrators and students for the purpose of securely logging into a digital device for academic and administrative purpose to allowable purposes.New York · last action 2025-06-12Passed first houseSen. Brad Hoylman-SigalS 3845Prohibits 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 2025-06-12IntroducedSen. Brad Hoylman-SigalS 4070Enacts the "trapped at work act"; prohibits the use of employment promissory notes.New York · last action 2025-06-12IntroducedSen. Rachel MayS 4073Authorizes the town of Dickinson to establish hotel and motel taxes within such town.New York · last action 2025-06-12IntroducedSen. Lea WebbS 4257Relates 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 2025-06-12IntroducedSOSSen. Kevin ParkerS 12Provides that no provision of section eighty of the civil service law shall modify, replace or supersede any provision of a collective bargaining agreement that provides for greater rights than required by such section.New York · last action 2025-06-11IntroducedCVSSen. Robert JacksonS 15Requires nursing homes to designate dedicated storage spaces for the storage of the bodies of deceased persons; requires nursing homes to develop and submit plans to the department of health for the designation of such dedicated storage spaces; establishes requirements for such storage spaces.New York · last action 2025-06-11IntroducedSen. James SkoufisS 19Waives 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 2025-06-11IntroducedSen. Daniel StecS 50Extends paid family leave benefits to employees who perform construction, demolition, reconstruction, excavation, rehabilitation, repairs, renovations, alterations, or improvements for multiple employers pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement who shall be eligible for family leave benefits if they were employed for at least twenty-six of the last thirty-nine weeks by any covered employer which is signatory to a collective bargaining agreement.New York · last action 2025-06-11IntroducedSen. Leroy ComrieS 67Permits records required to be disclosed under the freedom of information law to have exempt parts of such documents be redacted before disclosure.New York · last action 2025-06-11IntroducedSen. James SkoufisS 278Removes 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 2025-06-11IntroducedSen. James SkoufisA 422Specifies the occupancy tax in the village of Catskill shall only apply to hotels and motels.New York · last action 2025-06-11IntroducedAsm. Chris TagueA 423Clarifies the scope of the occupancy tax in the village of Coxsackie.New York · last action 2025-06-11IntroducedAsm. Chris TagueA 673Relates to facilitating appellate review of rulings that implicate issues of public concern.New York · last action 2025-06-11IntroducedAsm. Catalina CruzA 544Requires police officers to take temporary custody of firearms for not less than one hundred twenty hours when responding to reports of family violence.New York · last action 2025-06-11IntroducedAsm. Amy PaulinA 789Authorizes Justin Finkle to take the competitive civil service examination for the position of police officer and be placed on the eligible list for employment as a full-time police officer for the Albany county sheriff's office; requires that Justin Finkle be otherwise subject to the merit and fitness provisions of the civil service law applicable to full-time police officers.New York · last action 2025-06-11IntroducedAsm. Scott BendettA 1179Prohibits 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 2025-06-11IntroducedAsm. Deborah GlickA 1464Promotes efficient and effective oversight of continuing care retirement communities; transfers certain powers and duties from the continuing care retirement community council to the commissioner of health; repeals certain provisions of law relating thereto.New York · last action 2025-06-11IntroducedAsm. Amy PaulinS 1840Incorporates 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 2025-06-11IntroducedSen. Brad Hoylman-SigalS 2105Authorizes 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 2025-06-11IntroducedSen. Jeremy CooneyS 2703Requires 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 2025-06-11IntroducedSen. Robert JacksonS 3043Requires New York city marshals to complete an electronic filing within one business day of service of a notice of eviction.New York · last action 2025-06-11Passed first houseSen. Brad Hoylman-SigalS 3103Directs 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 2025-06-11IntroducedSen. Jeremy CooneyA 3038Prohibits 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 2025-06-11IntroducedAsm. Linda RosenthalS 3106Allows 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 2025-06-11IntroducedSen. Jeremy CooneyS 3178Requires 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 2025-06-11IntroducedSen. James SandersS 3282Authorizes the discontinuance of certain parklands in the town of Amherst, county of Erie for lease to Bell Atlantic Mobile Systems, LLC d/b/a Verizon Wireless for the placement and operation of a wireless communications tower.New York · last action 2025-06-11IntroducedSen. Sean RyanS 3257Includes entities that provide employment or services to formerly incarcerated persons in the preferred source exemption for purposes of state purchasing.New York · last action 2025-06-11IntroducedSen. Jeremy CooneyS 3323Requires insurance policies to provide coverage for transvaginal ultrasounds during pregnancy.New York · last action 2025-06-11IntroducedSen. Jessica Scarcella-SpantonS 3362Repeals provisions requiring reporting of a patient's drug use.New York · last action 2025-06-11IntroducedSen. Gustavo RiveraS 3360Permits a close friend to make an anatomical gift of a decedent's body.New York · last action 2025-06-11IntroducedSen. Gustavo RiveraS 3637Requires 30 hours of mandatory continuing education every three years for coroners and coroner's deputies.New York · last action 2025-06-11IntroducedSen. Robert OrttS 3698Directs the superintendent of banks to promulgate rules and regulations requiring licensed cashers of checks to file suspicious activity reports.New York · last action 2025-06-11IntroducedSen. James SandersA 4006Relates to the use of moneys received from foreign fire insurance companies by the Bohemia Volunteer Firefighter's Benevolent Association, and to modernization of certain language by making such language gender neutral.New York · last action 2025-06-11IntroducedAsm. Jarett GandolfoA 3980Relates to Warren county no longer providing community colleges funding with excess funds from the collection of mortgage recording taxes as such money is allocated to the CDTA; extends the effectiveness of provisions relating to an additional Warren county mortgage recording tax to December 1, 2027.New York · last action 2025-06-11IntroducedAsm. Matthew SimpsonS 4067Codifies 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 2025-06-11IntroducedEXCSen. Brian KavanaghS 4289Extends DEC's authority to regulate management of crabs to 12/31/2027; prohibits the taking of horseshoe crabs for commercial and biomedical purposes.New York · last action 2025-06-11IntroducedSen. Brad Hoylman-SigalS 450Prohibits landlords from including incorrect information relating to rent decontrol in certain leases and renewals thereof; imposes a violation punishable by a fine of $1000 for a violation by a landlord; requires the standardization of certain notices pertaining to units subject to the Affordable New York Housing Program.New York · last action 2025-06-10Passed first houseSen. Brad Hoylman-SigalA 589Relates to port authority organization, appearance and notice; establishes the port authority transportation advisory committee.New York · last action 2025-06-10IntroducedAsm. Amy PaulinA 659Prohibits landlords from including incorrect information relating to rent decontrol in certain leases and renewals thereof; imposes a violation punishable by a fine of $1000 for a violation by a landlord; requires the standardization of certain notices pertaining to units subject to the Affordable New York Housing Program.New York · last action 2025-06-10IntroducedAsm. Linda RosenthalS 1001Relates to including outpatient care provided by creative arts therapists in certain insurance policies covering care for other mental health services.New York · last action 2025-06-10IntroducedSen. Samra BroukA 893Prohibits 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 2025-06-10IntroducedAsm. Linda RosenthalS 1211Enacts the "New York open water data act"; directs certain agencies, under the leadership of conveners, to identify and integrate key water data sets; provides duties and an annual plan for data to be researched and reported.New York · last action 2025-06-10Passed first houseSen. Rachel MayS 1202Establishes the interagency elder justice task force consisting of representatives of state agencies whose work involves elder justice to create greater collaboration and develop overarching strategies, systems, and programs with a goal of protecting older adults from abuse and mistreatment.New York · last action 2025-06-10Passed first houseSen. Cordell CleareA 1417Prohibits a person or entity from knowingly or with reckless disregard facilitate an agreement between or among two or more residential rental property owners or managers to not compete with respect to residential rental dwelling units, including by operating or licensing a software, data analytics service, or algorithmic device that performs a coordinating function on behalf of or between and among such residential rental property owners or managers.New York · last action 2025-06-10IntroducedAsm. Linda RosenthalS 1804Requires insurance coverage for one rescue and one maintenance inhaler at no cost.New York · last action 2025-06-10IntroducedISCSen. Gustavo RiveraS 1889Designates the state of New York a purple heart state.New York · last action 2025-06-10IntroducedSen. Jacob AshbyS 1807Prohibits charging a fee for the issuance of a certificate of still birth or pregnancy loss.New York · last action 2025-06-10IntroducedPBHSen. Nathalia FernandezS 1949Dedicates a portion of the state highway system in the town of Haverstraw, county of Rockland to Hector L. Soto.New York · last action 2025-06-10IntroducedSen. Bill WeberS 2537Relates 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 2025-06-10IntroducedSen. Jessica RamosA 2728Extends provisions of law authorizing the county of Livingston to impose an additional mortgage recording tax until December 1, 2027.New York · last action 2025-06-10IntroducedAsm. Andrea BaileyA 2727Dedicates a portion of the state highway system in the town of Morris, county of Otsego, to Trooper Jill E. Mattice.New York · last action 2025-06-10IntroducedAsm. Joe AngelinoS 2706Prohibits the use of drilling fluids, brine and flowback water from gas or oil wells, pools, or fields on any highway for any purpose including but not limited to de-icing or dust suppression.New York · last action 2025-06-10Passed first houseSen. Brad Hoylman-SigalS 3620Authorizes the building inspector in the town of Pendleton, county of Niagara, to reside outside of such town if they reside within such county or an adjoining county.New York · last action 2025-06-10IntroducedSen. Robert OrttS 3654Requires health insurers to provide coverage for speech therapy for stuttering.New York · last action 2025-06-10IntroducedISCSen. Jamaal BaileyS 3740Establishes 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 2025-06-10IntroducedSen. Nathalia FernandezA 3729Establishes 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 2025-06-10IntroducedAsm. Jaime WilliamsA 4179Includes digital health care service platforms in the definition of temporary health care services agency.New York · last action 2025-06-10IntroducedAsm. Al StirpeS 4328Relates 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 2025-06-10IntroducedSen. Jeremy CooneyS 138Relates to the medical aid in dying act; relates to a terminally ill patient's request for and use of medication for medical aid in dying.New York · last action 2025-06-09IntroducedSen. Brad Hoylman-SigalS 455Provides that, for a quorum, an advisory board may require that at a minimum, one quarter of the members and the presiding officer of a community board physically be present at a location where the public can attend for such board to conduct videoconferencing.New York · last action 2025-06-09Passed first houseSen. Brad Hoylman-SigalA 249Authorizes 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 2025-06-09IntroducedAsm. William MagnarelliS 652Authorizes private membership establishments to have certain licenses for sale of alcohol for consumption on premises.New York · last action 2025-06-09IntroducedSen. Michael GianarisS 649Authorizes funding to local government entities from the urban development corporation through the electric generation facility cessation mitigation fund for an additional three years.New York · last action 2025-06-09Passed first houseSen. Sean RyanS 915Enables safe access to public roads for all users by utilizing complete street design principles.New York · last action 2025-06-09Passed first houseSen. Sean RyanS 1104Enacts 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 2025-06-09Passed first houseSen. Jeremy CooneyS 1472Relates to certifying instructors in small arms practice; provides that after December 31, 2028 individuals certified as an instructor in small arms practice shall seek recertification subject to the standards and curriculum promulgated by the division of criminal justice services.New York · last action 2025-06-09Passed first houseSen. Sean RyanA 2163Relates to vintage snowmobile registrations for snowmobiles manufactured more than thirty years prior.New York · last action 2025-06-09IntroducedAsm. Billy JonesS 2709Provides protections for telecommunications tower technicians, including requiring certain trainings during work hours without a loss of pay; requires certain reporting by bidders for telecommunication contracts.New York · last action 2025-06-09IntroducedSen. Rachel MayA 3464Requires 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 2025-06-09IntroducedAsm. Steven RagaA 3862Relates 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 2025-06-09IntroducedISCAsm. Nily RozicA 4664Provides 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 2025-06-09IntroducedAsm. Vacant MemberS 4433Requires the clear and conspicuous disclosure of pricing changes for online grocery delivery and online pick-up services; imposes a fine of not more than one hundred dollars for the first offense and not more than two hundred fifty dollars for a second and each subsequent offense for violations.New York · last action 2025-06-09Passed first houseSen. James SkoufisA 173Relates to the applicability of open meetings and freedom of information laws to certain not-for-profit corporations.New York · last action 2025-06-06IntroducedNPCAsm. Amy PaulinA 697Prohibits the use of the term "excited delirium" as a diagnosis, label, or cause of death on death certificates, autopsy reports, police reports or any report, policy or procedure by a public agency or contractor; defines excited delirium.New York · last action 2025-06-06IntroducedCNTAsm. Jessica González-RojasS 1399Establishes the vacant rental improvement program to provide grants of up to $75,000 per unit to owners of buildings with five or fewer units.New York · last action 2025-06-06Passed first houseSen. Sean RyanA 1985Establishes 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 2025-06-06IntroducedAsm. Amy PaulinA 2657Establishes the electric landscaping equipment rebate program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve air quality, and reduce noise pollution by promoting the adoption of quieter, zero-emission landscaping equipment; provides for rebates at the point of sale for applicants purchasing or leasing certain equipment; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof.New York · last action 2025-06-06IntroducedAsm. Steven OtisS 3037Requires that an organization applying for grant funding shall provide to arts agencies a certification that it will enter into a labor peace agreement with at least one bona fide labor organization either where such bona fide labor organization is actively representing employees providing services covered by the organization seeking such grant funding or upon notice by a bona fide labor organization that is attempting to represent employees who will provide services to the organization seeking such grant funding; relates to prevailing wage requirements for not-for-profit theaters and payment of their employees on productions funded by the New York state council on the arts or arts agencies of localities.New York · last action 2025-06-06IntroducedSen. Brad Hoylman-SigalA 3295Authorizes 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 2025-06-06IntroducedCVSAsm. Stacey Pheffer AmatoA 3644Extends the expiration of the authorization for the county of Seneca to impose an additional one percent sales and compensating use tax for two years.New York · last action 2025-06-06IntroducedAsm. Jeff GallahanS 4157Repeals 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 2025-06-06IntroducedSen. James Sanders

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