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James Sanders D

State Senator
New York Senate District 10 — Seat 1
Term: — – Jan. 3, 2028
2 Total

Biography

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On Record (198)

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Relates to the application of certain provisions relating to commercial financing; provides that liability shall not be imposed on a provider if the actual annual percentage rate charged by the provider differs from the estimated annual percentage rate disclosed by the provider acting in good faith.
Jun 30, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires certain establishments provide tap water on request.
Jun 18, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to construction and mentoring programs; provides that any agency may establish a mentoring program for small businesses that perform construction or architectural or engineering services related to construction.
Jun 18, 2026 · source · details / share
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Establishes September twenty-second of each year as a day of commemoration known as Veteran Suicide Awareness and Remembrance Day.
May 29, 2026 · source · details / share
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Establishes the "Sickle Cell Treatment Act" which designates sickle cell centers for excellence and outpatient treatment centers.
May 29, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires contracting agencies to contact minority and women-owned business enterprises when such enterprise is listed on a utilization plan and when a contract is awarded; mandates that the contractor use such enterprise identified on the utilization plan, unless such enterprise cannot perform or is no longer state certified.
May 28, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires the division of criminal justice services to promulgate a written protocol for the regulation of the use of artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology in criminal investigations.
May 28, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires the state comptroller to prepare and release an annual report grading each state agency on its spending with minority- and women-owned business.
May 28, 2026 · source · details / share
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Extends the effectiveness of the state charter advisory board.
May 28, 2026 · source · details / share
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Dedicates a portion of the state highway system including the bridge on the South Service Road, between Federal Circle and Perimeter Road Overpass, crossing over the Van Wyck Expressway in Jamaica to Port Authority Police Officer Arthur M. Ansert Jr.
May 28, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes Tier IV status in the New York state and local employees' retirement system for P'nina Gluck.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires the office for the aging to develop and provide elder abuse prevention training to train senior service centers and entities that contract with the office for the aging and the office of children and family services to provide services to elderly persons in the detection and reporting of elder abuse in consultation with the office of children and family …
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Establishes a temporary state commission to conduct a feasibility study to evaluate and make recommendations concerning the formation and control of a state public bank; provides if such study finds that the state bank is feasible, the commission may recommend legislation to create a state public bank for New York.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Directs the superintendent of banks to promulgate rules and regulations requiring licensed cashers of checks to file suspicious activity reports.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Deems asset-based lending transactions to be loans for all purposes.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Prohibits the imposition of fees or surcharges for any service rendered through a banking organization relating to the use of an electronic benefit transfer card issued by the state or certain departments or agencies thereof.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Enacts the towing protection enforcement act; updates laws that regulate the towing of vehicles, including adding provisions thereto to prevent predatory towing of vehicles within the City of New York.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires covered lenders to report to the department of financial services certain information on covered loans; requires the superintendent of financial services to collect and maintain such data and to annually publish a report containing aggregated information regarding covered loans; requires the superintendent of financial services to promulgate rules and regulations to implement such provisions.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Defines the term "satisfaction" in relation to the satisfaction of judgments; allows satisfaction of judgments to be filed by affirmation rather than after notarization; increases the time during which attorneys may file satisfaction of judgment from ten to twenty years; clarifies that the twenty-day time limit applicable to filing satisfactions of judgment is measured in business days.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Provides for the registration and regulation of crypto kiosk and cashier crypto exchange operators.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to increased participation in state contracts and subcontracts by certified minority and women-owned business enterprises; requires quarterly reports from contracting agencies; addresses consequences if contracting agency fails to comply with reporting requirements; relates to certain performance and payment bond requirements.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes the city of New York to discontinue certain parkland in the borough of Queens and transfer such parkland to the metropolitan transportation authority.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires the commissioner of the office of addiction services and supports to require mental health evaluations for participants in substance use disorder treatment programs and to promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate such requirement.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes the director of the division of minority and women's business development and the mayor of the city of New York to enter into a memorandum of understanding to allow reciprocity between the state and New York City for businesses that are certified as minority and women-owned business enterprises.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to establishing expanded construction mentorship opportunities for small business enterprises where there is privity of contract between a small business enterprise and a subcontractor or contractor working on an authority public works contract.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Prohibits certain solid waste polluters from procuring public contracts for certain periods of time after violations and until all debts to the state are satisfied; prohibits individuals found guilty of solid waste pollution from serving as members of any board of any entity engaged in solid waste removal and disposal.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires that public contracts be divided by size into large, medium, small and micro contracts for the purpose of increasing opportunities for small businesses, including minority-owned business enterprises and women-owned business enterprises, to participate in state contracts.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes agencies to procure goods, services and construction from special veteran emerging business enterprises; defines special veteran emerging business enterprises.
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Apr 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Prohibits the imposition of fees or surcharges for any service rendered through a banking organization relating to the use of an electronic benefit transfer card issued by the state or certain departments or agencies thereof.
Apr 07, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires certain establishments provide tap water on request.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Proposes a constitutional amendment to increase the terms of office of members of the senate to four years.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Prohibits the use of consumer credit history in hiring, employment and licensing determinations.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Provides for multiple-person accounts; requires a signature card; provides that absent indication to the contrary, funds remaining in such an account upon the death of the depositor shall be deemed part of the depositor's estate.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Prohibits state or local police from accepting military surplus equipment from the federal government.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Provides public assistance for home internet service payments.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires inpatient facilities to dispense at-risk individuals with opioid reversal drugs upon discharge.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Extends the benefits of the variable supplements fund to all New York city police officers, firefighters, housing police, transit police, correction officers and registered domestic partners.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to the community bank deposit program; increases the maximum amount of funds on deposit at a community banking institution to thirty million dollars.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Allows a bank, in the discretion of the comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance, to arrange for the redeposit of moneys, in whole or in part, through a deposit placement program.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Expands the small business mentoring program to include contracts for construction or related services.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Directs the commissioner of the office of general services to erect a monument to be known as the "New York state African slavery and freedom memorial" in the Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza to memorialize victims of the African Holocaust, the Holocaust of Enslavement, the Black Holocaust, or the enslavement of Black people and to celebrate the universal …
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Extends the effectiveness of provisions relating to limiting the check cashing exemption for national banks and other regulated entities to August 1, 2027.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Extends the effectiveness of provisions of law relating to permissible fees in connection with open end loans from June 30, 2025 until June 30, 2027.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes the department of health to designate a level one or level two trauma center in Far Rockaway, county of Queens.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes agencies to procure goods, services and construction from special veteran emerging business enterprises; defines special veteran emerging business enterprises.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Directs the department of financial services to conduct a study on the banking development district program and to make recommendations to improve such program.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to the use of automated lending decision-making tools by banks for the purposes of making lending decisions; allows loan applicants to consent to or opt out of such use.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to an exemption from the licensing requirements for servicers of student loans.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires the collection of certain demographic information by state agencies, boards, departments and commissions.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Allows certain defenses to parking violations despite entering of a default judgment.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Enacts the Infant Vision Information, Education and Wellness Act; creates the newborn vision screening advisory committee; provides for newborn and infant vision screening; requires reporting.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Provides for a reduction of taxes pursuant to shelter rent to zero percent.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Establishes the commission on public safety, emergency preparedness, and mental health.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Dedicates a portion of the state highway system including the bridge on the South Service Road, between Federal Circle and Perimeter Road Overpass, crossing over the Van Wyck Expressway in Jamaica to Port Authority Police Officer Arthur M. Ansert Jr.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Creates the NYS entrepreneurial training act to provide grants to eligible applicants to support and train entrepreneurial candidates.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Prohibits predatory automated teller machine fees at casinos and colleges.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Provides that statements made by minor defendants as a result of deception by law enforcement during custodial interrogation are inadmissible.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to permitting students made homeless by an act of terrorism or natural disaster to attend the school district in which they resided for two school years after the event.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to the distribution of food stamp applications to emergency feeding programs.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires climate change instruction within the current established science curriculum; requires such instruction be taught in grades one through twelve.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Increases the remedy for trademark counterfeiting by removing the cap and widening the scope.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Increases the trademark registration and renewal fee from fifty dollars to one hundred dollars.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to penalties for failure to yield to authorized emergency vehicles; includes fines and possible imprisonment.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Prohibits the distribution and sale of certain lasers.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to petition for expungement of records for certain marihuana convictions.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to preventing and reporting acts of harassment at schools.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to water contamination, lead paint and air quality testing in New York city housing authority buildings.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Creates the consumer overdraft protection act to ensure that consumers are informed of their options in regard to overdraft protection.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Designates the month of September as firefighter, police officer and emergency medical technician appreciation month.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes local governments to pay higher levels of minimum wage.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Creates the lupus research enhancement program; creates the lupus research enhancement fund.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires the municipal police training council to ensure that issues related to motorcycle profiling are addressed in basic law enforcement training.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires every assessing unit to conduct a revaluation of assessment at least every eight years.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Prohibits a fee for admission to any exam that would award a high school equivalency diploma.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to residential programs for children and the rights such children have when under such care.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to authorizing small business tax-deferred savings accounts.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to requiring 911 operators to ask callers for the approximate height and weight of the patient.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Prohibits discrimination on the basis of a person's caste in opportunities of employment, housing, and access to public accommodations.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to the availability of information regarding day care services; requires disclosure of serious injury or death of child upon application for renewal of license.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Establishes the New York state democracy commission to report on certain democracy issues and how to prevent attempts to illegitimately overturn a lawful election on a local, state and federal level.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Establishes the renters' and small homeowners' credit in a city with a population of one million or more.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Makes conducting unlawful surveillance by use of a drone unlawful surveillance in the second degree.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires contractors to recycle a certain percentage of the waste generated on construction and demolition sites.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes political subdivisions to award public contracts to participants of a minority and women owned business enterprise program at a cost premium not to exceed ten percent of the lowest bid.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Establishes expanded construction mentorship opportunities for small and minority and women-owned business enterprises.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes the empire state development corporation to retain one or more independent MWBE consultant firms to conduct an independent review of procurement procedures utilized by state agencies.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to requiring participation in an alcohol and drug rehabilitation program for certain first offenders.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Establishes discrimination where insurers exclude, limit, restrict or reduce coverage of a publicly-assisted housing accommodation due to lawful source of income.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to unlawful surveillance; adds additional actions constituting unlawful surveillance in the second degree and in the first degree.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires that elections for municipal office in the city of New York shall use an "instant run-off" or "ranked choice" voting system.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Creates a temporary state commission to study and investigate how to regulate artificial intelligence, robotics and automation; repeals such commission.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to the expiration of right to collect consumer credit debt; includes any attempts made by the creditor, third-party purchaser or other authorized third party to collect such debt.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Limits the liability of a debit cardholder for unauthorized use of a debit card.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires that employees laid off due to the COVID-19 state disaster emergency retain their salary, seniority and benefits once rehired.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to admission requirements for graduate-level teacher and educational leader programs.
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Requires health insurance plans to provide coverage for epi-pens for individuals 18 years old and younger.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires the state comptroller to prepare and release an annual report grading each state agency on its spending with minority- and women-owned business.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires state agencies and contractors to recycle a certain percentage of the waste generated on public works construction and demolition sites.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires quarterly reporting on the opioid settlement fund, including the names of the recipients and the amounts awarded and received.
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Establishes the JFK Innovation Center to launch SmartCities and CleanTech innovations.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Prohibits imposing surcharges on automated teller machines located on state university of New York or city university of New York property.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to an electronically submitted absentee ballot application.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires a 60 day license suspension for any driver convicted of 2 speeding violations within a school zone, committed within an 18 month period of time.
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Creates a pre-specialized high schools admissions test and preparation program for all sixth grade students in New York city.
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Provides line of duty sick leave for first responders who are diagnosed with or display symptoms of a pandemic virus.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Adds the definition of consent to the terms of general use; defines it as a freely given, knowledgeable and informed agreement by a person with the capacity to reason.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to creating the uniform trade secrets act.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Enacts the "home mortgage bridge loan assistance act" to prevent avoidable home mortgage foreclosures by providing temporary bridge loan assistance; makes related provisions.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Amends the constitution to provide for an economic bill of rights for the citizens of the state.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Limits the amount of certain credit service charges in motor vehicle retail installment contracts.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires contractors in cities having a population of one million or more to recycle 50% of the waste generated on construction and demolition sites.
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Relates to the New York city housing authority and mold remediation; establishes after reporting such authority shall have 15 days to remediate such reported mold.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Establishes the New York Data Protection Act; requires government entities and contractors to disclose certain personal information collected about individuals.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Enacts the Kelsey Smith Act to require wireless service providers to provide call location information to law enforcement during an emergency.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires the department of corrections and community supervision to make efforts to reduce incarcerated individual telephone rates and to place a cap on the cost of outgoing calls.
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Relates to limiting the acquisition of a rifle or shotgun to one per ninety-day period.
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Provides for the issuance of summonses to each parent, including a non-custodial parent, of any juvenile who is the subject of a juvenile delinquency petition.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes the New York state department of financial services to oversee the planned closing of bank branch offices by federally chartered banking organizations.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to establishing the manufacturing development zone program and tax credits related thereto.
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Relates to prohibiting the issuance of late fees prior to a finding of liability.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Alters tax exemption programs for the development of new and affordable housing; defines "initial construction period" and "extended construction period"; makes related changes.
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Declares a climate emergency and places a ban on fossil fuel infrastructure projects but shall not apply to repair or maintenance of existing infrastructure.
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Requires a purchaser of any firearm, rifle or shotgun to submit to a mental health evaluation and provide the seller with such purchaser's approval to purchase such firearm.
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Establishes the small contractors relief act; creates the New York small contractor safety group, inc. pilot program; appropriates money therefor.
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Prohibits state officers and employees from official involvement with a state project where the officer or employee acted as a consultant on such project.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Establishes the college of renewable energy and sustainability in the city university of New York which shall offer majors relating to the field of renewable energy and sustainability.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Deems asset-based lending transactions to be loans for all purposes.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Provides for the regulation of buy-now-pay-later lenders; requires such lenders to be licensed; establishes prohibited acts, limitations on loans, and consumer protections.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Allows for mortgagors to cancel or renegotiate forbearance agreements made during a state disaster emergency.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Establishes standards for the closure of bank accounts in the state of New York to include providing notice of closure and the return of funds to account owners.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Directs the city of New York to conduct an analysis of stormwater and groundwater issues in southeast Queens.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Repeals provisions relating to mandatory anti-arson applications for insurance coverage to insure any building against the peril of fire or explosion.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to establishing the state of New York public bank to use the state's depository assets to generate additional benefit for the people and the economy of the state.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Prohibits food stores and retail establishments from refusing to accept payment in cash; provides a civil penalty will be assessed for such actions.
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Establishes September twenty-second of each year as a day of commemoration known as Veteran Suicide Awareness and Remembrance Day.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires the state university of New York and the city university of New York to examine and conduct a study on the availability of campus services, programs and resources for veteran students.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to preventing fraudulent deed transfers; protects home owners from being misled into transferring their home to mortgage servicers.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Enacts the "facial recognition technology study act" to study privacy concerns and potential regulatory approaches to the development of facial recognition technology.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Directs the superintendent of banks to promulgate rules and regulations requiring licensed cashers of checks to file suspicious activity reports.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to the establishment of the New York state promise program for community college courses; makes an appropriation therefor.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Prohibits the inclusion of a confession of judgment in a contract or agreement for a financial product or service.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires all banking organizations to have a notary public available during business hours; permits banking organizations to charge a fee for such service.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Prohibits a person convicted of rebellion or insurrection under federal law from state or municipal employment.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to adding certain notice requirements for enforcing liens on goods in self-storage facilities.
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Prohibits the eviction of tenants for using medical marihuana for a certified medical use.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Establishes a community wind energy pilot program; creates an investor owned wind energy electric generating system.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Establishes a fuel cell incentive program to be managed by NYSERDA to encourage development of fuel cell generating systems.
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Directs the department of homeland security and emergency services to conduct a study on domestic terrorism within the state and to make recommendations to address such terrorism.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Allows certain employees to transfer or receive sick time from a fellow employee.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Provides an exemption for the sale and installation of residential and commercial geothermal heat pump systems equipment.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Allows for certain notices related to property/casualty insurance contracts under the vehicle and traffic law to be delivered by electronic means.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to the definition of coal tar and its use in pavement products.
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Regulates commercial finance licensing; sets forth the application process for such licensing; makes conforming technical changes thereto.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Prohibits the use of consumer credit history in hiring, employment and licensing determinations.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to establishing a task force on safety in school transportation to review and promote such safety.
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Calls for the state to subsidize a portion of closing costs for certain individuals who have been tenants of public housing projects or rent subsidized housing for the previous five years.
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Allows credit unions, savings banks, savings and loan associations and federal savings associations to accept and secure deposits from municipal corporations.
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Requires district leadership teams to operate under open meetings law requirements.
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Requires district leadership teams and school leadership teams to include student representatives; provides who should appoint such representatives.
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Provides retroactivity to the original date of eligibility for the senior citizens rent increase exemption (SCRIE) and disability rent increase exemption (DRIE).
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Establishes the "climate safe and responsible bank procurement act", which creates standards for the purchasing of bank services.
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Relates to including information concerning repayment of outstanding loans in the standard financial aid award letter.
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Establishes a civil cause of action for employees who are subjected to an abusive work environment; provides employers shall be vicariously liable for such work environment.
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Establishes the "Sickle Cell Treatment Act" which designates sickle cell centers for excellence and outpatient treatment centers.
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Establishes a special prosecutor to investigate and prosecute matters involving the death of an unarmed civilian caused by a law enforcement officer.
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Requires grand jury proceedings for police officers or peace officers involved in a shooting or excessive use of force to be conducted in open, contemporaneous public hearings.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Enacts the "police and peace officer licensing act", which includes continuing education programs for new and current police and peace officers.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Repeals the rebates for stock transfer tax paid; dedicates funds of the stock transfer tax fund and stock transfer incentive fund to various funds; establishes the safe water and infrastructure action program.
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Increases the amount of funding permissible for the investment in a cannabis private debt or equity fund to $300,000,000.
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Establishes a fund for the creation of affordable housing for veterans and seniors.
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Relates to informal caregiver training; defines "person in need of assistance"; expands who may serve as an "informal caregiver".
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral
Raises legislator compensation to $180,000 beginning January 1, 2028, each year thereafter such salary shall be increased equal to the percentage increase, if any, in the consumer price index for all urban consumers (CPI-U).
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Makes an appropriation to reimburse St. John's Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway for costs incurred as a result of remaining open and providing services to the community during and after Hurricane Sandy.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Enacts "Lamont Dottin's Law"; relates to reporting duties with respect to missing children and adults; establishes uniform standards for searching for missing persons; expands state databanks to approach not only the problem of missing children but missing adults as well; requires police departments to establish a trained missing person specialist.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Prohibits persons under the age of twenty-one years from possessing or using cannabis except for patients certified pursuant to article three of the cannabis law; provides for the seizure of such cannabis from a person under age twenty-one and the imposition of civil penalties, community service, or both for violations.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires the state university of New York and the city university of New York to establish courses of study on ethnic studies, women's studies, and social justice; requires students to complete at least one three-credit course on ethnic studies, women's studies, or social justice to graduate with a baccalaureate degree.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral
Relates to the "Heather D. Heyer act" which increases penalties where a vehicle is used as a weapon in a hate crime and makes it illegal to travel upon a roadway in a vehicle within 1000 feet of a protest.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires certain safety standards for emergency shelter for victims and alleged victims of domestic violence during a declaration of a state disaster emergency for a disease outbreak; requires accommodations in a hotel or motel where a residential facility does not meet safety standards; requires full cost to be assumed by the state.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Prohibits persons named on the No Fly List maintained by the Terrorist Screening Center administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation from obtaining or renewing a license to carry, possess, repair and dispose of firearms.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Amends the membership of the New York city water board to include the five borough presidents, the mayor or a public member appointed by the mayor and a public member appointed by the governor who has experience in the science of water resource development.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Prohibits unlawful hiring discrimination by employers and employment agencies based upon an individual's unemployment status including decisions with regard to hiring, compensation or the terms thereof, or conditions or privileges of employment.
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Requires reporting and verification of scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions by a business with total annual revenues in excess of one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) that does business in New York; requires regulations and disclosures.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to the unlawful use of a remotely piloted aircraft; defines remotely piloted aircraft as a device used for flight in the air which is operated remotely without the possibility of direct human intervention from within or on the aircraft.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires the department of health to collect and report certain data concerning COVID-19 including racial, ethnic, and other demographic disparities throughout the state which are contributing to the amount of positive cases and the care provided for such.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to requiring the joint commission on public ethics to develop and maintain a campaign finance training course; requires all members of the legislature, their staff treasurer and all individuals running for elected office to complete the campaign finance training course.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Enacts the economic development performance review act; prescribes the functions and purposes of the special evaluation program bond act; requires state agencies involved in economic development activities to prepare an annual comprehensive performance review of their programs.
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Pertains to confinement of animals for food producing purposes; prohibits any person to tether or confine any pig during pregnancy, calf raised for veal, or egg-laying hen who is kept on a farm for all or the majority of any day in a manner that prevents such animal from lying down, standing up and fully extending its limbs and turning …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes certain state regulated institutions to offer disaster forbearance agreements to qualified mortgagors whose income has been adversely affected by the outbreak of COVID-19 and is unable to make their mortgage payment.
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Relates to certain prohibitions in contracts or agreements by health maintenance organizations; prohibits clauses which entitle reimbursement at the lowest price or rate; prohibits contracts which restrict referral of patients based solely upon a health care provider's status with a managed care product; prohibits contracts which allow for the substitution of a pharmaceutical drug or agent by any person other …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to providing for rest between work shifts; prohibits the scheduling of an employee to work the first ten hours following the end of the previous calendar day's work shift or on-call shift or the first ten hours following the end of a work shift or on-call shift that spanned two calendar days unless an employee consents or volunteers, in …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Establishes a COVID-19 essential workers scholarship program to award annual scholarships to essential employees who worked during the outbreak of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and children of essential employees who have died as a result of contracting COVID-19.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to enacting the "Esther Salas candidate privacy act" providing the option for candidates for office and petition witnesses not to put their address on designation petitions but instead file such with the county clerk for a fee.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires any information or data produced internally or by an outside consultant used by the governor, the division of the budget, the department of health or any other relevant state agency to justify such reduction be made available to elected officials prior to funding reductions for hospitals and nursing homes.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to requiring state and municipal agencies to purchase compostable single use tableware; requires state and municipal agencies purchasing single use tableware to purchase single use tableware made from material that is compostable unless there is no affordable compostable product available.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Enacts the New York state money transmission disclosure act; requires each licensee providing a transmission transaction which involves currency of one country into the currency of another country to provide the customer with a written disclosure; authorizes the superintendent of financial services to implement any necessary rules and regulations.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires reporting of climate-related financial risk by certain entities; defines climate-related financial risk to mean material harm to financial outcomes of the entity due to physical and transition risks.
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Moves the date of the presidential primary to the first Tuesday in March, also known as Super Tuesday.
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Relates to providing four days of paid leave for menstrual complications and menopause.
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Provides a period of probable usefulness for the acquisition, construction or reconstruction of or addition to a solar array or solar panel system, whether or not including buildings, land or rights in land, original furnishings, equipment, machinery or apparatus, or …
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Requires the state university of New York to install solar canopies on its campuses.
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Establishes an agrivoltaic production tax credit for farmers who manage a farm operation that is situated wholly or in part within one or more qualified agrivoltaic facilities.
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Provides an exemption from requirements for the alienation of parkland for renewable energy generating projects with a generating capacity not exceeding two megawatts and which are located above real property currently used for vehicle parking.
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Requires employers to provide leave of absence of at least five days for every 12 month period for an employee to use for menopause symptoms; requires the commissioner of labor, in consultation with the commissioner of health, to develop workplace …
Jul 15, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to preventing discrimination and increasing awareness of rights for employees with menstrual-related conditions, perimenopausal-related conditions and menopausal-related conditions; requires employers to provide employees with an informational pamphlet on any regulations relating to the rights of employees.
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Relates to the establishment of a state university-based center for employee ownership that provides education and outreach to business owners regarding employee ownership.
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Establishes the "clean fuel standard of 2026"; provides such standard is intended to reduce greenhouse gas intensity from the on-road transportation sector, with further reductions to be implemented based upon advances in technology.
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Expands protections regarding violations of safety conditions in adult care facilities; provides penalties for safety violations and operating without a valid license; prohibits reductions in fines in certain circumstances where a patient is endangered or harmed.
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Prohibits schedule B contributions on campaign finance filings.
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Establishes a temporary task force on the variable supplements fund program to make findings and recommendations.
Jun 18, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to requiring at least one member of the state board of parole be a formerly incarcerated person.
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Establishes a subpart to hear eviction matters related to affordable housing providers and small landlords; provides a subpart shall be in each borough of the city of New York; defines terms.
Jun 18, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to the taxation of vapor products; provides for the licensing of vapor products distributors; imposes certain tax return filing requirements on vapor products distributors; provides for enforcement powers.
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Relates to establishing the "340B prescription drug anti-discrimination act"; prohibits pharmaceutical manufacturers and pharmacy benefit managers from discriminating against covered entities and New York state pharmacies based on participation in the drug discount program authorized by section 340B of the …
Jun 08, 2026 · details / share
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Regulates the development and use of certain artificial intelligence systems to prevent algorithmic discrimination; requires independent audits of high risk AI systems; provides for enforcement by the attorney general as well as a private right of action.
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Enacts the "Empowering People in Rights Enforcement (EMPIRE) Worker Protection Act"; relates to the delegation of state enforcement authority to private actors; authorizes an affected employee, whistleblower, representative organization or an organizational deputy to initiate a public enforcement action on …
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to establishing a uniform metric for measuring noise impacts that will be used by airports for the purpose of noise exposure maps and noise compatibility programs.
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Requires child protective services to orally and in writing disclose certain information to parents and caretakers who are the subject of a child protective services investigation; requires such oral and written disclosure to contain certain information regarding the rights of …
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Prohibits local governments from prohibiting the construction, installation, or operation of carport-mounted solar energy systems with a nameplate capacity of five megawatts or less, in any non-residential zoning district or mixed commercial and residential zoning district of any such city, …
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to the provision of financial assistance to museums, zoos, botanical gardens, aquariums and other cultural institutions located in low-income urban, suburban or rural communities, or that provide educational services to students from such communities.
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Requires the commissioner to establish Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander history and civic impact curriculum or instructions for school districts.
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Requires all authorities having jurisdiction over a population exceeding five thousand residents to adopt a residential automated solar permitting platform by June thirtieth, two thousand twenty-six.
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Directs the New York state energy research and development authority to establish a floating solar incentive and education program to provide information and resources including technical assistance, access to industry standards, and financing available through the authority or other public …
May 28, 2026 · details / share
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Directs the department of health to establish and maintain a menopause informational and resource webpage on the department website.
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Amends provisions of law from making it mandatory to optional that where the purchase of services by state agencies be conducted in a manner that accords second priority to centralized contracts meeting form, function and utility required by such agency, …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to the reporting of suspected financial exploitation; requires the superintendent of the department of financial services to develop guidelines relating to reporting suspected financial exploitation; provides that a third party who reports suspected financial abuse shall have immunity from …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes the end predatory home flipping act; imposes a tax on the transfer of certain residential properties which are sold within two years of the prior conveyance of such property; exempts certain purchases of residential properties from mortgage recording taxes; …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Grants the legislature the authority to direct the attorney-general by concurrent resolution to inquire into matters concerning the public peace, public safety and public justice.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Prohibits the recording of conveyances suspected of being fraudulent; requires the clerk or registrar to report transactions believed to be or suspected of being fraudulent to the office of the attorney general and to local law enforcement or sheriff's office.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Increases the federal poverty level requirement for recipients where it concerns the one-time disregard of earned income following job entry.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Requires merchants to round cash purchases to the nearest five cent denomination in order to encourage the reduction of the circulation of pennies within New York state.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Defines "portable solar generation device"; exempts portable solar generation devices from interconnection or net metering requirements; requires the state energy conservation construction code to allow for portable solar generation devices to be connected to a building's wiring through an electrical …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes the "jobs and housing act"; directs the private housing finance agency to develop and administer a jobs and housing pilot program to construct and preserve housing, including workforce housing, that is affordable to low and moderate income persons, and …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Amends procedures required for the custodial interrogation of children to provide additional protections and for taking juveniles and sixteen and seventeen year olds into custody.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Authorizes certain persons confined in institutions operated by the department of corrections and community supervision to apply for a sentence reduction.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to commissaries and canteens at correctional institutions; provides that items for sale at a commissary or canteen shall be sold for no more than a certain percentage over the purchase price; provides that the department of corrections and community …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Enacts the "packaging reduction and recycling infrastructure act" to require companies selling, offering for sale, or distributing packaging materials and products to register with a packaging reduction organization to develop a packaging reduction and recycling plan; makes related provisions.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Enacts the "fairness in cooperative homeownership act"; regulates the submission and determinations of applications for ownership of cooperative apartments.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes a private right of action for deed theft; provides that victims of deed theft may maintain an action against a deed thief or a bank that provides a loan that assists in the commission of deed theft; authorizes victims …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Allows commuter vans to accept hails from prospective passengers in the street; directs the New York city taxi and limousine commission to submit to the mayor and the speaker of the council and publish on its website a report on …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to the statute of limitations for certain deed theft actions; revives such actions otherwise barred by the existing statute of limitations and states who may bring such actions; grants trial preference to such actions; directs the chief administrator of …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Designates all agents employed by the city of New York police department in the titles of traffic enforcement agent I and traffic enforcement agent II as peace officers.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Includes stormwater in the definition of sewage for purposes of certain water, sewer, and water and sewer authorities; defines stormwater.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Prohibits cases from being closed without a hearing or written stipulation; requires a stenographic record of all hearings held; requires minutes and decisions to be provided to the injured worker in their native language.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Provides for findings of the state board of parole necessary for discretionary release of incarcerated individuals on parole.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Imposes a moratorium on the issuance of permits for new data centers; requires the public service commission to issue an order or orders to minimize the impact of new data centers on electricity and gas rates for residential, commercial, and …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Requires that companies contracting with the state do not contribute to tropical forest degradation or deforestation directly or through their supply chains.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Prohibits landlords from restricting the installation of appliances or fixtures by tenants; provides that the landlord is not compelled to change utilities or alter the unit for such installation; prohibits surcharge where tenant pays utilities directly to provider; requires a …
May 21, 2026 · details / share