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Sam Sutton D

State Senator
New York Senate District 17 — Seat 5
Term: — – Jan. 3, 2028
2 Total

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On Record (28)

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Requires all persons in a city having a population of one million or more operating a bicycle, electric bicycle or electric scooter to wear a helmet; imposes a civil penalty for violation of such requirement.
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Provides dormitory authority financing for construction of buildings to be used as a school for Yeshiva Ohr Yoseph.
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Provides that an adult individual who has transferred into the OPWDD system of care from a transitional care placement at an out-of-state or in-state residential school or adult program associated with a residential school, and whose health, safety, or welfare are being adversely affected in the OPWDD system of care, is allowed to return to their prior transitional care placement, …
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Enacts the "building retention and internship-to-degree graduate employment (BRIDGE) act"; provides limited work permits for students in a master of social work program; establishes policies and procedures for such work permit.
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Relates to certain procedural protections granted to third-party sellers and seller profiles of online marketplaces; provides that online marketplaces must provide notice and an opportunity to respond before a seller or profile is suspended; provides that a suspended third-party seller or seller profile shall have the right to appeal the determination of the online marketplace in seeking account reinstatement.
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Provides that school bus transportation be provided where: a parent or guardian of a child not residing in the district on the April first date submits a written request within thirty days after establishing residence in the district; a family moves to a different dwelling within the district during the school year; a school moves locations from one location to …
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Requires that newborns are tested for Gaucher disease.
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Requires health insurance plans to provide coverage for continuous blood glucose monitors for all children; requires coverage for glucose monitoring devices for all sugar disorders.
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Includes the attacks on September 11, 2001 in courses of instruction in patriotism and citizenship.
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Requires the registration of bicycles with electric assist used for commercial purposes; provides liability of employers for certain violations.
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Prohibits certain surcharges on certain credit or debit card transactions in the city of New York; provides that no agency or department of the city of New York, or any tribunal located therein, shall be authorized to impose a surcharge on a holder who elects to use a credit or debit card in lieu of payment by cash, check, or …
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Relates to providing transportation after four o'clock.
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Prohibits unclaimed human remains from being buried, cremated, or otherwise finally disposed of unless such remains have first been entered into the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, and for a period of time thereafter as specified by the commissioner of health.
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Provides that reimbursement payable for grants for nonpublic school safety equipment shall be paid within twelve months of the nonpublic school furnishing all required application materials for such grant to the department of education; requires the commissioner of education to report on any such reimbursements payable.
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Requires manufacturers with gross annual beverage sale revenues of ten million dollars or more, beginning January 1, 2030, to sell and distribute plastic beverage containers with tethered plastic beverage caps or openings from which the beverage can be consumed while the plastic beverage cap remains screwed onto or otherwise affixed to the plastic beverage container; requires manufacturers with gross annual …
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Allows the city of New York to convey the Amity Little League Baseball Complex to the Amity Little League, Inc. for a period of forty years; subjects the conveyance to the provisions of the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure.
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Requires a payroll services business to compile and provide annual wage and tax statements and/or year-end forms to clients without additional cost or delay.
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Enacts the "Give Kids a Chance - Carter's Law" mandating health insurance coverage for congenital anomalies including certain reconstructive services, habilitative services, and inpatient and outpatient services.
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Enhances criminal penalties for criminal mischief and larceny offenses committed at a place of religious worship and for cemetery desecration.
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Relates to certain procedural protections granted to third-party sellers and seller profiles of online marketplaces; provides that online marketplaces must provide notice and an opportunity to respond before a seller or profile is suspended; provides that a suspended third-party seller or seller profile shall have the right to appeal the determination of the online marketplace in seeking account reinstatement.
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Increases the mandatory retirement age of members of the uniformed force of the fire department of the city of New York from sixty-five to sixty-seven.
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Requires health insurance plans to provide coverage for continuous blood glucose monitors for all children; requires coverage for glucose monitoring devices for all sugar disorders.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires that newborns are tested for Gaucher disease.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to providing transportation after four o'clock; provides a formula for aid.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires insurance coverage to backup devices for patients with cochlear implants during the initial implantation and for replacements and upgrades.
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Directs the department of health to establish an alternative payment methodology (APM) for federally qualified health centers to preserve and improve patient access to fertility care.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share

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Establishes a specialized health home program to serve certain individuals with physical disabilities who are Medicaid eligible adults eighteen years of age or older with a diagnosis of a neurological, muscular, or neuromuscular condition, and a mobility impairment; provides that …
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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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Requires public schools to follow seizure action plans developed by health care providers of students diagnosed with a seizure disorder; requires schools to provide seizure awareness training to certain employees on the recognition of signs and symptoms of a seizure …
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Requires advertisements of a discounted price of a good or service have such price be actually discounted from a bona fide regular price.
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Provides for adjustment of the maximum income threshold for eligibility for the senior citizen rent increase exemption (SCRIE), disability rent increase exemption (DRIE), senior citizen homeowners' exemption (SCHE), and disabled homeowners' exemption (DHE) by any increase in the consumer price …
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Requires the department of education to report information regarding counselors, social workers and psychologists in schools and to implement a plan to increase the school counselor, school social worker and school psychologist to student ratio to nationally accepted standards and …
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Prohibits organized militias from another state, territory, or district from entering into New York for the purpose of doing military duty without the express permission of the governor unless such militia has been called into federal service and is acting …
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Establishes a program for specific individuals to become complex care assistants and provide private duty nursing services to certain Medicaid enrollees.
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Provides for automatic voter registration and pre-registration for persons applying for certain department of motor vehicles documentation, and for persons applying for or re-enrolling in Medicaid; allows individuals to decline such automatic registration and pre-registration.
May 28, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to allowing for students in certain postsecondary education experience or transition programs to receive awards from the tuition assistance program.
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Establishes the New York state park police under the jurisdiction of the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation.
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Improves transparency in the insurance claims process; regulates insurance adjusting professionals; institutes licensing standards for insurance professionals; ensures timely responses to insurance claims; enhances policyholder protections.
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Prohibits a property owner from enforcing or adopting a restriction that prohibits one or more religious items from being displayed or affixed on any entry door or entry doorframe of a dwelling.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes uniform waiting list priorities for domestic violence survivors applying for public housing.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to fair pricing for low-complexity, routine medical care to more closely align payment rates across ambulatory settings for selected services that are safe and appropriate to provide in all settings.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Enacts the "ceasing repeated and extremely egregious predatory (CREEP) behavior act"; provides for the issuance of anti-stalking orders.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Requires the Medicaid inspector general to comply with standards relating to the audit and review of medical assistance program funds.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Prohibits the use of electronic shelving labels, digital shelf display technology in food retail establishments and drug retail establishments; provides injunctive relief and civil penalties.
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Enacts "Brendon's law" to prohibit participation, including spectators within two hundred feet, of any motor vehicle speed contest, sideshow and street takeovers; authorizes seizure and forfeiture; adds damaging an authorized emergency vehicle as constituting the crime of criminal mischief in …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Requires manufacturers of internet-enabled devices to conduct age assurance to determine a user's age category and provide all websites, online services, online applications and mobile applications on such user's internet-enabled device and/or application store manufactured by the covered manufacturer with …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Prohibits the ownership, operation or control of pharmacies directly or indirectly by pharmacy benefit managers.
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Enacts "Francesco's law" which establishes violations for the failure to safely store rifles, shotguns, and firearms in the presence of a minor or a prohibited person; requires the office of gun violence prevention to collect and analyze statistical and other …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to the eligibility of New York city transit authority employees for performance of duty disability retirement.
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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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Relates to employment contracts between school bus workers and the department of education in a city with at least one million inhabitants.
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Prohibits the use of surveillance pricing, directly or indirectly; prohibits the collection, use, retention, or sharing of data to facilitate surveillance pricing; provides exceptions; provides for enforcement by the attorney general; makes related provisions.
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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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Requires each school district to ensure that every public school in which school days exceed five hours in duration provides up to thirty minutes of daily recess within the school day for all students in kindergarten through fifth grade and …
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Defines affordability option D under the affordable neighborhoods for New Yorkers tax incentive to include an annual adjustment to reflect the percentage increase in the consumer price index for all urban consumers published by the United States department of labor.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Repeals provisions relating to resolutions of disputes in the course of collective negotiations with certain deputy sheriffs to provide such deputy sheriffs with the same interest arbitration scope as municipal police officers.
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Requires timely public advertising or marketing of listed residential properties on platforms accessible to the general public; permits non-public marketing only where the seller gives informed, written direction after receiving a standardized state disclosure that clearly explains the risks and …
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Provides 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 fee schedule for the same service or item.
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Relates to the sale and possession of self-defense spray devices in the state; removes the requirement that only authorized dealers and pharmacists could sell such devices; permits shipping of such devices within the state; repeals certain provisions of law relating …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Provides remedies for disrupted voting times and locations during elections; directs that the BOE extend voting to account for the disruption.
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Establishes the large projects historic rehabilitation tax credit and the "white elephant" housing historic rehabilitation projects tax credit program for qualified rehabilitation expenditures totaling fifty million dollars or more with respect to a certified historic structure that has been vacant, …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Provides for the sealing of unfounded, exonerated, and pending claims made against law enforcement officers; requires such claims to be redacted from disciplinary records.
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Permits courts to award punitive damages against an estate for sexual abuse.
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Relates to the issuance of license plates for persons rated one hundred percent disabled by the United States department of veterans affairs.
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Returns outpatient mental health, substance use disorder, residential and rehabilitation services to Medicaid fee-for-service.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes participation in assigned risk plans for voluntary foster care agencies (Part A); requires the office of children and family services to establish standards of payment for liability insurance costs beginning July 1, 2028 for the 2027-2028 rate year that …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Requires each board of education to adopt a written policy for reconsideration of school library materials and make such policy available on its website; requires such policies to include provisions for the creation of a reconsideration committee to review complaints …
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Provides WiFi service and internet access to all individuals residing in temporary housing; relates to funding for internet service under the ConnectAll digital equity grant program.
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Enacts the "consumer wheelchair repair bill of rights act" requiring manufacturers to make available certain documentation, parts, embedded software, firmware, or tools necessary for repairing equipment; establishes a timely repair for wheelchair program; extends the warranty period for wheelchairs to …
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Provides for supervision by certain marriage and family therapists and mental health counselors who meet certain experience requirements.
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