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Steve Rhoads R

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

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On Record (27)

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Phases in tax cuts to the personal income tax over a period of ten years; repeals certain provisions relating to tax benefit recapture.
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Authorizes the Merrick Hook & Ladder Co. 1 fire company receive retroactive real property tax exempt status for the property located at 1893 Oakwood Ave, hamlet of Merrick, town of Hempstead, county of Nassau.
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Directs the director of the office of the aging to establish a caregiver crisis hotline to provide emotional support resources for informal caregivers of a person in need of assistance.
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Relates to the Volunteer and Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association of Bethpage, Nassau county, New York, Inc.; changes "firemen" to "firefighters"; directs that certain taxes received shall be used by such benevolent association in furtherance of its purposes.
Jun 18, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes the Hicksville Water District to receive retroactive real property tax exempt status.
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Authorizes the assessor of the county of Nassau to accept an application for a real property tax exemption from the Telugu Literary and Cultural Association for the property located at 1 North Village Green, hamlet of Levittown, town of Hempstead, county of Nassau.
May 29, 2026 · source · details / share
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Renames the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge the Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy Tappan Zee Bridge; directs the commissioner of transportation to provide for the installation and maintenance of adequate signage of the state highway system.
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Requires all secondary high schools to include the legal and social consequences of disseminating sexually explicit messages, imagery or video and cyberbullying in interpersonal violence prevention education in health classes.
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Dedicates a pedestrian bridge in the hamlet of Seaford to the victims of the Abbey Gate attack located in the town of Hempstead, county of Nassau.
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Expands the amount of time a notice of defect must be kept from five years to ten years.
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Prohibits certain lodging facilities from offering hourly rate options of less than six hours.
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Requires the office of fire prevention and control to establish a state database of every fire hydrant latitude and longitude coordinates; requires every municipal corporation or private entity to provide such coordinates to the office.
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Establishes the research literacy enhancement program to make grants to academic institutions within the state which seek to conduct research on literacy; creates the research literacy enhancement fund.
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Establishes a committee to examine the state industrial code and recommend any changes that need to be made; requires a report to be sent to the governor, the commissioner, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the senate minority leader and assembly minority leader on any changes that need to be made to the state industrial …
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Prohibits people from engaging in protests outside a place of religious worship; establishes that protests must be a minimum of twenty-five feet away from a place of religious worship.
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Requires a total of thirty-six hours, or eight hours per year, for a high school student to graduate.
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Provides five hundred employment slots for first responders who performed their duties in the area of the September eleventh, two thousand one terrorist attacks in the weeks and months thereafter and suffered a service-related disability as a result of being exposed to toxins.
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Authorizes Michael Kilbride to reapply for an accidental disability retirement benefit.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Enacts Alexa and Lindsey's law; prohibits disabling safety features in motor vehicles; provides enhanced penalties where it causes an accident that harms or kills another person; provides that if multiple people are harmed or killed as a result of an unsafe vehicle modification a consecutive sentence may be imposed.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes Powell House, in the village of Farmingdale, county of Nassau, to apply for and receive a retroactive property tax exemption with respect to the 2024-2025 school tax assessment rolls and the 2025 general tax assessment roll.
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Provides that no individual or entity shall be charged a central business district toll during any period of strike by an employee organization, work stoppage or declared state of emergency that causes a stoppage for more than twenty-four hours or significant delays of any metropolitan transportation authority, metro north commuter railroad, New York city transit authority, or Long Island railroad …
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Dedicates a portion of the Wantagh state parkway from route 27 to Jerusalem Road in the hamlet of Wantagh, town of Hempstead, county of Nassau to William Cornell.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Dedicates a portion of the state highway system to Police Officer Frederick G. Maley in the hamlet of North Bellmore, town of Hempstead, county of Nassau.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes Joshua Kaye to receive certain retroactive membership in the New York state and local police and fire retirement system.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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New York State Senator Steve Rhoads Partners with We Care Blankets to Launch Yarn & Blanket Drive for Kids with Cancer  The New York State Senate (.gov)
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Authorizes the New York state and local employees' retirement system to accept an application for disability retirement benefits from Andrew Reilly, Jr.
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Prohibits certain restrictions on motor vehicle sales or use.
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Relates to payment of a supplemental empire state child tax credit for the tax year 2024 and thereafter equal to $1000 per qualified newborn.
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Establishes the "first-time homebuyer tax credit act"; provides that a qualified taxpayer shall be allowed a credit against the taxes imposed by this article for taxes levied on the taxpayer's primary residence by or on behalf of any county, city, …
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Relates to environmental quality reviews of housing development projects that propose to build twenty or more units; provides that municipalities shall not be prohibited from performing their own environmental reviews.
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Reduces federal adjusted gross income by the amount of overtime compensation earned by an individual in certain circumstances; defines overtime compensation.
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Makes it a class A-1 felony to sell or transport an opiate controlled substance which causes the death of another person.
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Creates a state trooper highway memorial task force to develop and establish guidelines for recognition of members of the division of state police who have died in the line of duty; provides such recognition shall be by means of dedicating …
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Eliminates bail for all offenses; provides for imposition of restrictions and conditions and remand for certain offenses; directs consideration of a defendant's character, reputation, habits, mental condition, activities and history, and whether they pose a danger to themselves, another person …
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Establishes an income tax deduction for cash and credit card tips received which are considered wages or compensation.
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Requires assent of two-thirds of the members for any bill that enacts or increases tax revenues.
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Establishes the offenses of aggravated endangering the welfare of a child and aggravated endangering the welfare of a child resulting in death.
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Prohibits the public service commission's imposition of a system benefits charge on ratepayers' utility bills.
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Authorizes school districts to borrow against certain reserve funds, pursuant to a resolution adopted by the board of education of such school district.
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Amends the definition of "carbon dioxide equivalent" to provide that such term be calculated based on a 100-year time frame after emission; provides for rules and regulations to amend the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit; repeals provisions of law relating …
Jul 11, 2026 · details / share
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Enacts the "Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for all act"; requires a setting which allows a social media user to turn off algorithmic recommendations and other notifications; prohibits the use of dark patterns to subvert choice or inhibit users from …
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Establishes a task force to study aging in place in mental health housing; provides for the repeal of such task force upon expiration thereof.
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Establishes a one-year utility bill tax and surcharge holiday and a two-year green energy tax holiday.
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Establishes a blue envelope program for persons with mental health disorders, behavioral disorders and persons who are neurodivergent to be provided with blue envelopes to keep their identification, vehicle registration, and other related documents to improve their safety during law …
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Establishes a supplemental household and dependent care credit payment for taxpayers who are eligible for certain household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment.
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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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Authorizes exemptions from school district real property taxes for volunteer firefighters residing in such school district.
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Increases the aggregate funds available for the child care tax credit for businesses that provide child care services.
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Enacts the "pediatric palliative care act" to establish pediatric palliative care centers to provide palliative care to individuals who are under twenty-one years of age, have been diagnosed with a chronic, complex, life-threatening illness that is expected to shorten their …
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Establishes a child care program capital improvement tax credit program for child care programs to provide financial assistance to New York's child care providers to facilitate the enhancement, expansion, and improvement of access to quality child care.
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Allows school districts to permit home-schooled students to participate in district interscholastic sports.
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Increases the child and dependent care tax credit to reflect increases in the cost of child and dependent care.
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Establishes a veterans' bill of rights; provides sample language for such bill of rights; requires the department of veterans' services to establish and distribute a veterans' bill of rights and to make such bill of rights available on the department's …
Jun 24, 2026 · details / share
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Enacts the "Affordable NY act"; increases the STAR exemptions; adjusts personal income tax rates.
Jun 18, 2026 · details / share
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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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Requires an operator of a covered platform with at least one million users to ensure that its covered platform provides a process to allow law enforcement agencies to contact such covered platform, which shall provide continuous availability of such process; …
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Authorizes a death benefit option for the beneficiary of deceased justice Jerry Garguilo, a justice of the unified court system.
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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Requires each violator of "Buster's Law" to register the violator's name and address with the division of criminal justice services; makes the registration available to the public, law enforcement entities, district attorneys, humane societies, societies for the prevention of cruelty …
Jun 08, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to term life insurance suitability information and the limiting of regulations or orders promulgated by the superintendent related thereto.
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Provides for the licensure of school psychology practitioners; authorizes the use of the title "licensed school psychology practitioner" to licensed or exempt individuals; defines practice of licensed school psychology practitioners; sets forth requirements for professional licensure (including educational attainment, experience, …
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Requires age verification for internet pornography websites; imposes a $50,000 penalty per day for violations; provides exemptions for news organizations.
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Increases the amount of the credit against taxes for long-term care insurance from twenty to forty percent and from one thousand five hundred dollars to two thousand five hundred dollars.
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Requires that any sanction or civil penalty imposed by the public service commission be returned to the rate payers by means of a direct bill credit, as soon as practically feasible or no later than ninety days.
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Increases the duration of special accidental death benefits paid to a deceased member's children.
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Prohibits the use of intoxication of the victim as a defense in sex crimes where the victim is under the influence of any drug, intoxicant, or other substance to a degree which rendered the victim temporarily incapable of appraising or …
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Requires the office of victim services to publicize programs offered by the office and to include certain information in annual reports to the governor and the legislature and to make such reports public on the office's website.
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Categorizes the assault of certain employees of the New York city department of buildings or the New York city department of housing preservation and development as a class D felony.
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Directs the commissioner of the office of mental health to promulgate rules and regulations prohibiting any suicide prevention or mental health services hotline operated or sponsored by the state from being automated.
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Repeals the provision of law that volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers who receive a real property tax exemption for service may not receive the income tax credit for such service.
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Authorizes the department of motor vehicles to accept a certificate of release or discharge from active duty issued by the United States department of defense (DD form 214), a veteran identification card issued by the United States department of veterans …
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Directs the office of children and family services to establish a center for fatherhood initiatives to issue grants to initiatives regarding the promotion and advancement of fatherhood, including but not limited to all underserved fatherhood groups to help expand opportunities …
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Includes image-guided biopsies under mandatory insurance coverage for breast cancer screening.
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Directs the state education commissioner to require public school districts to report on compliance with art education instruction requirements.
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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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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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Reduces the age from 35 to 30 for a covered person's annual mammogram for persons enrolled in large group policies.
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Authorizes the issuance of "Blue Star Mother" and "Blue Star Family" distinctive license plates for parents and family members of active duty service members; establishes the "blue star mothers and families support fund".
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Provides a reduction in insurance premium charges for insured volunteer firefighters and emergency personnel for a 3 year period after successfully completing the emergency vehicle operator's course as part of their training.
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to procedures relating to driving while ability impaired by drugs; defines impairment and intoxication; updates procedures for field testing of drivers suspected of being under the influence of drugs to include the use of oral/bodily fluid tests; provides that …
May 28, 2026 · details / share
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Provides lead service line identification by a public water system that serves certain areas.
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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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Authorizes the imposition of bail for certain offenses involving threats of mass harm against a school district, school, school staff or a student.
May 28, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes an optional twenty-five year retirement plan for certain public safety dispatchers, public safety telecommunicators, 911 operators, communications officers, police communication technicians, emergency services operators and emergency services dispatchers employed by the state, or a county or municipal emergency services …
May 28, 2026 · details / share
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Enacts the "End the Toll Trap: Real Relief for Drivers Act" to address excess administrative costs incurred by public authorities for the collection of toll payments and to ensure repeat toll evaders pay such costs; creates the New York and …
May 28, 2026 · details / share
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Requires every franchisor, including its affiliates and subsidiaries to properly fulfill any warranty agreement and/or franchisor's service contract and to compensate each of its franchised motor vehicle dealers for warranty parts and labor, including but not limited to all warranty …
May 28, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes the New York state park police under the jurisdiction of the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation.
May 28, 2026 · details / share
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Allows an authority having jurisdiction over a volunteer fire department or fire company in a county, city, town, village, fire district, or fire protection district to provide volunteer firefighters with a stipend for responses to calls and for certain standby …
May 28, 2026 · details / share
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Prohibits the public display of kratom advertisements within a certain distance of schools.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to the maximum allowable timeframes to respond to requests for records under the freedom of information act.
May 21, 2026 · 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 …
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Requires that newborns are tested for Gaucher disease.
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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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Ensures ovarian cancer survivors have the right to access screenings for health conditions.
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Increases penalties for certain speed violations.
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Enacts the "home utility weatherization jobs act"; requires each gas corporation, electric corporation, or combination gas or electric corporation to submit to the public service commission for review and approval at least one and up to ten neighborhood scale weatherization …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to the creation of an innovative housing initiative for persons with a developmental disability who wish and are able to safely reside in such a setting; directs the division of housing and community renewal to establish guidelines for the …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Enacts "Bryan Johnson's law"; includes prior convictions of operation of a vessel while under the influence of alcohol or drugs as prior convictions of driving while intoxicated.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Provides that for taxable years beginning on and after January first, two thousand twenty-six, a resident taxpayer who serves as an active volunteer firefighter or as a volunteer ambulance worker shall be allowed a credit against the tax imposed equal …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to obtaining military credit for members of the New York state and local police and fire retirement system, the New York city police pension fund, and the New York city fire pension fund; provides that the calculation for military …
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.
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Requires pharmacies to provide prescription drug readers or other means of access to individuals who disclose they have difficulty seeing or reading standard print labels on prescription drug containers; defines "prescription drug reader" to mean a device which is capable …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Prohibits the keeping of inventory, storage, warehouse, processing, packaging, shipping or distributing of flavored vapor products near where vapor or tobacco products are sold at retail or wholesale.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Enacts the "New York wildlife crossing act"; directs the department of transportation and the New York state thruway authority, in consultation with the department of environmental conservation and the department of motor vehicles, to identify sites along all highways, thruways …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Provides that a board of education or a board of cooperative educational services shall have the authority to award contracts for school food services on the basis of certain scoring criteria.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to providing water utilities with access to water quality infrastructure improvement funding.
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Enacts the "pretrial risk overview for threat evaluation, custody, and treatment (PROTECT) Act" to evaluate certain defendants; establishes a risk assessment instrument to aid judges in determining whether to release or detain a principal, where and when a release is …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Requires law enforcement and courts to notify the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) when an arrested person or defendant is not a United States citizen; adjusts certain maximum sentences for class A misdemeanors and unclassified misdemeanors; requires …
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Directs the senior center council to engage in statewide planning of both a programmatic and fiscal nature to ensure the long-term sustainability and viability of senior centers in all areas of the state.
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Relates to participation in World Trade Center rescue, recovery and cleanup operations by members of the organized militia; provides that members of the organized militia shall qualify as employees for the purposes of making a claim under the workers' compensation …
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Requires 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.
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Provides for adult changing tables to be placed within an enclosed restroom facility or other similar private facility that is for use by persons with disabilities who need help with diapering at commercial places of public amusement and state-owned buildings …
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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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Provides that being eighteen years old or more, while in the course of committing rape in the first, second or third degree, criminal sexual act in the first, second or third degree, sexual abuse in the first degree, aggravated sexual …
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Establishes the New York state youth in agriculture and entrepreneurship summer employment program to provide students with the opportunity to be educated on the agricultural industry and alternative career paths and to provide agricultural work experience and entrepreneurship work experience.
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Prohibits artificial intelligence chatbots from using features which are considered unsafe for minors; defines terms; specifies what are considered unsafe features.
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Relates to the provision of criminal history background checks free of charge to mentoring programs operated by not-for-profit corporations.
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Enacts the "victims protection and child sex buyer accountability act" relating to increasing the age of victims of the patronizing, promoting, and compelling of prostitution.
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Requires gas pipeline facilities to accelerate the repair, rehabilitation, and replacement of equipment or pipelines that are leaking or leak prone and increase safety reporting relating to gas pipeline leaks; requires the public service commission to establish timelines for the …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Enacts the lead pipe replacement act to require the replacement of all lead service lines by November 1, 2037.
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Establishes the crimes of benefiting from a sex trafficking venture and aggravated benefiting from a sex trafficking venture; establishes civil action for victims of benefiting from a sex trafficking venture; revives such actions otherwise barred by the existing statute of …
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Prohibits the sale of vape products that resemble school supplies, toys, or are packaged or advertised in any way to appeal to or target minors or the youth population.
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Establishes maximum contaminant levels in drinking water for certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS); sets such levels at no higher than 4 parts per trillion (ppt) for perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and no higher than 10 …
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Provides for the inspection of property that has been vacated or abandoned for abandoned companion animals.
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Establishes the "first responder peer support program act" which supplies peer-to-peer mental health programs to first responders.
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Requires the court to consider a child's health and safety when making a decision regarding child custody and visitation; directs the court to review certain information as it relates to allegations of child abuse, domestic violence and child safety; requires …
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Allows veterans of the armed forces of the United States to fish for free in state parks under the jurisdiction of a state agency.
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Provides that no person shall engage in the aquaculture of any species of octopus in the state for the purpose of human consumption.
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Requires a pharmacy benefit manager to pay a participating pharmacy at minimum at the national average drug acquisition cost (NADAC) rate, or at the pharmacy acquisition cost rate if greater or there is not a NADAC rate, plus a professional …
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Expands the definition of "family leave" to include persons recovering from a stillbirth.
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Establishes an optional twenty-five year retirement plan for employees of the New York Power Authority with the job title of mechanic, technician, electrician, equipment operator, power plant operator, utility security officer, or lineperson.
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Prohibits the formation of a subsidiary of a public authority without prior approval of the legislature; allows the formation of a subsidiary of a public authority without prior approval of the legislature if such public authority files a written notice …
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Establishes an "operation SNUG" program within the division of criminal justice services which provides grant awards to reduce, prevent or respond to gun violence.
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Provides that public officers and employees of the state who are members of the United States Air Force Auxiliary Civil Air Patrol or the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Pilots shall be granted leave from work with pay to participate …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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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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Requires mandatory background checks for persons employed by or volunteering at any business corporation, not-for-profit corporation, limited liability company, or limited partnership that regularly provides instructional, recreational or extracurricular services to minors, including but not limited to dance studios, gymnastic …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes the New York state first home savings program to authorize first time home buyers to establish savings accounts to buy their first home.
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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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Relates to enhanced eligibility requirements of STAR; bases income on retirement.
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Adds hazardous air quality to the state definition of a disaster; requires explicit inclusion of air quality emergency preparedness in local comprehensive emergency management plans with an action plan and annual inventory of air quality emergency resources.
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Grants volunteer firefighters and emergency medical technicians academic credit at state operated institutions of the state university of New York and the senior colleges of the city university of New York to the extent of three academic credits per year, …
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Establishes the congressional chartered veterans service organizations fund; provides for gifts made to such fund on an individual's personal income tax return.
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Prohibits public employers from diminishing health insurance benefits provided to Medicare-eligible retirees and their Medicare-eligible dependents or the contributions such employer makes for such health insurance coverage below the level of such benefits or contributions made on behalf of such …
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Includes certain land that is owned or rented as a farm operation for the production for sale of crops, livestock or livestock products as land used in agricultural production.
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Enacts the whale awareness act directing the department of environmental conservation to establish recommendations and educational materials for reduction of marine mammal interactions.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes the farm ownership succession planning program to provide farm owners with a succession planning toolkit that can be used by such farm owners who plan on selling or closing their farm.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Defines "period of war" for the alternative veterans' exemption.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Authorizes early renewal of vehicle registration for members of the armed forces who will be engaged in the performance of their official military duties upon its expiration.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Provides for permitted leaves of absence for members of the civil air patrol during emergencies for purposes of assisting with such emergencies.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Requires mobile sports wagering operators to share monthly invoice statements to authorized consumers; specifies information required.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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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 …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Prohibits the sale of products that contain 7-hydroxymitragynine at a level that exceeds 2% of total alkaloids or one milligram per serving; establishes fines for the sale of such products.
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Enacts the "no gambling ads for kids act" under which certain covered platforms and social media platforms are prohibited from advertising a service permitting gaming-related gambling, predictive market wagering, online sweepstakes gaming, sports-related gambling, and/or traditional online gambling to minors.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Directs the department of motor vehicles to develop a plan to increase the availability of wheelchair accessible vehicles, by county, in New York state outside of the city of New York; defines accessibility; requires a report to identify any existing …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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