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Tom O'Mara R

State Senator
New York Senate District 58
Term: — – Jan. 3, 2028
1 Total

Biography

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On Record (66)

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Jun 30, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes the town justice of the town of Dix, county of Schuyler, to be a nonresident of such town.
Jun 18, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes Lt. Thomas Cleere to change his service credit from the improved career retirement plan to a 20 year retirement plan.
May 29, 2026 · source · details / share
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Expands approval power for actions taken at meetings of the New York state energy research and development authority to include the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the senate, and the minority leader of the assembly.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Permits Yates county assistant district attorneys and assistant public defenders to reside in Monroe county.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes an optional 20-year retirement plan for traffic officers employed by the town of Elmira, who submit an application therefor within one year of the effective date of such provisions, or within one year of start of employment.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes the renewal of the WSKG lease for such land, tower and associated utility lines to the Tioga county emergency services, the Newark Valley central school district, the Berkshire fire department and the town of Berkshire highway department for a period of ten years.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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O'Mara, Senate colleagues seek accountability on state's process for siting renewable energy projects  The New York State Senate (.gov)
Apr 09, 2026 · source · details / share
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Grants retroactive tier II membership in the New York state and local police and fire retirement system to Cory M. Rose for part-time employment during 2004--2005.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Provides that beginning January 1, 2027, any order issued to set the rate of gas and electricity, not including surcharges or tariffs, shall be in effect for three years.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Prohibits the sale or lease of any property in the state to the People's Republic of China or the Chinese communist party.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Allows surplus or uncommitted funds in the New York state climate investment account to be returned to ratepayers.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Permits Yates county assistant district attorneys and assistant public defenders to reside in Chemung county.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to an exemption from the prohibition of alcohol sales within a certain distance from a church, for a certain property located in the village of Hammondsport, county of Steuben.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes the town justice of the town of Montour, county of Schuyler, to be a nonresident of such town.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes Lt. Thomas Cleere to change his service credit from the improved career retirement plan to a 20 year retirement plan.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes Sgt. Bethany Kidd to receive certain service credit under a twenty year retirement plan for service with the Seneca Falls Police Department.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Extends the authorization of the county of Steuben to impose an additional one percent of sales and compensating use taxes through November 30, 2027.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Grants free access to state parks for firefighters upon showing a sufficient method of identification, as designated by the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation or other state agency having jurisdiction.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Extends the authorization of the county of Chemung to impose an additional one percent of sales and compensating use taxes to November 30, 2027.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Extends the authorization of the county of Tioga to impose an additional one percent of sales and compensating use taxes through November 30, 2027.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Extends provisions relating to the mortgage tax in the county of Yates until December 1, 2027.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Extends the authorization of the county of Schuyler to impose an additional one percent of sales and compensating use taxes through November 30, 2027.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Extends provisions relating to the mortgage tax in the county of Steuben until December 1, 2027.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Extends the authorization of the county of Yates to impose an additional one percent of sales and compensating use taxes through November 30, 2027.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Extends the expiration of the authorization for the county of Seneca to impose an additional one percent sales and compensating use tax for two years.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Designates uniformed marine patrol officers appointed by the sheriff of Seneca county as peace officers in the county of Seneca.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to the availability and purchase of zero-emission school buses.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Allows school resource officers to be hired with salary aidable to the school district; raises retirement salaries for such officers to fifty thousand dollars.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes the legislature to modify an executive order.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Makes the crimes of menacing and stalking bail eligible.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Permits animal-drawn vehicles to equip and use amber flashing lights; does not apply to such vehicles in a city with a population of one million or more.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Grants peace officer status to animal control officers of the county of Schuyler; defines "animal control officer".
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to exempting homeowners from tax increases for certain renewable energy systems.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires the county seat in Seneca county to have at least one polling place designated for early voting.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Dedicates a portion of the state highway system constituting a portion of state route 14 to Sergeant James S. Hayes.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Designates certain portions of the state highway system between Cayuga lake and Seneca lake as the "Between Cayuga and Seneca Lakes Wine Trail".
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to criminal penalties for possession, theft, or sale of stolen firearms, shotguns and rifles; makes technical corrections to section 155.42 of the penal law.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Includes fires caused by the manufacture of a controlled substance within the crime of arson in the first degree.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Reimburses counties who have purchased or will purchase document management software designed specifically for the child welfare industry.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Makes penalties for the possession and/or sale of methamphetamine similar to that of the penalties for possession and/or sale of heroin and cocaine.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Permits instruction in hunting, fishing and outdoor education in high school physical education courses.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Makes technical corrections to the environmental conservation law, providing for misdemeanor penalties for hunting, trapping, or fishing without a valid license.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Includes reckless operation of a motor vehicle resulting in the death or serious injury of a companion animal in the definition of aggravated animal cruelty.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to the transportation of liquefied natural and petroleum gas.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Removes restrictions on crossbow size and draw weight when used for hunting.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Includes the throwing, tossing or expelling of saliva at or on an employee of a correctional facility within the crime of aggravated harassment of an employee by an incarcerated individual.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes an increase in the maximum speed limit to 70 mph for travel on roadways that currently have a maximum speed limit of 65 mph.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Directs the commissioner of the department of health to apply for a waiver to implement a work requirement for able-bodied adult recipients of Medicaid.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Includes certain acts and subsequent penalties in the criminal sale of cannabis.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to business income base and certain small business taxpayers.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires the division of state police to send renewal notices to holders of a license to carry or possess a pistol or revolver at least 90 days before expiration of such license.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Reimburses counties who have purchased or will purchase Medicaid fraud detection software.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Allows for the taking of Zenaida macroura, commonly known as the mourning dove, as a migratory bird.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Grants free access and parking at state parks for active-duty military members and veterans upon showing an active-duty military or veteran's ID card.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Establishes a home heating tax credit for qualified taxpayers with an income of $125,000 or less for single filers, or with a combined income of $250,000 or less for joint filers.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Grants peace officer status to officers and members of the security force of Arnot Health, Inc.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Enacts the "nuclear energy deployment act"; directs the New York state energy research and development authority, in consultation with the public service commission and the department of environmental conservation, to promulgate rules and regulations to facilitate the construction and operation of advanced nuclear reactors and to review and evaluate certain existing regulations and regulatory actions taken concerning nuclear energy; directs …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Establishes the commission on reopening the Indian Point energy center; relates to definitions of certain terms relating to renewable energy; repeals provisions relating to electric generating facilities; directs the New York state energy research and development authority to conduct a feasibility study on nuclear small modular reactors.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Establishes the New York state familial search policy; relates to the release of certain information for familial DNA searches where a written agreement governing the use and dissemination of such DNA records exists.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Directs the department of environmental conservation and office of temporary and disability assistance to establish programs to encourage the removal and replacement of single-wall steel home heating oil storage tanks which are leaking or otherwise pose a threat to the environment.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes Mark Barnhart, David Skinner, and James Pappas to take the competitive civil service examination and be placed on the eligible civil service list for employment as full-time police officers with the village of Wayland.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes any justice or judge in the state to obtain a license to have and carry concealed a pistol or revolver; such amendments allow such justices and judges to carry concealed in the courthouse, when read in conjunction with existing language in paragraph (g) of subdivision 3 of section 265.01-e of the penal law.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes the village of Bath, in Steuben county to adopt and amend local laws imposing a tax on persons occupying a room for hire in any hotel in an amount not to exceed 2% of the per diem rental rate for each room; provides for the expiration and repeal of such provisions on September 1, 2027.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Enacts the "omnibus emergency services volunteer incentive act" to provide benefits to volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers; increases the personal income tax deduction after four or more years of service; exempts motor vehicles used in the performance of such volunteers' duties from registration fees, use taxes and special fees for volunteer license plates; authorizes the provision of municipal health insurance …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes a correction to an error in the tax assessment rolls of the Bath Central School District; makes an appropriation of $500,000 to address the school district's shortfall that resulted from the error.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share

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Adopts the interstate nurse licensure compact (Part A); adopts the advanced practice registered nurse compact (Part B).
Aug 06, 2026 · details / share
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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.
Aug 06, 2026 · details / share
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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.
Aug 02, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the offense of murder in the second degree to include when a person knowingly distributes fentanyl or any substance containing fentanyl and as a result of such distribution causes the death of another person; establishes the crime of aggravated …
Aug 02, 2026 · details / share
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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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Establishes a one-year utility bill tax and surcharge holiday and a two-year green energy tax holiday.
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Allows school districts to permit home-schooled students to participate in district interscholastic sports.
Jun 30, 2026 · details / share
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Restores judicial discretion relating to bail reform; provides that when the defendant is charged with a felony, the court shall request of the applicable county pre-trial services agency a risk and needs assessment be conducted on the eligible defendant for …
Jun 24, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes a real property tax freeze credit for taxpayers in certain eligible school districts.
Jun 18, 2026 · details / share
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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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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.
May 29, 2026 · 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 · 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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Enacts the online revenues and expenditures transparency act to provide for the development of a single, searchable budget database website accessible to the public, at no cost.
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 the Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River flood prevention, response, recovery and mitigation task force; establishes reporting and public hearing requirements for the Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River flood prevention, response, recovery and mitigation task force.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Provides that certain persons shall not be deemed a distributor for certain sales of premium cigars; provides that the tax on premium cigars shall be at the rate of seventy-five percent of the wholesale price or fifty cents, whichever is …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Repeals the major renewable energy development program, including the office of renewable energy siting and electric transmission; and amends various provisions of law relating thereto.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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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 …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes a stakeholder group in the Oswego river basin to coordinate water release.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes the rural suicide prevention council to identify barriers to mental health and substance use treatment and prevention services and other policies, practices, resources, services, and potential legislation that aim to reduce death by suicide and suicide attempts and acknowledge …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to dispensing certain controlled substances for use by a person with a substance use disorder during certain emergency medical treatment, or to relieve acute withdrawal symptoms.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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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 …
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.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Provides for the use of restoration services when determining the capacity of a defendant to stand trial.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Defines "period of war" for the alternative veterans' exemption.
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