New York Senator Brian Kavanagh [D] | Bills | Introduced

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NYS02944Intro
25%
Prohibits requiring that an individual have a court proceeding initiated against him or her in order to qualify for a rent arrears grant or ongoing rental assistance.
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2024-05-14
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS05004Intro
25%
Provides an exemption for the sale and installation of residential and commercial geothermal heat pump systems equipment.
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2024-05-14
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS09389Intro
25%
Allows access to juvenile delinquency records for the purposes of a firearm background check; authorizes the denial of a firearm license for an applicant who is under the age of thirty and who as a juvenile was adjudicated delinquent for an offense w...
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2024-05-14
To Senate Children and Families Committee
NYS04888Intro
25%
Implements additional restrictions on actions to recover overpayment of certain assistance.
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2024-05-13
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS00774Intro
25%
Establishes the "earned time act" providing for time allowances against the term or maximum term of sentences imposed by the court to be credited on an annual pro rata basis.
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2024-05-13
To Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee
NYS07648Intro
25%
Relates to the appointment of members of the Battery Park city authority; increases the number of members to nine; requires five of the nine members be primary residents of Battery Park city.
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2024-05-13
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS09346Intro
25%
Requires each town, village, and city to develop a "housing action plan for everyone", including consideration of local needs and specific strategies to address those local needs.
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2024-05-13
To Senate Local Government Committee
NYS07941Intro
25%
Expands the public education and outreach program required to be developed by manufacturers of electronics and electronic waste collection sites.
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2024-05-13
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS09326Intro
25%
Establishes the bank of Rochester, including provisions related to definitions; sponsors and corporate structure; powers and restrictions; governance; charter requirements; financial and operations frameworks; transparency and financial reporting; in...
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2024-05-13
To Senate Banks Committee
NYS09283Intro
25%
Includes information on congenital heart defect births in the informational leaflets required to be given to maternity patients by hospitals and birth centers.
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2024-05-09
To Senate Women's Issues Committee
NYS06959Intro
25%
Provides for the calculation and analysis of certain health center costs.
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2024-05-08
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS04746Intro
25%
Requires fashion sellers to be accountable to standardized environmental due diligence policies; establishes the fashion environmental accountability act compact to create an interstate fashion environmental accountability commission; establishes a f...
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2024-05-07
To Senate Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYS02689Intro
25%
Enacts the "Renewable Capitol act"; requires the office of general services, in consultation with the power authority of the state of New York, to ensure that all operations that power, heat or cool the empire state plaza complex shall entirely use r...
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2024-05-07
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS00307Intro
25%
Provides for findings of the state board of parole necessary for discretionary release of incarcerated individuals on parole.
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2024-05-06
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS06089Intro
25%
Relates to the purchase of zero-emission buses and the procurement of electric-powered buses, vehicles or other related equipment and infrastructure; requires public utilities to have infrastructure, capacity, facilities, and transmission and distrib...
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2024-05-06
RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN
NYS08106Intro
25%
Increases the amount of geothermal energy systems tax credits.
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2024-05-06
RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN
NYS00237Intro
25%
Relates to returnable bottles; adds noncarbonated soft drinks, certain noncarbonated fruit or vegetable juices, coffee and tea beverages, carbonated fruit beverages and cider to the definition of "beverage"; provides that beginning April 1, 2026, the...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS07791Intro
25%
Enacts the "faith-based affordable housing act" for development on residential land; defines terms; provides that each village, town, and city shall allow the construction and occupation of residential buildings on any covered site up to the specifie...
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2024-05-01
To Senate Housing, Construction, and Community Development Committee
NYS09084Intro
25%
Clarifies certain provisions relating to the prohibition on budget planning; allows the attorney general to apply for an order enjoining or restraining commission or continuance of violations.
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2024-04-22
To Senate Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYS07809Intro
25%
Relates to notice of certain medical options and to communication with the person being tested prior to HIV related testing.
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2024-04-19
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS09074Intro
25%
Requires municipalities to include an Affordable Housing Needs Assessment to establish a data-based foundation for the creation and preservation of affordable housing in the municipality, utilizing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development...
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2024-04-16
To Senate Local Government Committee
NYS09073Intro
25%
Requires municipalities to determine whether it is in the public interest to create a comprehensive plan adapted to the special requirements of the municipality and to determine whether it is in the public interest to update such comprehensive plan a...
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2024-04-16
To Senate Local Government Committee
NYS09072Intro
25%
Requires local governments to prepare and adopt an affordable housing plan no later than December 31, 2024; defines local government as a city, town or village; requires plan to identify the regional need for affordable housing, as well as such need ...
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2024-04-16
To Senate Local Government Committee
NYS02986Intro
25%
Provides for state assistance to local governments for the enforcement of fire prevention and building codes using monies paid into the code enforcement account.
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2024-04-15
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS08385Intro
25%
Relates to an exemption for certain property from the prohibition of alcohol sales within a certain distance of a church for a condominium building in Manhattan.
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2024-04-15
SUBSTITUTED BY A8615
NYS00666Intro
25%
Relates to licensing consumer debt collectors; sets minimum standards and regulations; establishes penalties for violations.
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2024-04-09
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS07127Intro
25%
Establishes twenty-five year retirement programs for members of the New York city employees' retirement system employed as fire protection inspectors and associate fire protection inspectors.
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2024-03-27
To Senate Civil Service and Pensions Committee
NYS06471Intro
25%
Enacts the "Marvin Mayfield act", eliminating mandatory minimum sentences.
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2024-03-27
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS02276Intro
25%
Establishes a program to address the legalization of specified basements and cellars and the conversion of other specified basements and cellars in a city with a population of one million or more.
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2024-03-22
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS08847Intro
25%
Provides for the revocation of licenses to sell cigarettes, tobacco products, alcohol and lottery tickets for the possession or sale of illicit cannabis in violation of the cannabis law.
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2024-03-20
To Senate Budget and Revenue Committee
NYS03434Intro
25%
Eliminates provisions exempting employees with disabilities from the minimum wage law; provides that laws or minimum wage orders that authorize an employer to pay a wage that is less than the minimum wage are valid provided that under such laws or or...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Disabilities Committee
NYS08631Intro
25%
Permits a candidate who was depicted in materially deceptive media in a political communication to seek injunctive or other equitable relief prohibiting the publication of such materially deceptive media unless certain disclosures are provided; estab...
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2024-03-14
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS07695Intro
25%
Establishes the New York child data protection act to protect minors from having their personal data accessed; provides exceptions in certain circumstances.
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2024-03-12
To Senate Internet and Technology Committee
NYS06408Intro
25%
Requires chain restaurants to display an added sugars warning next to or directly under the name of each food item with high added sugars content wherever such food item is listed on a menu, menu board, or food tag, and by any self-serve dispensing p...
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2024-03-05
AMENDED ON THIRD READING 6408B
NYS02079Intro
25%
Requires food service establishments to permit the use of reusable beverage and food containers provided by customers when requesting a beverage refill or requesting leftovers from a partially consumed meal to be packaged and post signs to inform cus...
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2024-03-04
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS08229Intro
25%
Increases the statewide energy storage capacity to six gigawatts by the year 2030.
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2024-03-04
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS07927Intro
25%
Protects wolves by requiring animals which could be wolves be submitted for a DNA test and, when determined to be wolves, requiring the department take action to protect wolves from being taken in the future.
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2024-03-01
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS07625Intro
25%
Prohibits surcharges on self-installed dishwashers in housing accommodations subject to rent control when the tenant pays for electric utility service.
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2024-02-28
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS04246Intro
25%
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 a...
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2024-02-27
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS00277Intro
25%
Provides for a working families tax credit; directs quarterly prepayment of the credit; provides for a sliding reduction in the credit for incomes which exceed a certain threshold.
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2024-02-27
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS06869Intro
25%
Requires the comptroller to retain, from revenues collected from unclaimed bottles, an amount equal to 2% of the total revenues collected in the prior calendar year, for use towards expanding and creating bottle redemption centers under the beverage ...
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2024-02-27
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS08652Intro
25%
Relates to emergency rental assistance; prohibits the requirement that a court proceeding has been initiated against an individual in order for such individual to qualify for a rent arrears grant or ongoing rental assistance (Part A); removes the req...
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2024-02-26
To Senate Social Services Committee
NYS06055Intro
25%
Prohibits certain food additives and food color additives; provides that in an action to enforce compliance, the recognition by the federal food and drug administration of any of these substances as safe may not be alleged as a defense.
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2024-02-22
To Senate Agriculture Committee
NYS08615Intro
25%
Establishes requirements for the reporting of GRAS (generally recognized as safe) substances.
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2024-02-21
To Senate Agriculture Committee
NYS00541Intro
25%
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 organiz...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Labor Committee
NYS00183Intro
25%
Relates to assisting persons with medically diagnosed HIV infection.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS02962Intro
25%
Relates to creating the Neighborhood Small Business Rent Increase Exemption; provides a tax abatement for limiting rent increases on small businesses in a city of one million or more persons.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS05270Intro
25%
Relates to increasing the standards of monthly need and home energy grant amounts for persons in receipt of public assistance.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS01939Intro
25%
Increases the state code enforcement powers of the secretary of state by establishing a state code enforcement office headed by an ombudsperson.
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2024-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS02505Intro
25%
Relates to the creation of a statewide residential rental registry providing information relating to rental units including the number and types of code violations issued by the appropriate enforcement agency, and the number of findings of harassment...
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2024-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee
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