New York Senator Brian Kavanagh [D]

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NYS03192Intro
25%
Establishes an unemployment bridge program and an unemployment bridge program fund to provide wage replacement to workers that do not qualify for unemployment insurance or other worker wage assistance programs and who have lost a major source of inco...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS04265Intro
25%
Provides for the regulation of ingredients in personal care products and cosmetics to include restricted substances which shall be provided on lists identified by the commissioner.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS04350Intro
25%
Establishes the safe water and infrastructure action program for the purpose of making payments toward the replacement and rehabilitation of certain existing local drinking water, storm water and sanitary sewer systems; applies to any county, city, t...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS06105Intro
25%
Establishes a collection program for refrigerants and refrigerant-containing appliances; provides that no later than December 31, 2025, producers shall submit a plan to the department of environmental conservation for the establishment of a collectio...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS06130Engross
50%
Provides that an attorney licensed to practice in the state may serve as a poll watcher in any city or county in the state.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Elections Committee
NYS06327Intro
25%
Establishes new targets for offshore wind electricity generation; includes the requirements that there is at least 9,900 megawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by 2035, 15,800 megawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by 2040, at l...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Energy and Telecommunications Committee
NYS06540Intro
25%
Establishes extended producer responsibility for designated products; establishes the extended producer responsibility program fund.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS06561Intro
25%
Places limits on the maximum amount of hours a home care aide may be required to work without voluntarily consenting to such an assignment.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Labor Committee
NYS06597Engross
50%
Requires restaurants and persons authorized to sell alcoholic beverages to have tangible menus available upon request.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYS06654Intro
25%
Establishes extended producer responsibility for textiles; requires a producer, either individually or cooperatively in a group or with a representative organization to submit to the department of environmental conservation a plan for the establishme...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS06748Engross
50%
Relates to actions or practices that establish or maintain a monopoly, monopsony or restraint of trade; authorizes a class action lawsuit in the state anti-trust law; prohibits non-compete clauses in certain situations.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYS06768Intro
25%
Directs the commissioner of education to establish an incentive program for school districts wishing to implement programs of foreign language in the elementary schools; directs the commissioner of education to establish an incentive program for coll...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS00668Intro
25%
Relates to low or moderate income housing developments; allows local zoning boards of appeals to approve affordable housing developments; provides for an appeals process to the division of housing and community renewal; creates a state zoning board o...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Housing, Construction, and Community Development Committee
NYS07195Intro
25%
Relates to the availability of technical assistance grants in brownfield site remedial programs; provides that the commissioner of environmental conservation shall provide grants to the New York city community board with jurisdiction over the site or...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS07298Intro
25%
Prohibits insurance discrimination because of the affordability of residential buildings and residential construction projects.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Insurance Committee
NYS07299Intro
25%
Establishes the crimes of unlawful purchase of body armor in the first and second degree; establishes the crimes of unlawful sale of body armor in the first and second degree.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS05360Intro
25%
Establishes the office of equity for energy and climate to support local and communally developed climate projects to support disadvantaged communities, including by establishing and administering the community solutions fund and the solutions grants...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS07403Intro
25%
Extends the answer time when a major capital improvement rent increase has been filed to ninety days.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Housing, Construction, and Community Development Committee
NYS07402Intro
25%
Relates to rent impairing violations and eviction proceedings.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Housing, Construction, and Community Development Committee
NYS07497Intro
25%
Establishes the Brooklyn-Queens expressway authority for the purposes of the continuance, further development and improvement of transportation along the Brooklyn-Queens expressway and other services related thereto.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Transportation Committee
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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2024-01-03
To Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee
NYS00217Intro
25%
Prohibits the search, with or without a warrant, of geolocation and keyword data of a group of people who are under no individual suspicion of having committed a crime, but rather are defined by having been at a given location at a given time or sear...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS00306Intro
25%
Prohibits governmental entities from entering into agreements to house individuals in immigration detention facilities; requires governmental entities to terminate existing contracts for the detention of individuals in immigration detention facilitie...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee
NYS00998Intro
25%
Relates to the establishment of a single computerized state DNA identification index; requires municipalities to expunge any DNA record stored in a municipal DNA identification index.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Internet and Technology Committee
NYS04547Intro
25%
Establishes sales tax exemptions for residential and commercial energy storage systems equipment.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Budget and Revenue Committee
NYS07590Intro
25%
Establishes the New York Health program, a comprehensive system of access to health insurance for New York state residents; provides for administrative structure of the plan; provides for powers and duties of the board of trustees, the scope of benef...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Health Committee
NYS05385Intro
25%
Establishes a moratorium on the use of forensic child custody evaluators in family court proceedings by the office of court administration.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Children and Families Committee
NYS03156Intro
25%
Requires the New York city department of buildings to confirm that there are no tenants living at certain properties prior to approving or issuing permits for the demolition or the substantial alteration or renovation of such properties.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Cities 1 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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2024-01-03
To Senate Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYS07802Intro
25%
Enacts the "safer weapons, safer homes act"; requires the division of criminal justice services to certify the technological viability of personalized handguns and to establish requirements related to the sale of personalized handguns; defines person...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS07905Intro
25%
Enacts the climate and community investment act; prioritizes the allocation of public investments in disadvantaged communities; addresses climate change challenges through the expansion and growth of clean and renewable energy sources; adopts best va...
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2024-01-03
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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2024-01-03
To Senate Housing, Construction, and Community Development Committee
NYS00237Intro
25%
Relates to returnable bottles; adds wine, liquor, distilled spirit coolers, and cider and wine products to the definition of "beverage"; provides that the handling fee will be six cents for each beverage container accepted by a deposit initiator from...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS02812Intro
25%
Increases the number of traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring devices that may be installed in New York city to one thousand three hundred twenty-five intersections; extends certain provisions authorizing photo-monitoring devices until De...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Transportation Committee
NYS07684Intro
25%
Establishes an Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) leadership institute within the state university of New York as an initiative for Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) leaders in higher education with a miss...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Higher Education Committee
NYS00278Intro
25%
Establishes a course of instruction and learning expectations on climate education in all public pre-kindergarten, elementary and secondary schools which shall include various principles and concepts including environmental justice.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Education Committee
NYS03389Intro
25%
Limits the use of fossil fuels in the research or production of energy for purposes of the excelsior jobs program; prohibits businesses engaged in the production, transmission, distribution, transportation or storage of fossil fuels from participatio...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Commerce, Economic Development and Small Business Committee
NYS00206Intro
25%
Removes the lifetime ban on jury duty for convicted felons; suspends jury service of any person serving a term of incarceration for a felony conviction during the period of such incarceration.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee
NYS00451Intro
25%
Suspends the registration of a vehicle which has been documented five times within a twelve month period by a photo violation monitoring device for failure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic-control indications for a period of six months.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Transportation Committee
NYS07694Intro
25%
Establishes the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) For Kids Act prohibiting the provision of addictive feeds to minors by addictive social media platforms; establishes remedies and penalties.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Internet and Technology Committee
NYS05551Intro
25%
Establishes a tax on annual gross revenue derived from digital ads.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Budget and Revenue Committee
NYS03179Intro
25%
Provides for absence from school for the mental or behavioral health of the minor.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Education Committee
NYS07764Intro
25%
Establishes the water resiliency projects fund for flood mitigation, stormwater mitigation and other water related resiliency projects; makes an appropriation therefor.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS07663Intro
25%
Establishes a state SNAP minimum benefit program to provide a minimum amount of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits that is higher than the amount of federal SNAP benefits.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Social Services Committee
NYS02643Intro
25%
Relates to the operation of bicycles at stop signs and traffic-control signals.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Transportation Committee
NYS00143PassEnacts the "Tax-free debt forgiveness act"; excludes certain student loan forgiveness amounts authorized under 20 U.S.C. Sections 1098aa, 1098bb, 1098cc, 1098dd or 1098ee from state income tax.
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2023-12-22
APPROVAL MEMO.72
NYS01856PassEnacts the birds and bees protection act; prohibits the sale of certain pesticides or use of seeds coated with such pesticides; requires the department of environmental conservation to review the latest scientific information concerning certain pesti...
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2023-12-22
APPROVAL MEMO.77
NYS02980PassEstablishes the legal regulated rent for the combination of two or more vacant apartments; defines permanently vacated; relates to exemptions from rent stabilization on the basis of substantial rehabilitation; relates to public hearings by the city r...
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2023-12-22
APPROVAL MEMO.82
NYS02943VetoRelates to applying the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019 to rent calculations and rent records maintenance and destruction for all rent stabilized apartments.
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2023-12-22
VETOED MEMO.132
NYS04099PassProvides that it shall be unlawful for any person to organize, sponsor, conduct, promote, or participate in any contest, competition, tournament or derby where the objective of such contest or competition is to take wildlife.
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2023-12-22
SIGNED CHAP.762
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