New York Senator Brian Kavanagh [D] | Bills

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NYS00643Engross
50%
Relates to rechargeable battery recycling; adds a battery used as the principal electric power source for an electric scooter or bicycle with electric assist to the definition of "rechargeable battery"; provides that a battery manufacturer may not se...
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2024-03-28
To Assembly Codes 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
NYS02935Engross
50%
Enacts the "just energy transition act"; requires a study of competitive options to facilitate the phase-out, replacement and redevelopment of New York state's oldest and most-polluting fossil fueled generation facilities and their sites by the year ...
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2024-03-27
To Assembly Energy Committee
NYS02714Engross
50%
Enables safe access to public roads for all users by utilizing complete street design principles.
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2024-03-27
To Assembly Transportation Committee
NYS01634Engross
50%
Relates to penalties for failure to comply with maintenance and reporting of vacant and abandoned properties, and reporting and release of information; provides for the sharing of information between municipalities; provides for enforcement for failu...
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2024-03-26
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYS02418Engross
50%
Expands remedies for violations of New York state uniform fire prevention and building code.
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2024-03-26
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYS05414Engross
50%
Authorizes the legislature to increase the number of justices of the supreme court in any judicial district.
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2024-03-26
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYS01099Intro
25%
Amends procedures required for the custodial interrogation of children to provide additional protections and for taking juveniles and sixteen and seventeen year olds into custody.
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2024-03-26
To Senate Codes 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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2024-03-26
To Senate Energy and Telecommunications 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
NYS00314Engross
50%
Directs the New York state energy and development authority to establish a ride clean rebate program for electric assist bicycles and electric scooters; defines terms; provides a fifty percent rebate for eligible pucrhases.
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2024-03-22
To Senate Energy and Telecommunications Committee
NYS08861Intro
25%
Includes stormwater in the definition of sewage for purposes of certain water, sewer, and water and sewer authorities; defines stormwater.
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2024-03-22
To Senate Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYS03381Engross
50%
Requires certain documents and forms to be provided in the twelve most common non-English languages spoken by limited English proficient immigrants of five years or less according to the American community survey, as published by the United States ce...
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2024-03-21
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS00622Engross
50%
Relates to application of the state uniform fire prevention and building code and relevant local building and fire regulations; directs OGS to implement a phase-in of compliance.
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2024-03-20
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYS02088Engross
50%
Makes rent stabilized dwelling units eligible for certain protections regarding deposits.
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2024-03-20
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYS05475Intro
25%
Ensures that construction and fabrication done off of a public work site for specific use only in a public work project be compensated at the prevailing wage rate.
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2024-03-20
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS08843Intro
25%
Requires public notice and public engagement when a general hospital seeks to close entirely or a unit that provides maternity, mental health or substance use care.
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2024-03-20
To Senate Health Committee
NYS02208Engross
50%
Relates to observance of all religious holidays by institutions within the state university and the city university of New York; includes the Asian Lunar New Year within the definition of such holidays.
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2024-03-20
To Assembly Higher Education 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
NYS04402Engross
50%
Relates to decreasing the length of the suspension period applicable to certain individuals who lose their jobs due to a labor dispute, such as a strike, and who seek to obtain unemployment insurance benefits; decreases the suspension period from two...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Finance 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
NYS02016Engross
50%
Aligns utility regulation with state climate justice and emission reduction targets; repeals provisions relating to continuation of gas service; repeals provisions relating to the sale of indigenous natural gas for generation of electricity.
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2024-03-19
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYS00147Engross
50%
Requires potable water testing at state and local parks at least once every three years and any finding of lead contamination must be abated within ninety days.
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2024-03-18
To Assembly Health Committee
NYS02086Intro
25%
Relates to establishing a voluntary waiver of the right to purchase firearms, rifles or shotguns; requires the division of state police to maintain statewide records of individuals who have waived the right to purchase firearms, rifles, or shotguns a...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Finance 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
NYS08106Intro
25%
Increases the amount of geothermal energy systems tax credits.
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2024-03-13
To Senate Budget and Revenue Committee
NYS00623Engross
50%
Authorizes and directs the committee on open government to study proactive disclosure as a means of increasing transparency and access to government information.
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2024-03-12
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYS02960Intro
25%
Provides for annual adjustment of the maximum income threshold for eligibility for the senior citizen rent increase exemption (SCRIE), disability rent increase exemption (DRIE), senior citizen homeowners' exemption (SCHE), and disabled homeowners' ex...
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2024-03-12
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS02129Engross
50%
Establishes the climate change adaptation cost recovery program to require companies that have contributed significantly to the buildup of climate-warming greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to bear a share of the costs of needed infrastructure invest...
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2024-03-12
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS06419Engross
50%
Establishes extended producer responsibility for mattresses; requires mattress producers to establish a plan for the convenient and cost-effective recycling of used mattresses.
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2024-03-12
To Senate Finance Committee
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
NYS04511Engross
50%
Expands the eligibility period for indigent legal service attorneys to receive certain loan forgiveness; increases loan reimbursement for certain attorneys who work in legal services with indigent clients.
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2024-03-11
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYS07297Intro
25%
Establishes the homeownership protection program; provides that the department of law shall establish the homeownership protection program to ensure the availability of free housing counseling and legal services to homeowners for the purposes of miti...
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2024-03-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
NYS00213Engross
50%
Relates to false or misleading advertisements of food and food products; provides factors to determine whether an advertisement is false or misleading; provides for enforcement and a private right of action.
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2024-03-11
To Assembly Agriculture Committee
NYS00154Engross
50%
Prohibits the sale of lithium-ion batteries used in micromobility devices, bicycles with electric assist or mopeds unless such batteries are manufactured in accordance with certain standards and specifications; provides a civil penalty; authorizes di...
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2024-03-07
To Senate Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYS04020Intro
25%
Relates to emergency medical services; establishes a special district for the financing and operation of general ambulance services; provides for a statewide comprehensive emergency medical system plan.
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2024-03-05
To Senate Local Government 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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2024-03-05
To Senate Finance 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
NYS04890Engross
50%
Requires chain restaurants to place an icon on menus next to food items that have a high content of sodium.
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2024-03-05
AMENDED ON THIRD READING 4890A
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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2024-03-05
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
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
NYS05616Engross
50%
Relates to tuition assistance program awards for dual or concurrent enrollment coursework; awards dual or concurrent enrollment program awards for payment annually to school districts in which dual or concurrent enrollment programs are located.
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2024-03-04
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS08011PassEstablishes the legal regulated rent for the combination of two or more vacant apartments; relates to exemptions from rent stabilization on the basis of substantial rehabilitation; relates to clearly defining the scope of the fraud exception to the p...
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2024-03-01
SIGNED CHAP.95
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
NYS02237Engross
50%
Provides for coverage for certain individuals under the 1332 state innovation program.
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2024-02-28
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS00138Engross
50%
Relates to certifying instructors in small arms practice; provides that after December 31, 2026 individuals certified as an instructor in small arms practice shall seek recertification subject to the standards and curriculum promulgated by the divisi...
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2024-02-28
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS00688Engross
50%
Requires local boards and the division of housing and community renewal to submit certain residential housing and zoning information to the department of state annually; requires such information to be published by the department of state on its webs...
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2024-02-28
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
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
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