New York Senator James Sanders [D] | Senate

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NYS01669Engross
50%
Allows the granting of academic credit at state or city operated institutions to veterans.
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2024-03-27
2ND REPORT CAL.
NYS01730Engross
50%
Requires the office for the aging to develop and provide elder abuse prevention training to train senior service centers and contractors in the detection and reporting of elder abuse in consultation with the office of children and family services.
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2024-03-27
To Assembly Aging Committee
NYS06471Intro
25%
Enacts the "Marvin Mayfield act", eliminating mandatory minimum sentences.
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2024-03-27
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS01153Intro
25%
Establishes a returning veterans tax credit for businesses that hire veterans and disabled veterans; provides that such tax credit is worth $3,000 per veteran hired or $4,000 for every disabled veteran hired and the total benefit shall not exceed $15...
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2024-03-26
To Senate Finance 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
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
NYS03596Intro
25%
Increases the amount of residential solar tax credits.
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2024-03-26
To Senate Finance Committee
NYJ02023PassMemorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim October 17, 2024, as Credit Union Day in the State of New York
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2024-03-26
ADOPTED
NYJ02055PassRecognizing the Federation of Cypriot American Organizations in conjunction with its commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Turkish invasion and occupation of Northern Cyprus
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2024-03-26
ADOPTED
NYJ02029PassMemorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim March 2024, as Greek History Month in the State of New York, in conjunction with the commemoration of the 203rd Anniversary of Greek Independence
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2024-03-26
ADOPTED
NYJ02056PassCommemorating the 113th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire on March 25, 2024
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2024-03-26
ADOPTED
NYS08881Intro
25%
Requires the office of victim services to provide notification of potential eligibility for crime victims' awards; directs the state police and the municipal police training council to develop procedures for notifying next of kin of available program...
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2024-03-25
To Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee
NYS08879Intro
25%
Creates a temporary state commission to study and investigate sexual misconduct in state correctional facilities among incarcerated individuals and employees; devises a reporting system for notification of such misconduct to appropriate authorities; ...
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2024-03-25
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS08880Intro
25%
Makes it illegal to knowingly alter, mutilate, destroy, obliterate, obstruct or remove by means of a price sticker or otherwise the whole or any part of the label, including where applicable the expiration date displayed thereon, of any over-the-coun...
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2024-03-25
To Senate Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYS08898Intro
25%
Enacts the tropical rainforest economic & environmental sustainability act requiring that companies contracting with the state do not contribute to tropical forest degradation or deforestation directly or through their supply chains; establishes the ...
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2024-03-25
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS08082PassMakes a technical correction to certain provisions of the New York city charter relating to the procurement limit for businesses owned by women and minorities; increases state agencies' discretionary buying thresholds for certain commodities or servi...
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2024-03-22
SIGNED CHAP.110
NYS08878Intro
25%
Adds a knowing element to certain violations for concealed license plates; increases the fine amounts for certain violations relating to concealed license plates to $75 - $300 for first violation, $75 - $350 for a second violation, and $75 - $400 for...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Transportation Committee
NYS08877Intro
25%
Relates to the prevention and mitigation of marine and coastal debris; defines terms; requires the department of environmental conservation to prepare and annually update a marine and coastal debris action plan.
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2024-03-22
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS01296Engross
50%
Relates to informal caregiver training; defines "person in need of assistance"; expands who may serve as an "informal caregiver".
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2024-03-21
To Assembly Aging Committee
NYS01744Intro
25%
Relates to commissaries and canteens at correctional institutions; provides that items for sale at a commissary or canteen shall be sold for market value; provides that money placed into an incarcerated individual's commissary or canteen account or f...
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2024-03-21
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS01137Engross
50%
Relates to including information concerning repayment of outstanding loans in the standard financial aid award letter.
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2024-03-20
To Assembly Banks 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
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
NYJ02002PassWelcoming and paying tribute to David Gill, the Consul General of Germany in New York State, upon the occasion of his visit to the New York State Capitol, Albany, New York, on March 19 and 20, 2024
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2024-03-19
ADOPTED
NYJ01980PassMemorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim March 23, 2024, as Pakistan-American Heritage Day in the State of New York
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2024-03-19
ADOPTED
NYS00014Engross
50%
Makes the release of any claim by an employee, or independent contractor who is a natural person, against an employer, unenforceable if, as a condition of such resolution, the employee or independent contractor is prohibited from applying for, accept...
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2024-03-18
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYS08581Intro
25%
Expands eligibility for loans and grants pursuant to the resilient retrofits loan and grant program for private sewer repairs and upgrades; establishes the resilient retrofits loan and grant fund.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Housing, Construction, and Community Development Committee
NYS04726Intro
25%
Permits a potential lottery winner who lost their ticket to claim the winning amount provided that such person shows the lottery agency documentary proof of purchase of the winning ticket within one year of the winning date.
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2024-03-15
To Senate Racing, Gaming and Wagering Committee
NYS06864Intro
25%
Provides that retirement contributions of public employees with ten or more years of service shall be three per centum per annum.
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2024-03-15
To Senate Civil Service and Pensions Committee
NYS02730Engross
50%
Relates to computer-related crimes; creates the crimes unlawful disruption of computer services in the first and second degree, unlawful computer access assistance in the first and second degree, unauthorized use of internet domain name or profile, a...
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2024-03-14
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS04074Intro
25%
Prohibits a person convicted of rebellion or insurrection under federal law from state or municipal employment.
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2024-03-14
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS08799Intro
25%
Designates a portion of the state highway system including the bridge on the South Service Road, between Federal Circle and Perimeter Road Overpass, crossing over the Van Wyck Expressway in Jamaica as the "Port Authority Police Officer William J. Lea...
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2024-03-13
To Senate Transportation Committee
NYS01729Engross
50%
Relates to the definition of coal tar and its use in pavement products.
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2024-03-12
To Assembly Environmental Conservation 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
NYS08136Intro
25%
Establishes the New York state cryptocurrency and blockchain study task force to provide the governor and the legislature with information on the effects of the widespread use of cryptocurrencies and other forms of digital currencies and their ancill...
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2024-03-12
AMENDED ON THIRD READING 8136A
NYS08138Intro
25%
Creates a temporary state commission to study and investigate how to regulate artificial intelligence, robotics and automation; repeals such commission.
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2024-03-12
AMENDED ON THIRD READING 8138A
NYJ01908PassCongratulating the Medgar Evers College Men and Women's Indoor Track and Field team upon the occasion of capturing the 2024 CUNYAC Indoor Track and Field Championships on February 18, 2024
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2024-03-12
ADOPTED
NYS01731Engross
50%
Prohibits the use of consumer credit history in hiring, employment and licensing determinations.
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2024-03-11
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS01890Engross
50%
Establishes the "Syd O. Sotillo Sickle Cell Treatment Act" which designates sickle cell centers for excellence and outpatient treatment centers.
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2024-03-11
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS02729Engross
50%
Relates to prohibiting retail establishments including food-service establishments from refusing to accept payment in cash; provides a civil penalty will be assessed for such actions.
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2024-03-11
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS02731Engross
50%
Allows for certain notices related to property/casualty insurance contracts under the vehicle and traffic law to be delivered by electronic means.
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2024-03-11
AMENDED ON THIRD READING (T) 2731A
NYS06648Engross
50%
Includes participation in a banking development district as a factor when assessing a banking institution's record of performance in relation to the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977.
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2024-03-11
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS01755Engross
50%
Establishes a temporary state commission to conduct a feasibility study to evaluate and make recommendations concerning the formation and control of a state public bank; provides if such study finds that the state bank is feasible, the commission may...
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2024-03-08
To Senate Banks Committee
NYS08757Intro
25%
Provides that retirement contributions of certain public employees shall be three per centum of annual wages.
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2024-03-07
To Senate Civil Service and Pensions Committee
NYS01999Engross
50%
Relates to direct interstate and intrastate cider shipments; establishes requirements regarding age verification and shipping limits.
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2024-03-05
To Assembly Economic Development, Job Creation, Commerce and Industry 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
NYS06757Intro
25%
Extends the authority and oversight of wage boards to include the consideration of minimum standards for benefits and working conditions; changes the reference to such boards as workers' boards.
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2024-03-05
To Senate Labor Committee
NYS08147Intro
25%
Creates a banking development district working group to assess the banking development district program and provide an annual report to the governor and legislature on the strengths and weaknesses of such program; defines unbanked and underbanked.
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2024-03-05
To Senate Finance Committee
NYJ01896PassMemorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim March 17-23, 2024, as Agriculture Week in the State of New York
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2024-03-05
ADOPTED
NYJ01903PassMemorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim March 2024, as Women's History Month in the State of New York
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2024-03-05
ADOPTED
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