New York Senator James Sanders [D]

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NYS00562Intro
25%
Enacts the "all-electric building act"; provides that the state energy conservation construction code shall prohibit infrastructure, building systems, or equipment used for the combustion of fossil fuels in new construction statewide no later than De...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Housing, Construction, and Community Development Committee
NYS00720Intro
25%
Creates the New York state civilian complaint review board to investigate alleged misconduct by police and peace officers.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS00762Intro
25%
Provides treatment for sexually transmitted diseases to minors without a parent's or guardian's consent.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Health Committee
NYS00771Intro
25%
Adjusts the calculation of the empire state child credit to provide for a one thousand dollar credit per qualifying child who is less than four years of age and a five hundred dollar credit per qualifying child who is four years of age or older for c...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Budget and Revenue Committee
NYS00795Intro
25%
Enacts the "Consumer and Small business Protection Act"; relates to standing for persons affected by prohibited or unlawful business practices; expands prohibited acts to include unfair, deceptive or abusive acts.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYS00899Intro
25%
Establishes the teachers' fossil fuel divestment act; requires the New York state teachers' retirement system to divest the retirement system of any stocks, securities, equities, assets, or other obligations of corporations or companies included on a...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Civil Service and Pensions Committee
NYS00803Intro
25%
Prohibits persons, firms or corporations engaged in the retail business of selling firearms from selling, delivering or transferring child operated firearms; defines "child operated firearm" to mean a pistol or revolver manufactured 1 year after the ...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS00987Intro
25%
Prohibits and regulates the discovery and disclosure of immigration status; prohibits police officers, peace officers, school resource officers, probation agencies, state entities, state employees, and municipal corporations from questioning individu...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS01031Intro
25%
Defines the term "party" as any political organization which at the last preceding election for governor polled at least fifty thousand votes for its candidate for governor.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Elections Committee
NYS00970Intro
25%
Permits the sealing of records of certain nonviolent misdemeanor or non-sexual misdemeanor criminal offenses; defines the term "eligible misdemeanor"; excludes certain misdemeanor offenses as eligible misdemeanors for the purposes of conditional seal...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS01040Intro
25%
Relates to school climate and codes of conduct on school property and disciplinary action following violation of such codes of conduct; makes conforming amendments.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Education Committee
NYS01041Intro
25%
Establishes the downstate New York power authority to own and operate electricity service and acquire the distribution facilities formerly owned by any downstate utility corporation.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Energy and Telecommunications Committee
NYS01109Intro
25%
Prohibits consumer reporting agencies and lenders from using an individual's late payment of cashless tolls to determine their credit worthiness.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYS01071Intro
25%
Allows for investment advisers and firms to disclose potential financial exploitation of elderly and vulnerable adults to the commissioner of the department of financial services and to halt disbursements from an account if an adviser or firm believe...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYS01164Intro
25%
Waives the state's sovereign immunity to liability for violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act; waives the immunity of all...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS01206Intro
25%
Relates to establishing the municipal severe storm relief fund for Rockaway, Queens to be administered by the division of homeland security and emergency services for damages that occurred as a result of Hurricane Sandy which caused damage from Octob...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs Committee
NYS01236Intro
25%
Creates minority and women-owned business enterprise regional advocates; provides that the advocates will help ensure that municipal agencies comply with the provisions of law relating to minority and women-owned business enterprises.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS01241Intro
25%
Requires all insurance policies and health maintenance organization contracts to provide coverage for maternity patients and their newborns for hospital stays of at least 48 hours following childbirth by natural delivery and 96 hours following childb...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Health Committee
NYS01258Intro
25%
Requires the triborough bridge authority to establish a cashless tolling amnesty program; requires the metropolitan transportation authority to post their fee waiver policy on their website.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Transportation Committee
NYS01307Intro
25%
Requires the boards of elections to provide a secure website or web portal through which voters can track their absentee application or absentee ballot.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Elections Committee
NYS01297Intro
25%
Repeals the rebates for stock transfer tax paid; dedicates funds of the stock transfer tax fund and stock transfer incentive fund to various funds; establishes the safe water and infrastructure action program.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS01295Intro
25%
Provides that in toxic tort cases where the specific toxic etiological cause of injury is not known for up to ten years (instead of five years) after the injury itself is discovered a plaintiff shall have three years to file a claim from the time suc...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee
NYS01292Engross
50%
Establishes the clean fuel standard of 2023; provides such standard is intended to reduce carbon intensity from the on-road transportation sector by 20% by 2031, with further reductions to be implemented based upon advances in technology.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS01406Intro
25%
Eliminates rent increase for major capital improvements.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Housing, Construction, and Community Development Committee
NYS01404Intro
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Provides a civil remedy for any harm or damage to the property or person of another or for summoning a police officer without reason to suspect a crime has been or is about to be committed due to a belief or perception regarding such person's immigra...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Investigations and Government Operations Committee
NYS01516Intro
25%
Establishes the "education equity act" which provides language assistance to parents or guardians who have children enrolled in public school and whose primary language is not English; defines terms; creates an annual language assistance plan to asse...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Education Committee
NYS01452Intro
25%
Requires the state university of New York and the city university of New York to establish courses of study on ethnic studies, women's studies, and social justice; requires students to complete at least one three-credit course on ethnic studies, wome...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Higher Education Committee
NYS01459Intro
25%
Relates to the provision of financial assistance to museums, zoos, botanical gardens, aquariums and other cultural institutions located in low-income urban, suburban or rural communities, or that provide educational services to students from such com...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks and Recreation Committee
NYS01462Intro
25%
Requires an arresting authority to notify the local social services district when the parent, legal guardian or care-giver of a minor is arrested or taken into custody; requires the local social services district to monitor the placement of such mino...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Children and Families Committee
NYS01446Intro
25%
Establishes a fund for the creation of affordable housing for veterans and seniors.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Budget and Revenue Committee
NYS01501Intro
25%
Relates to the time period during which absentee ballots shall be mailed or delivered after an application for such ballot is received by the board of elections.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Elections Committee
NYS01453Intro
25%
Allows credit unions, savings banks, savings and loan associations and federal savings associations to accept and secure deposits from municipal corporations.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Banks Committee
NYS01450Intro
25%
Regulates commercial finance licensing; sets forth the application process for such licensing; makes conforming technical changes thereto.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Banks Committee
NYS01445Intro
25%
Requires diversity, inclusion and elimination of bias training for physicians, physician assistants and nurses as part of continuing medical education requirements; establishes such training shall be a biennial requirement.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Higher Education Committee
NYS01536Intro
25%
Limits robocalls to state residents; requires telephone service providers to offer free call mitigation technology to telephone customers.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYS01570Intro
25%
Establishes a billionaire mark-to-market tax taxing residents with one billion dollars or more in net assets.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Budget and Revenue Committee
NYS01663Intro
25%
Relates to prohibiting police officers from carrying or using a firearm during any phase of the officer's official duties unless the officer has satisfactorily completed a course of training that meets or exceeds the minimum standards established by ...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS01676Intro
25%
Establishes a temporary task force on the variable supplements fund program to make findings and recommendations.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Civil Service and Pensions Committee
NYS01757Intro
25%
Requires contracting agencies to contact minority and women-owned business enterprises when such enterprise is listed on a utilization plan and when a contract is awarded; mandates that the prime contractor use such enterprise identified on the utili...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Procurement and Contracts Committee
NYS01689Intro
25%
Requires district leadership teams to operate under open meetings law requirements.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Cities 1 Committee
NYS01760Intro
25%
Relates to certain discriminatory practices; relates to the qualification of professionals in education; provides for the tolling of certain statutes of limitations; provides a private cause of action for a person who is qualified for a public contra...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Investigations and Government Operations Committee
NYS01753Intro
25%
Establishes a civil cause of action for employees who are subjected to an abusive work environment; employers shall be vicariously liable for such work environment.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Labor Committee
NYS01749Intro
25%
Establishes the Cannabis Community Reinvestment Act; includes requirements for cannabis operators; includes the obligation to reinvest in communities disproportionately impacted by cannabis prohibition including, if applicable, the community such ope...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Investigations and Government Operations Committee
NYS01754Intro
25%
Establishes the "New York public banking act"; authorizes municipal and other local governments to form and control public banks through the ownership of capital stock or other ownership interests, and to loan or grant public funds or lend public cre...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Banks Committee
NYS01701Intro
25%
Requires persons possessing any firearm to hold a firearms safety certificate; establishes application and training process therefor; makes technical corrections.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS01750Intro
25%
Establishes the state financial literacy fund which provides funding for project grants to organizations in order to establish financial capability and financial literacy programs, products content and/or services for at-risk populations in New York.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Banks Committee
NYS01756Intro
25%
Relates to establishing the state of New York public bank to use the state's depository assets to generate additional benefit for the people and the economy of the state.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS01840Intro
25%
Relates to the establishment of the New York state promise program for community college courses; makes an appropriation therefor.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS01977Intro
25%
Relates to securing payment of wages for work already performed; creates a lien remedy for all employees; provides grounds for attachment; relates to procedures where employees may hold shareholders of non-publicly traded corporations personally liab...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee
NYS01889Intro
25%
Enacts "Cariol's Law"; provides for a duty to intervene when a police officer observes another police officer using physical force that he or she reasonably believes to be clearly excessive or beyond that which is objectively reasonable under the cir...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Finance Committee
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