New York Senator James Sanders [D] | Introduced

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NYJ02266Intro
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Mourning the untimely death and paying tribute to the life and heroic service of Lieutenant Michael "Hootch" Hoosock who died in the line of duty on April 14, 2024
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2024-04-17
To Senate Finance 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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2024-04-16
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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2024-04-15
To Senate Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYS09058Intro
25%
Provides for automatic issuance of identification cards to incarcerated individuals and assistance with obtaining copies of any documents needed to apply for identification cards, including, but not limited to, an incarcerated individual's social sec...
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2024-04-15
To Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee
NYS09057Intro
25%
Directs the department of corrections and community supervision to conduct a comprehensive study on deaths in correctional facilities within New York state to provide data-driven insights and recommendations to improve prison conditions, healthcare, ...
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2024-04-15
To Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee
NYS09056Intro
25%
Requires the department of corrections and community supervision within twenty-four hours of the attempted suicide or hospitalization of an incarcerated individual or any other individual occurring in the custody of the department, to notify the emer...
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2024-04-15
To Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee
NYS08392Intro
25%
Relates to excluding renewable energy pilot projects and certain energy system-related payments in lieu of taxes from tax cap calculations, and to the establishment of a distributed generation energy development program that provides a single forum f...
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2024-04-11
To Senate Finance 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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2024-04-09
To Senate Finance 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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2024-04-09
To Senate Education Committee
NYS06271Intro
25%
Relates to minority depository institutions which apply to establish a home or branch office in an unbanked or underbanked community; provides that such institutions shall be entitled to receive deposits from the state comptroller and the commissione...
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2024-04-09
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS06379Intro
25%
Prohibits the operation of NYC transit authority subways or trains without at least one conductor on board; requires a conductor on any subway or train operated by such authority whenever the subway or train has more than two cars attached to the eng...
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2024-04-08
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS02581Intro
25%
Establishes a tax on direct broadcast satellite services and video streaming services; establishes the community media reinvestment fund; imposes an excise tax on direct broadcast satellite services or video streaming services; provides monies from t...
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2024-04-08
To Senate Investigations and Government Operations Committee
NYS02445Intro
25%
Relates to the medical aid in dying act; relates to a terminally ill patient's request for and use of medication for medical aid in dying.
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2024-04-04
To Senate Health Committee
NYS06781Intro
25%
Allows commuter vans to accept hails from prospective passengers in the street.
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2024-04-03
To Senate Cities 1 Committee
NYS06174Intro
25%
Relates to calculating certain pensions; increases pension calculation from thirty-five to forty per centum of final average salary.
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2024-03-28
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
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
NYS08881Intro
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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
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
NYS08878Intro
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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
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
NYS08847Intro
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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
NYS08581Intro
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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
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
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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
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
NYS08757Intro
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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
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
NYS06643Intro
25%
Provides for eligible incarcerated individuals to receive a monthly stipend upon release from a state correctional facility.
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2024-02-29
To Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee
NYS05542Intro
25%
Provides for restructuring unsustainable sovereign and subnational debt; provides a voluntary petition for relief may be filed with the state.
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2024-02-28
To Senate Banks Committee
NYS08139Intro
25%
Authorizes the director of the division of minority and women's business development and the mayor of the city of New York to enter into a memorandum of understanding to allow reciprocity between the state and New York City for businesses that are ce...
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2024-02-28
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS02583Intro
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Provides the New York power authority with the right of first offer and refusal for acquiring any renewable generation facility, renewable energy generation project and any power or energy created by a renewable generation facility or renewable energ...
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2024-02-27
To Senate Finance Committee
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
NYS01447Intro
25%
Calls for the state to subsidize a portion of closing costs for certain individuals who have been tenants of public housing projects or rent subsidized housing for the previous five years.
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2024-02-26
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS01728Intro
25%
Requires the modification of restrictive covenants prior to the sale of real property when covenants, conditions and restrictions exist which discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, familial status, marital status...
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2024-02-26
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
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
NYS02503Intro
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Establishes a co-navigation services program for persons who are deaf-blind to provide services to a person who is deaf-blind that assist the person to physically access the person's environment and to make informed decisions, including providing vis...
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2024-02-13
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS02011Intro
25%
Allows certain employees to transfer or receive sick time from a fellow employee.
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS08490Intro
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Relates to the calculation of the final average salary for purposes of the calculation of a pension benefit.
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2024-02-06
To Senate Civil Service and Pensions Committee
NYS08494Intro
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Establishes the New York State social housing development authority as a public benefit corporation to increase the supply of permanently affordable housing in the state through the acquisition of land and renovation or rehabilitation of existing rea...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
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