New York Senator Jessica Ramos [D]

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NYS04573Intro
25%
Requires the division of criminal justice services to establish a policy prohibiting police agencies from using chemical weapons and kinetic energy munitions on civilian populations and from acquiring and stockpiling such weapons or munitions.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS04675Intro
25%
Relates to the convening of a human services employee wage board; requires the commissioner of labor to convene a human services employee wage board comprised of twelve members; requires the wage board to hold hearings and report and make recommendat...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Labor Committee
NYS04668Intro
25%
Relates to prevailing wage requirements applicable to public works and certain construction projects performed under private contract and paid for with public funds.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Labor Committee
NYS00776Intro
25%
Lowers the blood alcohol concentration required for driving while intoxicated from .08 of one per centum to .05, and for aggravated driving while intoxicated from .18 per centum to .12.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Transportation Committee
NYS04561Engross
50%
Provides "WiFi service" internet access to all individuals residing in temporary housing; relates to funding for internet service under the ConnectAll digital equity grant program.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Social Services Committee
NYS04883Intro
25%
Establishes the Early Learning Child Care Act to impose a payroll tax on certain employers for the purposes of addressing child care affordability, accessibility, and quality for families with children under five years of age; establishes the early l...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Budget and Revenue Committee
NYS04964Intro
25%
Grants student loan forgiveness for certain municipal attorneys employed by political subdivisions of the state.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Higher Education Committee
NYS04951Intro
25%
Requires instruction in civic education for grades 5 through 12 including instruction on the NYS constitution; federal, state and local government; civic literacy; methods of public participation; and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Education Committee
NYS04953Intro
25%
Provides for the employment of school nurses for the inspection of pupils attending certain public schools; relates to school districts and boards of cooperative educational services.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Education Committee
NYS04994Intro
25%
Requires certain contractor, subcontractor and worker certifications for metropolitan transportation authority contracts which involve industrial painting or industrial coating work.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Transportation Committee
NYS05062Intro
25%
Relates to civil actions brought by employees for violations of an employer violating safety and health standards or workplace violence.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Labor Committee
NYS04024Intro
25%
Relates to spending by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority; requires the MTA to allocate funds received for tax years 2023-2026 in certain amounts for certain purposes; requires the authority to freeze fares, increase service frequency, and imp...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Transportation Committee
NYS01880Intro
25%
Relates to allowing for students in certain postsecondary education experience or transition programs to receive awards from the tuition assistance program.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Finance 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
NYS05256Intro
25%
Prohibits the inclusion of a confession of judgment in a contract or agreement for a financial product or service.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Consumer Affairs and Protection 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
NYS05422Engross
50%
Relates to modular construction work; provides that modular construction shall comply with any existing municipal licensing requirements for all electrical, plumbing, and fire suppression work.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Labor Committee
NYS05472Intro
25%
Expands protections regarding violations of safety conditions in adult care facilities; provides penalties for safety violations and operating without a valid license; prohibits reductions in fines in certain circumstances where a patient is endanger...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Health Committee
NYS05136Intro
25%
Relates to pharmacy services provided by managed care providers; requires pharmacy benefit managers and managed care providers to reimburse retail pharmacies for each outpatient drug, at the National Average Drug Acquisition Cost (NADAC); repeals rel...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Health Committee
NYS02860Intro
25%
Enacts the "gender identity respect, dignity and safety act"; relates to the treatment and placement of incarcerated individuals based upon gender identity; requires that incarcerated individuals in state and local correctional facilities who have a ...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee
NYS01787Intro
25%
Establishes confirmatory adoptions allowing adoption and parentage judgements for a child with more than two parents; recognizes functional parents as legal parents; allows "de facto parents" to get a court order confirming their parentage; grants al...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Children and Families Committee
NYS05567Intro
25%
Provides for minimum wage requirements for miscellaneous industry workers.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS05594Intro
25%
Enacts the statewide transportation authority reinvestment (STAR) act; exempts mass transit authorities from bond issuance charges.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYS01678Intro
25%
Requires all public school districts, charter schools and non-public schools in the state that participate in the national school lunch program or school breakfast program as provided in the national child nutrition act to serve breakfast and lunch a...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Education Committee
NYS05617Intro
25%
Removes the exclusion of part-time employees from certain definitions relating to employment and expanding the definition of employer; removes certain exclusions for employer notice requirements for the closing of a facility; removes the discretionar...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Labor Committee
NYS05647Intro
25%
Relates to disqualification from receiving benefits for separation from employment in cases where the claimant's employer maintained or refused to cure a health or safety condition that made the environment unsuitable.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Labor Committee
NYS05787Intro
25%
Provides that neither the unauthorized or unlicensed practice of massage therapy, nor aiding or abetting of unauthorized or unlicensed practice of massage therapy, shall be deemed as the crime of unauthorized practice.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Higher Education Committee
NYS05785Intro
25%
Relates to unlawful strikes by public employees; provides for the settlement of certain disputes relating to terms and conditions of employment of certain transit and transportation authorities.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Civil Service and Pensions Committee
NYS05829Intro
25%
Relates to the language which must be included in mortgage foreclosure notices; requires lenders, assignees, and mortgage loan servicers to evidence strict compliance with such notice requirements.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Housing, Construction, and Community Development Committee
NYS05964Intro
25%
Enacts the empire state licensing act to provide all New Yorkers with access to professional, occupational, commercial, or business licenses, permits, certificates, or related registrations regardless of an applicant's citizenship or immigration stat...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Investigations and Government Operations Committee
NYS04170Intro
25%
Enacts the "fair college admissions act"; prohibits legacy admissions policies at colleges and universities in New York; declares such policies and practices to be discriminatory and inequitable.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Higher Education Committee
NYS06104Intro
25%
Creates a transportation subsidy to increase access to water safety instruction.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Education Committee
NYS06115Intro
25%
Specifies methods of calculating deposits and reserves for the aggregate trust fund and reserves of the state insurance fund; provides that all computations made or directed by the workers' compensation board shall be on the basis of the survivorship...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Labor Committee
NYS06116Intro
25%
Authorizes paid family leave for bereavement beginning in 2025.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Labor Committee
NYS06117Intro
25%
Establishes benefits and protections for essential employees providing essential services during a state of emergency; defines essential services; requires certain disaster plans to provide measures to provide benefits and protections to employees pr...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs Committee
NYS06240Intro
25%
Establishes local wage enforcement authority in the city of New York; authorizes the city of New York to establish a minimum wage that is higher than the statewide minimum wage.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Labor Committee
NYS05810Intro
25%
Sets reimbursement rates for essential safety net hospitals at no less than regional average commercial rates for health care services provided by all hospitals in the same geographic region.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Health Committee
NYS06494Intro
25%
Relates to requiring a certificate of merit in proceedings to recover possession of real property; requires the petition shall be accompanied by a certificate, signed by the attorney for the petitioner, certifying that the attorney has reviewed the f...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Judiciary 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
NYS06652Intro
25%
Provides for a premium reduction for physicians and licensed midwives who complete a risk management strategies course in obstetrics or midwifery.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Health Committee
NYS02594Intro
25%
Establishes that consumer litigation funding transactions should be subject to state regulation and sets forth requirements regarding disclosure, licensing, funding company and attorney responsibilities and limitations, violations and other provision...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYS06842Intro
25%
Relates to representation in certain real property actions.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Housing, Construction, and Community Development Committee
NYS02790Intro
25%
Allows for unlicensed individuals to collect throat or nasopharyngeal swab specimens and to perform certain nursing tasks during a state disaster emergency.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Higher Education Committee
NYS07021Engross
50%
Relates to paratransit services; directs that an applicant for recertification submit correspondence from a licensed physician in lieu of an in-person assessment.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Transportation Committee
NYS07037Intro
25%
Expands the empire state apprenticeship tax credit to include additional credit for people with disabilities.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Labor Committee
NYS04747Intro
25%
Relates to New York state's support of international debt relief initiatives for certain developing countries.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee
NYS07092Intro
25%
Establishes a credit against income tax for qualified union dues paid to a labor organization on and after January 1, 2024.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Budget and Revenue Committee
NYS07097Intro
25%
Requires employers to provide notice of insurance requirements for injured employees to such employees in their native language; requires employers to provide notice of how to file a claim to injured workers; establishes a penalty for failure to comp...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Labor Committee
NYS07096Intro
25%
Relates to awards to employees who prevail in actions on kick-back claims; provides that such employees shall be entitled to the full amount of what was received, liquidated damages, attorney's fees and prejudgment interest.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Labor Committee
NYS07134Intro
25%
Classifies worksite employees of professional employers as employees of the professional employer for certain insurance purposes.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Labor Committee
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