New York Senator Jose Serrano [D] | Bills

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NYS01605Engross
50%
Relates to the provision of criminal history background checks free of charge to mentoring programs operated by not-for-profit corporations.
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2024-04-18
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS01092Engross
50%
Relates to re-defining the term physically helpless to mean an individual who is physically unable to communicate affirmative consent through words or clear actions that offer permission and a willingness to engage in sexual activity.
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2024-04-15
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYS01608Engross
50%
Encourages farmers' markets in state parks by posting related information, identifying opportunities and coordinating with other state agencies.
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2024-04-15
To Senate Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks and Recreation Committee
NYS00625Intro
25%
Provides a one-year payroll tax credit for compensation of journalists; sets a maximum amount of the credit for journalist employers and a maximum amount of the credit statewide; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
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2024-04-11
To Senate Budget and Revenue Committee
NYS08388Intro
25%
Prohibits public employers from diminishing health insurance benefits provided to retirees and their dependents or the contributions such employer makes for such health insurance coverage below the level of such benefits or contributions made on beha...
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2024-04-11
To Senate Civil Service and Pensions Committee
NYS00253Engross
50%
Directs the council on the arts to establish criteria and guidelines for the establishment of state designated arts and cultural districts.
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2024-04-09
To Assembly Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Committee
NYS00761Engross
50%
Relates to aggravated cruelty to animals.
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2024-04-09
To Assembly Agriculture Committee
NYS00724Engross
50%
Prohibits the lease of state forests, reforestation areas, wildlife management areas and unique areas for the purpose of gas and oil production.
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2024-04-09
AMENDED ON THIRD READING (T) 724A
NYS03302Engross
50%
Enacts the "Big Five African Trophies Act" relating to banning the importation, transportation and possession of certain African wildlife species and products.
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2024-04-09
To Assembly Environmental Conservation 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
NYS09004Intro
25%
Extends authorization for certain health care professionals licensed to practice in other jurisdictions to practice in this state in connection with an event sanctioned by the New York Road Runners.
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2024-04-08
To Senate Health Committee
NYS00252Engross
50%
Relates to the reporting of alienation of municipal parkland.
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2024-04-04
To Assembly Local Governments 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
NYS01737Engross
50%
Establishes a local authorities searchable subsidy and economic development benefits database; relates to the obligations of certain industrial development agencies and local development corporations.
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2024-04-03
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYS04886Engross
50%
Relates to the general civil penalty of the environmental conservation law; provides that in addition to the fines, such person may be enjoined from continuing such violation and any permit or certificate issued to such person may be revoked or suspe...
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2024-04-03
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS03237Intro
25%
Enacts the "community financial services access and modernization act"; modernizes existing statute to reflect the full scope of financial services available at neighborhood "check cashing" establishments; provides for a comprehensive regulatory fram...
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2024-04-02
To Senate Banks Committee
NYS07539Engross
50%
Provides grounds for attachment; relates to procedures where employees may hold shareholders of non-publicly traded corporations personally liable for wage theft; relates to rights for victims of wage theft to hold the ten members with the largest ow...
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2024-04-02
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYS06328Engross
50%
Prevents the displacement of call center workers who provide call center services for the government in certain circumstances; provides protections for call center workers when contracts with call center contractors are terminated; requires new call ...
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2024-03-28
To Assembly Labor 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
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
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
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
NYS02510Engross
50%
Requires applicants for major projects located near a disadvantaged community to submit an enhanced public participation plan.
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2024-03-21
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS00258Engross
50%
Prohibits the division of criminal justice services from disclosing pending orders of adjournment in contemplation of dismissal on civil records of arrests and prosecutions.
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2024-03-19
To Assembly Codes 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
NYS08358Intro
25%
Establishes the retail worker safety act requiring retail worker employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence; requires employers to provide training on such programs and to conduct an annual review of the program; requir...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Labor Committee
NYS00261Engross
50%
Directs the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation to establish the state parks passport program allowing visitors to state parks and historic sites to log their visits to such sites in a passport book or electronic application.
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2024-03-13
To Assembly Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Committee
NYS00260Engross
50%
Directs the state education commissioner to require public school districts to report on compliance with art education instruction requirements.
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2024-03-13
To Assembly Education Committee
NYS02331Engross
50%
Instructs the state board of elections to create and distribute voting guides to voters containing information about the candidates; mandates that voters receive postcards to notify them of upcoming elections and that television and radio stations al...
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2024-03-12
To Senate Finance 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
NYS01458Engross
50%
Creates a legislative task force on outdoor environmental education and recreation that will benefit residents of New York state by fostering stewardship and conservation of the environment, and an appreciation of the importance of the wise use of na...
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2024-03-11
To Assembly Governmental Operations 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
NYS05648Intro
25%
Prohibits the sale of certain products that contain intentionally added PFAS on and after January 1, 2026; requires manufacturers of products containing PFAS to provide notice of such fact to persons that offer the products for sale or distribution; ...
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2024-03-07
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS00722Engross
50%
Authorizes the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation to establish a resident curator program for the rehabilitation of state park buildings.
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2024-03-06
SUBSTITUTED BY A4285
NYS07776Intro
25%
Directs the commissioner of the office of mental health to promulgate rules and regulations prohibiting any suicide prevention or mental health services hotline operated or sponsored by the state from being automated.
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2024-03-06
To Senate Finance 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
NYS00805Engross
50%
Requires the department of environmental conservation and the department of health to establish certain standards related to the cleaning of playground equipment after pesticide exposure.
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2024-03-04
To Assembly Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports 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
NYS01413Engross
50%
Establishes the position of Catskill park coordinator within the department of environmental conservation to build partnerships between the department and other state agencies, municipal governments, businesses and nonprofit entities that will develo...
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2024-02-28
To Assembly Environmental Conservation 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
NYS00277Intro
25%
Provides for a working families tax credit; directs quarterly prepayment of the credit; provides for a sliding reduction in the credit for incomes which exceed a certain threshold.
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2024-02-27
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS08655Intro
25%
Relates to the standards of monthly need for persons in receipt of public assistance; provides for an increased monthly allowance for persons and families residing in shelters.
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2024-02-27
To Senate Social Services Committee
NYS00225Engross
50%
Provides that no incarcerated individual in any state or local prison, penitentiary, jail or reformatory shall be compelled or induced to provide labor against their will.
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2024-02-26
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS02422Engross
50%
Relates to establishing speed limits in cities with populations in excess of one million people by easing restrictions so cities can establish speed limits below twenty miles per hour.
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2024-02-21
To Senate Transportation Committee
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
NYS05270Intro
25%
Relates to increasing the standards of monthly need and home energy grant amounts for persons in receipt of public assistance.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS01944Intro
25%
Requires property owners to dedicate certain residential units to rent regulated status following demolition and new construction or substantial renovation.
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2024-02-12
To Senate Cities 1 Committee
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