New York Senator Kevin Thomas [D] | Senate | Bills

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NYS02301Engross
50%
Establishes the crime of voyeurism in the first and second degree which is defined as when someone for their own amusement, entertainment, profit, sexual arousal or sexual gratification trespasses for the purpose of viewing a person dressing or undre...
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2024-03-26
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYS02675Engross
50%
Designates August thirty-first of each year as a day of commemoration to be known as "Overdose Awareness Day".
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2024-03-26
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYS07108Intro
25%
Relates to authorizing state university police, regional state park police and detective investigators for the office of the attorney general to receive additional service credit in an optional twenty year retirement plan.
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2024-03-25
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS02019Engross
50%
Establishes the congressional chartered veterans service organizations fund; provides for gifts made to such fund on an individual's personal income tax return.
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2024-03-20
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
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
NYS00346Engross
50%
Directs the development of materials to be provided to new employees relating to student loan repayment information.
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2024-03-18
To Assembly Banks Committee
NYS00540Engross
50%
Enacts provisions relating to the lease of credit card terminals; requires disclosures; prohibits certain practices.
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2024-03-18
To Assembly Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYS01571Engross
50%
Requires the ethics commission of the unified court system to post each state-paid judge's annual financial disclosures on the ethics commission's public website for five years beginning with filings made on January 1, 2018.
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2024-03-14
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS08631Intro
25%
Permits a candidate who was depicted in materially deceptive media in a political communication to seek injunctive or other equitable relief prohibiting the publication of such materially deceptive media unless certain disclosures are provided; estab...
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2024-03-14
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS00362Engross
50%
Enacts protections for private education loan borrowers and cosigners; requires certain notifications from creditors and debt collectors; prohibits acceleration; enacts provisions for cosigner release.
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2024-03-13
To Assembly Consumer Affairs and Protection 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
NYS07586Intro
25%
Deems Anthony Varvaro to have died as the natural and proximate result of an accident sustained in the performance of duty so as to permit accidental death benefits to be awarded to his beneficiaries.
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2024-03-11
To Senate Civil Service and Pensions Committee
NYS08748Intro
25%
Authorizes bail for principals charged with concealment of a human corpse.
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2024-03-07
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS08197Intro
25%
Directs the superintendent of financial services to create a private education debt registry which shall contain information and documentation relating to loans issued by creditors including interest rates and copies of the notes and instruments used...
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2024-03-05
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS06239Intro
25%
Permits the court to withhold the names and addresses of jurors in certain proceedings; sets factors for determining good cause to issue protective orders for juries.
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2024-03-04
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS05616Engross
50%
Relates to tuition assistance program awards for dual or concurrent enrollment coursework; awards dual or concurrent enrollment program awards for payment annually to school districts in which dual or concurrent enrollment programs are located.
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2024-03-04
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS06050Engross
50%
Relates to requiring the use of project labor agreements for large scale construction projects under the state university construction fund; provides an exception to such requirement may be granted; provides that the fund may require every contractor...
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2024-02-28
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS01159Intro
25%
Requires disclosure of information concerning non-invasive prenatal screening for chromosomal abnormalities including the benefits and limitations of non-invasive prenatal testing, the difference between non-invasive prenatal testing and prenatal dia...
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2024-02-27
AMENDED ON THIRD READING 1159B
NYS03600Intro
25%
Provides for certain death benefits to county fire marshals, supervising fire marshals, fire marshals, assistant fire marshals, assistant chief fire marshals, chief fire marshals and division supervising fire marshals employed by Nassau county.
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2024-02-27
RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN
NYS04129Intro
25%
Requires nonpublic and private elementary and secondary schools to require their prospective employees to submit fingerprints through the commissioner of education for the purpose of criminal background checks; authorizes conditional appointment of e...
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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
NYS00506Engross
50%
Enacts "Vincent Scheppa's law" authorizing, in certain cases, the provision of private duty nursing services to a medical assistance recipient by a relative who is a registered professional nurse.
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2024-02-26
To Assembly Health Committee
NYS08641Intro
25%
Allows camp operators and employees to administer medications and treatment to children, under parent direction and authorization.
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2024-02-26
To Senate Health Committee
NYS08595Intro
25%
Relates to traffic ticket liability for midwives responding to emergency medical situations.
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2024-02-22
To Senate Transportation Committee
NYS05832Intro
25%
Relates to increasing the mandatory retirement age of New York state regional park police from 62 to 65 years old.
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2024-02-21
RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN
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
NYS03335Engross
50%
Establishes the office of flooding prevention and mitigation to manage and coordinate the work of task forces, commissions, and other bodies and programs tasked with examining issues related to flooding, to review and assess best practices and make r...
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2024-02-13
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYS02821Intro
25%
Expands eligibility for temporary disability insurance and paid family leave benefits; makes conforming technical changes.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS00532Engross
50%
Authorizes the commissioner of human rights to enforce provisions relating to real estate brokers and unlawful discriminatory practices; awards compensatory damages to the aggrieved person; assesses a civil penalty to vindicate the public interest; m...
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2024-02-12
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYS05809Intro
25%
Relates to providing cost-of-living adjustments; increases benefits from fifty to one hundred percent.
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2024-02-09
To Senate Civil Service and Pensions Committee
NYS06352Intro
25%
Provides that when a housing accommodation has been vacated after continuous tenancy or occupancy of ten years or more prior to vacancy, and the owner can demonstrate restoration of the unit, the new legal regulated rent shall be the rent agreed to b...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Housing, Construction, and Community Development Committee
NYS08013PassRequires the department of health to establish and maintain a registry for the purpose of providing education and outreach to children's non-regulated camps.
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2024-02-07
SIGNED CHAP.63
NYS08512Intro
25%
Relates to protections for homeowners in the event of tax lien foreclosure; establishes notice and hearing requirements and a homeowners bill of rights.
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2024-02-07
To Senate Local Government Committee
NYS00363Engross
50%
Provides for a cap on the credit service charge computed and collected on a retail instalment contract.
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2024-02-06
To Assembly Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYS00178Intro
25%
Amends the constitution to delete the requirement that registration for purposes of voting be completed at least ten days before election day; provides that laws be made to adequately safeguard against deception in the exercise of the right of suffra...
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2024-02-05
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS05230Engross
50%
Relates to requiring annual fair housing testing; defines fair housing testing; requires the attorney general to conduct yearly fair housing testing to ensure compliance with the human rights law.
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2024-02-05
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS03284Engross
50%
Establishes September twenty-second of each year as a day of commemoration known as Veteran Suicide Awareness and Remembrance Day.
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2024-01-31
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS00604Engross
50%
Creates a wholesale prescription drug importation program which complies with federal standards and regulations for the purpose of generating substantial savings for consumers.
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2024-01-30
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYS03189Intro
25%
Enacts the "fair pay for home care act" relating to minimum wages applicable to home care aides; provides for a minimum wage of 150% of the applicable statewide or regional minimum wage.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Health Committee
NYS07282Intro
25%
Relates to reducing a police officer's pension to satisfy judgments in a wrongful death action; provides that a police officer's pension may be reduced to no less than $20,000 to satisfy a wrongful death judgment; provides that a court shall hold a h...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee
NYS08036PassProhibits the installation of certain security devices used to control access to common areas of a residential building without the written permission of the owners, board of managers, board of directors, or authorized party of such property; require...
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2024-01-26
SIGNED CHAP.13
NYS08394Intro
25%
Requires that social media networks develop content moderation policies that inform users of how offending content is identified and of enforcement actions against certain content encouraging harm to persons or property; requires notice of procedures...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Internet and Technology Committee
NYS00328Intro
25%
Removes certain restrictions on eligibility for personal and home care services under medicaid.
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2024-01-24
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS08002Intro
25%
Establishes the New York state adult cystic fibrosis program which consists of administrative support services for the provision of financial assistance for services such as prescription drug costs, device costs, medical care services, behavioral hea...
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2024-01-24
SUBSTITUTED BY A8515
NYS00348Engross
50%
Enacts the reproductive freedom and equity grant program to ensure access to abortion care in the state by providing funding to abortion providers and non-profit organizations whose primary function is to facilitate access to abortion care.
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2024-01-22
To Assembly Health Committee
NYS06574Intro
25%
Establishes the New York state first home savings program to authorize first time home buyers to establish savings accounts to buy their first home.
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2024-01-09
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS00610Engross
50%
Authorizes boards of elections to establish absentee ballot drop-off locations.
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2024-01-08
To Assembly Election Law Committee
NYS00020Intro
25%
Increases membership on the board of the metropolitan transportation authority, including members representative of commuters' advisory councils.
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2024-01-08
To Senate Transportation Committee
NYS07973Intro
25%
Excludes the amount of state and local taxes and fees from the amount on which an interchange fee is charged for that electronic payment transaction by a credit or debit card network.
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2024-01-04
To Senate Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYS07960Intro
25%
Establishes an energy reserve fund for school districts and boards of cooperative educational services.
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2024-01-04
To Senate Education Committee
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