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

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NYS02373Intro
25%
Designates certain emergency and public safety dispatchers and operators as first responders.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Health Committee
NYS02721Intro
25%
Establishes the civil right to counsel in eviction proceedings in New York state; creates the New York state office of civil representation; requires that covered individuals be given notice of such right to counsel.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Housing, Construction, and Community Development Committee
NYS02728Intro
25%
Prohibits the diminution of health insurance benefits of public employee retirees and their dependents or reducing the employer's contributions for such insurance; defines employers to include the state, municipalities, school districts, and public a...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Civil Service and Pensions Committee
NYS02864Intro
25%
Authorizes police agencies to charge fees for searching, copying, and mailing police agency generated records except for where the requesting party is a victim to or was charged with the crime related to such documents.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS02913Engross
50%
Provides grants to address food insecurity among students at public institutions for higher education.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Higher Education Committee
NYS02968Intro
25%
Relates to discovery restrictions for photographs of minors depicting sexual or other intimate parts; provides such photographs shall be subject to in camera review and certain other restrictions.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS03135Intro
25%
Alters the definition of "drug" in the vehicle and traffic law to include any substance or combination of substances that impair, to any extent, physical or mental abilities; defines impairment and intoxication; provides that refusal to submit to a b...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Transportation Committee
NYS03245Intro
25%
Establishes the universal child care act to provide for the establishment and funding of universal child care in the state of New York; relates to the effectiveness of the child care availability taskforce; makes an appropriation therefor.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS03287Intro
25%
Relates to declaring the goal of the state of New York to source reduce, reuse, recycle, or compost no less than eighty-five percent of the solid waste generated by the year 2033.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS03286Intro
25%
Prohibits drugs from being dispensed unless a licensed pharmacist has verified that: the package contains the drug to be dispensed, whether the drug is packaged in a child-resistant container, whether a stock container is open and the quantity of the...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Higher Education Committee
NYS03397Intro
25%
Establishes a maximum temperature in school buildings and indoor facilities; provides a definition of extreme heat condition days and the standard to measure room temperature.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Education Committee
NYS04063Intro
25%
Prohibits publishers from limiting the number of copies of e-books available at public libraries in New York.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Libraries Committee
NYS00774Intro
25%
Establishes the "earned time act" providing for time allowances against the term or maximum term of sentences imposed by the court to be credited on an annual pro rata basis.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee
NYS04153Intro
25%
Increases the amount of years of military service credit a member may purchase from three years to ten years.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Civil Service and Pensions 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
NYS04191Intro
25%
Prohibits the diminution of health insurance benefits of public employee retirees and their dependents or reducing the employer's contributions for such insurance; defines employers to include the state, municipalities, school districts, and public a...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Civil Service and Pensions Committee
NYS04448Intro
25%
Provides that a prior conviction within the past two years for petit larceny shall raise a subsequent offense to grand larceny in the fourth degree.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS04549Intro
25%
Prohibits a cause of action for defamation where the subject of such action includes an allegation made to an employer regarding an unlawful discriminatory practice or act of retaliation.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS04750Intro
25%
Relates to action arising out of consumer debt; defines consumer debt and replaces consumer credit transaction with such term.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee
NYS05233Intro
25%
Relates to pretrial mental health and substance abuse evaluations and treatment for certain defendants; establishes the pretrial mental health and substance abuse services bail fund.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS05232Intro
25%
Requires school districts to conduct mandatory early screening for dyslexia for all children commencing in pre-kindergarten or kindergarten and continuing thereafter on an annual basis until each child successfully completes second grade; requires sc...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Education Committee
NYS05231Intro
25%
Provides that the tax levy limit shall not include a tax levy necessary for expenditures resulting from a local government meeting its obligation to provide enhanced cancer disability benefits to volunteer firefighters as required under section two h...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Local Government Committee
NYS05213Intro
25%
Relates to tax lien foreclosure; caps the interest rate charged on all taxes received after the interest free period and all delinquent taxes at 16% per year; creates a taxpayer bill of rights and requires compliance therewith by each county, city an...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Local Government Committee
NYS01976Intro
25%
Relates to judicial diversion programs; establishes a diversion part in each county; repeals certain provisions of law relating thereto.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Alcoholism and Substance Use Disorders Committee
NYS05284Intro
25%
Provides legal assistance to youth ordered by the court into the custody of the office of children and family services and placed or committed to a state operated juvenile detention center.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Mental Health Committee
NYS00313Intro
25%
Eliminates court surcharges and fees and probation and parole surcharges and fees; eliminates the requirement that a parolee or releasee receiving a merit termination of sentence be financially able to comply with an order of restitution; eliminates ...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS04977Intro
25%
Relates to certificates of registration for entities that manufacture or assemble zero emissions vehicles and have no franchised motor vehicle dealers in New York.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Transportation Committee
NYS02175Engross
50%
Provides for paid family leave after a stillbirth.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Labor Committee
NYS05531Intro
25%
Requires the registration and regulation of non-bank automated teller machines.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Banks 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
NYS03192Intro
25%
Establishes an unemployment bridge program and an unemployment bridge program fund to provide wage replacement to workers that do not qualify for unemployment insurance or other worker wage assistance programs and who have lost a major source of inco...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS05615Engross
50%
Directs that state agencies require that procurement of personal computing goods, services and solutions meet the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Procurement and Contracts Committee
NYS05645Intro
25%
Allows certified dietitians and nutritionists to order therapeutic diets.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Higher Education Committee
NYS05646Intro
25%
Enacts the "critical infrastructure standards and procedures (CRISP) act".
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2024-01-03
To Senate Internet and Technology 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
NYS03602Intro
25%
Includes in the class E felony of vehicular assault in the second degree, the causing of serious physical injury while operating a vehicle with suspended, revoked or no license; creates the crime of vehicular homicide.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS05864Intro
25%
Authorizes boards of cooperative educational services to enroll students in career and technical education courses.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Education Committee
NYS05479Intro
25%
Elevates an assault of a retail worker to the class D felony of assault in the second degree.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS05789Intro
25%
Requires cooperative housing corporations provide a prospective purchaser with a written statement of reasons when withholding consent to a purchase; voids any agreement inconsistent with such requirement.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS04350Intro
25%
Establishes the safe water and infrastructure action program for the purpose of making payments toward the replacement and rehabilitation of certain existing local drinking water, storm water and sanitary sewer systems; applies to any county, city, t...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS05506Intro
25%
Establishes the crime of forcible touching of a correction officer; increases criminal penalties for certain sexual offenses committed against correction officers when such correction officer is acting in the course of their employment.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS05614Intro
25%
Authorizes a city, town or village to establish a program whereby a building permit may be issued based upon certification by a registered architect or professional engineer.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Local Government Committee
NYS04860Intro
25%
Requires high schools in grades nine through twelve to provide a course in financial literacy; requires students to complete such course as a condition of graduation.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Education Committee
NYS06278Intro
25%
Enacts the "crash victims bill of rights"; requires accident reports to be delivered to victims of accidents or their next of kin; requires victim impact statements to be delivered at traffic infraction hearings by injured parties or their next of ki...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Transportation Committee
NYS06650Intro
25%
Provides that where mandatory continuing education programs are offered through electronic or other remote means where the licensee must provide proof of attendance by responding to a visual or auditory prompt in the program, such program shall confo...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Higher Education Committee
NYS06742Intro
25%
Grants the department of financial services jurisdiction over the financing of motor vehicles; requires motor vehicle dealer finance managers to be licensed by the department of financial services.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Banks Committee
NYS06759Intro
25%
Allows a tax exemption for taxpayers in the amount of the purchase price of a fire extinguisher, fire alarm, heat alarm or carbon monoxide alarm purchased for residential use during the month of October.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Budget and Revenue Committee
NYS01802Intro
25%
Prohibits employers from using the federal electronic employment verification system to check the employment authorization status of an existing employee or an applicant who has not been offered employment and prohibits municipalities from requiring ...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Labor Committee
NYS05567Intro
25%
Provides for minimum wage requirements for miscellaneous industry workers.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS02416Intro
25%
Relates to acknowledging the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the City of New York and the State of New York; establishes the New York state community commission on reparations remedies to examine the institutio...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Finance Committee
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