Senator Gallivan's Votes for June 9 & 10, 2025

The following bills were approved in the NYS Senate.  Senator Gallivan's vote is noted.

S138 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. NAY

S426 Authorizes the commission on ethics and lobbying in government to provide a training course concerning anti-sexual harassment training for lobbyists; requires lobbyists to complete the course annually. AYE

S652A This bill would create a new class of license for alcohol consumption on premises for "private membership establishments".  AYE

S915 This bill would require all resurfacing, maintenance, or pavement recycling projects to be completed utilizing complete street design features. NAY

S1472 Amends the law by requiring all "duly authorized instructors" in small arms practice to be recertified. NAY

S1511 Provides that persons charged with a parking violation shall be able to make an electronic court appearance. AYE

S1891 This bill establishes a street cleaning camera monitoring system to street cleaners operating in New York City.  AYE

S1986 Extends the time period from eighteen years to twenty-five years that a school shall be guaranteed recovery of energy performance contract costs from energy savings incurred by school districts over that time period. AYE

S2709 Amends labor law to require tower services contracts between New York State or any of its agencies and a private company to require certified safety trainings for tower climbers.  AYE

S3155 Prohibits any insurer that is required to provide coverage for in vitro fertilization pursuant to this paragraph from requiring the transfer of all embryos from a prior cycle as a prerequisite for coverage of a subsequent cycle for a female thirty-five years of age or older. NAY (Not necessary as frozen embryos still exist.)

S3820B Requires health insurance policies include coverage for anesthesia for the entire duration of a procedure for which a licensed medical practitioner has issued an order for such anesthesia. AYE

S4052 This bill would amend section 696-a of the Labor Law, which governs minimum wage rates for covered airport workers to include Stewart International Airport in the definition of covered airport location. AYE

S4230 This bill increases civil penalties for automotive repair shops that fail to make restitution payments to customers who have been either: (1) grossly overcharged for certain repairs or adjustments; or (2) were grossly negligent in their performance of certain repairs or adjustments. AYE

S4497 Requires certain insurance policies to provide coverage for fertility preservation services, including anticipated iatrogenic infertility. NAY (No cap on length of time or costs associated.)

S4534 This bill gives the Secretary of State broad authority over local code enforcement. It allows the Secretary of State to appoint oversight officers to enforce building, fire, and conservation code enforcement. NAY (Overreach.)

S4658A Prohibits industrial development agencies from giving funds, financial incentives, and subsidies to any project where facilities or property are used primarily for ecommerce storage and transfers.  NAY

S4803 This bill would add a new section 34 to the Volunteer Firefighters' Benefit Law to establish a municipal group insurance technical assistance program. AYE

S5324A This bill establishes a definition and provisions regarding pet insurance. It establishes a definition of "pet insurance" to mean a property insurance policy that provides coverage for accidents and illnesses of pets.  AYE

S6150 Relates to the reporting of suspected financial exploitation; requires the superintendent of the department of financial services to develop guidelines relating to reporting suspected financial exploitation; provides that a third party who reports suspected financial abuse shall have immunity from any civil or criminal liability as a result.  AYE

S6155A  Allows for a modest increase in annual income, not greater than three percent per year, to not disqualify someone from the excelsior scholarship. AYE

S6166 This bill would cap the interest rate on delinquent property taxes at 7.5% of the delinquent tax payment. AYE

S6231 This legislation would license and regulate laser hair removal technicians. AYE

S6334 Expands the description of certain services which are not prohibited by statutes governing the practice of nursing, including direct support staff to nurses. AYE (Will address workforce shortages.)

S6363 Provides that a mortgagee (mortgage lender) receives a payment at the location and in the manner specified by the mortgagee, then the mortgagee must accept and may not return or destroy any payment receive in reliance on a payoff statement and must promptly apply such payment to the unpaid principal, interest or any other amounts due under the mortgage. AYE

S6640 Provides an option for beneficiaries of NYC transit authority members to receive a lump sum equal to the pension reserve where a member who is eligible for a service retirement dies prior to filing for retirement. AYE

S6736A  Adds to the standard coverage under Medicaid a wearable medical device that uses low intensity, alternating electric fields delivered directly to a tumor site to treat glioblastoma and other cancers as recommended by medical and scientific evidence. AYE

S7007 Establishes a mandatory mental health first aid training program for licensed cosmetologists and barbers.  NAY

S7032 Provides qualified homeless individuals non-driver state identification cards if there is proof provided that such individual is in fact homeless. NAY

S7191 Authorizes the parent or guardian of a severely disabled person to register a motor vehicle used for transporting a person with disabilities.  AYE

S7422A This bill provides authorizes for Westchester County to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with the NYSDOT for the purpose of installing a red-light camera monitoring systems at intersections on the Saw Mill River Parkway. AYE

S7485 Requires the payment of prevailing wage for work performed on a public works worksite for any work involving the delivery to and hauling from such worksites of concrete and asphalt, in the counties of Nassau, Putnam, Suffolk, and Westchester, and in the city of New York. NAY (Does not apply statewide.)

S7545 Requires the department of health to develop and maternal health care providers to distribute written information about episiotomy to maternity patients.  AYE

S7642 Excludes the five state-run veterans homes from assessments on their gross receipts received from all patient care services and other operating income; directs the Commissioner of Health to apply to the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services for any necessary waivers pursuant to federal law and regulation. AYE

S7680A Requires the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation to develop and approve operational safety plans prior to the deployment of any employee in hazardous conditions. AYE

S7717 Sets maximum rates that may be charged for the towing and subsequent storage of passenger and large vehicles outside of New York city.  NAY (Uneven application. Does not apply to NYC.)

S7731 Requires insurance coverage of a hospitalized birthing parent's interhospital transport to accompany such birthing parent's newborn infant experiencing a condition necessitating transport. AYE

S7800 Waives the residency requirement for the office of commissioner of finance of the county of Putnam.  AYE

S7801 Waives the residency requirement for the office of Putnam county attorney. AYE

S7882 Prohibits a person or entity from knowingly or with reckless disregard facilitate an agreement between or among two or more residential rental property owners or managers to not compete with respect to residential rental dwelling units, including by operating or licensing a software, data analytics service, or algorithmic device that performs a coordinating function on behalf of or between and among such residential rental property owners or managers. NAY (Places small landlords at a competitive disadvantage. Too broad.)

S7889 Permits the Setauket fire district and Stony Brook fire district to enter into contracts with the state university of New York at Stony Brook for property, services, and other consideration. AYE

S7984 This bill authorizes that any Medicaid recipient currently in the Recipient Restriction Program be fully exempt from restrictions on opioid treatment services specifically, methadone and buprenorphine when those services are provided by licensed Opioid Treatment Programs (OTPs). AYE

S8059 Establishes a blue envelope program for persons with mental health disorders, behavioral disorders and persons who are neurodivergent to be provided with blue envelopes to keep their identification, vehicle registration, and other related documents to improve their safety during law enforcement interactions; requires the municipal police training council to promulgate rules and regulations requiring training and instruction for all police officers with respect to the blue envelope program.  AYE

S8082 Requires the commissioner to promulgate regulations governing the release of certain records pertaining to a deceased individual who resided in a facility operated by the Office of Mental Health to a family member upon written request. Regulations shall be promulgated for the release of information upon written request by a physician of family member who has demonstrated medical need for such information. AYE

S8150 Protects veterans from fraud and unaccredited representatives; institutes a civil penalty of up to $10,000 for violation; establishes the class A misdemeanor crime of unaccredited representation of a veteran; establishes a veterans' services fund.  AYE

S8207 This bill relates to age and service eligibility requirements for ordinary retirement for members of the unified court system. AYE

S8256 Prohibits sanitation tickets from being issued in NYC for putting out trash for collection from 3:00 PM on Fridays through 6:00 PM on Saturdays.  AYE

S8257 This bill directs the Department of Health to establish an alternative payment methodology under Medicaid that reimburses Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) for the difference between the discounted 340B drug price and the Medicaid managed care payment rate for certain fertility medications.  AYE

S8271 Authorizes the city of Yonkers to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands. AYE

S8312 This bill would authorize a court, upon motion of a defendant and consent of the prosecutor, to transfer a pending case to a mental health court in an adjoining county. AYE

S8320 This legislation would prevent cases filed under the Child Victims Act (CVA) and Adult Survivors Act (ASA) from being unnecessarily dismissed. AYE

S8334 Requires insurance reimbursement for vaccination for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. Also requires Medicaid to cover the cost of pharmacist provided COVID-19 vaccination. AYE

S8338 Establishes disparate impact as a method of establishing unlawful discrimination under the Human Rights Law. AYE

S8384 GOVERNOR'S PROGRAM BILL - New York State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation pay bill for the period covering April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2026. AYE

S1985A Requires police officers to take temporary custody of firearms for not less than one hundred twenty hours when responding to reports of family violence.  NAY (Removes police officer discretion. Could effect those not involved. Could take away victim firearm(s)

S488A Enacts the manufacturer disclosure and transparency act requiring pharmaceutical manufacturers doing business in the state to notify the Attorney General within thirty days of entering into an agreement with another pharmaceutical manufacturer that delays generic substitutions for brand-name drugs.  NAY (Could raise confidentiality concerns.)

S2271 Prohibits an employer, licensing agency or employment agency from requesting or requiring that a prospective employee disclose his or her age, date of birth or date of graduation from an educational institution on an initial employment application or during an interview, except in the case of a bona fide occupational qualification or need. NAY

S1104A Enacts the consumer litigation funding act to promote consumer protections related to consumer litigation funding transactions; provides for contract requirements, including that the contract contain a no penalty provision for the prepayment of the funded amount prior to the settlement of his or her case; makes related provisions.  AYE

S4433A Requires the clear and conspicuous disclosure of pricing changes for online grocery delivery and online pick-up services; imposes a fine of not more than $100 for the first offense and not more than $250 for a second and each subsequent offense for violations. AYE

S626 This bill adds the unlawful purchase or sale of ammunition to the offense of Criminal Purchase or Disposal of a Weapon (a class D felony) and renames the offense Criminal Purchase or Disposal of a Weapon or Ammunition. NAY

S194A Provides security guards employed or contracted by a school, an annual in-service training course which must cover topics conducive to serving the youth population in an educational environment, including but not limited to, role and responsibility of school security officers, school-related laws and liability, security awareness in an educational environment, youth mediation/conflict resolution, disasters and emergencies, dynamics of student behavior and cultural awareness, crisis prevention and restorative practices. NAY

S397 This bill makes amendments to the provision of law governing false advertising of a food or food product to, in part, consider whether such advertising was directed at a child. Importantly, the penalty for a violation under this bill would subject such false advertisers to a fine of $600 in the first instance and $1,200 for the second and subsequent violations.  NAY (Nanny state. Burdensome for business. Usurps parental authority.)

S4840 Requires a surety bond for contractors and subcontractors where no public fund has been established for the financing of a public improvement. AYE

S6600B Requires the inspection of non-fireproof buildings in a city having a population of one million or more every three years; requires compliance with the New York city housing maintenance code and the New York city construction codes; requires those dwellings not in compliance with such code at the time of inspection to make repairs or improvements necessary to comply with such standards within six months of such inspection, or a lien shall be placed upon the dwelling.  NAY (Unrealistic time frames.)

S5277 This bill would expand who can hold membership in an adult-use cannabis cooperative license by removing the requirement that a licensed be a natural person. AYE

S2433A Establishes certain rights upon the expiration of ground lease residential cooperative apartment buildings. NAY (Violates the U.S. Constitution and the holding of the NY Court of Appeals in Regina Metropolitan Co. v. NYS DHCR retroactively intervening in the longstanding economic relationship between landowners and lessee cooperatives.)

S4906A Provides for certain victim statements to be taken at their workplace instead of the police department where such workplace was the scene of the crime and is a hospital, emergency medical facility, nursing home or residential health care facility.  AYE

S1353B The bill seeks to ensure that victims of economic abuse are not held liable for coerced debt by allowing the alleged victim of coerced debt to bring an action against a creditor to establish that the debt in question was coerced. NAY (Laudable goal in seeking to protect victims of financial abuse. Nonetheless, onerous on creditors and debt collectors. Avenues already exist to deal with fraud/coercion.)

S290A Dedicates a portion of the state highway system to "Trooper Edward J. Sweeney" in the town of Hempstead, county of Nassau. AYE

S7630 Extends the authority of the county of Orange to impose an additional rate of sales and compensating use taxes; provides for the use of the tax funds collected. AYE

S607A Provides for the licensure of dietitian nutritionists and nutritionists; defines the practice thereof. AYE

S550A Requires a caller making a report of suspected child abuse or maltreatment to the central registry to leave their name and contact information; prohibits the office of children and family services from releasing information identifying a person who made such a report. AYE

S1026A Allows individuals to waive their right to purchase firearms, rifles and shotguns, as well as a process by which the waiver can be filed and revoked. NAY (Unnecessary.)

S2646 Adds Falls Brook, Jones Brook, Kelso Brook, Minerva Stream, and Trout Brook to the definition of inland waterways for the purposes of waterfront revitalization. AYE

S5616 Extends, until December 31, 2026, the authorization of residential property owners in high risk brush fire areas on Staten Island to cut and remove reeds. AYE

S2110D Dedicates a portion of the state highway system in the town of Morris, county of Otsego, to Trooper Jill E. Mattice. AYE

S6009 Relates to youth programs sponsored by fire departments; provides that participants may respond to an emergency or hazardous activity, but shall remain in an appropriate and safe designated area that has been established by the chief or officer in charge; provides such participants cannot respond to an emergency on a vehicle using lights and/or sirens; provides such participants may not enter a burning structure; protects volunteer fire departments and fire companies from certain criminal and civil liability potentially arising from the operation of a youth program. AYE

S6159 Provides for the control and disposal of funds and property and the management of the Hampton Bays Volunteer Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association.  AYE

S2058 Requires each institution within the state university of New York and the city university of New York offering in-person student instruction to have at least one vending machine making emergency contraception available for purchase. NAY

S7699A Dedicates a portion of the state highway system to Jack Barletta on state route 208 in the county of Orange. AYE

S362 This bill establishes a 10 day waiting period for the purchase of any firearm. NAY

S6121 Requires DCJS to prepare written materials regarding child access prevention and the safe storage of firearms; establishes such information shall be provided by school districts to students and/or persons in a parental relationship to such students at the beginning of each semester or quarter of the regular school year beginning on and after July 1, 2026. NAY

S3610A COSPONSOR Establishes the rural suicide prevention council to identify barriers to mental health and substance use treatment and prevention services and other policies, practices, resources, services, and potential legislation that aim to reduce death by suicide and suicide attempts and acknowledge the demographic and cultural differences in rural communities; makes related provisions. AYE

S4542 Authorizes Justin Finkle to take the competitive civil service examination for the position of police officer and be placed on the eligible list for employment as a full-time police officer for the Albany county sheriff's office; requires that Justin Finkle be otherwise subject to the merit and fitness provisions of the civil service law applicable to full-time police officers. AYE

S4836 Increases the number of county court judges in Schenectady county from one judge to two. AYE

S5597 This bill amends sections 198-a and 198-b of the general business law regarding warranties and the sale or lease of new and used motor vehicles.  NAY (Can open up car manufacturers to expensive and time consuming lawsuits. Increase consumer costs.)

S7727 The bill is designed to enhance transparency, consumer safety, and accountability among 'self-help practitioners' by requiring them to disclose potential risks to clients and implement risk management plans during their services. AYE

S7455 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT - Provides a mandatory retirement age of 76 for judges and justices. AYE

S8175 UCA DEPARTMENTAL - makes various changes to the Surrogate's Court Procedure act provisions governing service of process, return dates for citations(notice to distributes of an estate), including: 1) Authorizes electronic means as an alternative method of service; 2) provides that when electronic means is used to effect service of process, the service of process is deemed complete upon transmittal of the process to the recipient 3) extends the time within which notice must be given to the Attorney General's office of a proceeding, if required, to 30 days. AYE

S7649 Extends the authorization of the city of Oswego to impose an additional one percent of sales and compensating use taxes. AYE

S5048A  Allows service contract providers to utilize "default" service contract reimbursement insurance. AYE

S7221 Extends certain provisions relating to medical malpractice insurers until December 31, 2028. AYE

S56B Requires the NYS DOH to establish a program authorizing a county or municipality or other entity to provide enhanced drug checking services for the purpose of assisting individuals in determining whether a drug or controlled substance contains contaminants, toxic substances or hazardous compounds; and to establish public health surveillance of the unregulated drug supply to monitor trends and the impact of health outcomes and increase public awareness of new substances in the unregulated drug supply. NAY (Incentivizes illegal drug use.)

S4641A Amends Article 6 of the Labor Law which governs payment of wages. NAY

S7974 Requires that businesses that provide consumers with online accounts to access services accounts for mobile telephones using proper identification if the business has a physical presence in this state. AYE

S7451 This bill would prevent a court, in a child custody case, from prohibiting a parent from undergoing a gender reassignment as a condition of receiving custody.  NAY

S84 Provides that the port authority shall prohibit nonstop flights to or from points beyond one thousand five hundred miles, except on Saturdays and flights to Denver, Colorado, from flying to or from LaGuardia airport, an air terminal of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. NAY (Will likely disrupt air traffic. Nonetheless, consideration of residents is noteworthy.)

S455A Provides for a quorum of one quarter of the members and the presiding officer of a community board physically be present at a location where the public can attend for such board to conduct videoconferencing. AYE

S649 Extends the number of years eligible municipal corporations and school districts can receive mitigation assistance when facing loss of tax or PILOT revenue from the closure of electric generating facilities. AYE

S1613A Directs empire state development, in conjunction with the office of general services, to create a plan to develop mixed-use commercial and residential property on a certain portion of the Harriman campus.  AYE

S4484 Authorizes the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation and the office of mental health to conduct a study pertaining to a proposed expansion of the Long Island Motor Parkway trail. AYE

S4815 Establishes a stakeholder group in the Oswego river basin to coordinate water release. AYE

S5387 Directs the commissioner of transportation to waive the annual security deposit fee specified in Use and Occupancy Permit No. 82771 issued to the Bedford Hills Fire District, Town of Bedford, Westchester County allowing for the use of approximately 4,000 square feet of state land for parking for volunteer firefighter members of the Bedford Hills Fire District. AYE

S5755 Directs the commissioner of health to establish a cannabis awareness program for youths age eighteen and younger designed to educate about the effects and risks associated with cannabis use, including that it is illegal for persons under the age of twenty-one. AYE

S6307 Establishes a new title within the EnCon law named "Marine and Coastal Debris Prevention and Mitigation".  AYE

S6484A  Relates to small business energy assistance and advocacy services; establishes the small business energy assistance and advocacy services program within the division for small-business; authorizes the division for small-business to initiate complaints to the public service commission regarding gas and electricity and steam heat. AYE

S7281 This bill would allow people to give out snacks, water, soft drinks or other refreshments to people in a polling place or in line to vote at a polling place. NAY (Could lead to favoritism in voting for a certain candidate.)

S7420 Extends the authority of the county of Suffolk to impose an additional one percent of sales and compensating use tax. AYE

S7533 Extends the operations for the Rockland Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children for two years until August 11, 2027. AYE

S7542A Extends the authority of the village of Medina to impose an occupancy tax. AYE

S7737 Extends provisions of the long term care ombudsman access to assisted living facilities for two years from December 31, 2025 until December 31, 2027. AYE

S7742A Extends the authority of the town of Newburgh to impose a hotel and motel tax for an additional two years; makes a technical change. AYE

S7804 Extends the authorization of the county of Tompkins to impose an additional one percent of sales and compensating use taxes until November 30, 2027. AYE

S7852 Extends the presumption related to disability benefits for death or disability related to lung disease in volunteer firefighters for an additional five years, until June 30, 2030. AYE

S7912 Extends provisions of law authorizing the county of Cortland to impose an additional mortgage recording tax until December 1, 2027. AYE

S7976 Extends provisions of law relating to big game hunting authorization for the county of Onondaga until October 1, 2027. AYE

S8011 Amends § 61 of the Volunteer Firefighters Benefits Law to extend the presumption related to disability benefits for death or disability due to heart or coronary artery disease for an additional five years. AYE

S8177 DHCR DEPARTMENTAL - extend certain statutory authorizations of the New York State Housing Finance Agency ("HFA"), the State of New York Mortgage Agency ("SONYMA"), the New York City Housing Development Corporation ("HDC"), and the SONYMA Mortgage Insurance Fund ("MIF"). AYE

S8179 OTDA DEPARTMENTAL - Amends subdivision (c) of § 153 of Part B of Chapter 436 of the Laws of 1997, constituting the Welfare Reform Act of 1997, to extend the provisions of Social Services Law § 131-n from August 22, 2025 to August 22, 2027. AYE

S8226 Provides a three year extension of chapter 618 of the laws of 1998, as amended by chapter 196 of the laws of 2022, relating to disposal of surplus computer equipment by political subdivisions. AYE

S8230 Extends the law that allows state agencies to exceed standard contract value limits when responding to emergencies, such as major infrastructure failures, severe weather events, or urgent supply needs from June 30, 2025, to June 30, 2028. AYE

S8231 Extends to December 7, 2027, certain provisions relating to the establishment and operation of the Self-Employment Assistance Program (SEAP). AYE

S8245 NYC OMB DEPARTMENTAL - Extends certain provisions relating to the sale of bonds and notes of the city of New York, the issuance of bonds or notes with variable rates of interest, interest rate exchange agreements of the city of New York, the refunding of bonds, and the down payment for projects financed by bonds; extends the New York state financial emergency act for the city of New York; makes further amendments relating to the effectiveness thereof. AYE

S8251 Extends, through June 30, 2030, the authorization for certain physical therapy assistants to provide services in public and private primary and secondary schools' without the on-site supervision of a physical therapist. AYE

S8261 Extends provisions relating to the establishment of the mercury thermostat collection act to January 1, 2027. AYE

S8273 Authorizes the Greenburgh North Castle Union Free School District to affiliate with Rising Ground, Inc. to continue providing educational services beyond the 2024- 2025 school year. AYE

S8297 This bill would amend the Real Property Tax Law to limit the amount of property shift between homestead/nonhomestead and class share apportionment for local governments within and including Nassau county.  AYE

S1202A Establishes the interagency elder justice task force consisting of representatives of state agencies whose work involves elder justice to create greater collaboration and develop overarching strategies, systems, and programs with a goal of protecting older adults from abuse and mistreatment. AYE

S1223 This bill would expand the temporary operator program to include nursing homes. NAY (Regulatory structure for troubled nursing homes already exists.)

S2462B  Enacts the "public renewables transparency act"; relates to the New York power authority's conferral process; requires the conferral report be posted on the authority's website; provides that the authority shall provide an option for stakeholders to submit comments remotely as well, and incorporate feedback from such sessions and written comments into the final draft of the strategic plan; makes related provisions. AYE

S4583A Relates to the health, safety and human rights of incarcerated pregnant individuals, incarcerated birthing parents and their children; requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to establish rules and regulations relating to conditions in institutions and correctional facilities and the treatment and care of birthing parents in such institutions and facilities.  NAY (Security concerns not adequately addressed. Significant costs.)

S5001 Provides for including siblings of parents and children of siblings in the definition of "family member" in relation to regulations pertaining to rights of family members to succeed in certain cases to the rights of certain tenants. NAY

S182 Increases the Federal Poverty Level income limit from two hundred percent to four hundred percent with regard to the one-time, six-month earned income disregard for job entrants having completed a public assistance employment training program, as enacted in the FY 2023- 2024 budget. AYE

S1849A This bill provides that whenever the chief administrator is required to compile, report or make other court data publicly available, or wherever the chief administrator opts to require such collection, reporting and public availability of data, this shall include data from all courts, including the town and village courts, disaggregated by county and by individual court.  NAY (Cost to local governments.)

S5047 Authorizes an accident and health insurer to offer an incentive or reward program to support wellness, primary and preventative care, population health, care coordination, case management, disease management, mental health and substance use disorder treatment initiatives, evidence-based treatment, or quality and cost containment initiatives.  AYE

S4854 Prohibits confectionery and candy product manufacturers from selling or holding for sale products designed to mimic tobacco products. NAY (Unnecessary.)

S1694A This would add a new section to the penal law that would make it unlawful for someone to record the entrance or exit of a school ground when they have the intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm another person. AYE

S4859A Requires the state commission on judicial conduct to transmit its annual budget request to the governor for inclusion in the executive budget without revision; relates to complaints regarding judges and confidentiality of records; extends the jurisdiction of the state commission on judicial conduct as to judges who resign or retire while under investigation or formal charges. AYE

S3566 This bill would add to the required health coverage menu under the Medicaid program, known as “standard coverage.” AYE

S4909A Provides access to Masters-in-Education Teacher Incentive Scholarship Programs awards to students who are matriculated in an approved master's degree in Education program at a New York State post- secondary institution. AYE

S5134 Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision, in consultation with the commissioner of health and the commissioner of mental health, to develop a uniform electronic medical records system to be utilized by all correctional facilities in the state. AYE

S6286A Establishes the agrivoltaics viability pilot program under NYSERDA's purview to provide grants to identify the best practices and strategies for dual-use solar energy projects that protect soil health during construction and decommissioning of solar arrays, utilize sustainable agricultural production practices, monitor any benefits solar energy may have on farms and to the state, track economic viability, study the commercialization of dual use solar energy projects, and encourage equitable engagement of stakeholders. AYE

S6976A Establishes the New York road salt reduction council and the New York road salt reduction advisory committee to provide a mechanism for interagency cooperation and coordination to implement the recommendations of the report of the Adirondack road salt reduction task force.  NAY (Task force already exists with recommendations.)

S624 Authorizes the village of Greenwood Lake, county of Orange to allow golf carts on certain streets under the exclusive control and jurisdiction of such village. AYE

S2177A Establishes the "broadband investment tax stablization (BITS) act".  AYE

S2317A Prohibits any elected official serving at the county, town, city, or village level, from serving as member of the board of any industrial development agency (IDA) located within the county.  NAY (Should be local decision.)

S2452 Requires school districts to screen for gifted and talented students; provides the parents or guardians of such students the option to opt out of such screening. AYE

S5067A Directs the commissioner of education to change the name of the state high school equivalency diploma, formerly known as the general education development (GED) program, to the Excelsior diploma. AYE

S7367A Grants volunteer firefighters and emergency medical technicians academic credit at state operated institutions of the state university of New York and the senior colleges of the city university of New York to the extent of three academic credits per year, and 6 credits in the aggregate; provides that no fee, tuition or other charge shall be assessed against a volunteer firefighter or emergency medical technician who qualifies for such credit; directs the board of trustees of the state university and the city university of New York to adopt necessary procedures. AYE

S1011 To require individuals employed and participating in one of New York state retirement system to formally acknowledges termination of participation in the retirement system. NAY

S1067A Establishes the New York state park adopt-a-trail stewardship program and the New York state park adopta-trail stewardship program fund.  AYE

S5225A This bill amends the provisions of the public health law governing the treatment of sexual offense victims and maintenance of evidence in a sexual offense, specifically related to the requirements for collection and maintenance of such sexual offense evidence to allow that when an alleged victim gives permission to release the evidence to law enforcement. AYE

S4102 Requires the establishment of community housing waiting lists within the office of mental health service system.  AYE

S1731 Renames an office of addiction services and supports scholarship program the "NYS Father Peter Young Memorial Addiction Professionals Scholarship Program."  AYE

S7548A This bill exempts all Syracuse Regional Airport Authority (SRAA) officers, employees, and agents from civil service requirements including applicable exams. AYE

S4511 Establishes the task force to promote the employment by state agencies of people with disabilities. AYE

S8117 Establishes a school speed zone camera demonstration program in the county of Oneida; repeals authorization of program December 31, 2030. AYE

S4871 Directs the independent developmental disability ombudsman program to establish a service delivery structure based in New York state that includes a toll-free telephone hotline, an interactive website, and availability of in-person, telephone and email access to ombudsman program staff or volunteers. AYE

S4953 Establishes an intensive addiction and medical services integrated services pilot program to support two three year demonstration programs that provide intensive addiction and medical services integrated services to individuals who have significant addiction and medical issues. AYE

S5083 Permits an eligible retirement system member to receive, in lieu of an ordinary death benefit, a death benefit such member would otherwise be entitled to receive provided such member is a state-paid judge or justice of the unified court system or a housing judge of the civil court of the city of New York.  AYE

S3318 Authorizes additional paid leave for public employees who are absent on military duty up to sixty days or fifty-two working days. AYE

S8047 This bill would amend the Environmental Conservation Law (ECL) to implement a constitutional amendment authorizing the Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Sports Complex on Forest Preserve lands in the Town of North Elba, Essex County. AYE

S2640 Includes veterans in the definition of military status to protect veterans from being unlawfully discriminated against. AYE

S1378A Directs the commissioner of education to develop and implement a museum education grant program. AYE

S1804A Requires that every insurance policy include coverage for inhalers for the treatment of asthma. AYE

S7809 Requires all state agencies to establish a composting program in buildings owned, occupied or operated by such agencies; allows such agencies to arrange for collection of compostable waste by a private carter, transport such waste itself or process such waste on-site; requires reports on the costs and effectiveness of such programs. NAY (Could be significant cost - proposal without appropriation.)

S7943 Requires the office of temporary and disability assistance to make available skimming warning signs in English and in the twelve languages most commonly spoken by limited English proficient individuals in the state; requires the department of social services to make available information regarding the state food stamp outreach program in English and in the twelve languages most commonly spoken by limited English proficient individuals in the state. AYE

S6233 COSPONSOR This bill would increase the value of the tax credits for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers from $200 to $800. AYE

S7688 Authorizes Frank Lyburd III, Brian McNamara, Peter J. Jacobs, Roman S. Wilinski, Alex U. Chenche and Tara T. Desposito, police officers in the town of Southold, county of Suffolk, to receive certain service credit under section 384-d of the retirement and social security law. AYE

S7724 Authorizes the assessor of the town of Brookhaven to accept an application for a real property tax exemption from St. Mary AME Zion Church for the property located at 537 Granny Road in the Hamlet of Medford. AYE

S7796A Permits Yates county assistant district attorneys and assistant public defenders to reside in Chemung county. AYE

S8151 Authorizes the commissioner of taxation and finance to establish segment special equalization rates starting in fiscal year 2025 for the Amityville Union Free School District and Farmingdale Union Free School District for the segments of the districts in the towns of Babylon and Oyster Bay. AYE

S8342 MTA DEPARTMENTAL - extends subdivision 1 of Section § 1267 of the PAL to extend the sunset of June 24, 2025, an additional three years. AYE

S8343 Extends the minimum surplus to policyholder ratio required of medical malpractice insurers, from June 30, 2025 to June 30, 2027. AYE

S8361 NYC ACTUARY DEPARTMENTAL - This bill would extend for four fiscal years, until June 30, 2029, the current 7% per annum statutory rate of interest used by the Chief Actuary ("Actuary") for the New York City Employees' Retirement System, Teachers' Retirement System, Board of Education Retirement System, Police Pension Fund and Fire Department Pension Fund ("City retirement systems") in valuing retirement system liabilities for the purpose of computing the amount of employer contributions to those systems. AYE

S8362 Extends, through July 1, 2030, the authorization for persons employed or retained by programs licensed, certified, operated, approved registered or funded and, regulated by the Office for People\ with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD), the Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS), or the Office of Mental Health (OMH) to perform the duties of a licensed behavior analyst or certified behavior analyst assistant. AYE

S919A Requires local boards and the division of housing and community renewal to submit certain residential housing and zoning information to the department of state annually; requires such information to be published by the department of state on its website. NAY

S1476A Requires certain health care providers to disclose the fact that the provider is on probation to current and new patients. AYE

S1600 Allows for distinctive plates to be issued for members of the New York city fire riders motorcycle club. AYE

S1667 Prohibits forensic child custody evaluators who have been terminated for cause from appearing as an expert witness in family court custody and visitation proceedings. AYE

S1949B Dedicates a portion of the state highway system in the town of Haverstraw, county of Rockland to Hector L. Soto. AYE

S2134A Restore the power of the State Division of Housing and Community Renewal to ensure that building owners seeking permission to refuse to renew rent stabilized tenants' leases to demolish buildings and construct new ones are acting in good faith, have sought necessary permits and have the funds to complete the work. NAY (This bill goes against long standing DHCR policy and court precedent.)

S2537 This bill would amend the Workers' Compensation Law (WKC) 15 (1) to expand the definition of permanent total disability to include the inability to perform the full range of sedentary work or approval for federal social security disability benefits as a result of a compensable accident or occupational disease as constituting permanent total disability. NAY (If not sudden, too subjective to make connection.)

S2707 Requires DHCR to develop a common application and web portal for certain funding, tax credits, loans, and grants for housing; requires such application to be available upon request from relevant state agencies; requires such web portal to be manageable by relevant state agencies; makes relevant provisions. AYE

S3390A Requires each institution of higher education to make publicly available its policy on notifying the parent, guardian, or emergency contact of a student under twenty one of certain controlled substance and alcohol violations, including rule infractions, and controlled substance or alcohol related hospitalizations or overdoses; requires such colleges and institutions to conduct regular training on the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. AYE

S3440 Provides a tax exemption for certain volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers in Westchester county. AYE

S3501B Dedicates a portion of the Long Island Expressway in the town of Brookhaven to 9-11 Fallen Firefighters. AYE

S3654A Amends the insurance law to require insurers to provide coverage for costs related to stuttering, including speech therapy. NAY (Too broad. Increases insurance costs.)

S4403 Authorizes the attorney general to approve certain state land acquisitions made for the purposes of land conservation, and to accept a title policy from a commercial insurer to cover any title defects that would otherwise render the title unmarketable. AYE

S4518 Amends the Workers' Compensation Law section 13-A to provide that certain communications between a claimant's attorney or representative and an injured employee's treating provider or a claimant's medical consultant are not improper influence or an attempt to improperly influence. AYE

S4525 Amends Criminal Procedure Law to make accusatory instruments and/or supporting depositions made by a deponent in a language other than English to be insufficient unless such documents are filed in the deponents native language with an affidavit from an interpreter or the writing in English from the translator with supporting affidavit. NAY (Onerous on law enforcement agencies. Highly technical.)

S4940 Establishes a youth outreach department within the state police, city, village, town, and district police departments, and sheriff departments for the purposes of designing and carrying out youth activities organized by the department. NAY (Unfunded mandate. Not necessary.)

S5059 Provides assistance to incarcerated individuals being released from correctional facilities for enrollment in safety net assistance, public assistance, supplemental assistance program (SNAP), special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children (WIC), the home energy assistance program (HEAP), supplemental security income, and state supplemental payments. NAY (Assistance already provided.)

S5170 Permits a plaintiff to recover directly against a third party defendant found to be liable to the defendant in certain actions. NAY (Increased liability costs. Not fair to 3rd party.)

S5304 Enacts the "New York travel insurance act" regulating the licensing and registration of limited lines travel insurance producers and travel retailers, and the sale and marketing of travel insurance and related products. AYE

S5369 Authorizes increased equity withdrawals by certain nonpublic residential health care facilities; establishes the nursing home worker recruitment and safety fund. AYE

S5446C Relates to dedicating a portion of the state highway system to Specialist Jason Johnston. AYE

S5569 COSPONSOR Establishes the center for Dyslexia and Dysgraphia within the State Education Department led by an Executive Director appointed by the SED Commissioner. AYE

S5585 Changes the official name of the Staten Island Expressway to the "POW-MIA Memorial Highway". AYE

S5646A  Authorizes the city of Mt. Vernon to establish a school speed zone demonstration program; authorizes installation in no more than twenty school speed zones in such city. AYE

S5659 Authorizes the village of North Haven, county of Suffolk, to reduce the maximum speed limit along certain designated streets in such village to not less than twenty miles per hour. AYE

S5714 Requires state agencies to measure, collect, report, and utilize metrics relating to the experience of residents interacting with agencies to improve provision of services to the people of the state, and to provide a biannual report to the governor and legislature. AYE

S5769B Dedicates a portion of New York state route 21 to TSgt Kory Wade. AYE

S5848 Requires the state fire administrator to make available a specialized electric vehicle emergency response training program to provide training to individuals responsible for providing emergency response and recovery following incidents involving electric vehicles; defines emergency medical services agency. AYE

S5860B Expands the scope of chiropractic practice; authorizes chiropractic clinical assistants. AYE

S5994 Updates the Pound Ridge Volunteer Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association's charter and provides for new duties of such charter. AYE

S6282 This bill requires public notification and opportunity for comment when an application is made to DOH for a waiver to the hospital-home care-physician collaboration program. AYE

S6361B Prohibits unfair residential real estate service agreements which are certain service agreements which are not to be performed within two years following the time such agreement is entered into. AYE

S6428 Authorizes the Thiells-Roseville Fire District to file an application for exemption from school taxes and real property taxes. AYE

S6486 This bill would reduce the Normal Retirement Age for NYCERS Tier 3 members of the Uniformed Sanitation Force and Uniformed Correction Force 22-Year Plans (i.e., Revised Plan members) to be the age at which a member completes or would have completed twenty years of service. AYE

S6551 Includes image-guided biopsies under mandatory insurance coverage for breast cancer screening. AYE

S6926A Relates to the membership and purposes of the Volunteer and Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association of Coldenham Inc.; changes the name of the association to the "Volunteer and Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association of Coldenham, Inc"; updates the purposes of such association and the use of taxes received by such association. AYE

S6988A Amends the administrative code of the City of New York by adding a new section 13-633 to provide that time served as a member of the city's traffic enforcement bureau who subsequently became an NYPD officer, to have their prior service time included and counted for purposes of calculating their pension.  AYE

S7129 Requires the New York State Department of Veterans' Services, in consultation with the department of health, to undertake a study regarding veteran healthcare in New York State. AYE

S7136 Adopts the psychology interjurisdictional compact to increase public access to psychological services by allowing telepsychological practice and temporary in-person services across state lines. AYE

S7158 Authorizes the renewal of the WSKG lease for such land, tower and associated utility lines to the Tioga county emergency services. AYE

S7162A Relates to the use of moneys received from foreign fire insurance companies by the Bohemia Volunteer Firefighter's Benevolent Association, and to modernization of certain language by making such language gender neutral. AYE

S7316 Requires the forfeiture of benefits to be paid pursuant to a service awards program to volunteer firefighters who have been convicted of felonies committed against a volunteer fire department, volunteer fire company, fire district, or fire protection district. AYE

S7326 This bill will allow Angelina's restaurant in Rochester, NY to be issued a liquor license despite their proximity to the Bible Baptist Temple. AYE

S7388 Provides that the New York labor law shall be construed liberally in favor of workers for the accomplishment of the remedial purposes of the Labor Law, regardless of whether similarly-worded provisions of federal laws, such as the Fair Labor Standards Act, have been so construed. NAY (Too subjective and lacking balance.)

S7412 Authorizes the town justice of the town of Montour, county of Schuyler, to be a nonresident of such town. AYE

S7423 Requires the commissioner of economic development, in cooperation with the commissioner of agriculture and markets and the state liquor authority to establish procedures for proposing to the governor nominations for annual awards.   AYE

S7741 Defines "closed period of eligibility" for purposes of supplemental security income for aged, blind, and disabled persons; includes such time period in the eligibility requirements of such supplemental security income. AYE

S7744A Authorizes the use of certain park lands alienated from a portion of the park commonly known as Lincoln Park, in the city of Albany for any school purposes. AYE

S7780B This bill would amend the Private Housing Finance Law to establish a cap on the amount of real estate taxes paid by certain cooperatives in cities with a population of one million or more. NAY (Unfair to everyone not included.)

S7807A Defines epinephrine device as a single-use device or nasal spray device used for the automatic injection or administration of a premeasured dose of epinephrine into the human body for the purpose of emergency treatment of a person appearing to experience anaphylactic symptoms. AYE

S7818 Amends the county law to allow a local health official to be the designee of the commissioner of health for purposes of requesting copies of all reports and records related to a death, including, but not limited to, autopsy reports and toxicology reports. AYE

S7932A Changes the number of members of the board of trustees of the Mamaroneck public library district from eleven to no less than five and no more than fifteen. AYE

S8012 Relates to additional considerations regarding the assessment of solar or wind energy systems through a discounted cash flow approach. NAY (Higher cost to everybody else.)

S8178 NYS HOMES AND COMMUNITY RENEWAL DEPARTMENTAL - amend the Private Housing Finance Law (PHFL) in order to amend HTFC's governing statute to increase the maximum loan or grant amount per dwelling unit from $125,000 to $250,000 and to clarify that HTFC may make a finding to exceed this cap in certain circumstances. AYE

S8196 UCA DEPARTMENTAL - Amends Criminal Procedure Law (CPL) 722.10(7) to allow the Chief Administrator of the Courts to designate any superior criminal court judge to preside over a youth part if they are determined qualified based upon training and experience. AYE

S8198 UCA DEPARTMENTAL - Requires the Family Court to check the registry of orders of protection, the sex offender registry, and records of child protective proceedings relating to individuals who may be granted custody of a child as a condition of a temporary or final order of protection. AYE

S8234 NYS TEACHERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM DEPARTMENTAL - Changes the due date by which the New York State teachers' retirement system is required to submit the annual MWBE report to on or before December thirty-first following the end of the teachers retirement system's fiscal year. AYE

S8239 DOL DEPARTMENTAL - amend Labor Law Section 29 to eliminate certain public notice requirements in the Labor Law for safety and health rulemaking that predate the State Administrative Procedure Act (SAPA). AYE

S8240 WORKERS COMP BOARD DEPARTMENTAL - Relates to authorization of treatment under workers' compensation for care and treatment of injured employees by podiatrists, chiropractors and psychologists. AYE

S8242 OPRHP DEPARTMENTAL - Amends Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law § 27.15 to increase funding available from the Snowmobile Trail and Maintenance Fund from $200,000 to $300,000 for snowmobile enforcement reimbursement. AYE

S8243 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS DEPARTMENTAL - Provides that any time the produce security fund exceeds six million dollars on the one hundred twentieth day prior to the commencement of the next licensing year, the commissioner of agriculture and markets shall suspend the collection of the security fund fee; makes related provisions.  AYE

S8246 OSC DEPARTMENTAL - Prohibits vendors from directly or indirectly contributing to a statewide elected official, a candidate for a statewide elected office, or their authorized political committee, during an active government procurement. AYE

S8253 OSC DEPARTMENTAL - Amends section 1405 of the Abandoned Property Law to allow interest to be paid on unclaimed spousal and child support payments. AYE

S8377A Directs the commissioner of education to conduct a survey of recess held in public and charter schools serving students in kindergarten through grade six and to provide any information collected to the governor and the legislature. AYE

S8394 Establishes the "county of Westchester public works investment act" which allows the Westchester county department of public works and the Westchester county department of transportation to utilize design-build project delivery. AYE

S8395 OMH DEPARTMENTAL - Repeals the provisions of the Public Health law governing orders not to resuscitate for residents of mental hygiene facilities.  AYE

S2437A Requires social media influencers to disclose when they share on social media that they are being paid by a campaign; authorizes the state board of elections to promulgate certain regulations. AYE

S1186A  Amends Highway Law to require written notice be provided to any public or non-public school fourteen days before any construction or alterations to any highway, sidewalk, or appurtenance thereof begins within a distance of three hundred feet of any school building. AYE Bill amended to apply only to NYC.

S122A Establishes air quality standards for lead in ambient air, soil-lead hazard standards for lead-contaminated soil, and dust-lead hazard standards and dust-lead clearance levels for floors and windows and window troughs.  AYE

S2706B Prohibits the use of hydrofracking wastewater on any highway for any purpose including but not limited to deicing or dust suppression. AYE

S4685B Provides for the inclusion of a faculty or staff member on the board of trustees of community colleges as a nonvoting member elected by and from among the faculty and staff of the college.  AYE

S3690A This bill amends the lien laws governing self-storage facilities to allow self-storage occupants to choose, in the occupancy agreement with the facility owner, to be contacted by telephone in the event the owner seeks to enforce a lien on such self-storage unit.  AYE

S6244A Enacts the "Lieutenant Joseph Banish mental health act" to provide a testimonial privilege for communications arising out of law enforcement peer support counseling. AYE

S561A This bill requires DHCR to provide notice to individuals living in rent-regulated apartments of their possible eligibility for SCRIE and DRIE Programs.  AYE

S1211A Enacts the "New York open water data act"; directs certain agencies, under the leadership of conveners, to identify and integrate key water data sets; provides duties and an annual plan for data to be researched and reported.  AYE

S5900 Relates to the distribution of educational materials regarding the misuse of and addiction to prescription drugs in counties with the most prevalent abuse of prescription opioids. AYE

S6288B Requires every general hospital to develop a language assistance program. Such a program is intended to ensure meaningful access to services and reasonable accommodation for all patients who requires such assistance.  AYE

S8034A Amends the labor law to provide that employees receive protections under the National Labor Relations Act where the National Labor Relations Board successfully asserts jurisdiction over any employer, employees, trades, or industries pursuant to an order by the federal district court established under article three of the United States Constitution. AYE

S4448 Authorizes the county of Clinton to employ retired former members of the division of state police as special patrol officers.  AYE

S291B Dedicates a portion of the state highway system in Nassau county to "Trooper Edward L. Cunningham". AYE

S1899A Dedicates a portion of the state highway system constituting a portion of state route 14 to Sergeant James S. Hayes. AYE

S2612B Amends the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, to state that the amount previously negotiated shall be withheld from harness purse payments to cover health insurance, pensions and the administration of these and other benefits for horsemen at all facilities in New York State. AYE

S1001 This bill relates to including outpatient care provided by creative arts therapists in certain (commercial & private) insurance policies covering care for other mental health services. NAY (Increase costs of health insurance)

S8176 UCA DEPARTMENTAL - Relates to the time limit for appeals in all categories of family court cases and the filing of objections to support magistrate determinations in child support, paternity and parentage proceedings in family court. AYE

S8186 UCA DEPARTMENTAL - Provides that a foreign corporation's application for authority to do business in this state constitutes consent to jurisdiction of the courts of this state and a surrender of such application constitutes withdrawal of such consent. AYE

S8187 NYS HOMES AND COMMUNITY RENEWAL DEPARTMENTAL - Extends, until June 30, 2028, the sunset date of Article 19-B of the real property actions and proceedings law, which authorizes special proceedings to convey title to abandoned commercial and industrial real property to a city, town, or village. AYE

S8127 COSPONSOR Relates to intrusions upon lands owned or occupied by any nation, tribe or band of Indians, and to drug trafficking activities within Indian lands; provides that the district attorney of a county in which reservation lands are situated, upon application of a person designated by the laws of a nation, tribe or band to make such application, shall make complaint of intrusions on such lands and cause intruders to be removed; provides that the governor, the superintendent of state police, a sheriff of a county that includes lands of the Seneca nation, or the chief of police of the city of Salamanca, may, at the request of the Seneca nation, enter into an agreement with the Seneca nation governing the terms and conditions of criminal law enforcement activities within the nation's Indian County lands; provides that such agreements shall be given full force and effect by the courts of the state. AYE

S8078 This bill amends the Multiple Dwelling Law to permit newly developed residential units, including those created from conversions of non-residential buildings, to satisfy window requirements through mechanical ventilation systems. NAY (Usurps local control.)

S6717A This bill establishes the fetal and infant mortality review board to review fetal and infant deaths and fetal and infant mortality and morbidity.  AYE

S4042 Provides for adult changing tables to be placed within an enclosed restroom facility or other similar private facility that is for use by persons with disabilities who need help with diapering at commercial places of public amusement and state-owned buildings open to the public. AYE

S4328 Amends the general business law by adding a new section 69-vw, permitting a municipality to enact, adopt, or enforce any ordinance, resolution, or regulation requiring any alarm system company to pay for or be responsible for any fines, fees, or other penalties relative to false alarms only when the false alarm is attributed to a deficiency in the alarm system or an error of the alarm system company or central station. AYE

S4470 Requires training for police officers on discharging a firearm at a moving vehicle; requires the municipal police training council to develop and disseminate written policies and procedures regarding such force. AYE

S5116A Establishes the New York state Black history preservation commission to ensure the documentation and preservation of Black history in New York state within the state university of New York. AYE

S5564 Authorizes the village of Port Chester to offer an optional twenty-year retirement plan to Michael Sprague, a police officer employed by such village since January 7, 2013. AYE

S6226 To require all staff of children and family services and municipal staff employed to conduct inspections of child day care homes, programs, and facilities are trained to detect controlled substances during inspections. AYE

S6413 Requires the establishment of an ALS and MND registry for the collection of information on the incidence and prevalence of ALS and MND within the department. AYE

S7335 Allows a recently retired homeowner to use his or her most recent tax return, rather than the return from two years before, in applying for the Enhanced STAR benefit. AYE

S7855E Authorizes the commissioner of education to conduct a survey regarding instruction on Asian American, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islander history within the state; establishes an Asian American, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islander history advisory committee; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof. AYE

S8043 Conduct a study of child- and youth-targeted mobile crisis outreach in order to learn more about the specific needs of children and youth in mental health crisis and how state resources can be used to assist them. AYE

S8169 Requires all state entities, including local governments, to notify affected individuals in the event of a data breach where information is compromised; defines "cybersecurity incident". AYE

S8206A Extends authorization for certain health care professionals licensed to practice in other jurisdictions to practice in this state in connection with events sanctioned by the New York Road Runners, including the NYC Marathon, Brooklyn half marathon, Bronx 10 mile, NYC half marathon, Staten Island half marathon and the Queens 10k. AYE

S8232 Updates the name of the Volunteer and Exempt Firefighters' Benevolent Association of Thornwood, New York in the law, and to update the corporation's stated purpose and also to require that the corporation shall only use the taxes it collects to achieve its stated purposes. AYE

S8235 NYC H.P.D. DEPARTMENTAL - Increases the bonding authority of the New York city housing development corporation from nineteen billion dollars to twenty billion dollars. AYE

S8236 Extends for two years Section one of Chapter 363 of the Laws of 2010 which concerns the authority of referees in family court to adjudicate petitions for orders of protection requested ex parte and those issued on default at any time the court is in session. AYE

S8244 OTDA DEPARTMENTAL - Extend the expiration date of the administrative driver license suspension process until August 31, 2027. AYE

S8254 OCFS DEPARTMENTAL - Continues New York's participation in the current ICJ through September 1, 2030. AYE

S8292 Extends the effectiveness of provisions of law relating to permissible fees in connection with open end loans from June 30, 2025 until June 30, 2027. AYE

S8299 Extends the effectiveness of provisions relating to limiting the check cashing exemption for national banks and other regulated entities to August 1, 2027. AYE

S8316 Extends for two years the electronic open auction bond sale pilot program allowing municipalities the option to sell bonds in an open electronic auction format. AYE

S8317 Extends the effectiveness of the estate tax treatment of dispositions to surviving spouses who are not United States citizens to July 1, 2028. AYE

S253 Provides all child protective service employees with supportive mental health services and resources. AYE

S273 This bill would amend section 21.00 (Serial bonds) of the Local Finance Law. AYE (Helpful to local governments.)

S597 Establishes the "small water utility transparency act"; requires the public service commission and the department of environmental conservation to conduct audits of certain private water companies; requires certain private water companies which are under certain investigations to file public updates on the status of compliance with such orders. AYE

S1180B This bill requires DEC promulgate rules providing for the facility-by-facility review of emissions and air pollution in certain warehouses. NAY (Ensures compliance with state mandates under the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act.)

S1807A Prohibits charging a fee for the issuance of a certificate of still birth or pregnancy loss. AYE

S1833A Enacts the "harmful algal bloom monitoring and prevention act"; establishes the harmful algal bloom monitoring and prevention fund.  AYE

S1838 Creates a pilot program under the Department of State and DHCR for cities to assess emergency repairs to buildings that are in violation of the cities code and have not undertaken repairs in a reasonable period of time and would authorize the city to charge property owners for the cost of the repair. AYE

S1889 COSPONSOR Designates the state of New York a purple heart state. AYE

S1982 This bill would exclude sheriffs and undersheriffs from certain training that is required under the General Municipal Law. AYE

S2048 Amends the transportation law by adding subdivision 37 to section 14. This section would require the department to establish a central registry on its website to serve as a database for all reports, audits, plans and public inspections of freight rail operators, freight rail cars, trains and freight rail lines. AYE

S3194 Updates the "period of war" definitions in the alternative veterans' exemption to include recent and current "hostilities" in Somalia, Bosnia, and Kosovo and in the Global War on Terrorism respectively. AYE

S3620 Authorizes the building inspector in the town of Pendleton, county of Niagara, to reside outside of such town if they reside within such county or an adjoining county. AYE

S3740A Establishes the "recovery ready workplace act" which provides for the certification of an employer to become a recovery ready workplace; defines terms; establishes the recovery-ready workplace program; provides criteria for employers to obtain certification as a recovery ready workplace; provides for employee involvement. AYE

S3851 Requires the council on human blood and transfusion services (council) to review all current medical research and guidance regarding the donation of blood by patients with a history of Lyme or tick-borne illnesses. AYE

S4457B Authorizes the town of Brookhaven, county of Suffolk to alienate certain parklands for use as a recharge basin and to dedicate other lands as replacement parklands. AYE

S4535 Amends executive law to provide the ability of the Secretary of State to investigate any complaint from a county stating that a local government within their county is not in compliance with the uniform code. AYE

S4889 Relates to defining veteran; includes national guard members who have served for at least twenty years, part of which was during any war or period of hostilities. AYE

S4903 This bill, known as “Shepherd Patterson law” would require that before July 1, 2023, the NYS Department of Health, in consultation with the Department of Education, to develop an informational pamphlet for practitioners to distribute to parents or guardians of patients under the age of 18 with a medical condition that may create a disability pursuant to the Federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973 informing them that such minor may be entitled to a free and appropriate public education, which may include accommodations for the delivery of programs and services. AYE

S4947 Requires the addition of fog lines on all state highways and other public ways under the jurisdiction of the department of transportation when such highway or public way is repaved. AYE

S4955A COSPONSOR Establishes audit and recovery of medical assistance payments to providers to require that any audit or review of any provider contracts, cost reports, claims, bills, or medical assistance payments by the Office of Medicaid Inspector General (OMIG) or anyone designated by such, to conduct such an audit or review.  AYE

S5269 Authorizes the establishment of permanent COVID-19 memorials; establishes a COVID-19 permanent memorial fund. The fund would be established in the joint custody of the Comptroller and the Commissioner of Parks and Recreation a Covid-19 Memorial Fund. AYE

S5382 Provides that facilities receiving funding from the office of addiction services and supports be designed and constructed in a manner that promotes privacy while bathing, sleeping, using restrooms, and receiving individual counseling services, while also allowing for maximization of the use of such facilities. AYE

S6832 COSPONSOR Relates to participation in World Trade Center rescue, recovery and cleanup operations by members of the organized militia; provides that members of the organized militia shall qualify as employees for the purposes of making a claim under the workers' compensation law for participation in the World Trade Center rescue, recovery and cleanup operations. AYE

S6851 Authorizes the establishment of collaborative practice medication adherence protocols to the Public Health law.  AYE

S6872 This bill would make the Rehabilitation of Historic Barns tax credit refundable for taxpayers with adjusted gross income of less than $60,000, and allows excess credit to carry over into the following year or years for tax payers with adjusted gross income of over $60,000. AYE

S8277 Designates the month of May as "Elder Appreciation Month". AYE