New York State Senator

Andrew Gounardes 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 30)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03146

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Authorizes certain health care professionals licensed to practice in other jurisdictions to practice in this state.
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New York Senate Bill S03144

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Requires accessible buses to be available within a service area measuring three miles from any bus line of the authority or its subsidiaries.
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New York Senate Bill S03173

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Relates to clarifying which entities handle the reporting of pregnancy loss; the responsibilities of health care providers and penalties for not protecting the identities of individuals who suffered a pregnancy loss.
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New York Senate Bill S03220

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Relates to establishing an office of antibiotic-resistance control; establishes the antibiotics education fund; includes methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other antibiotic-resistant infections in the definition of airborne infectious disease.
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New York Senate Bill S03206

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Prevents individuals from being denied standing in private actions alleging violations of the environmental quality review provisions of the environmental conservation law solely on the basis that the injury alleged by such individual does not differ in kind or degree from the injury that would be suffered by the public at large.
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New York Senate Bill S03235

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Provides that the weekly benefit which the disabled employee is entitled to receive for disability commencing: on or after January first, two thousand twenty-eight shall be fifty percent of the employee's average weekly wage but shall not exceed fifty percent of the state average weekly wage; on or after January first, two thousand twenty-nine shall be fifty-five percent of the employee's average weekly wage but shall not exceed fifty-five percent of the state average weekly wage; on or after January first, two thousand thirty shall be sixty percent of the employee's weekly average wage but shall not exceed sixty percent of the state average weekly wage; and on or after January first of each succeeding year, shall be sixty-seven percent of the employee's average weekly wage but shall not exceed sixty-seven percent of the state average weekly wage.
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New York Senate Bill S03231

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Refer
2/3/26  
Engrossed
3/23/26  
Relates to the qualification of voters; provides that a citizen who is seventeen years of age at the time of a primary election and who will be eighteen years of age at the time of the general election for which such primary election is held, shall be eligible to vote in such primary election.
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New York Senate Bill S03232

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Relates to the age requirement for voting in a primary election; provides that a person who is seventeen years of age at the time of a primary election and who will be eighteen years of age at the time of the general election for which such primary election is held, shall be eligible to vote in such primary election.
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New York Senate Bill S03334

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Report Pass
3/4/25  
Engrossed
6/4/25  
Refer
6/4/25  
Requires the commissioner to establish Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander history and civic impact curriculum or instructions for school districts.
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New York Senate Bill S03369

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Relates to allowing for students in certain postsecondary education experience or transition programs to receive awards from the tuition assistance program.
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New York Senate Bill S03951

Introduced
1/30/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Report Pass
4/8/25  
Prohibits cases from being closed without a hearing or written stipulation; requires a stenographic record of all hearings held; requires minutes and decisions to be provided to the injured worker in their native language.
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New York Senate Bill S03980

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Removes from admissibility evidence that proves or tends to prove that a victim has been convicted of a prostitution offense within three years prior to the sex offense which is the subject of the prosecution.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03943

Introduced
1/30/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Provides that the franchise tax on businesses with a business income base over five million dollars shall be nine percent of such income base.
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New York Senate Bill S03957

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Increases fees for the registration of larger, heavier motor vehicles; provides a waiver for a portion of weight added by batteries in electric vehicles.
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New York Senate Bill S04045

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Requires the installation of intelligent speed assistance devices if a driver accumulates eleven or more points on their driving record during a 24 month period, or receives 6 speed camera or red light camera tickets during a twelve month period.