New York State Senator

Andrew Gounardes 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 39)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00413

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Engrossed

3/24/25

Refer

3/24/25

Refer

1/7/26

Engrossed

3/25/26

Refer

3/25/26

Makes the release of any claim by an employee, or independent contractor who is a natural person, against an employer, unenforceable if, as a condition of such resolution, the employee or independent contractor is prohibited from applying for, accepting, or engaging in future employment with such employer, or any entity or entities related to such employer.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00411

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Refer

1/7/26

Enacts the New York City truth in budgeting act to require notice and a public hearing prior to an increase in the real property tax levy greater than two percent over the prior year.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00447

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Refer

1/7/26

Requires at least one full-time guidance counselor to be employed in each elementary, intermediate, middle, junior and senior high school throughout the state; sets duties of guidance counselors.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00446

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Refer

1/7/26

Enhances penalties for multiple convictions of certain moving violations within a one year time period; requires one year license revocation.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J01905

Introduced

4/16/26

Refer

4/16/26

Report Pass

4/21/26

Passed

4/21/26

Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim April 24, 2026, as Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day in the State of New York

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00442

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Report Pass

1/22/25

Relates to assisting persons with medically diagnosed HIV infection.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00454

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Relates to parole eligibility for certain incarcerated persons age fifty-five or older if they have served at least fifteen years of their sentence or sentences.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00440

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Refer

1/7/26

Report Pass

4/21/26

Relates to voting rights and access for incarcerated individuals; authorizes polling places to be available at correctional facilities and local facilities; requires such facilities to provide persons detained or confined in such facilities access to register to vote or apply for an absentee ballot; requires voting information to be included in the inmate handbook.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00487

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Engrossed

2/25/25

Refer

2/25/25

Refer

1/7/26

Engrossed

2/26/26

Refer

2/26/26

Designates August thirty-first of each year as a day of commemoration to be known as "Overdose Awareness Day".

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00445

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Provides that cities having a population in excess of one million shall not supersede state provisions relating to the state law prohibition on individuals standing or parking a vehicle within twenty feet of a cross walk at an intersection.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00448

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Enacts the "Empowering People in Rights Enforcement (EMPIRE) Worker Protection Act"; relates to the delegation of state enforcement authority to private actors; authorizes an affected employee, whistleblower, representative organization or an organizational deputy to initiate a public enforcement action on behalf of the commissioner for certain provisions of the labor law, or any regulation promulgated thereunder.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00452

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Requires all agencies to submit to the committee on open government a log of all freedom of information law requests for each year in which they received or have pending a request for records; requires the committee on open government to publish, on one webpage, all freedom of information law request logs it receives.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00550

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Report Pass

1/21/25

Engrossed

5/19/25

Refer

5/19/25

Engrossed

6/9/25

Refer

6/9/25

Engrossed

6/16/25

Enrolled

12/8/25

Chaptered

12/19/25

Passed

12/19/25

Requires a caller making a report of suspected child abuse or maltreatment to the central register 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.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00524

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Engrossed

2/26/25

Refer

2/26/25

Refer

1/7/26

Engrossed

2/9/26

Refer

2/10/26

Refer

2/9/26

Engrossed

3/30/26

Refer

3/30/26

Establishes the crime of voyeurism in the first and second degree which is defined as when someone for their own amusement, entertainment, profit, sexual arousal or sexual gratification trespasses or uses an instrument to observe for the purpose of viewing a person dressing or undressing or the sexual or other intimate parts of such person at a place and time when such person has a reasonable expectation of privacy, without such person's knowledge or consent.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J01887

Introduced

4/14/26

Refer

4/14/26

Passed

4/20/26

Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim April 2026, as Arab American Heritage Month in the State of New York

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