New York State Senator

April Baskin 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 15)

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01439

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Imposes an additional tax on income attributable to long-term capital gain.
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New York Senate Bill S01403

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Enacts "Cariol's Law"; provides for a duty to intervene when a police officer or peace officer observes another police officer or peace officer using physical force that such officer reasonably believes to be clearly excessive or beyond that which is objectively reasonable under the circumstances.
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New York Senate Bill S01464

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Report Pass
3/11/25  
Engrossed
5/28/25  
Refer
5/29/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Enacts the "packaging reduction and recycling infrastructure act" to require companies selling, offering for sale, or distributing packaging materials and products to register with a packaging reduction organization to develop a packaging reduction and recycling plan; makes related provisions.
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New York Senate Bill S03154

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
4/8/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Directs the office of children and family services to establish Dolly Parton's statewide imagination library program for encouraging children from birth to five years of age, inclusive, to develop a love of reading and learning; directs the office of children and family services to promote the statewide development of local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; advance and strengthen local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs with the goal of increasing enrollment; recruit volunteers to assist in the development, promotion, and coordination of local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; solicit donations, gifts, and other funding to financially support local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; develop community engagement; develop, promote, and coordinate a public awareness campaign to make donors aware of the opportunity to donate to the affiliate programs and make the public aware of the opportunity to register eligible children to receive books through the program; administer the local match requirement and coordinate the collection and remittance of local program costs for books and mailing; and develop statewide marketing and communication plans; establishes the imagination library of New York fund.
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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 S03974

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Engrossed
5/21/25  
Refer
5/22/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
4/22/26  
Relates to failure to complete a program for time allowances due to circumstances beyond an individual's control.
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New York Senate Bill J00298

Introduced
1/30/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Report Pass
2/4/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim April 13, 2025, as Borinqueneers Day in the State of New York
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New York Senate Bill J00279

Introduced
1/30/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Report Pass
2/4/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim June 2025 as Aphasia Awareness Month in the State of New York
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New York Senate Bill J00301

Introduced
1/30/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Report Pass
2/4/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim September 2025, as Recovery Month in the State of New York
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New York Senate Bill S03633

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
1/29/25  
Requires the use of body-worn cameras on certain correction officers.
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New York Senate Bill S03653

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
1/29/25  
Requires the disclosure of video footage related to the death of an incarcerated individual involving a correctional officer to the attorney general's office of special investigation.
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New York Senate Bill S03670

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
1/29/25  
Report Pass
3/5/25  
Creates statewide emergency and crisis response council to work in conjunction with the commissioners of mental health and addiction services to jointly approve emergency and crisis services plans submitted by local governments, and provide supports regarding the operation and financing of high-quality emergency and crisis services provided to persons experiencing a mental health, alcohol use, or substance use crisis.
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New York Senate Bill S03763

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
1/29/25  
Protects the rights of people in prisons, jails and forensic facilities; limits the use of cell or segregated confinement; grants access to tablets, visitation, and certain items.
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New York Senate Bill J00297

Introduced
1/30/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Report Pass
2/4/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim February 4, 2025, as Canada Day in the State of New York, in celebration of this great Empire State's long-standing economic and cultural relationship with Canada
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New York Senate Bill J01471

Introduced
1/20/26  
Refer
1/20/26  
Commemorating the observance of the 41st Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the State of New York, on January 19, 2026