New York State Senator

Brian Kavanagh 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 19)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J01131

Introduced
5/29/25  
Refer
5/29/25  
Report Pass
6/5/25  
Posthumously honoring the life and service of United States Army Air Forces Staff Sergeant Eugene J. Darrigan who was laid to rest in his hometown of Wappingers Falls, New York, on May 24, 2025
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New York Senate Bill J00738

Introduced
4/3/25  
Refer
4/3/25  
Report Pass
4/8/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 6, 2025, as Queens Day in the State of New York
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S07203

Introduced
4/3/25  
Refer
4/3/25  
Engrossed
6/4/25  
Refer
6/4/25  
Enacts the tropical rainforest economic & environmental sustainability act requiring that companies contracting with the state do not contribute to tropical forest degradation or deforestation directly or through their supply chains; establishes the supply chain transparency assistance program to assist small and medium-sized businesses and minority and women-owned businesses in achieving compliant supply chains.
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New York Senate Bill S01708

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/13/25  
Establishes the bank of Rochester, including provisions related to definitions; sponsors and corporate structure; powers and restrictions; governance; charter requirements; financial and operations frameworks; transparency and financial reporting; insurance; deposits; policy mandates; ethics and financial disclosure; inconsistency with other laws; and owners not to be considered bank holding companies.
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New York Senate Bill S01696

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/13/25  
Enables high school students to use public transportation without charge in order to ride to and from school.
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New York Senate Bill S01762

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/13/25  
Places limits on the maximum amount of hours a home care aide may be required to work without voluntarily consenting to such an assignment.
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New York Senate Bill S01548

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Engrossed
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Engrossed
3/26/25  
Enrolled
12/8/25  
Chaptered
12/19/25  
Restricts certain substances from being used in menstrual products.
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New York Senate Bill S03359

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Report Pass
2/12/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Expands health care services provided by telehealth to include services delivered through a facility licensed under article twenty-eight of the public health law that is eligible to be designated or has received a designation as a federally qualified health center, including those facilities that are also licensed under article thirty-one or article thirty-two of the mental hygiene law.
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New York Senate Bill S03346

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Enacts the climate and community investment act; prioritizes the allocation of public investments in disadvantaged communities; addresses climate change challenges through the expansion and growth of clean and renewable energy sources; adopts best value requirements for the solicitation, evaluation and award of renewable energy projects; establishes a community just transition program; establishes a climate pollution fee and a household and small business energy rebate; creates the climate and community investment authority.
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New York Senate Bill S03353

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Provides an exemption for the sale and installation of residential and commercial geothermal heat pump systems equipment.
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New York Senate Bill S03406

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Engrossed
3/17/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
2/25/26  
Expands remedies for violations of New York state uniform fire prevention and building code.
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New York Senate Bill S03389

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Establishes the Brooklyn-Queens expressway authority for the purposes of the continuance, further development and improvement of transportation along the Brooklyn-Queens expressway and other services related thereto.
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New York Senate Bill S03425

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Establishes the New York Health program, a comprehensive system of access to health insurance for New York state residents; provides for administrative structure of the plan; provides for powers and duties of the board of trustees, the scope of benefits, payment methodologies and care coordination; establishes the New York Health Trust Fund which would hold monies from a variety of sources to be used solely to finance the plan; enacts provisions relating to financing of New York Health, including a payroll assessment, similar to the Medicare tax; establishes a temporary commission on implementation of the plan; provides for collective negotiations by health care providers with New York Health.
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New York Senate Bill S03456

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Establishes the climate corporate data accountability act requiring certain business entities within the state to annually disclose scope 1, scope 2 and scope 3 emissions; establishes the climate accountability and emissions disclosure fund.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S08311

Introduced
5/30/25  
Refer
5/30/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Engrossed
6/16/25  
Enrolled
10/9/25  
Chaptered
10/16/25  
Relates to succession rights for tenants of New York city housing authority properties.