New York State Senator

Brian Kavanagh 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 22)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01289

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Establishes the office of gun violence prevention and the gun violence advisory council.
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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 S01493

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Relates to regulation of PFAS as a toxic air pollutant; requires the department to ensure certain process operations use appropriate control technology for PFAS emissions; establishes a fence line monitoring program to monitor PFAS emissions in disadvantaged communities, to provide public reports, and related duties.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01451

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Report Pass
2/25/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Relates to creating the Neighborhood Small Business Rent Increase Exemption; provides a tax abatement for limiting rent increases on small businesses in a city of one million or more persons.
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New York Senate Bill S01450

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Establishes the crimes of unlawful purchase of body armor in the first and second degree; establishes the crimes of unlawful sale of body armor in the first and second degree.
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New York Senate Bill S01459

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Establishes extended producer responsibility for household appliances and refrigerants; provides that no later than December 31, 2027, producers shall submit a plan to the department of environmental conservation for the establishment of a collection program for certain covered products.
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New York Senate Bill S01460

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Establishes extended producer responsibility for designated products; establishes the extended producer responsibility program fund.
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New York Senate Bill S01454

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Requires shelter allowances be set at up to one hundred percent of the fair market rent for the local social services district.
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New York Senate Bill S01461

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
2/25/26  
Extends the answer time when a major capital improvement rent increase has been filed to ninety days.
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New York Senate Bill S01452

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Enacts the "fairness in cooperative homeownership act"; regulates the submission and determinations of applications for ownership of cooperative apartments.
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New York Senate Bill S03216

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Requires restaurants and persons authorized to sell alcoholic beverages to have tangible menus available upon request.
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New York Senate Bill S03210

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Allows access to juvenile delinquency records for the purposes of a firearm background check for an applicant who is under the age of twenty-two.
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New York Senate Bill S03207

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
3/19/26  
Establishes maximum contaminant levels in drinking water for certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS); sets such levels at no higher than 4 parts per trillion (ppt) for perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and no higher than 10 parts per trillion (ppt) for perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA), perfluorohexane sulfonate (PFHxS), and hexafluoropropylene oxide dimer acid (HFPO-DA).
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New York Senate Bill S03221

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Requires certain business recipients of state aid to perform an annual assessment of the business' social and environmental impact as assessed against a third party standard.
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New York Senate Bill S03218

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Prohibits surcharges on self-installed dishwashers in housing accommodations subject to rent control when the tenant pays for electric utility service.