New York State Senator

Catalina Cruz 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 17)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05886

Introduced
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Report Pass
5/19/25  
Refer
5/19/25  
Report Pass
5/19/25  
Report Pass
6/5/25  
Refer
5/19/25  
Refer
6/5/25  
Prohibits unfair residential real estate service agreements which are certain service agreements which are not to be performed within two years following the time such agreement is entered into.
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New York Assembly Bill K00133

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim Friday, February 7, 2025, as Wear Red for Women Day in the State of New York

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05882

Introduced
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Requires a pharmacy benefit manager to pay a participating pharmacy at minimum at the national average drug acquisition cost (NADAC) rate, or at the pharmacy acquisition cost rate if greater or there is not a NADAC rate, plus a professional dispensing fee that is at minimum the professional dispensing fee paid under the state medical assistance program.
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New York Assembly Bill A05899

Introduced
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Establishes the universal child care act to provide for the establishment and funding of universal child care in the state of New York; establishes a universal child care taskforce to help implement universal child care in the state and repeals certain provisions of the social services law relating thereto; establishes the permanent child care workforce pay equity fund; establishes a universal child care public option pilot program to provide universal child care in at least twenty locations throughout the state; makes an appropriation therefor.
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New York Assembly Bill A05898

Introduced
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Report Pass
6/4/25  
Refer
6/4/25  
Permits an eligible retirement system member to receive, in lieu of an ordinary death benefit, a death benefit such member would otherwise be entitled to receive provided such member is a state-paid judge or justice of the unified court system or a housing judge of the civil court of the city of New York.
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New York Assembly Bill A06014

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Requires certain entities to stock opioid antagonists and to store naloxone nasal sprays with or adjacent to automated external defibrillator cabinets.
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New York Assembly Bill A05981

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Requires the Olympic regional development authority, in consultation with the department of environmental conservation and division of human rights to develop an anti-bias and inclusion training to be completed by employees of such agencies annually.
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New York Assembly Bill A06004

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Report Pass
4/28/25  
Refer
4/28/25  
Report Pass
6/6/25  
Refer
6/6/25  
Requires public notice and public engagement when a general hospital seeks to close entirely or a unit that provides maternity, mental health or substance use care.
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New York Assembly Bill A06018

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Designates August thirty-first of each year as a day of commemoration to be known as "Overdose Awareness Day".
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New York Assembly Bill A06000

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Provides for the advance payment of the earned income tax credit to qualifying employees.
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New York Assembly Bill A06016

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Provides for loan forgiveness for social workers who commit to work in counties with less than two hundred thousand population, or towns which have a population of less than one hundred fifty persons per square mile for the duration of the award.
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New York Assembly Bill A04352

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Relates to determination of public assistance eligibility; reduces time frame for determinations on safety net assistance.
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New York Assembly Bill A04477

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Makes permanent provisions creating a presumption relating to certain lung disabilities incurred by volunteer firefighters.
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New York Assembly Bill A04439

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Relates to the purchase of zero-emission buses and the procurement of electric-powered buses, vehicles or other related equipment and infrastructure; requires public utilities to have infrastructure, capacity, facilities, and transmission and distribution systems needed to supply power for the charging of zero-emission buses and provides a tariff for charging of electric buses.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04362

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Relates to the duty owed by cities and counties to children in the legal custody of such cities and counties with respect to the placement of children; provides a statutory private right of action for compensatory damage.