New York State Senator

Catalina Cruz 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 3)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00733

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
6/5/25  
Refer
6/5/25  
Repeals provisions relating to persons knowing themselves to be infected with venereal disease.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00767

Introduced
1/8/25  
Establishes the youth justice innovation fund to make funds available to community-based organizations for services and programs with the purpose of youth development and preventing youth arrest and incarceration.
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New York Assembly Bill A00785

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Report Pass
6/6/25  
Refer
6/6/25  
Report Pass
6/11/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Enrolled
7/23/25  
Chaptered
7/24/25  
Requires schools safety plans to include a cardiac emergency response plan that addresses the use of appropriate personnel and measures to respond to incidents involving any individual experiencing sudden cardiac arrest or similar life-threatening emergency on any school site owned or operated by a school or at a location of a school sponsored event.
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New York Assembly Bill A00839

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Permits a school food authority to attribute moneys spent on purchases of food products from New York state farmers, growers, producers or processors made for its school breakfast program to the thirty percent of costs for school breakfast, snack and lunch service programs.
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New York Assembly Bill A00832

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires at least a ratio of one clinical, non-student mental health staff member per one thousand students on all SUNY and CUNY campuses and for state colleges and universities to update such ratio every five years.
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New York Assembly Bill A00495

Introduced
1/8/25  
Relates to conditional release for eligible offenders who complete post-secondary degrees or programs; provides release twelve months before the completion of the controlling minimum period of imprisonment for eligible offenders who complete post-secondary degrees or programs.
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New York Assembly Bill A00073

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
3/25/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Requires the display of certain labels and warnings on gas stoves sold, displayed for sale, or offered for sale at retail to a consumer in this state; authorizes the department of state to adopt regulations regarding the placement and format of such labels; provides for penalties; authorizes the attorney general to enforce such provisions.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00712

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Prohibits the imposition of limits on the length of stay at homeless shelters and emergency congregate housing operated by state agencies.
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New York Assembly Bill A00675

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Enacts the empire state licensing act to provide all New Yorkers with access to professional, occupational, commercial, or business licenses, permits, certificates, or related registrations regardless of an applicant's citizenship or immigration status.
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New York Assembly Bill A00180

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
3/17/26  
Relates to available transportation for correction facility visitation; provides for at a minimum, bimonthly free transportation from the city of New York, Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo and Albany.
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New York Assembly Bill A00122

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Creates the "disaster preparedness and emergency planning act"; authorizes a local sales tax exemption for emergency preparedness supplies; requires the division of homeland security and emergency services, in conjunction with the department of taxation and finance, to establish, promote and publish on the web a list of eligible items; requires the division of homeland security and emergency services to create public service announcements regarding such exemption and make available to municipalities for promotion purposes.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00126

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Provides final discipline authority over civilian complaints to the civilian complaint review board; creates a hearing officer and adjudicative body for such complaint review board.
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New York Assembly Bill A00178

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Provides that possession of a condom or other reproductive or sexual health device may not be received in evidence in any trial, hearing or proceeding as evidence of conduct which would constitute an offense defined in article 230 of the penal law.
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New York Assembly Bill A00227

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Ensures that supplemental uninsured/underinsured insurance coverage is included in certain insurance policies; provides for certain notice and information to be given to insured motorists; extends certain provisions relating to supplemental uninsured/underinsured insurance coverage until 6/30/2029.
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New York Assembly Bill A00226

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
3/25/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities to create a staffing plan for workforce emergencies when experiencing staffing shortages.