New York State Senator

Christopher Ryan 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 13)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00391

Introduced
2/19/25  
Refer
2/19/25  
Report Pass
2/25/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim March 3-7, 2025, as School Breakfast Week in the State of New York
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New York Senate Bill S05231

Introduced
2/19/25  
Refer
2/19/25  
Establishes the crime of staging a construction site accident which is a class E felony.
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New York Senate Bill S05258

Introduced
2/20/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Increases the minimum wage outside of New York city and the counties of Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester; repeals certain provisions of law relating to exceptions to minimum wage increases.
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New York Senate Bill S05249

Introduced
2/20/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Relates to automatic Medicaid eligibility for striking workers.
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New York Senate Bill S05257

Introduced
2/20/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Engrossed
6/13/25  
Refer
6/13/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
3/9/26  
Requires mandatory background checks for persons employed by or volunteering at any business corporation, not-for-profit corporation, limited liability company, or limited partnership that regularly provides instructional, recreational or extracurricular services to minors, including but not limited to dance studios, gymnastic schools, martial arts academies, sports training facilities, music schools and performing arts schools, tutoring and academic enrichment centers; provides for enforcement and penalties; prohibits certain people from owning such businesses.
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New York Senate Bill S05296

Introduced
2/20/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Establishes Nicole's law, which provides for intake and discharge procedures regarding individuals with self-inflicted, life-threatening injuries.
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New York Senate Bill S04881

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Requires contractors and subcontractors performing construction work for covered renewable energy systems to use apprenticeship agreements; requires thermal energy networks to require contractors and subcontractors to use pre-apprenticeship direct entry providers registered with the department of labor.
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New York Senate Bill S04879

Introduced
2/13/25  
Establishes standards for glass repair and calibration of advanced driver assistance systems for motor vehicle glass repair facilities.
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New York Senate Bill S04896

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Establishes the incentive evaluation act; creates the incentive evaluation commission to at least once every four years evaluate each incentive provided by the state and report to the governor and the legislature on their effectiveness and provide recommendations relating thereto.
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New York Senate Bill S04894

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
3/18/25  
Engrossed
6/13/25  
Refer
6/13/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Repeals provisions relating to resolutions of disputes in the course of collective negotiations with certain deputy sheriffs to provide such deputy sheriffs with the same interest arbitration scope as municipal police officers.
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New York Senate Bill J00380

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
2/25/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim February 15-22, 2025, as FFA Week in the State of New York
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New York Senate Bill S04908

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Relates to the creation of an innovative housing initiative for persons with a developmental disability who wish and are able to safely reside in such a setting; directs the division of housing and community renewal to establish guidelines for the dissemination of disclosure materials for the offer and sale of interests in residential environments formed under the innovative housing initiative; creates an exemption from certain filing requirements for residential environments that are formed as cooperative interests in realty for persons receiving services under the innovative housing initiative.
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New York Senate Bill S04898

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Amends the definition of public employee to include persons holding positions by appointment or employment in the organized militia of the state.
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New York Senate Bill S04912

Introduced
2/14/25  
Enacts "the construction reporting pay act"; provides that each laborer, worker or mechanic in the employ of a contractor who by request or permission of an employer reports for work on any day shall be paid no less than four hours at the prevailing rate of wages.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05254

Introduced
2/20/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Engrossed
3/26/25  
Refer
3/26/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Enrolled
9/5/25  
Chaptered
9/5/25  
Protects certain employees from a reduction of wages due to their involvement in the investigation of a violation of a workplace violence protection program.