New York State Senator

Cordell Cleare 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 39)

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Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S08026

Introduced
5/15/25  
Refer
5/15/25  
Provides "WiFi service" internet access to all individuals residing in temporary housing; relates to funding for internet service under the ConnectAll digital equity grant program.
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New York Senate Bill S07998

Introduced
5/15/25  
Refer
5/15/25  
Enacts the "low-carbon building construction act"; relates to requiring construction of any building, addition or renovation greater than 25,000 square feet meet certain standards intended to reduce the embodied carbon emissions associated with the construction.
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New York Senate Bill S08096

Introduced
5/15/25  
Refer
5/15/25  
Prevents public employers from diminishing health insurance benefits provided to retirees and their dependents or the contributions such employer makes for such health insurance coverage below the level of such benefits or contributions made on behalf of such retirees and their dependents by such public employer.
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New York Senate Bill S08139

Introduced
5/15/25  
Refer
5/15/25  
Relates to the assessment of extraordinary needs count for purposes of the apportionment of public moneys to school districts employing eight or more teachers; defines count of homeless children and children or youth in foster care.
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New York Senate Bill S08086

Introduced
5/15/25  
Refer
5/15/25  
Relates to compensation of individuals appointed by the court as court evaluators in guardianship matters.
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New York Senate Bill S08085

Introduced
5/15/25  
Refer
5/15/25  
Increases the timeframe for guardianship hearings to thirty-five days.
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New York Senate Bill S08168

Introduced
5/16/25  
Refer
5/16/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Relates to the reuse of building construction, deconstruction, and demolition materials, including requiring local deconstruction ordinances and reporting requirements for local political subdivisions awarded grants for construction, deconstruction and demolition projects; establishes a construction, deconstruction, and demolition waste prevention and reduction grant and technical support program; establishes deconstruction contractor certification requirements.
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New York Senate Bill J01059

Introduced
5/16/25  
Refer
5/16/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Commemorating the Carlos Lezama Archives and Caribbean Cultural Center's Lunch by the Bay honoring Paul Romeo as 2025 Father of the Year on June 29, 2025
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New York Senate Bill J01066

Introduced
5/19/25  
Refer
5/19/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim October 9, 2025, as Sneakers Day in the State of New York
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New York Senate Bill J01067

Introduced
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Honoring the Lexington School for the Deaf upon the occasion of hosting its 28th Annual Basketball Classic vs. Assembly/Senate All-Stars on May 20, 2025

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S08072

Introduced
5/15/25  
Refer
5/15/25  
Establishes an elder financial exploitation public awareness campaign to educate older adults and persons providing care to older adults on the prevention and detection of financial exploitation.
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New York Senate Bill S08173

Introduced
5/19/25  
Refer
5/19/25  
Allows the state comptroller and commissioner of taxation and finance to place liens on federal property within the state in the event of federal noncompliance with congressionally approved spending.
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New York Senate Bill S08172

Introduced
5/19/25  
Refer
5/19/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Prohibits employees of the department of corrections and community supervision or a correctional facility from willfully obstructing, blocking or otherwise obscuring a body-worn or stationary camera from recording activities within a correctional facility for the purpose of hindering an existing or potential investigation, concealing a crime or criminal activity, or concealing otherwise unlawful behavior.
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New York Senate Bill S08193

Introduced
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Relates to the composition of the interagency task force on human trafficking and when such reports shall be submitted.
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New York Senate Bill S08192

Introduced
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Directs the legislature to ensure that the number of judges and justices in districts and courts is sufficient; directs the chief administrator of the courts to report on the sufficiency of the number of judges and justices in each court and to make recommendations on such numbers.