New York State Senator

Demond Meeks 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 20)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03582

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Establishes an unemployment bridge program and an unemployment bridge program fund to provide wage replacement to workers that do not qualify for unemployment insurance or other worker wage assistance programs and who have lost a major source of income due to lost work (Part A); establishes the "Digital Ad Tax Act (DATA)" creating a tax on digital advertising services (Part B).
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New York Assembly Bill A03499

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Requires more specific data reporting by the chief administrator to include information relating to all courts in the unified court system, including town and village courts.
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New York Assembly Bill A03506

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Prohibits and regulates the discovery and disclosure of immigration status; prohibits police officers, peace officers, school resource officers, probation agencies, state entities, state employees, and municipal corporations from questioning individuals regarding their citizenship or immigration status; regulates the disclosure of information relating to immigration status; prohibits an educational agency, higher education agency, school employee, school safety personnel, or third-party contractor from collecting information about a person's citizenship, immigration status, nationality, or country of origin, unless required by law or necessary to administer a public program or benefit sought by such person.
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New York Assembly Bill A01284

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Enacts the "Wandering Officers Act" prohibiting provisional or permanent appointment of a person as a police officer if such person has previously been fired as a police officer from any jurisdiction within or without the state, if such person left a position as a police officer either while under an investigation or while being the subject of a disciplinary action which could result in termination from any jurisdiction within or without the state, or if such person resigned while criminal charges were pending stemming from actions committed while on duty as a police officer in any jurisdiction within or without the state.
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New York Assembly Bill A01154

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Relates to proceedings in family court; requires all transcripts of proceedings or hearings in family court shall be provided to the parties within five days of such proceeding or hearing; requires attorneys for children shall meet monthly with both parents or guardians and submit a report, including, but not limited to each meeting, the non-confidential, substantive portion of any meetings and any communications with the parties and the child or children; increases the compensation of assigned counsel from $158 to $200 and the total amount of reimbursement from $10,000 to $20,000; authorizes the right of a trial by jury for matters of fact in family court proceedings.
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New York Assembly Bill A01200

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Provides for minimum wage requirements for miscellaneous industry workers; establishes a one fair wage reimbursement credit.
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New York Assembly Bill A01367

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Directs local law enforcement agencies in municipalities authorizing an auxiliary police force by local law to provide retirement service identification cards to auxiliary police officers who retire with 10 or more years of service or who are injured in the course of duty and unable to continue duty due to such injury.
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New York Assembly Bill A01318

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Establishes a state SNAP minimum benefit program to provide a minimum amount of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits that is higher than the amount of federal SNAP benefits.
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New York Assembly Bill A01191

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Report Pass
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Refer
4/29/25  
Report Pass
4/30/25  
Engrossed
5/14/25  
Refer
5/14/25  
Engrossed
3/26/26  
Enacts the "safer weapons, safer homes act"; requires the division of criminal justice services to study the technological viability of personalized firearms; defines personalized firearms; requires the division to report to the governor and the legislature on the results of the study.
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New York Assembly Bill A01234

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Requires child protective services to orally and in writing disclose certain information to parents and caretakers who are the subject of a child protective services investigation; requires such oral and written disclosure to contain certain information regarding the rights of the person under investigation.
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New York Assembly Bill A03026

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Provides for the disposition of certain fines and penalties; directs such fines to a conservation enforcement account in the state conservation fund.
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New York Assembly Bill A03226

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Enacts the "ceasing repeated and extremely egregious predatory (CREEP) behavior act"; provides for the issuance of anti-stalking orders.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01306

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Report Pass
5/19/25  
Refer
5/19/25  
Directs the department of civil service to conduct a study on competitive examinations for public employment held by the state department of civil service and by municipal commissions to determine whether the contents of such examinations have a discriminatory effect on minority examinees; requires a report on such findings to be delivered to the governor and legislature.
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New York Assembly Bill A01297

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Enacts the "Marvin Mayfield act", eliminating mandatory minimum sentences.
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New York Assembly Bill K00045

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim January 27, 2025, as Holocaust Remembrance Day in the State of New York