New York State Senator

Emérita Torres 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00649

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to the tolling of statute of limitations for individuals in state custody; provides that with respect to state action brought by anyone to recover damages for physical, psychological, or other injury or condition suffered while in state custody, the time in which such action must commence shall be extended to three years after such person is released from such custody.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00514

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Refer
4/2/25  
Relates to parole eligibility for certain incarcerated persons age fifty-five or older if they have served at least fifteen years of their sentence or sentences.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00472

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes the "clean fuel standard of 2026"; provides such standard is intended to reduce greenhouse gas intensity from the on-road transportation sector, with further reductions to be implemented based upon advances in technology.
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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 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 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00825

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires police departments and agencies to provide district attorneys' offices access to such departments' and agencies' electronic record systems for discovery purposes.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

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.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00136

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
4/28/25  
Refer
4/28/25  
Report Pass
4/28/25  
Refer
4/28/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Engrossed
4/29/25  
Refer
4/29/25  
Engrossed
6/9/25  
Enrolled
12/31/25  
Chaptered
2/6/26  
Relates to the medical aid in dying act; relates to a terminally ill patient's request for and use of medication for medical aid in dying.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00200

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Increases the age of eligibility for provisional or permanent appointment of certain police officers from thirty-five to forty.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00067

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Provides for the calculation and analysis of certain health center costs.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00084

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to increasing short-term disability benefits.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00101

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Prohibits the use of intoxication of the victim as a defense in sex crimes where the victim is under the influence of any drug, intoxicant, or other substance to a degree which rendered the victim temporarily incapable of appraising or controlling such person's conduct and such condition was known or reasonably should have been known to a person in the actor's situation.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00206

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Relates to failure to complete a program for time allowances due to circumstances beyond an individual's control.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00199

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Makes it illegal for certain persons to possess or sell a pistol converter or a converted pistol; directs the superintendent of the state police to publish a list of pistols that the superintendent has determined to be convertible pistols.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00974

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Enacts the New York privacy act to require companies to disclose their methods of de-identifying personal information, to place special safeguards around data sharing and to allow consumers to obtain the names of all entities with whom their information is shared.