New York State Senator

Emérita Torres 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 9)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00045

Introduced

1/24/25

Refer

1/24/25

Passed

1/27/25

Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim January 27, 2025, as Holocaust Remembrance Day in the State of New York

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00847

Introduced

1/20/26

Passed

1/20/26

Commemorating the observance of the 41st Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the State of New York, on January 19, 2026

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09641

Introduced

1/21/26

Refer

1/21/26

Prohibits algorithmic wage-setting; provides for exceptions; provides for penalties for violation; creates a private right of action.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09588

Introduced

1/21/26

Refer

1/21/26

Report Pass

3/24/26

Refer

3/24/26

Report Pass

4/21/26

Prohibits certain financial institutions from charging a fee for making monthly, semi-monthly, and biweekly payments or for changing the frequency of mortgage payments.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09642

Introduced

1/21/26

Refer

1/21/26

Requires the registration of data brokers; imposes regulations upon data brokers; establishes a data deletion mechanism for consumers; imposes penalties upon data brokers for violations of the law.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09604

Introduced

1/21/26

Refer

1/21/26

Establishes the "New York junk fee prevention act"; requires clear and conspicuous pricing practices regarding junk fees.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03934

Introduced

1/30/25

Refer

1/30/25

Refer

1/7/26

Report Pass

1/28/26

Refer

1/28/26

Directs DOCCS, in collaboration with OTDA, OMH and OASAS, to establish a 5-year reintegration pilot program for individuals being released from correctional facilities to provide supports and services to prepare for release, assist with reintegration into the community, and reduce recidivism.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04028

Introduced

1/30/25

Refer

1/30/25

Refer

1/7/26

Requires the disclosure of video footage related to the death of an incarcerated individual involving a correctional officer to the attorney general's office of special investigation.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04040

Introduced

1/30/25

Refer

1/30/25

Report Pass

4/2/25

Refer

4/2/25

Report Pass

5/28/25

Refer

5/28/25

Report Pass

6/4/25

Engrossed

6/6/25

Refer

6/6/25

Engrossed

6/11/25

Enrolled

12/8/25

Chaptered

12/19/25

Passed

12/19/25

Codifies the disparate impact standard in the human rights law; provides that in cases of alleged housing discrimination, an unlawful discriminatory practice may be established by a practice's discriminatory effect.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03981

Introduced

1/30/25

Refer

1/30/25

Refer

1/7/26

Relates to procedures relating to driving while ability impaired by drugs; defines impairment and intoxication; updates procedures for field testing of drivers suspected of being under the influence of drugs to include the use of oral/bodily fluid tests; provides that refusal to submit to such field tests is specified to be a traffic infraction; makes related provisions.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03935

Introduced

1/30/25

Refer

1/30/25

Refer

1/7/26

Provides assistance to incarcerated individuals being released from correctional facilities for enrollment in safety net assistance, public assistance, supplemental assistance program (SNAP), special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children (WIC), the home energy assistance program (HEAP), supplemental security income, and state supplemental payments.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03928

Introduced

1/30/25

Refer

1/30/25

Report Pass

3/25/25

Refer

3/25/25

Report Pass

3/25/25

Refer

3/25/25

Report Pass

3/25/25

Engrossed

3/25/25

Refer

3/25/25

Requires businesses that allow automatic renewals, continuous service offers, and automatic subscription renewals to provide notice regarding cancelling such renewals, services, or subscriptions.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03647

Introduced

1/29/25

Refer

1/29/25

Refer

1/7/26

Enacts the "faith-based affordable housing act" for development on residential land; defines terms; provides that each village, town, and city shall allow the construction and occupation of residential buildings on any covered site up to the specified densities; provides that all residential buildings constructed pursuant to this section in a town, village, or city with fewer than one million inhabitants shall set aside twenty percent of the residential floor area for households earning an average of eighty percent of area median income; outlines the densities for New York city; makes related provisions.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03654

Introduced

1/29/25

Refer

1/29/25

Refer

1/7/26

Relates to decreasing the length of the suspension period applicable to certain individuals who lose their jobs due to a labor dispute, such as a strike, and who seek to obtain unemployment insurance benefits; decreases the suspension period from two consecutive weeks to one week; provides that the waiting period and suspension period shall be served concurrently.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03682

Introduced

1/29/25

Refer

1/29/25

Report Pass

2/11/25

Establishes environmental standards for ambient lead and lead contamination in soils and on floors and window sills.

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