New York State Senator

Emily Gallagher 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 5)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00866

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to the employee status of an individual; establishes criteria for determining whether labor or services performed for remuneration qualify as employment.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01213

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Enacts the "New York city teleworking expansion act"; provides that each agency shall establish a policy and program to allow employees to perform all or a portion of their duties through teleworking to the maximum extent possible without diminished employee performance; defines the term "telework" to mean to perform normal and regular work functions on a workday that ordinarily would be performed at the agency's principal location at a different location, thereby eliminating or substantially reducing the physical commute to and from such agency's principal location.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02689

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Enacts the building up immigrant legal defense or BUILD act to provide competitive workforce development and capacity building grants to eligible entities that are seeking to expand access to representation for individuals facing deportation by increasing the workforce and strengthening the legal services infrastructure needed to provide such representation.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02693

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Report Pass
3/25/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Report Pass
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Prohibits the issuance of violations or tickets during certain weekend hours to residential occupants for violations of the sanitation department regulations regarding placing trash or garbage out for collection earlier than allowed under the city routing system designated hours.
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New York Assembly Bill A02720

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Enacts the solar for schools act which provides grants for eligible school districts to purchase and install solar and geothermal power sources; defines terms; directs the New York state energy and research development authority to establish such grant program; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof; makes an appropriation therefor.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02735

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Relates to licensure requirements for fiscal intermediaries.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08953

Introduced
7/16/25  
Refer
7/16/25  
Enacts the "fair share act"; authorizes cities imposing city personal income taxes to adopt and amend local laws imposing an additional tax of two percent on the annual city taxable income of city residents, estates and trusts reporting any return in excess of one million dollars.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07544

Introduced
4/1/25  
Refer
4/1/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Report Pass
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Report Pass
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Relates to enforcement of pole attachment safety and quality and utility pole and attachment identification.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08934

Introduced
7/16/25  
Refer
7/16/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
5/19/26  
Directs electric corporations and combination electric and gas corporations to file a cost-effectiveness and timetable analysis as part of any base rate proceeding with the public service commission; directs NYSERDA to conduct a study on the effectiveness of advanced transmission technologies.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08908

Introduced
7/16/25  
Refer
7/16/25  
Prohibits local, state and federal law enforcement officers from wearing any mask or personal disguise while interacting with the public in the performance of their duties; excludes certain protective masks.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09016

Introduced
8/27/25  
Refer
8/27/25  
Requires property/casualty insurance companies to submit certain information to the department of financial services, including zip code-level data on nonrenewal rates, nonpayment cancellation rates, other cancellation rates, claim frequency rates, average claim amounts, paid loss ratios, and average premiums; market share data; for property/casualty insurance companies that use a natural disaster risk model or scoring method to assign risk, information about such model or scoring method; authorizes a premium discount to policyholders of homeowners insurance or property/casualty insurance applicable to residential real property who demonstrate certain mitigation actions; requires insurers to post about such discounts on their public websites; relates to the timing of cancellation and nonrenewal notices for certain insurance policies; relates to increasing membership of the board governing the New York property insurance underwriting association; requires a quadrennial report on the activities of such association; increases such board membership to 23 including 6 directors appointed by the legislature and 4 directors appointed by the governor.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09082

Introduced
9/12/25  
Refer
9/12/25  
Sets base wage requirements for certain human services workers employed in eligible state-funded programs that provide health and/or welfare assistance.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08007

Introduced
4/21/25  
Refer
4/21/25  
Requires food service establishments to permit the use of reusable beverage and food containers provided by customers when requesting a beverage refill or requesting leftovers from a partially consumed meal to be packaged and post signs to inform customers that they are permitted to do so.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08033

Introduced
4/22/25  
Refer
4/22/25  
Requires the city university of New York and state university of New York have education programs for prospective teachers, administrators, and counselors for teaching immigrant-origin students that promotes diversity, equity and inclusion, and is multilingual.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A10509

Introduced
3/6/26  
Establishes an energy project revolving loan program and energy project revolving loan fund to encourage the development of renewable energy generating projects by awarding financial assistance for certain zero-emission energy generation projects.