New York State Senator

Gustavo Rivera 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 41)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00036

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Engrossed

1/21/25

Refer

1/21/25

Engrossed

1/22/25

Enrolled

2/3/25

Chaptered

2/3/25

Passed

2/3/25

Permits prescription labels for mifepristone, misoprostol, and their generic alternatives to include the name of the prescribing health care practice instead of the name of the prescriber at the prescriber's request.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00166

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Refer

1/7/26

Relates to claim settlement practices when an insurer refuses to pay or is delaying payment of a settlement; provides a policyholder a private right of action against such insurer doing business in the state who has refused or delayed payment of an insurance claim.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00159

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Report Pass

4/8/25

Refer

1/7/26

Provides for findings of the state board of parole necessary for discretionary release of incarcerated individuals on parole.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00105

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Refer

1/7/26

Enacts the "Consumer and Small business Protection Act"; relates to standing for persons affected by prohibited or unlawful business practices; expands prohibited acts to include unfair, deceptive or abusive acts.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00160

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Refer

1/31/25

Refer

1/7/26

Refer

2/3/26

Relates to authorizing voting by incarcerated people.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00088

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Engrossed

1/13/25

Refer

1/13/25

Refer

1/7/26

Report Pass

2/26/26

Provides for automatic voter registration and pre-registration for persons applying for certain department of motor vehicles documentation, and for persons applying for or re-enrolling in Medicaid; allows individuals to decline such automatic registration and pre-registration.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00068

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Refer

1/7/26

Enacts the student journalist education act to protect student speech at educational institutions unless such speech is libelous, an invasion of privacy, or incites students to commit an unlawful act, violate school policies, or to materially and substantially disrupt the orderly operation of the school.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00161

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Engrossed

5/13/25

Refer

5/13/25

Refer

1/7/26

Report Pass

2/10/26

Engrossed

5/4/26

Refer

5/4/26

Expands the eligibility period for indigent legal service attorneys to receive certain loan forgiveness; increases loan reimbursement for certain attorneys who work in legal services with indigent clients.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00072

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Report Pass

1/27/25

Refer

1/7/26

Relates to establishing the housing access voucher program; provides that the commissioner of the division of housing and community renewal shall implement a program of rental assistance in the form of housing vouchers for eligible individuals and families who are homeless or who face an imminent loss of housing; provides that the commissioner shall designate housing access voucher local administrators in the state to administer the program.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00413

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Engrossed

3/24/25

Refer

3/24/25

Refer

1/7/26

Engrossed

3/25/26

Refer

3/25/26

Makes the release of any claim by an employee, or independent contractor who is a natural person, against an employer, unenforceable if, as a condition of such resolution, the employee or independent contractor is prohibited from applying for, accepting, or engaging in future employment with such employer, or any entity or entities related to such employer.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00442

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Report Pass

1/22/25

Relates to assisting persons with medically diagnosed HIV infection.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00416

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Enacts the "keep police radio public act"; ensures that, except for sensitive information, all radio communications are accessible to emergency services organizations and professional journalists.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00454

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

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.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00440

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Refer

1/7/26

Report Pass

4/21/26

Relates to voting rights and access for incarcerated individuals; authorizes polling places to be available at correctional facilities and local facilities; requires such facilities to provide persons detained or confined in such facilities access to register to vote or apply for an absentee ballot; requires voting information to be included in the inmate handbook.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00428

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Engrossed

6/11/25

Refer

6/11/25

Refer

1/7/26

Report Pass

1/27/26

Engrossed

5/5/26

Refer

5/5/26

Requires chain restaurants to place an icon on menus next to food items that have a high content of sodium.

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