New York State Senator

Harry Bronson 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 17)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08659

Introduced
5/23/25  
Refer
5/23/25  
Enacts into law components of legislation that relate to live event ticket sales; establishes an annual professional reseller renewal fee; requires professional ticket resellers to provide their New York state ticket reseller license number as a condition of utilizing an online resale marketplace to resell tickets (Part A); provides criteria for when a purchaser may obtain a full refund of the amount paid for a ticket (Part B); relates to resale requirements for tickets; requires that if a licensee or other ticket reseller doesn't have possession of the ticket, then they shall have a written contract to obtain the offered ticket at a certain price from a person or entity in possession of the ticket or from a person or entity who has a contractual right to obtain such ticket, and tickets to the event have been placed on sale by the venue or entity hosting the event or its authorized agent before the licensee or reseller can advertise the sale of the tickets (Part C); relates to unlawful charges in connection with tickets; permits reasonable charges for costs actually rendered or otherwise in connection to customer support, technological and software infrastructure, and actual operational costs for sales away from the box office; defines terms (Part D); relates to the availability of tickets for sale to the general public; defines a term (Part E); relates to the resale of tickets included in a subscription or season ticket package (Part F); extends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to tickets to places of entertainment (Part G).
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08672

Introduced
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Eliminates certain court surcharges and fees and probation and parole surcharges and fees; eliminates the requirement that a parolee or releasee receiving a merit termination of sentence be financially able to comply with an order of restitution; eliminates the requirement that a person receiving a discharge of sentence be financially able to comply with an order of restitution and the payment of certain surcharges or fees (Part A); mandates that courts engage in an individualized assessment of a person's financial ability to pay a fine prior to imposing a fine (Part B); eliminates the availability of incarceration as a remedy for a failure to pay a fine, surcharge, or fee, lifts and vacates existing warrants issued solely on a person's failure to timely pay a fine, surcharge or fee and ends existing sentences of incarceration based on such failure (Part C); vacates existing unsatisfied civil judgments based on a person's failure to timely pay a surcharge, or fee (Part D); prohibits the collection of a fine, restitution or reparation from the funds of an incarcerated person; prohibits the payment of court fines, mandatory surcharges, certain fees, restitution, reparation or forfeitures from the earnings of prisoners (Part E); vacates existing unpaid surcharges, DNA databank fees, crime victim assistance fees, sexual offender registration fees, supplemental sex offender victim fees, or probation or parole supervision fees; repeals certain provisions of law relating to restrictions on remitting such fees (Part F).
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07777

Introduced
4/10/25  
Refer
4/10/25  
Report Pass
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Enacts the "freedom to read act"; requires the commissioner of education and school library systems to develop policies to ensure that school libraries and library staff are empowered to curate and develop collections that provide students with access to the widest array of developmentally appropriate materials available.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07779

Introduced
4/10/25  
Refer
4/10/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Directs the division of criminal justice services to establish a program for the care of retired law enforcement dogs which shall cover the cost of veterinary care for retired law enforcement dogs for the remainder of the lifetime of such dogs.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07878

Introduced
4/11/25  
Refer
4/11/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
5/27/26  
Enacts the lead pipe replacement act to require the replacement of all lead service lines by November 1, 2037.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07683

Introduced
4/4/25  
Refer
4/4/25  
Report Pass
4/15/25  
Engrossed
4/28/25  
Refer
4/28/25  
Engrossed
3/9/26  
Limits recordkeeping and reporting duties of public notaries to electronic notarization acts.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07760

Introduced
4/8/25  
Refer
4/8/25  
Requires any hospital that provides birthing services to provide written, educational material containing information about premature newborn infants.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07738

Introduced
4/8/25  
Refer
4/8/25  
Report Pass
4/30/25  
Refer
4/30/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Prohibits the sale of certain products that contain regulated perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances; requires manufacturers of products containing PFAS to provide notice of such fact to persons that offer the products for sale or distribution; provides penalties for violations.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00595

Introduced
5/27/25  
Honoring the recipients of the LeadingAge New York 2025 Long Term Care Employee of Distinction Awards
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00599

Introduced
5/27/25  
Mourning the death of former U.S. Representative Charles B. Rangel, distinguished public servant, statesman, and beloved member of the Harlem community
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07781

Introduced
4/10/25  
Refer
4/10/25  
Removes the exclusion of part-time employees from certain definitions relating to employment and expanding the definition of employer; removes certain exclusions for employer notice requirements for the closing of a facility; removes the discretionary reduction of penalties for employers for certain acts or omissions concerning notice requirements for mass layoffs, relocations or employment loss; removes the maximum time period for determining back pay and other liabilities for certain employees who experience employment loss; allows the attorney general to take certain action to assist certain employees in receiving back pay and other liabilities; requires employers to pay severance to employees when there is a plant closing, relocation, or mass layoff.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07863

Introduced
4/11/25  
Refer
4/11/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Report Pass
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Provides that the New York labor law shall be construed liberally for the accomplishment of its remedial purposes.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07931

Introduced
4/15/25  
Refer
4/15/25  
Enacts "Shawn's law"; requires persons driving on a state expressway route, state interstate route, or state thruway route to pull over and seek assistance if their vehicle is unable to exceed thirty-five miles per hour; requires the division of state police to conduct an accident reconstruction and create a report in the case of certain accidents resulting in a fatality.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07646

Introduced
4/4/25  
Refer
4/4/25  
Enacts the "cannabis adult-use transition act"; increases the number of members on the state cannabis advisory board from thirteen to seventeen voting appointed members; provides that an eligible registered organization shall be authorized as a registered organization adult-use cultivator processor distributor retail dispensary upon approval of an application to the office of cannabis management that must be available to such registered organizations no later than August first, two thousand twenty-five and remain available thereafter; provides that the office must approve or deny such application within thirty days of its submission or it shall be deemed approved; makes related provisions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07727

Introduced
4/8/25  
Refer
4/8/25  
Establishes a New York state public housing painters apprenticeship program for municipal housing authority residents.