New York State Senator

Jabari Brisport 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 32)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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 S00429

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Engrossed

5/13/25

Refer

5/13/25

Refer

1/7/26

Report Pass

2/4/26

Engrossed

5/18/26

Refer

5/18/26

Authorizes the state inspector general to receive and investigate complaints of sexual assault in correctional facilities and other places operated by the department of corrections and community supervision for the confinement of persons; requires the state inspector general to establish protocol and procedures for such reports and investigations.

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 S00423

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Refer

1/7/26

Relates to an aid rollback for charter schools.

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.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00445

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Provides that cities having a population in excess of one million shall not supersede state provisions relating to the state law prohibition on individuals standing or parking a vehicle within twenty feet of a cross walk at an intersection.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00448

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Enacts the "Empowering People in Rights Enforcement (EMPIRE) Worker Protection Act"; relates to the delegation of state enforcement authority to private actors; authorizes an affected employee, whistleblower, representative organization or an organizational deputy to initiate a public enforcement action on behalf of the commissioner for certain provisions of the labor law, or any regulation promulgated thereunder.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00452

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Requires all agencies to submit to the committee on open government a log of all freedom of information law requests for each year in which they received or have pending a request for records; requires the committee on open government to publish, on one webpage, all freedom of information law request logs it receives.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J01925

Introduced

4/17/26

Refer

4/17/26

Report Pass

4/21/26

Passed

4/21/26

Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 2026, as Lyme Disease Awareness Month in the State of New York

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J01927

Introduced

4/20/26

Refer

4/20/26

Report Pass

4/21/26

Passed

4/21/26

Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim April 19-25, 2026, as Crime Victims' Rights Week in the State of New York

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00550

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Report Pass

1/21/25

Engrossed

5/19/25

Refer

5/19/25

Engrossed

6/9/25

Refer

6/9/25

Engrossed

6/16/25

Enrolled

12/8/25

Chaptered

12/19/25

Passed

12/19/25

Requires a caller making a report of suspected child abuse or maltreatment to the central register to leave their name and contact information; prohibits the office of children and family services from releasing information identifying a person who made such a report.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J01887

Introduced

4/14/26

Refer

4/14/26

Passed

4/20/26

Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim April 2026, as Arab American Heritage Month in the State of New York

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