New York State Senator

James Sanders 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00859

Introduced
1/8/25  
Limits robocalls to state residents; requires telephone service providers to offer free call mitigation technology to telephone customers.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00653

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Provides treatment for sexually transmitted diseases to minors without a parent's or guardian's consent; provides definition for health care practitioner.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00614

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
4/8/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Provides for enrollment of eligible incarcerated persons in the medical assistance for needy persons program; provides for enrollment of incarcerated individuals in other medical assistance programs, where eligible.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00571

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Prohibits landlords, lessors, sub-lessors and grantors from demanding brokers' fees from a tenant.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00574

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes the end predatory home flipping act; imposes a tax on the transfer of certain residential properties which are sold within two years of the prior conveyance of such property; exempts certain purchases of residential properties from mortgage recording taxes; imposes a tax on the transfer of certain properties in the city of New York which are sold for one million dollars or more.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00658

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires persons possessing any firearm to hold a firearms safety certificate; establishes application and training process therefor; makes technical corrections.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00878

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Amends procedures required for the custodial interrogation of children to provide additional protections and for taking juveniles and sixteen and seventeen year olds into custody.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00872

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Creates minority and women-owned business enterprise regional advocates; provides that the advocates will help ensure that municipal agencies comply with the provisions of law relating to minority and women-owned business enterprises.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00914

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to creating a separate tax on inheritance income, creating a separate tax on gift income, the computation of the estate tax, and creating a gift tax.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00954

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes the teachers' fossil fuel divestment act; requires the New York state teachers' retirement system to divest the retirement system of any stocks, securities, equities, assets, or other obligations of corporations or companies included on an exclusion list of coal producers and oil and gas producers.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00903

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
3/18/26  
Relates to informal caregiver training; defines "person in need of assistance"; expands who may serve as an "informal caregiver".
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00726

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Waives the state's sovereign immunity in state and federal courts with regard to liability for violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act; waives the immunity of all instrumentalities and political subdivisions of the state.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00727

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Provides that in toxic tort cases the date of discovery of the injury by the plaintiff or claimant is presumed to be the date of diagnosis and where the specific toxic etiological cause of injury is not known for up to ten years (instead of five years) after the injury itself is discovered a plaintiff shall have three years to file a claim from the time such specific cause is discovered.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00911

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires diversity, inclusion and elimination of bias training for physicians, physician assistants and nurses as part of continuing medical education requirements; establishes such training shall be a biennial requirement.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00940

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
4/22/26  
Requires all insurance policies and health maintenance organization contracts to provide coverage for maternity patients and their newborns for hospital stays of at least 48 hours following childbirth by natural delivery and 96 hours following childbirth by caesarean section; provides such coverage for patients who are recipients of medicaid.