New York State Senator

James Sanders 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 14)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06531

Introduced
3/17/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Prohibits discrimination on the basis of a person's caste in opportunities of employment, housing, and access to public accommodations.
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New York Senate Bill S06547

Introduced
3/17/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Relates to the "Heather D. Heyer act" which increases penalties where a vehicle is used as a weapon in a hate crime and makes it illegal to travel upon a roadway in a vehicle within 1000 feet of a protest.
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New York Senate Bill S06546

Introduced
3/17/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Requires certain safety standards for emergency shelter for victims and alleged victims of domestic violence during a declaration of a state disaster emergency for a disease outbreak; requires accommodations in a hotel or motel where a residential facility does not meet safety standards; requires full cost to be assumed by the state.
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New York Senate Bill S06548

Introduced
3/17/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Relates to providing minimum standards governing maternity policy for institutions employing police officers and correctional officers including uniform and/or equipment modifications, exemption from firearm qualification requirements, and ensuring there is no discrimination or poor treatment of pregnant individuals.
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New York Senate Bill S06536

Introduced
3/17/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Withholds the governor's salary until the legislative passage of the budget occurs; provides such salary should be withheld if the budget has not passed prior to the first day of the fiscal year and shall not be paid until such passage occurs.
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New York Senate Bill S06537

Introduced
3/17/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Relates to requiring 911 operators to ask callers for the approximate height and weight of the patient.
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New York Senate Bill S06341

Introduced
3/11/25  
Refer
3/11/25  
Report Pass
5/13/25  
Amends the membership of the New York city water board to include the five borough presidents, the mayor or a public member appointed by the mayor and a public member appointed by the governor who has experience in the science of water resource development.
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New York Senate Bill S06346

Introduced
3/11/25  
Refer
3/11/25  
Requires cooperative housing corporations provide a prospective purchaser with a written statement of reasons when withholding consent to a purchase; voids any agreement inconsistent with such requirement.
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New York Senate Bill S06553

Introduced
3/17/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Establishes a Green New Deal for New York task force; requires such task force to develop a detailed statewide, industrial, economic mobilization plan for the transition of the New York economy to become greenhouse gas emissions neutral by 2030 and to significantly draw down greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and oceans and to promote economic and environmental justice and equality.
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New York Senate Bill S06604

Introduced
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Authorizes local governments to pay higher levels of minimum wage.
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New York Senate Bill S06541

Introduced
3/17/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Prohibits a fee for admission to any exam that would award a high school equivalency diploma.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00545

Introduced
3/20/25  
Refer
3/20/25  
Report Pass
3/25/25  
Honoring Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, posthumously upon the occasion of the co-naming of Presidents Street in Brooklyn, New York, in recognition of his remarkable life
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New York Senate Bill J00510

Introduced
3/13/25  
Refer
3/13/25  
Report Pass
3/18/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim March 2025, as Greek History Month in the State of New York, in conjunction with the commemoration of the 204th Anniversary of Greek Independence
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New York Senate Bill S06395

Introduced
3/13/25  
Refer
3/13/25  
Imposes an excise tax on the sale of ammunition to be deposited into the gun violence impact fund; establishes the gun violence impact fund; authorizes the director of the office of victim services to administer grants from the gun violence impact fund.
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New York Senate Bill J00522

Introduced
3/17/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Report Pass
3/25/25  
Congratulating Christian Jerome upon the occasion of capturing the NYSPHSAA Boys Swimming and Diving Championship in the 100-yard butterfly on March 8, 2025