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James Sanders 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 37)

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00070

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
3/24/25  
Refer
3/24/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
3/25/26  
Provides that any person who has been injured by reason of any violation of any such rules, regulations or policies as the superintendent may promulgate may bring an action in such person's own name; assert a counterclaim; or, if an action is commenced by the mortgagee or anyone acting on its behalf, bring a third party claim, against either the mortgagee and/or the mortgage servicer to enjoin any violations thereof; authorizes damages; makes related provisions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00081

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to the adjudication of parking infractions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00176

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Provides a civil action for deprivation of rights which is caused by any person or public entity.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00056

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Engrossed
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Establishes through the department of health a drug checking services program to allow individuals to bring drugs or controlled substances and have them tested for contaminants, toxic substances, or hazardous compounds; requires the department to establish public health surveillance of the unregulated drug supply; provides exemptions for participants in the drug checking program from certain controlled substance offenses.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00182

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/22/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Refer
6/10/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
1/20/26  
Engrossed
5/18/26  
Increases the federal poverty level requirement for recipients where it concerns the one-time disregard of earned income following job entry.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00173

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes an unemployment bridge program and an unemployment bridge program fund to provide wage replacement to workers that do not qualify for unemployment insurance or other worker wage assistance programs and who have lost a major source of income due to lost work (Part A); establishes the "Digital Ad Tax Act (DATA)" creating a tax on digital advertising services (Part B).
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00158

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Authorizes certain persons confined in institutions operated by the department of corrections and community supervision to apply for a sentence reduction.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00159

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
4/8/25  
Provides for findings of the state board of parole necessary for discretionary release of incarcerated individuals on parole.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00105

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
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.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00072

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/27/25  
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.
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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  
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.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00442

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to assisting persons with medically diagnosed HIV infection.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00454

Introduced
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.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00448

Introduced
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.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00470

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Enacts "Kirby and Quigley's Law"; expands the definition of aggravated cruelty to animals to include harm to a companion animal during the commission of a felony.