New York State Senator

James Sanders 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 8)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00267

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Authorizes the director of the division of minority and women's business development and the mayor of the city of New York to enter into a memorandum of understanding to allow reciprocity between the state and New York City for businesses that are certified as minority and women-owned business enterprises.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03067

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Establishes the citywide leadership team to ensure that parents' and students' voices are represented in all education decision-making, ensure education policies considered or implemented are conducive to promoting student achievement and enhancing the overall quality of education for students attending public schools in the city of New York, and include all stakeholders at all stages of the decision-making process.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03065

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Requires district leadership teams to operate under open meetings law requirements.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03068

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
2/3/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Calls for the state to subsidize a portion of closing costs for certain individuals who have been tenants of public housing projects or rent subsidized housing for the previous five years.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03071

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Engrossed
4/28/25  
Engrossed
5/5/25  
Refer
5/5/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
3/4/26  
Relates to establishing a task force on safety in school transportation to review and promote such safety.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06601

Introduced
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Requires the municipal police training council to ensure that issues related to motorcycle profiling are addressed in basic law enforcement training.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06603

Introduced
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Creates the lupus research enhancement program; creates the lupus research enhancement fund.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06616

Introduced
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Increases the remedy for trademark counterfeiting by removing the cap and widening the scope.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06612

Introduced
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Relates to petition for expungement of records for certain marihuana convictions.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06608

Introduced
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Creates the consumer overdraft protection act to ensure that consumers are informed of their options in regard to overdraft protection.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06602

Introduced
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Requires the sanitation department of the city of New York to provide owners, lessees or persons in charge of a premises at which a violation of the city solid waste disposal law is alleged to have occurred with a photograph of the materials, condition or situation constituting the violation.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06615

Introduced
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Increases the trademark registration and renewal fee from fifty dollars to one hundred dollars.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00316

Introduced
2/5/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Mourning the death of Mary E. Rainey, distinguished citizen and devoted member of her community
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00312

Introduced
2/5/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim February 2025, as Black History Month in the State of New York
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04659

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Relates to enacting the rent emergency stabilization for tenants act on local determinations of a housing emergency; authorizes a city with a population of one million or more to declare an emergency as to any class of housing accommodations if the vacancy rate for the housing accommodations in such class within such municipality is not in excess of five percent and a declaration of emergency may be made as to all housing accommodations if the vacancy rate for the housing accommodations within such municipality is not in excess of five percent; authorizes other cities, towns and villages to declare a housing emergency after considering publicly available data and holding public hearings.