New York State Senator

James Skoufis 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 13)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02330

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Imposes an excise tax on sugary drinks; establishes a community health equity fund to utilize the revenues generated by such tax.
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New York Senate Bill S01858

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Expands protections regarding violations of safety conditions in adult care facilities; provides penalties for safety violations and operating without a valid license; prohibits reductions in fines in certain circumstances where a patient is endangered or harmed.
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New York Senate Bill J00257

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Report Pass
1/28/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 2025, as Muslim History Month in the State of New York
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New York Senate Bill S02706

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Engrossed
4/22/25  
Refer
4/22/25  
Refer
5/29/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Refer
4/2/25  
Prohibits the use of drilling fluids, brine and flowback water from gas or oil wells, pools, or fields on any highway for any purpose including but not limited to de-icing or dust suppression.
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New York Senate Bill S00196

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
3/12/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Removes language requiring the state from moving public safety surcharge funds into the state general fund; increases from seventy-five million dollars to one million dollars available for grants or reimbursements to counties for the development, consolidation, or operation of public safety communications systems or networks designed to support statewide interoperable communications for first responders.
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New York Senate Bill S00227

Introduced
1/8/25  
Relates to the regulation of three-dimensional printed firearms; provides that a person who intentionally sells, distributes, or disposes of a three-dimensional printed firearm is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
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New York Senate Bill S03133

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Prohibits the manufacture, modification, sale, transfer, equipping, use, or operation of a robotic device or an uncrewed aircraft equipped or mounted with a weapon within the state.
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New York Senate Bill S03105

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Provides for reciprocity agreements with other states for medical cannabis programs; directs the cannabis control board to promulgate regulations for the approval of pre-roll products in the medical cannabis program.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02317

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Refer
6/10/25  
Prevents certain elected officials from being a member of an agency or industrial development authority.
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New York Senate Bill S02373

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Sets a 7-year limit to the real property tax exemption for unimproved property of mandatory class nonprofit organizations.
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New York Senate Bill S02384

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Report Pass
3/12/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Requires a business entity in violation of worker protection or environmental laws and regulations to surrender all previous state subsidies issued to such business entity.
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New York Senate Bill S02521

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Relates to the approval of seven day licenses to sell liquor at retail for consumption off the premises.
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New York Senate Bill S00228

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Engrossed
4/2/25  
Refer
4/2/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
3/17/26  
Refer
3/17/26  
Requires manufactured home park owners to provide a written justification for rent increases in excess of three percent of the current rent; provides that increases in costs to justify such rent increase for ordinary maintenance or repair to meet the warranty of habitability obligations must be shown to be necessary.
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New York Senate Bill S03102

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Provides lifetime, premium-free insurance through the New York state of health marketplace to a person who donates a kidney during the course of their lifetime; establishes the kidney donor insurance fund.
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New York Senate Bill S03070

Introduced
1/23/25  
Establishes masked harassment when a person wears a mask or other face covering that intentionally hides or conceals their face for the primary purpose of menacing or threatening another person or placing another person or group of persons in reasonable fear for their physical safety.