New York State Senator

James Skoufis 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 30)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04785

Introduced

2/12/25

Refer

2/12/25

Refer

1/7/26

Establishes local labor requirements as part of the approval to receive a real property tax business investment exception; requires eighty-five percent of workers hired by a contractor or developer for a project to be from the same county or an adjoining county or, in certain circumstances, the state of New York.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04772

Introduced

2/12/25

Refer

2/12/25

Refer

3/12/25

Refer

1/7/26

Refer

2/3/26

Revokes the public pension of a public officer who stands convicted on an impeachment; applies retroactively.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04780

Introduced

2/12/25

Refer

2/12/25

Engrossed

5/6/25

Refer

5/6/25

Refer

1/7/26

Engrossed

5/18/26

Refer

5/18/26

Requires a municipality to give notice to an adjacent municipality of the adoption or amendment of certain zoning ordinances or local laws that affect parcels of land within 500 feet of the adjacent municipality.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04783

Introduced

2/12/25

Refer

2/12/25

Refer

1/7/26

Relates to information cable television companies must provide to subscribers regarding availability of required equipment at retail.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04725

Introduced

2/12/25

Refer

2/12/25

Report Pass

5/27/25

Engrossed

6/12/25

Refer

6/12/25

Refer

1/7/26

Authorizes Michael Winston Hoard, the widower of Kathy Marie Dwyer-Hoard, to file a new service retirement application and an option election form on behalf of his deceased wife with the New York state and local employees' retirement system.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04784

Introduced

2/12/25

Refer

2/12/25

Refer

1/7/26

Eliminates judicial immunity or quasi-judicial immunity for certain third parties, such as special masters, minor's counsel, investigators, therapists, evaluators, receivers, bankruptcy trustees, experts, and factfinders, who provide a report or finding to the family court.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04771

Introduced

2/12/25

Refer

2/12/25

Refer

1/7/26

Requires fees charged by municipal industrial development agencies be the same as those charged by the county's industrial development agency.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04781

Introduced

2/12/25

Refer

2/12/25

Refer

1/7/26

Makes tuition free for New York state residents at SUNY and CUNY schools and community colleges; requires state residency and employment for a period of five years after completion of academic program.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04786

Introduced

2/12/25

Refer

2/12/25

Refer

1/7/26

Eliminates the "look-back period" for home care for non-institutionalized Medicaid applicants; repeals a certain provision of law relating thereto.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04774

Introduced

2/12/25

Refer

2/12/25

Engrossed

6/12/25

Refer

6/12/25

Refer

1/7/26

Creates the crime of vehicular homicide; makes such crime a class B felony.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04777

Introduced

2/12/25

Refer

2/12/25

Refer

1/7/26

Relates to first responders, including correction officers, coming into contact with saliva by spitting, throwing, tossing, or expelling from or by an individual.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04744

Introduced

2/12/25

Refer

2/12/25

Refer

1/7/26

Report Pass

5/5/26

Increases personal needs allowance amounts for individuals who are deemed eligible; requires that payments be subject to an annual adjustment reflecting the latest consumer price index, all items-U.S. city average.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04713

Introduced

2/12/25

Refer

2/12/25

Engrossed

5/15/25

Refer

5/15/25

Refer

1/7/26

Designates records and information relating to a patient who has been deceased for a period of fifty years or longer as historic records no longer subject to privacy protections; provides that such provisions shall not be construed as requiring a facility to retain records for any particular length of time.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00347

Introduced

2/12/25

Refer

2/12/25

Report Pass

2/25/25

Passed

2/25/25

Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 2025, as Lupus Awareness Month in the State of New York

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05364

Introduced

2/20/25

Refer

2/20/25

Refer

1/7/26

Prohibits broad indemnification by a design professional of a state or local agency or political subdivision involving public work for contracts except to the extent that damages were caused by or the result of the negligence, recklessness, or willful misconduct of the design professional.

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