New York State Senator

James Skoufis 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 42)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01315

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Imposes an excise tax on the sale of ammunition to be deposited into the firearm violence intervention fund to help victims of and witnesses to violence.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00106

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Report Pass
1/14/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 12-18, 2025, as Period Poverty Awareness Week in the State of New York
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00033

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Report Pass
1/14/25  
Congratulating the Schuylerville High School Varsity Football Team and Head Coach John Bowen upon the occasion of capturing the 2024 NYSPHSAA Class C Football Championship on December 7, 2024
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01289

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Establishes the office of gun violence prevention and the gun violence advisory council.
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New York Senate Bill S01468

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Engrossed
3/17/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
2/5/26  
Relates to the provision of patient health information and medical records; expands the definition of medical records to include all health related records; prohibits fees for providing certain records.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01452

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Enacts the "fairness in cooperative homeownership act"; regulates the submission and determinations of applications for ownership of cooperative apartments.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00140

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Report Pass
1/14/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim February 8, 2025, as Snowmobile Ride Day in the State of New York
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03107

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Establishes a school ventilation and energy efficiency assessment, repair and verification program to require each school to: obtain an HVAC Assessment Report performed by qualified testing personnel documenting the functionality of the existing system or lack thereof, and obtain a report from a mechanical engineer identifying any upgrades, replacements or other measures recommended to improve the functionality, health and safety and/or energy efficiency of the HVAC system; adjust, and, if necessary, repair existing building HVAC systems, and install or replace HVAC systems, if necessary, to ensure proper and efficient operation, as well as compliance with health and safety standards; obtain an HVAC Verification Report performed by qualified testing personnel documenting any upgrades, replacements, installations or any other work performed on the HVAC system functions as designed and/or in compliance with health and safety standards; install CO2 sensors in classrooms, assembly areas, kitchen or cafeteria areas or building office spaces to provide ongoing verification that proper ventilation is maintained during operation; makes related provisions.
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New York Senate Bill S03066

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Allows credit unions, savings banks, savings and loan associations and federal savings associations to accept and secure deposits from municipal corporations.
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New York Senate Bill S03154

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
4/8/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Directs the office of children and family services to establish Dolly Parton's statewide imagination library program for encouraging children from birth to five years of age, inclusive, to develop a love of reading and learning; directs the office of children and family services to promote the statewide development of local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; advance and strengthen local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs with the goal of increasing enrollment; recruit volunteers to assist in the development, promotion, and coordination of local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; solicit donations, gifts, and other funding to financially support local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; develop community engagement; develop, promote, and coordinate a public awareness campaign to make donors aware of the opportunity to donate to the affiliate programs and make the public aware of the opportunity to register eligible children to receive books through the program; administer the local match requirement and coordinate the collection and remittance of local program costs for books and mailing; and develop statewide marketing and communication plans; establishes the imagination library of New York fund.
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New York Senate Bill S03149

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Establishes the child victims act fund which provides grant awards in reimbursement to public school districts and voluntary foster care agencies located within the state who have been named as defendants in certain child sexual abuse legal cases and in which it can be demonstrated by the public school district or voluntary foster care agency that no insurance policy for the covered period can be located after a good-faith effort to do so has been made, there was a monetary judgment issued or settlement agreement with regard to such action and where it can be demonstrated by the public school district or voluntary foster care agency that payment in full of such judgment or settlement would put a substantial burden on the district's or agency's ability to execute its mission and negatively impact its existing student population.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01356

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Engrossed
1/13/25  
Refer
1/13/25  
Engrossed
3/24/25  
Refer
3/24/25  
Engrossed
6/6/25  
Enrolled
12/8/25  
Chaptered
12/12/25  
Permits the state board of elections to join certain multistate voter list maintenance organizations and provide such organizations with certain voter information; requires the state to join a multistate voter list maintenance organization on or before July 31, 2026.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03159

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Disallows county industrial development agencies from offering incentives in municipalities which have their own industrial development agency.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03158

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Engrossed
4/8/25  
Refer
4/8/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
5/5/26  
Includes animal fighting as a criminal act for purposes of enterprise corruption crimes.
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New York Senate Bill S03194

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Refer
6/10/25  
Defines "period of war" for the alternative veterans' exemption.