New York State Senator

James Skoufis 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 55)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00015

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Report Pass

4/29/25

Requires nursing homes to designate dedicated storage spaces for the storage of the bodies of deceased persons; requires nursing homes to develop and submit plans to the department of health for the designation of such dedicated storage spaces; establishes requirements for such storage spaces.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00014

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Engrossed

6/12/25

Refer

6/12/25

Refer

1/7/26

Dedicates a portion of the state highway system in the town of Woodbury, county of Orange, to Detective Brian C. Mulkeen.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00278

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Removes certain requirements on what the office of children and family services can determine to be an appropriate staff/child ratios for family day care homes, group family day care homes, school age day care programs and day care centers.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00408

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Authorizes retail licenses to sell liquor for on-premises consumption at airline lounges located within an airport and owned, leased, or operated by a United States certified airline.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00409

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Engrossed

6/12/25

Refer

6/13/25

Engrossed

6/17/25

Enrolled

12/1/25

Chaptered

12/5/25

Passed

12/5/25

Permits on-premises retail licensees to purchase wine and liquor from off-premises retail licensees and off-premises retail licensees to purchase wine and liquor from on-premises retail licensees.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00407

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Refer

1/7/26

Report Pass

3/24/26

Expands the authority of the attorney general to investigate violations of the public officers law.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00040

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Refer

1/7/26

Dedicates a portion of the state highway system to War Dogs.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00072

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Report Pass

1/27/25

Refer

1/7/26

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.

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

Refer

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.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00448

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

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.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00452

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Requires all agencies to submit to the committee on open government a log of all freedom of information law requests for each year in which they received or have pending a request for records; requires the committee on open government to publish, on one webpage, all freedom of information law request logs it receives.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J01887

Introduced

4/14/26

Refer

4/14/26

Passed

4/20/26

Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim April 2026, as Arab American Heritage Month in the State of New York

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J01925

Introduced

4/17/26

Refer

4/17/26

Report Pass

4/21/26

Passed

4/21/26

Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 2026, as Lyme Disease Awareness Month in the State of New York

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S09960

Introduced

4/17/26

Refer

4/17/26

Establishes the crimes of benefiting from a labor trafficking venture, benefiting from a sex trafficking venture and aggravated benefiting from a sex trafficking venture; establishes civil action for victims of benefiting from a trafficking venture; revives such actions otherwise barred by the existing statute of limitations, grants trial preference to such actions; directs the chief administrator of the courts to promulgate rules for the timely adjudication of certain revived actions.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J01927

Introduced

4/20/26

Refer

4/20/26

Report Pass

4/21/26

Passed

4/21/26

Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim April 19-25, 2026, as Crime Victims' Rights Week in the State of New York

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