New York State Senator

Jessica Scarcella-Spanton 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 10)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02364

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Engrossed
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Designates the "Honor and Remember Flag" as the official state flag for recognizing armed service members who have died as a result of serving the United States in any war or conflict the nation has been involved in since its inception.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02523

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Establishes the "jobs and housing act"; directs the private housing finance agency to develop and administer a jobs and housing pilot program to construct and preserve housing, including workforce housing, that is affordable to low and moderate income persons, and creates jobs for those who build and work in such housing.
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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 S00199

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Deems home instruction which is compliant with the provisions of article 65 of the education law and the home instruction requirements prescribed in the commissioner of education's regulations to be substantially equivalent in amount and quality to the instruction given to students of like age and attainments at the public schools of the city or district where the student resides.
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New York Senate Bill S03135

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Repeals the excise tax on medical cannabis and the medical cannabis trust fund.
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New York Senate Bill S04500

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Enacts the "consumer wheelchair repair bill of rights act" requiring manufacturers to make available certain documentation, parts, embedded software, firmware, or tools necessary for repairing equipment; establishes a timely repair for wheelchair program; deems all wheelchair repairs needed within 5 years of initial prescription medically necessary.
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New York Senate Bill S04516

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Engrossed
5/15/25  
Refer
5/15/25  
Provides that recovery of wages due to a clerical error by the employer or vendor of the employer is prohibited if such clerical error did not result in an overpayment or other inaccuracy in the amount of wages paid or the time in which wages were dispersed.
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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
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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
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New York Senate Bill J00321

Introduced
2/5/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Commemorating the 20th Annual Staten Island Black History Town Hall Meeting on February 22, 2025
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New York Senate Bill S04511

Introduced
2/6/25  
Establishes the task force to promote the employment by state agencies of people with disabilities.
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New York Senate Bill S04649

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Imposes fines for failure to exercise due care and move over when approaching parked, stopped or standing motor vehicles on the shoulder of a highway.
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New York Senate Bill S04653

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Enacts the "television subscriber choice act" to enhance consumer choice and ensure that multichannel video programming distributors have the flexibility to offer programming packages that best meet the needs and preferences of their subscribers; requires that a video programmer shall offer each channel for license to a multichannel video programming distributor without requiring channel bundling requirements as a condition of carriage of such channel; makes it unlawful for a video programmer to demand unreasonable fees or other financial obligations for channel carriage; defines terms; makes related provisions.
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New York Senate Bill S04666

Introduced
2/11/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Report Pass
3/18/25  
Provides that for New York city police/fire members, uniformed correction/sanitation revised plan and investigator revised plan members of the New York city employees' retirement system, the service retirement benefit shall not be reduced by the primary social security retirement benefit commencing at age sixty-two.
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New York Senate Bill S04668

Introduced
2/11/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Relates to service retirement benefits for certain members of the New York city employees' retirement system; provides that for New York city uniformed correction/sanitation revised plan members of the New York city employees' retirement system, the service retirement benefit shall not be reduced by the primary social security retirement benefit commencing at age sixty-two.