New York State Senator

Jessica Scarcella-Spanton 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 31)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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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 S03151

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Enacts the "cannabis adult-use transition act"; increases the number of members on the state cannabis advisory board from thirteen to seventeen voting appointed members; provides that an eligible registered organization shall be authorized as a registered organization adult-use cultivator processor distributor retail dispensary upon approval of an application to the office of cannabis management that must be available to such registered organizations no later than August first, two thousand twenty-five and remain available thereafter; provides that the office must approve or deny such application within thirty days of its submission or it shall be deemed approved; makes related provisions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03147

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Engrossed
3/26/25  
Refer
3/26/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
4/20/26  
Provides that the sale of a non-indemnity legal service plan shall not constitute doing an insurance business in this state; makes related provisions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

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 S03144

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Requires accessible buses to be available within a service area measuring three miles from any bus line of the authority or its subsidiaries.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03202

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Prohibits accessing or distributing certain sexually explicit depictions of children; prohibits consent to such depictions by anyone under eighteen years of age; makes such crimes eligible for bail; includes certain crimes as sex offenses.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03235

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Provides that the weekly benefit which the disabled employee is entitled to receive for disability commencing: on or after January first, two thousand twenty-eight shall be fifty percent of the employee's average weekly wage but shall not exceed fifty percent of the state average weekly wage; on or after January first, two thousand twenty-nine shall be fifty-five percent of the employee's average weekly wage but shall not exceed fifty-five percent of the state average weekly wage; on or after January first, two thousand thirty shall be sixty percent of the employee's weekly average wage but shall not exceed sixty percent of the state average weekly wage; and on or after January first of each succeeding year, shall be sixty-seven percent of the employee's average weekly wage but shall not exceed sixty-seven percent of the state average weekly wage.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03236

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Engrossed
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Engrossed
5/13/25  
Refer
5/13/25  
Engrossed
5/21/25  
Enrolled
11/17/25  
Chaptered
11/21/25  
Allows pharmacy technicians to practice in any pharmacy under the supervision of a pharmacist.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03276

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Provides for liability of the state to any person who suffers damage as a result of a defect in a state highway.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03278

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Engrossed
6/5/25  
Refer
6/5/25  
Provides for the licensure of school psychology practitioners; authorizes the use of the title "licensed school psychology practitioner" to licensed or exempt individuals; defines practice of licensed school psychology practitioners; sets forth requirements for professional licensure (including educational attainment, experience, exam and fee); provides for issuance of limited permits under specified circumstances; identifies exempt persons; establishes mandatory continuing education requirements.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03332

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Provides for the licensing and regulation of income access services in the state.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03324

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Requires VA home loan training in the required training for real estate brokers.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03323

Introduced
1/24/25  
Requires insurance policies to provide coverage for transvaginal ultrasounds during pregnancy.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03318

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Refer
6/10/25  
Engrossed
6/17/25  
Enrolled
12/8/25  
Authorizes additional paid leave for public employees who are absent on military duty up to sixty days or fifty-two working days.