New York State Senator

Jonathan Jacobson 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 22)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03333

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Provides for the deduction of student loan interest from federal adjusted gross income.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04278

Introduced
2/3/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
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.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04436

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Provides an exemption for the sale of the first $35,000 for a battery, electric, or plug-in hybrid electric vehicle from state sales and compensating use taxes; authorizes local governments to elect such incentives; repeals the hybrid exemption after ten years.
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New York Assembly Bill A04423

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
2/11/26  
Refer
2/11/26  
Clarifies that individuals have the ability to vote by absentee ballot in certain elections if they are not currently incarcerated for a felony conviction.
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New York Assembly Bill A04373

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Relates to regulation of PFAS as a toxic air pollutant; requires the department to ensure certain process operations use appropriate control technology for PFAS emissions; establishes a fence line monitoring program to monitor PFAS emissions in disadvantaged communities, to provide public reports, and related duties.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03533

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Authorizes cities and towns, except a city with a population of one million or more, to establish community preservation funds; authorizes such cities and towns to impose a real estate transfer tax with revenues to be deposited in such funds; makes related provisions.
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New York Assembly Bill A03589

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Protects library access to electronic literary materials by prohibiting certain restrictive provisions in contracts between publishers and libraries.
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New York Assembly Bill A03475

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Report Pass
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Prohibits police officers from using bias-based profiling; requires that a procedure be established for the taking and review of complaints against police officers for bias-based profiling; allows an action for injunctive relief and/or damages to be brought against a law enforcement agency, any agent of a law enforcement agency and the supervisor of an agent.
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New York Assembly Bill A03506

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Prohibits and regulates the discovery and disclosure of immigration status; prohibits police officers, peace officers, school resource officers, probation agencies, state entities, state employees, and municipal corporations from questioning individuals regarding their citizenship or immigration status; regulates the disclosure of information relating to immigration status; prohibits an educational agency, higher education agency, school employee, school safety personnel, or third-party contractor from collecting information about a person's citizenship, immigration status, nationality, or country of origin, unless required by law or necessary to administer a public program or benefit sought by such person.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01392

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
3/17/26  
Engrossed
3/23/26  
Requires the New York state energy research and development authority to develop recommendations regarding the establishment of microgrids.
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New York Assembly Bill A01460

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Ensures the safe and efficient delivery of materials for the timely construction of major renewable energy facilities in furtherance of the goals mandated by the New York state climate leadership and community protection act; provides that vehicles carrying materials intended for the construction of any major renewable energy facility, including oversize and superload transport vehicles, shall be permitted to travel on the thruway and state highways, on any day of the week, including Saturday and Sunday.
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New York Assembly Bill A01441

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Report Pass
3/25/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Engrossed
5/14/25  
Refer
5/14/25  
Engrossed
4/28/26  
Strengthens provisions relating to complaint handling procedures by the public service commission; requires certain response times.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01171

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Provides for a tax deduction for the adoption of a child with special needs of an amount equal to $10,000.
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New York Assembly Bill A01191

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Report Pass
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Refer
4/29/25  
Report Pass
4/30/25  
Engrossed
5/14/25  
Refer
5/14/25  
Engrossed
3/26/26  
Enacts the "safer weapons, safer homes act"; requires the division of criminal justice services to study the technological viability of personalized firearms; defines personalized firearms; requires the division to report to the governor and the legislature on the results of the study.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00045

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim January 27, 2025, as Holocaust Remembrance Day in the State of New York