New York State Senator

Jonathan Jacobson 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 29)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05573

Introduced
2/18/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Relates to civil actions brought by employees for violations of an employer violating safety and health standards or workplace violence.
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New York Assembly Bill A04641

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Report Pass
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Report Pass
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Relates to rechargeable battery recycling; adds a battery used as the principal electric power source for an electric scooter or bicycle with electric assist to the definition of "rechargeable battery"; provides that a battery manufacturer may not sell, offer for sale, or distribute rechargeable batteries in the state unless the battery manufacturer is implementing or participating under an approved plan; allows a city with a population of one million or more to enforce through its own agencies.
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New York Assembly Bill A04631

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Requires fashion sellers to carry out environmental due diligence for the portions of their business related to wearing apparel, footwear or fashion bags, including wearing apparel, footwear or fashion bags produced as a private label; establishes a fashion remediation fund.
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New York Assembly Bill A04052

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Limits tolls charged on trucks.
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New York Assembly Bill A04095

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Requires persons administering challenge oaths to voter applicants to attest that the challenge is being made in good faith and to provide certain identifying information; requires challenge oaths to be presented to a challenged voter applicant in writing.
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New York Assembly Bill A04181

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
2/25/26  
Prohibits governmental entities from entering into agreements to house individuals in immigration detention facilities; requires governmental entities to terminate existing contracts for the detention of individuals in immigration detention facilities.
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New York Assembly Bill A04727

Introduced
2/5/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/24/25  
Engrossed
4/2/25  
Refer
4/2/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Enrolled
12/8/25  
Chaptered
12/19/25  
Extends paid family leave benefits to employees who perform construction, demolition, reconstruction, excavation, rehabilitation, repairs, renovations, alterations, or improvements for multiple employers pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement who shall be eligible for family leave benefits if they were employed for at least twenty-six of the last thirty-nine weeks by any covered employer which is signatory to a collective bargaining agreement.
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New York Assembly Bill A06578

Introduced
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
5/29/25  
Refer
5/29/25  
Report Pass
6/10/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Refer
6/10/25  
Engrossed
5/5/26  
Establishes the artificial intelligence training data transparency act requiring developers of generative artificial intelligence models or services to post on the developer's website information regarding the data used by the developer to train the generative artificial intelligence model or service, including a high-level summary of the datasets used in the development of such system or service.
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New York Assembly Bill A06561

Introduced
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
5/29/25  
Engrossed
5/6/26  
Includes image-guided biopsies under mandatory insurance coverage for breast cancer screening.
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New York Assembly Bill A06664

Introduced
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Empowers the commissioner of labor to issue stop work orders against employers for misclassification of employees as independent contractors or for providing false, incomplete, or misleading information to an insurance company on the number of employees of such employer.
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New York Assembly Bill A06707

Introduced
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Report Pass
3/11/25  
Refer
3/11/25  
Report Pass
3/13/25  
Engrossed
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Engrossed
3/19/26  
Relates to the public posting of certain contracts subject to prior approval of the comptroller and how such contracts shall be posted.
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New York Assembly Bill A04604

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Creates a wholesale prescription drug importation program which complies with federal standards and regulations for the purpose of generating substantial savings for consumers.
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New York Assembly Bill A04870

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Aligns utility regulation with state climate justice and emission reduction targets; provides for a statewide affordable gas transition plan and utility home energy affordable transition programs; repeals provisions relating to continuation of gas service; repeals provisions relating to the sale of indigenous natural gas for generation of electricity.
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New York Assembly Bill A04875

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Requires certain documents and forms to be provided in the twelve most common non-English languages spoken by limited English proficient immigrants of five years or less according to the American community survey, as published by the United States census bureau.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00170

Introduced
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim March 2025, as Women's History Month in the State of New York