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Jose Serrano 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 31)

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00173

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes an unemployment bridge program and an unemployment bridge program fund to provide wage replacement to workers that do not qualify for unemployment insurance or other worker wage assistance programs and who have lost a major source of income due to lost work (Part A); establishes the "Digital Ad Tax Act (DATA)" creating a tax on digital advertising services (Part B).
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00158

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Authorizes certain persons confined in institutions operated by the department of corrections and community supervision to apply for a sentence reduction.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00054

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
5/13/25  
Refer
5/13/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
4/28/26  
Prohibits the use of intoxication of the victim as a defense in sex crimes where the victim is under the extreme influence of any substance which renders them incapable of appraising or controlling such victim's conduct and incapable of clearly expressing lack of consent.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00166

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to claim settlement practices when an insurer refuses to pay or is delaying payment of a settlement; provides a policyholder a private right of action against such insurer doing business in the state who has refused or delayed payment of an insurance claim.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00159

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
4/8/25  
Provides for findings of the state board of parole necessary for discretionary release of incarcerated individuals on parole.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00105

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Enacts the "Consumer and Small business Protection Act"; relates to standing for persons affected by prohibited or unlawful business practices; expands prohibited acts to include unfair, deceptive or abusive acts.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00088

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
1/13/25  
Refer
1/13/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Provides for automatic voter registration and pre-registration for persons applying for certain department of motor vehicles documentation, and for persons applying for or re-enrolling in Medicaid; allows individuals to decline such automatic registration and pre-registration.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00161

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
5/13/25  
Refer
5/13/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
2/10/26  
Engrossed
5/4/26  
Expands the eligibility period for indigent legal service attorneys to receive certain loan forgiveness; increases loan reimbursement for certain attorneys who work in legal services with indigent clients.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00072

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/27/25  
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.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00442

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to assisting persons with medically diagnosed HIV infection.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00454

Introduced
1/8/25  
Relates to parole eligibility for certain incarcerated persons age fifty-five or older if they have served at least fifteen years of their sentence or sentences.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00440

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Relates to voting rights and access for incarcerated individuals; authorizes polling places to be available at correctional facilities and local facilities; requires such facilities to provide persons detained or confined in such facilities access to register to vote or apply for an absentee ballot; requires voting information to be included in the inmate handbook.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00461

Introduced
1/8/25  
Prohibits the use in an industrial plant of any product or substance that contains perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, including vats, conveyor belts, molds, ovens, pans, pots, chemicals used as mold releasers, lubricants, seals and coatings.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00448

Introduced
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.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00439

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/13/25  
Enacts "the prison minimum wage act" relating to payment for labor performed by incarcerated individuals.