New York State Senator

Karines Reyes 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 34)

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08167

Introduced
5/5/25  
Refer
5/5/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Authorizes up to two percent of mobile sports tax revenue, but not more than twenty-three million dollars, be used for youth team sports funding to be distributed by county youth bureaus, city of New York's department of youth and community development, and an organization which supports and invests in programs that use sports as a vehicle for youth development and social change.
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New York Assembly Bill A08576

Introduced
5/21/25  
Refer
5/21/25  
Relates to preserving access to affordable drugs; provides that an agreement resolving or settling, on a final or interim basis, a patent infringement claim, in connection with the sale of a pharmaceutical product, shall be presumed to have anticompetitive effects if a nonreference drug filer receives anything of value from another company asserting patent infringement and if the nonreference drug filer agrees to limit or forego research, development, manufacturing, marketing, or sales of the nonreference drug filer's product for any period of time.
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New York Assembly Bill A08613

Introduced
5/22/25  
Refer
5/22/25  
Requires certain licensees to provide or make available drink drug testing devices to protect consumers from drink spiking.
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New York Assembly Bill A08603

Introduced
5/22/25  
Refer
5/22/25  
Enacts the "forensic rehabilitation act" relating to the custody of individuals following a verdict or plea of not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect.
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New York Assembly Bill A08642

Introduced
5/22/25  
Refer
5/22/25  
Enacts the "NYS health care tax reform act"; establishes a public goods and medicaid subsidy surcharge on insurance corporations; establishes a public goods and medicaid subsidy surcharge on business corporations; establishes a public goods and medicaid subsidy surcharge on pass-through entities; relates to filing fee surcharges; relates to revenues to be included in the health care reform act resources fund; establishes a public goods and medicaid surcharge on misclassified workers.
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New York Assembly Bill A08634

Introduced
5/22/25  
Refer
5/22/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
5/19/26  
Establishes maximum contaminant levels in drinking water for certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS); sets such levels at no higher than 4 parts per trillion (ppt) for perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and no higher than 10 parts per trillion (ppt) for perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA), perfluorohexane sulfonate (PFHxS), and hexafluoropropylene oxide dimer acid (HFPO-DA).
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New York Assembly Bill A07786

Introduced
4/10/25  
Refer
4/10/25  
Provides for restructuring unsustainable sovereign and subnational debt; provides a voluntary petition for relief may be filed with the state.
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New York Assembly Bill A07777

Introduced
4/10/25  
Refer
4/10/25  
Report Pass
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Enacts the "freedom to read act"; requires the commissioner of education and school library systems to develop policies to ensure that school libraries and library staff are empowered to curate and develop collections that provide students with access to the widest array of developmentally appropriate materials available.
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New York Assembly Bill A07768

Introduced
4/10/25  
Refer
4/10/25  
Prohibits employers from discriminating against individuals based on such individual's status as a caregiver.
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New York Assembly Bill A07855

Introduced
4/11/25  
Refer
4/11/25  
Establishes the crimes of unlawful dissemination or publication of intimate images in the first, second, and third degree; defines terms and clarifies application of provisions relating to such crimes; extends the statute of limitations for such crimes; repeals provisions relating thereto.
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New York Assembly Bill A07873

Introduced
4/11/25  
Refer
4/11/25  
Ends involuntary servitude in state and local correctional facilities in New York state.

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00436

Introduced
5/5/25  
Refer
5/5/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 6-12, 2025, as Nurses Week in the State of New York
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08623

Introduced
5/22/25  
Refer
5/22/25  
Requires each state-operated facility that delivers health care services which is operated and licensed pursuant to the mental hygiene law, the education law, the correction law or section 504 of the executive law and which requires two or more registered nurses or licensed practical nurses to be present within the facility at any given time.
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New York Assembly Bill A08672

Introduced
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Eliminates certain court surcharges and fees and probation and parole surcharges and fees; eliminates the requirement that a parolee or releasee receiving a merit termination of sentence be financially able to comply with an order of restitution; eliminates the requirement that a person receiving a discharge of sentence be financially able to comply with an order of restitution and the payment of certain surcharges or fees (Part A); mandates that courts engage in an individualized assessment of a person's financial ability to pay a fine prior to imposing a fine (Part B); eliminates the availability of incarceration as a remedy for a failure to pay a fine, surcharge, or fee, lifts and vacates existing warrants issued solely on a person's failure to timely pay a fine, surcharge or fee and ends existing sentences of incarceration based on such failure (Part C); vacates existing unsatisfied civil judgments based on a person's failure to timely pay a surcharge, or fee (Part D); prohibits the collection of a fine, restitution or reparation from the funds of an incarcerated person; prohibits the payment of court fines, mandatory surcharges, certain fees, restitution, reparation or forfeitures from the earnings of prisoners (Part E); vacates existing unpaid surcharges, DNA databank fees, crime victim assistance fees, sexual offender registration fees, supplemental sex offender victim fees, or probation or parole supervision fees; repeals certain provisions of law relating to restrictions on remitting such fees (Part F).
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New York Assembly Bill K00599

Introduced
5/27/25  
Mourning the death of former U.S. Representative Charles B. Rangel, distinguished public servant, statesman, and beloved member of the Harlem community