New York State Senator

Ken Blankenbush 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 25)

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Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02322

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Establishes a program enabling counties to opt-in to allow county jails to operate jail-based competency restoration services for incarcerated individuals deemed unfit for trial due to mental incapacity.
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New York Assembly Bill A02269

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Relates to aggravated harassment of an employee by an incarcerated individual; eliminates the requirement that an incarcerated individual causes or attempts to cause an employee to come into contact with blood, seminal fluid, urine, feces, saliva, or the contents of a toilet bowl by throwing, tossing or expelling such fluid or material.
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New York Assembly Bill A02344

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Provides for the exemption of disabled veterans of the armed forces of the United States from New York State Thruway tolls.
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New York Assembly Bill A02402

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Requires that no applications, or the literature given therewith, shall be approved, distributed or used in any capacity if they contain an explicit written warning regarding ownership or use of a firearm.
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New York Assembly Bill A02303

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Exempts owners of farms and the owners of multiple dwellings from complying with the scaffold law in certain instances.
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New York Assembly Bill A02255

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Relates to the sufficiency of itemization in the state budget; requires budget bills to clearly reference the section in the accompanying bill or bills where the corresponding appropriation or reappropriation can be located and requires that the legislature not act upon bills that neglect to do so.
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New York Assembly Bill A02384

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Requires insurers to provide insurance coverage for treatment of rare diseases, life-threatening conditions or diseases, degenerative and disabling conditions, or diagnoses involving medically fragile children, by a provider of the patient's choice.
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New York Assembly Bill A02393

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Increases the aggregate funds available for the child care tax credit for businesses that provide child care services.
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New York Assembly Bill A02350

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Relates to enhanced aid and incentives for municipalities; provides that enhanced aid and incentives for municipalities will be apportioned to eligible municipalities by the director of the budget on a per-capita basis, based on population.
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New York Assembly Bill A01105

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Requires the use of canines for contraband screening at correctional facilities housing one hundred or more incarcerated individuals.
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New York Assembly Bill A02198

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/15/25  
Establishes the crimes of assault on a pregnant person in the second degree as a class D felony and assault on a pregnant person in the first degree as a class C felony.
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New York Assembly Bill A02085

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/15/25  
Prohibits the legislature from recessing after the start of the state fiscal year until it has passed a budget; allows recess during such period for public holidays.
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New York Assembly Bill A02195

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/15/25  
Relates to establishing the born alive abortion survivors' protection act that places requirements on health care practitioners present at the time a child is born alive during an abortion.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02308

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Allows a licensed psychologist to apply to the department of education for conditional prescribing certification if the psychologist meets certain requirements; allows the department of education to waive certain requirements for an applying psychologist; provides that a conditional prescribing certification shall be valid for a period of two years.
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New York Assembly Bill K00028

Introduced
1/21/25  
Commemorating the observance of the 40th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the State of New York, on January 20, 2025