New York State Senator

Kwani O'Pharrow 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 15)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05127

Introduced
2/12/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Allows for unlicensed individuals to collect throat or nasopharyngeal swab specimens and to perform certain nursing tasks during a state disaster emergency.
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New York Assembly Bill K00113

Introduced
2/21/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim February 24, 2025, as Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Day in the State of New York
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New York Assembly Bill K00496

Introduced
5/13/25  
Refer
5/13/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 11-17, 2025, as Family Physician Week in the State of New York
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New York Assembly Bill K00497

Introduced
5/13/25  
Refer
5/13/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 12-18, 2025, as Period Poverty Awareness Week in the State of New York
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New York Assembly Bill K00509

Introduced
5/14/25  
Congratulating the State of Israel on the 77th Anniversary of its establishment and reaffirming the bonds of friendship, cooperation, and shared values between the people of the State of New York and Israel
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New York Assembly Bill K00511

Introduced
5/14/25  
Commemorating the three-year Anniversary of the mass shooting at Tops Friendly Markets in Buffalo, New York, on May 14, 2025, and honoring the victims, survivors, families, and community at large in wake of this
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New York Assembly Bill K00514

Introduced
5/14/25  
Refer
5/14/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 11-17, 2025, as Food Allergy Awareness Week in the State of New York
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New York Assembly Bill K00512

Introduced
5/14/25  
Refer
5/14/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 15, 2025, as Police Dog Day in the State of New York
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New York Assembly Bill K00515

Introduced
5/14/25  
Refer
5/14/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 2025, as Maternal Depression Awareness Month in the State of New York

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York Assembly Bill A05813

Introduced
2/20/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Requires background checks for a person prior to employment in a position involving substantial contact with children while dressed as a children's character; provides certain penalties for violations.
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New York Assembly Bill A05780

Introduced
2/20/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Requires police reports of traffic accidents to include insurance information for the parties to the accident.
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New York Assembly Bill A05829

Introduced
2/20/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Requires registering with the sex offender registry no later than five days after any change of address.
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New York Assembly Bill A08389

Introduced
5/13/25  
Refer
5/13/25  
Enacts the "family reform act"; provides that child support amounts shall be calculated based on the non-custodial parent's income; excludes health insurance costs and federal and state income taxes paid from the calculation of income for child support calculation purposes; decreases the amount of time courts can imprison an individual for the non-payment of child support; requires courts to collect certain demographic information in relation to orders of child support issued, modified or enforced and publish a report on such information; makes related provisions.
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New York Assembly Bill A08322

Introduced
5/13/25  
Refer
5/13/25  
Relates to the determination of salary base for members of the New York city police pension fund; provides that the salary base for members of the New York city police pension fund whose employment with the police department of the city of New York commenced on or after July 1, 2000 shall be determined in the same manner as members whose employment commenced prior to such date.
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New York Assembly Bill A08427

Introduced
5/15/25  
Refer
5/15/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Report Pass
6/16/25  
Refer
6/16/25  
Enacts the "fostering affordability and integrity through reasonable (FAIR) business practices act", to expand the attorney general's ability to protect New Yorkers from unfair, deceptive and abusive business practices.