New York State Senator

Kwani O'Pharrow 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 17)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00467

Introduced
5/9/25  
Refer
5/9/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 2025, as Neurofibromatosis Month in the State of New York
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New York Assembly Bill K00463

Introduced
5/9/25  
Refer
5/9/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 11-17, 2025, as Police Week in the State of New York
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08302

Introduced
5/12/25  
Refer
5/12/25  
Report Pass
6/16/25  
Refer
6/16/25  
Expands the acceptable uses of affirmations in civil actions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00412

Introduced
5/2/25  
Refer
5/2/25  
Passed
5/5/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 6, 2025, as Police Memorial Day in the State of New York
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New York Assembly Bill K00431

Introduced
5/5/25  
Refer
5/5/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 6, 2025, as Severe Asthma Day in the State of New York, in conjunction with the observance of World Asthma Day
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New York Assembly Bill K00553

Introduced
5/20/25  
Commemorating the 100th Birthday of Malcolm X, a Revolutionary Leader and Champion for Justice
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00556

Introduced
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 23, 2025, as Long Island Sound Day in the State of New York
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New York Assembly Bill K00565

Introduced
5/21/25  
Commemorating the 125th Anniversary of Local Union No. 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00568

Introduced
5/21/25  
Refer
5/21/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 1-8, 2025, as Maternal Health Awareness Week in the State of New York

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08365

Introduced
5/13/25  
Refer
5/13/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
4/28/26  
Expands eligibility for admission to New York state veterans' homes to certain veterans who have an immediate family member who shall have been a resident of this state for six months prior to the date of application for admission; defines an immediate family member to include a spouse, or a birth or adoptive parent, child, sibling, stepparent, stepchild, stepsibling, grandparent and grandchild; requires, where applicable, the immediate family member of a veteran applicant to file an affidavit of New York state residence; authorizes veterans with an immediate family member who has been a New York state resident for six months to be entitled to admission to the Long Island state veterans home at Stony Brook university.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08386

Introduced
5/13/25  
Refer
5/13/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
5/19/26  
Provides for the creation of an ebony alert system to be activated on behalf of Black youth who are reported missing under unexplained or suspicious circumstances, at risk, developmentally disabled, or cognitively impaired, or who have been abducted.
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New York Assembly Bill A08150

Introduced
5/2/25  
Refer
5/2/25  
Report Pass
5/6/25  
Refer
5/6/25  
Report Pass
6/6/25  
Refer
6/6/25  
Provides that gas, electric, or combination gas and electric corporations shall not be permitted to retain revenues derived from their actual return on equity in excess of authorized rates of return on equity.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08574

Introduced
5/21/25  
Refer
5/21/25  
Increases the limitation of overtime compensation in final average salary calculations from fifteen percent to thirty percent.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08593

Introduced
5/21/25  
Refer
5/21/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
3/10/26  
Increases the amount of years of military service credit a member may purchase from three years to four years; provides that the provisions of such act shall not be subject to the requirement that the state shall make an equal payment to the retirement system.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08600

Introduced
5/22/25  
Refer
5/22/25  
Increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for certain behavioral health services provided to individuals under the age of twenty-one; directs that funds in the healthcare stability fund can be used for the funding of children's behavioral health outpatient rate increases.