New York State Senator

Leroy Comrie 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 56)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01404

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Requires grand jury proceedings for police officers or peace officers involved in a shooting or excessive use of force to be conducted in open, contemporaneous public hearings.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01326

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Relates to establishing discount programs for low-income senior citizens and individuals with a disability; provides that utilities, waterworks corporations, telephone corporations and cable television companies shall create discount programs that provide a 10 percent discount to low-income senior citizens and individuals with a disability; defines terms.
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New York Senate Bill S01343

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Establishes the "clean fuel standard of 2026"; provides such standard is intended to reduce greenhouse gas intensity from the on-road transportation sector, with further reductions to be implemented based upon advances in technology.
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New York Senate Bill S01328

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Relates to requiring the establishment of utility customer arrears reporting; requires utilities to report to the public service commission on customers who are in arrears.
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New York Senate Bill S01289

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Establishes the office of gun violence prevention and the gun violence advisory council.
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New York Senate Bill S01464

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Report Pass
3/11/25  
Engrossed
5/28/25  
Refer
5/29/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Enacts the "packaging reduction and recycling infrastructure act" to require companies selling, offering for sale, or distributing packaging materials and products to register with a packaging reduction organization to develop a packaging reduction and recycling plan; makes related provisions.
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New York Senate Bill S01493

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Relates to regulation of PFAS as a toxic air pollutant; requires the department to ensure certain process operations use appropriate control technology for PFAS emissions; establishes a fence line monitoring program to monitor PFAS emissions in disadvantaged communities, to provide public reports, and related duties.
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New York Senate Bill S01454

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Requires shelter allowances be set at up to one hundred percent of the fair market rent for the local social services district.
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New York Senate Bill S01452

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Enacts the "fairness in cooperative homeownership act"; regulates the submission and determinations of applications for ownership of cooperative apartments.
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New York Senate Bill S03072

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Engrossed
4/3/25  
Refer
4/3/25  
Engrossed
5/28/25  
Enrolled
12/8/25  
Chaptered
12/19/25  
Prohibits the use of consumer credit history in hiring, employment and licensing determinations.
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New York Senate Bill S03064

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Requires district leadership teams and school leadership teams to include student representatives; provides who should appoint such representatives.
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New York Senate Bill S03150

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
3/10/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Establishes the New York state first home grant program; directs the commissioner of homes and community renewal, in consultation with the state comptroller, to implement such program; provides assistance on behalf of a first time home buyer qualified for such program; and for costs in connection with the acquisition, involving an eligible mortgage loan, of an eligible home, including downpayment costs, closing costs, and costs to reduce the rates of interest on eligible mortgage loans; subsidies to make shared equity homes affordable to home buyers by discounting the price for which the home will be sold and to preserve the affordability of the home for subsequent home buyers; and pre-occupancy home modifications required to accommodate qualified home buyers or members of their household with disabilities; excludes the amount of any grant to any first time home buyer awarded or any federal first time home buyer grant program from taxable income for the purpose of calculating New York adjusted gross income.
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New York Senate Bill S03151

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Enacts the "cannabis adult-use transition act"; increases the number of members on the state cannabis advisory board from thirteen to seventeen voting appointed members; provides that an eligible registered organization shall be authorized as a registered organization adult-use cultivator processor distributor retail dispensary upon approval of an application to the office of cannabis management that must be available to such registered organizations no later than August first, two thousand twenty-five and remain available thereafter; provides that the office must approve or deny such application within thirty days of its submission or it shall be deemed approved; makes related provisions.
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New York Senate Bill S03154

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
4/8/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Directs the office of children and family services to establish Dolly Parton's statewide imagination library program for encouraging children from birth to five years of age, inclusive, to develop a love of reading and learning; directs the office of children and family services to promote the statewide development of local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; advance and strengthen local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs with the goal of increasing enrollment; recruit volunteers to assist in the development, promotion, and coordination of local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; solicit donations, gifts, and other funding to financially support local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; develop community engagement; develop, promote, and coordinate a public awareness campaign to make donors aware of the opportunity to donate to the affiliate programs and make the public aware of the opportunity to register eligible children to receive books through the program; administer the local match requirement and coordinate the collection and remittance of local program costs for books and mailing; and develop statewide marketing and communication plans; establishes the imagination library of New York fund.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03062

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Requires that an insurer participating in the assigned risk plan shall review the risk profiles of each policy holder that has been assigned to such insurer through the plan to determine if such policy holders are eligible for motor vehicle insurance coverage written by such insurer in the voluntary market.