New York State Senator

Lester Chang 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 14)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03281

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Creates a police safety equipment grant program to provide for services and expenses related to police safety equipment; directs a sum of $30,000,000 to be appropriated to such program.
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New York Assembly Bill A03324

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Creates the presumption of intent to sell when a person is in possession of forty or more individual packages containing heroin with an aggregate weight of 4.0 grams.
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New York Assembly Bill A03290

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Designates August thirty-first of each year as a day of commemoration to be known as "Overdose Awareness Day"; requires the flag to be flown at half-staff on such date.
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New York Assembly Bill A03266

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Establishes a fine reimbursement credit for taxpayers fined for operating a bar or restaurant during the COVID-19 pandemic in the amount of such fine.
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New York Assembly Bill A03405

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Establishes the crime of package theft in the fourth, third, second and first degrees; designates such crimes as a class A misdemeanor, class E felony, class D felony, and class B felony, respectively; provides instances that are not a defense to such crimes; provides for certain defenses to such crimes.
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New York Assembly Bill A03302

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Requires a valid government issued photo identification card be presented when casting a ballot; provides for persons eligible for Medicaid to receive identification cards.
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New York Assembly Bill A03375

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Requires public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer Halal food options during lunch.
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New York Assembly Bill A03329

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Establishes the offense of obstructing a police officer.
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New York Assembly Bill A03240

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Report Pass
6/16/25  
Refer
6/16/25  
Expands the veterans tuition awards program to allow the transfer of unused benefits to a spouse, survivor or child; defines terms.
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New York Assembly Bill A03299

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Includes exposing a first responder or correction officer to fentanyl, a fentanyl derivative or an opiate containing fentanyl or a fentanyl derivative in the definition of the offense of assault in the first degree.
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New York Assembly Bill A03457

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Extends the period during which the empire state digital gaming tax credit may be claimed to 01/01/2032; amends the eligibility criteria for game development companies by changing the yearly timeframe structure, lowering the dollar threshold per production, and removing the in-state cost incurred threshold to accurately fit current digital gaming industry models; allows unused credits to be rolled over to the following tax year.
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New York Assembly Bill A03454

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Authorizes and directs the metropolitan transportation authority to implement a fare refund program for canceled or delayed Long Island Rail Road trains.
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New York Assembly Bill A03447

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Includes attempting to register as an elector knowing that they are not qualified due to lack of U.S. citizenship.
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New York Assembly Bill A03512

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Relates to crimes against a child; makes endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree a crime.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00058

Introduced
1/28/25  
Commemorating the Asian American community's celebration of the Lunar New Year, the Year of the Snake, on January 29, 2025