New York State Senator

Lester Chang 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 6)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00245

Introduced
3/21/25  
Refer
3/21/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim March 19, 2025, as Small Business Development Centers Day in the State of New York
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New York Assembly Bill K00220

Introduced
3/18/25  
Commemorating the 125th Birthday of Aaron Copland on November 14, 2025
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New York Assembly Bill K00189

Introduced
3/11/25  
Refer
3/11/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim March 2025, as Music in Our Schools Month
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New York Assembly Bill A06909

Introduced
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Requires that no homeless shelter shall be located within five hundred feet of a transit facility or within a building that has a rent-controlled or rent-stabilized dwelling unit.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07240

Introduced
3/21/25  
Refer
3/21/25  
Relates to determinations of appropriate educational programs for certain students in a school district in a city having a population of one million or more.
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New York Assembly Bill A06796

Introduced
3/14/25  
Refer
3/14/25  
Prohibits the elimination of building systems or equipment used for the combustion of fossil fuels, including, natural gas, propane and fuel oil in new building construction.
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New York Assembly Bill A06447

Introduced
3/5/25  
Refer
3/5/25  
Allows retired state police officers to serve as police officers for local police departments without diminution of retirement benefits; empowers the superintendent of state police to approve such service.
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New York Assembly Bill A06525

Introduced
3/5/25  
Refer
3/5/25  
Requires a sentence of life imprisonment without parole for murder in the first degree involving the killing of a first responder.
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New York Assembly Bill A06532

Introduced
3/5/25  
Refer
3/5/25  
Establishes a real property tax exemption for the primary residences of spouses of police officers killed in the line of duty.
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New York Assembly Bill A06527

Introduced
3/5/25  
Refer
3/5/25  
Refer
3/24/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Imposes term limits on members of the legislature such that no person can serve in a house of the legislature for more than six consecutive terms.
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New York Assembly Bill A06597

Introduced
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Authorizes the imposition of bail for certain offenses involving threats of mass harm against a school district, school, school staff or a student.
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New York Assembly Bill A06564

Introduced
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Requires drivers to create a center rescue lane on approach of authorized emergency vehicles.
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New York Assembly Bill A05757

Introduced
2/20/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Grants all veterans with a disability seven free days of sporting activity in New York state.
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New York Assembly Bill A05753

Introduced
2/20/25  
Directs the state comptroller to conduct an audit of the department of financial services to ensure the agency is meeting its responsibility to evaluate and assess insurer compliance with federal and state mental health and substance use disorder parity requirements.
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New York Assembly Bill A05792

Introduced
2/20/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Increases the monetary penalties for the crimes of aggravated harassment in the first or second degrees or for discrimination; provides that such penalty shall be not less than five hundred dollars nor more than twenty-five hundred dollars for the first violation and not less than twenty-five hundred dollars nor more than twelve thousand five hundred dollars for each subsequent violation.