New York State Senator

Micah Lasher 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 6)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05373

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Prohibits immigration enforcement in school settings; prohibits all public and charter schools from allowing law enforcement officials inside school property to access a student, except to address an imminent safety situation or if they have an appropriate judicial warrant or judicial order.
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New York Assembly Bill A05414

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Removes the lifetime ban on jury duty for convicted felons.
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New York Assembly Bill A05480

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Protects individuals who provide or receive legally protected health activity, including reproductive health care and gender-affirming care, from criminal or civil liability or professional sanctions imposed by jurisdictions outside the state.
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New York Assembly Bill A05448

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Refer
4/2/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
5/21/25  
Engrossed
5/21/25  
Refer
5/21/25  
Engrossed
6/5/25  
Enrolled
8/26/25  
Chaptered
8/26/25  
Requires the appointment of a Title VI coordinator at every college and university in the state to ensure compliance with Title VI of the federal civil rights act of 1964; requires the division of human rights to develop training for students and employees; requires the Title VI coordinator to notify annually all students and employees of the institution's policies and procedures for reporting discrimination and harassment.
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New York Assembly Bill A04879

Introduced
2/7/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Relates to the health, safety and human rights of incarcerated pregnant individuals, incarcerated birthing parents and their children; requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to establish rules and regulations relating to conditions in institutions and correctional facilities and the treatment and care of birthing parents in such institutions and facilities.
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New York Assembly Bill A04877

Introduced
2/7/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
5/20/26  
Refer
5/20/26  
Report Pass
5/20/26  
Relates to enacting the rent emergency stabilization for tenants act on local determinations of a housing emergency; authorizes a city with a population of one million or more to declare an emergency as to any class of housing accommodations if the vacancy rate for the housing accommodations in such class within such municipality is not in excess of five percent and a declaration of emergency may be made as to all housing accommodations if the vacancy rate for the housing accommodations within such municipality is not in excess of five percent; authorizes other cities, towns and villages to declare a housing emergency after considering publicly available data and holding public hearings.
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New York Assembly Bill A04938

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Report Pass
4/30/25  
Engrossed
5/5/25  
Refer
5/5/25  
Engrossed
6/9/25  
Enrolled
12/8/25  
Chaptered
12/19/25  
Provides protections for telecommunications tower technicians, including requiring certain trainings during work hours without a loss of pay; requires certain reporting by bidders for telecommunication contracts.
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New York Assembly Bill A04954

Introduced
2/10/25  
Relates to the conversion to condominium ownership for the preservation of expiring affordable housing in the city of New York; provides expanded homeownership opportunities from the conversion of certain residential rental buildings to condominium status by property owners that commit to preserve the inventory of expiring affordable housing in the city of New York.
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New York Assembly Bill A06076

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Authorizes the attorney general to approve certain state land acquisitions made for the purposes of land conservation, and to accept a title policy from a commercial insurer to cover any title defects that would otherwise render the title unmarketable.
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New York Assembly Bill A06086

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Increases the minimum wage outside of New York city and the counties of Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester; repeals certain provisions of law relating to exceptions to minimum wage increases.
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New York Assembly Bill A06194

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
2/27/25  
Requires the court to consider a child's health and safety when making a decision regarding child custody and visitation; directs the court to review certain information as it relates to allegations of child abuse, domestic violence and child safety; requires the court to appoint an attorney to represent the child when credible allegations of serious risk to the child's safety have been made.
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New York Assembly Bill A05850

Introduced
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Refer
4/2/25  
Report Pass
6/5/25  
Refer
6/5/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
3/17/26  
Engrossed
4/28/26  
Refer
4/28/26  
Prohibits the participation of certain animals in traveling animal acts; prohibits the department of environmental conservation from issuing permits or licenses allowing participation of certain animals in traveling animal acts; excludes certain permanent performing institutions; imposes a civil penalty not to exceed $1000 for a violation.
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New York Assembly Bill A05882

Introduced
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Requires a pharmacy benefit manager to pay a participating pharmacy at minimum at the national average drug acquisition cost (NADAC) rate, or at the pharmacy acquisition cost rate if greater or there is not a NADAC rate, plus a professional dispensing fee that is at minimum the professional dispensing fee paid under the state medical assistance program.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00096

Introduced
2/7/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim February 2025, as Black History Month in the State of New York
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New York Assembly Bill A05859

Introduced
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Enacts the "assuring college campus and educational safety and support (ACCESS) act" relating to harassment of students and applicants at educational institutions; describes the circumstances under which harassment at educational institutions is an unlawful discriminatory practice; describes the circumstances under which an educational institution is deemed to have permitted harassment; describes additional circumstances under which a college or university is deemed to have permitted harassment.