New York State Senator

Michael Durso 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 5)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02411

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Requires a state agency to get approval from the senate and the assembly prior to adopting or readopting a rule on an emergency basis unless such rule is necessary on an emergency basis for the preservation of the public health, safety and general welfare of the public.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02391

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Relates to protecting witnesses in criminal prosecutions from intimidation and threats by permitting the court to withhold disclosure of names and other information if the court finds on the record that such witness is subject to potential intimidation, violence or threats.
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New York Assembly Bill A02407

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Directs the metropolitan transportation authority, in consultation with the Long Island Rail Road, to establish a no fare program for transportation on the Long Island Rail Road for individuals in active military service of the United States and active duty members of the New York national guard, upon showing a military or national guard identification card.
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New York Assembly Bill A02481

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Establishes the crime of aggravated offering of a false accusation against a peace officer or police officer for knowingly reporting false or baseless information relating to wrongdoing by a police or peace officer to a law enforcement agency; creates a private right of action for damages.
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New York Assembly Bill A02046

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Requires residents of the state, who are foreign refugees, to register with the office of temporary and disability assistance; directs such office to provide registration information to the office of children and family services, the department of health, the office for new Americans, the department of law, the division of state police, the NYC police department, county sheriff's offices, municipal police departments, and the division of homeland security and emergency services; directs the office for new Americans to conduct background screenings of all refugees who register; requires refugee resettlement agencies to submit quarterly reports to the bureau of refugee and immigrant assistance on the refugees to whom it provides assistance, and to monitor the activities of such refugees for a certain period of time; directs the division of homeland security and emergency services to develop and implement a plan to ensure compliance by refugee resettlement agencies.
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New York Assembly Bill A02021

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Establishes the crime of criminal sale of a controlled substance resulting in death, a class A-1 felony.
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New York Assembly Bill A02033

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Establishes a tax deduction for a taxpayer who is a beneficiary of a deferred compensation plan and who elects to make a distribution of such deferred compensation in order to pay for qualified health insurance premiums, in an amount equal to six thousand dollars.
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New York Assembly Bill A02410

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Establishes the New York first--shop local program to provide immediate assistance to small businesses impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak; defines terms; provides that such program shall identify eligible applicants and projects that promote local products and services by providing marketing and business assistance services; makes related provisions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02394

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Limits the power of the legislature to amend a redistricting plan submitted by the independent redistricting commission where it affects more than two percent of the population of any district contained in such plan.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02504

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Establishes the veterans' services organization capital support program to provide funding to eligible entities for payment of the capital costs of construction, improvement, repairs, rehabilitation, or reconstruction of facilities owned by eligible entities, and for the acquisition of related equipment with a useful life of not less than ten years; appropriates a sum of $10,000,000 therefor.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02482

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Provides annual vehicular access for New York state's active volunteer firefighters and active volunteer ambulance workers and their immediate family at any state park or recreational facility.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02469

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Creates the utility consumer advocate of the Long Island office of the department of public service to advocate and to represent the interests of residential Long Island utility customers.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02599

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Requires electric companies to provide alternative measures to ensure customers with documented need for essential electricity for medical needs have access to electricity during power outages; requires electric companies to provide generators or lodging for such individuals and transportation for medical devices.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02631

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
2/25/26  
Provides additional tax exemptions on qualifying residential real property where two or more qualified veterans live in the same household.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02604

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Provides a reimbursement to small businesses and residential consumers of certain utilities for failure to provide contracted services; requires the Long Island power authority to do the same.