New York State Senator

Michael Novakhov 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00679

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to establishing the crime of coercive control; provides that a person is guilty of coercive control when such person engages in a course of conduct against a member of such person's same family or household, without the victim's consent, which results in limiting or restricting, in full or in part, the victim's behavior, movement, associations or access to or use of such victim's own finances or financial information; provides that coercive control is a class E felony.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00699

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires the implementation of an electronic benefit transfer system using industry-standard commercial electronic funds transfer technology.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00632

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Includes offenses involving the possession, display or discharge of a firearm, rifle, shotgun, machine-gun, or disguised gun as qualifying offenses for the purpose of allowing a principal to be eligible to be held on bail.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00602

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Provides that restaurants may provide single-use plastic straws to customers when explicitly requested by the customer; prohibits single-use plastic stirrers.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00472

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
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 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00464

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes a program for specific individuals to become complex care assistants and provide private duty nursing services to certain Medicaid enrollees.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00624

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to requiring the regents to adopt a policy that ensures all students enrolled at state university of New York and city university of New York institutions are able to express themselves freely without fear of intimidation or harm.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00101

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Prohibits the use of intoxication of the victim as a defense in sex crimes where the victim is under the influence of any drug, intoxicant, or other substance to a degree which rendered the victim temporarily incapable of appraising or controlling such person's conduct and such condition was known or reasonably should have been known to a person in the actor's situation.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00385

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Creates an assembly standing committee on ethics and guidance of eight members.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01006

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Eliminates provisions exempting employees with disabilities from the minimum wage law; provides that laws or minimum wage orders that authorize an employer to pay a wage that is less than the minimum wage are valid provided that under such laws or orders an employee with a disability is paid the same wage as an employee in a comparable position that does not have a disability.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01077

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Report Pass
5/22/25  
Refer
5/22/25  
Enables safe access to public roads for all users by utilizing complete street design principles.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01064

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Gives state income tax credit to volunteer firefighters and members of a volunteer ambulance corps in good standing up to $2500; must be in good standing for a minimum of five years and maintain continued eligibility.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01198

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Removes certain restrictions on eligibility for personal and home care services under medicaid.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00945

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Enacts Jacobe's Law requiring school administrators to contact the parents or guardians of students when bullying or harassment has occurred.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00040

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim January 2025, as Firefighter Cancer Prevention Month in the State of New York