New York State Senator

Michelle Hinchey 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 18)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00491

Introduced
3/12/25  
Refer
3/12/25  
Report Pass
3/18/25  
Congratulating Forrest Slingerland upon the occasion of capturing the 2025 NYSPHSAA Boys Nordic Skiing 7.5K Individual Championship
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00497

Introduced
3/12/25  
Refer
3/12/25  
Report Pass
3/18/25  
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 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00493

Introduced
3/12/25  
Refer
3/12/25  
Report Pass
3/18/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim March 2025 as Problem Gambling Awareness Month in the State of New York
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00518

Introduced
3/14/25  
Refer
3/14/25  
Passed
3/17/25  
Report Pass
3/18/25  
Honoring St. Patrick and all persons of Irish descent upon the occasion of the 2025 celebration of St. Patrick's Day on March 17, 2025
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06531

Introduced
3/17/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Prohibits discrimination on the basis of a person's caste in opportunities of employment, housing, and access to public accommodations.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00545

Introduced
3/20/25  
Refer
3/20/25  
Report Pass
3/25/25  
Honoring Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, posthumously upon the occasion of the co-naming of Presidents Street in Brooklyn, New York, in recognition of his remarkable life
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00510

Introduced
3/13/25  
Refer
3/13/25  
Report Pass
3/18/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim March 2025, as Greek History Month in the State of New York, in conjunction with the commemoration of the 204th Anniversary of Greek Independence
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06570

Introduced
3/17/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
2/24/26  
Engrossed
4/21/26  
Enacts the accelerate solar for affordable power (ASAP) act to set a new target for distributed solar energy capacity and direct the public service commission to advance reforms to the utility interconnection process to ensure timely and cost-effective integration of new distributed energy resources.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00496

Introduced
3/12/25  
Refer
3/12/25  
Report Pass
3/18/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim March 17-23, 2025, as Agriculture Week in the State of New York
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06576

Introduced
3/17/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Engrossed
5/21/25  
Refer
5/22/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Establishes procurement goals that certain percentages of all food and food products purchased by state agencies shall be New York state food products.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06574

Introduced
3/17/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Establishes a blue ribbon commission on fair competition in the outdoor recreation industry to examine, evaluate and make recommendations regarding methods to promote fair competition in the outdoor recreation industry; provides such commission shall consist of eleven appointed members; requires a report to the governor and legislature on or before December 31, 2026.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06575

Introduced
3/17/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Relates to employee petitions to participate in a shared work program and to employer responses to such petitions; requires such petitions to be submitted to the commissioner of labor and to be made available for public access on the department of labor website.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06579

Introduced
3/17/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Requires electric vehicle charging stations to be installed at gasoline stations when new gas dispensing motor fuel pumps are being installed at such gasoline station; prohibits building permits from being issued when there is not at least one electric vehicle charging station being installed at such gas station.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06578

Introduced
3/17/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Provides that consenting registrants of the adoption information registry may pre-authorize the release of identifying information.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06573

Introduced
3/17/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Report Pass
5/14/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
5/29/26  
Requires municipal employees to attempt to identify and notify the owners of a deceased dog or cat recovered on public roads by such municipal employees.