New York State Senator

Michelle Hinchey 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 40)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00019

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Report Pass
1/14/25  
Commending Technician Fourth Grade Joseph S. Cesternino posthumously upon the occasion of his designation as recipient of a Liberty Medal, the highest honor bestowed upon an individual by the
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00022

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Report Pass
1/14/25  
Commending Sergeant Cornelius Richard Rogers, Jr., posthumously upon the occasion of his designation as recipient of a Liberty Medal, the highest honor bestowed upon an individual by the New York State Senate
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New York Senate Bill S03173

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Relates to clarifying which entities handle the reporting of pregnancy loss; the responsibilities of health care providers and penalties for not protecting the identities of individuals who suffered a pregnancy loss.
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New York Senate Bill S03174

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Excludes certain actions or omissions from qualifying as unlawful dissemination or publication of an intimate image when such actions or omissions are in connection with the reporting of or investigation into potentially unlawful conduct.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01464

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Report Pass
3/11/25  
Engrossed
5/28/25  
Refer
5/29/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Enacts the "packaging reduction and recycling infrastructure act" to require companies selling, offering for sale, or distributing packaging materials and products to register with a packaging reduction organization to develop a packaging reduction and recycling plan; makes related provisions.
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New York Senate Bill S01493

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Relates to regulation of PFAS as a toxic air pollutant; requires the department to ensure certain process operations use appropriate control technology for PFAS emissions; establishes a fence line monitoring program to monitor PFAS emissions in disadvantaged communities, to provide public reports, and related duties.
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New York Senate Bill S01452

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Enacts the "fairness in cooperative homeownership act"; regulates the submission and determinations of applications for ownership of cooperative apartments.
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New York Senate Bill S03154

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
4/8/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Directs the office of children and family services to establish Dolly Parton's statewide imagination library program for encouraging children from birth to five years of age, inclusive, to develop a love of reading and learning; directs the office of children and family services to promote the statewide development of local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; advance and strengthen local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs with the goal of increasing enrollment; recruit volunteers to assist in the development, promotion, and coordination of local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; solicit donations, gifts, and other funding to financially support local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; develop community engagement; develop, promote, and coordinate a public awareness campaign to make donors aware of the opportunity to donate to the affiliate programs and make the public aware of the opportunity to register eligible children to receive books through the program; administer the local match requirement and coordinate the collection and remittance of local program costs for books and mailing; and develop statewide marketing and communication plans; establishes the imagination library of New York fund.
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New York Senate Bill S03144

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Requires accessible buses to be available within a service area measuring three miles from any bus line of the authority or its subsidiaries.
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New York Senate Bill S03143

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Authorizes aid for career education to begin in grade nine instead of grade ten; changes the amount per pupil.
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New York Senate Bill S03180

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Report Pass
3/4/25  
Engrossed
6/5/25  
Refer
6/5/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
3/19/26  
Requires the office for the aging to develop and provide elder abuse prevention training to train senior service centers and entities that contract with the office for the aging and the office of children and family services to provide services to elderly persons in the detection and reporting of elder abuse in consultation with the office of children and family services.
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New York Senate Bill S03161

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Engrossed
2/12/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Engrossed
6/13/25  
Enrolled
11/17/25  
Chaptered
11/21/25  
Moves the Amistad Commission from the department of state to the state education department.
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New York Senate Bill S03261

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Engrossed
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
2/25/26  
Authorizes distributors of cannabis products to file electronic returns annually instead of quarterly.
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New York Senate Bill S03237

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Requires that a claimant alleging that the contents of a website or mobile application that describes goods and services provided at a place of public accommodation constitutes an unlawful discriminatory practice against visually and hearing impaired individuals serve written notice on the owner and provide 60 days to cure the alleged violation prior to commencing an action.
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New York Senate Bill S03293

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Requires stretch limousines to be equipped with roll-over protection devices such as cages or pillars and anti-intrusion bars for the purpose of protecting rear compartment passengers.