New York State Senator

Michelle Hinchey 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 47)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05939

Introduced
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Engrossed
6/13/25  
Refer
6/13/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
2/24/26  
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.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05998

Introduced
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Report Pass
4/7/25  
Engrossed
6/13/25  
Refer
6/13/25  
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.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06017

Introduced
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Engrossed
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Enacts the "food retail establishment subsidization for healthy communities act" (FRESH Communities); provides loans, loan guarantees, interest subsidies and grants to businesses, municipalities, not-for-profit corporations or local development corporations for the purpose of attracting, maintaining or permitting the expansion of food retail establishments in underserved areas.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06023

Introduced
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Engrossed
5/12/25  
Refer
5/12/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
5/19/26  
Refer
5/19/26  
Requires the division for small-business to publish a small business compliance guide and post such guide to the division for small-business's website.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06025

Introduced
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
5/5/26  
Engrossed
5/28/26  
Authorizes licensed creative arts therapists to bill Medicaid directly for their services.
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New York Senate Bill S05024

Introduced
2/18/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Requires the department of education to develop school health and mental health professionals to student ratios in public schools for students who do not receive services pursuant to the individuals with disabilities education act.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02681

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Engrossed
6/13/25  
Refer
6/13/25  
Engrossed
6/13/25  
Enrolled
12/8/25  
Requires the superintendent of state police to develop, maintain and disseminate to all members of the division of state police a critical incident leave policy requiring critical incident paid leave for any members directly involved in a critical incident; prohibits such superintendent from taking any punitive administrative action against any member of the division of state police granted critical incident leave solely on the basis of the provision of such leave.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04558

Introduced
2/7/25  
Requires fashion sellers to carry out environmental due diligence for the portions of their business related to wearing apparel, footwear or fashion bags, including wearing apparel, footwear or fashion bags produced as a private label; establishes a fashion remediation fund.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04057

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Extends the benefit window of the historic homeownership rehabilitation tax credit; requires additional reporting on the utilization of such credit.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00308

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Report Pass
2/4/25  
Honoring the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of New York on the occasion of celebrating Prince Hall Day 2025
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04067

Introduced
1/31/25  
Codifies the disparate impact standard in the human rights law; provides that in cases of alleged housing discrimination, an unlawful discriminatory practice may be established by a practice's discriminatory effect.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04437

Introduced
2/5/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Amends the alternative tax table benefit recapture; increases the rate of supplemental tax for high income taxpayers.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05002

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Directs the commissioner of the New York state division of housing and community renewal to promulgate rules and regulations to provide a taxpayer or entity having applied for the low-income housing tax credit and certified by the division of housing and community renewal with a notice of placement on a waiting list upon the submission of a completed application.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05003

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
2/26/26  
Rededicates the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Mid-Hudson bridge to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05057

Introduced
2/18/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Increases the state subsidy for school lunch meals based on the percentage of breakfast service, lunch service and reimbursable snack program food purchased from New York state farmers, growers, producers or processors.