New York State Senator

Nathalia Fernandez 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 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 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 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 S06485

Introduced
3/14/25  
Refer
3/14/25  
Relates to procedures relating to driving while ability impaired by drugs; defines impairment and intoxication; updates procedures for field testing of drivers suspected of being under the influence of drugs to include the use of oral/bodily fluid tests; provides that refusal to submit to such field tests is specified to be a traffic infraction; makes related provisions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06536

Introduced
3/17/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Withholds the governor's salary until the legislative passage of the budget occurs; provides such salary should be withheld if the budget has not passed prior to the first day of the fiscal year and shall not be paid until such passage occurs.
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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 S06441

Introduced
3/13/25  
Refer
3/13/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Engrossed
6/16/25  
Enrolled
10/9/25  
Requires certain health insurance policies include coverage for services provided by pharmacists related to contraceptives.
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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.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06400

Introduced
3/13/25  
Refer
3/13/25  
Requires the commissioner of education to establish and enforce rules and regulations to incorporate at least a three credit course devoted to the instructional techniques necessary for effective literacy instruction which shall include delivering structured, systematic, explicit, evidence-based instruction aligned with the science of reading for prospective teachers.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00522

Introduced
3/17/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Report Pass
3/25/25  
Congratulating Christian Jerome upon the occasion of capturing the NYSPHSAA Boys Swimming and Diving Championship in the 100-yard butterfly on March 8, 2025
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00525

Introduced
3/17/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Report Pass
3/25/25  
Congratulating Columbia's Isabella Satalino upon the occasion of capturing the NYSPHSAA Girls Wrestling Championship in the 138lbs weight class on February 27th, 2025

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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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 S06488

Introduced
3/14/25  
Refer
3/14/25  
Provides that when approving proposals to enhance the existing benefits provided by a wetland or to create and maintain new wetland benefits in order to increase the likelihood that a proposed activity will meet the applicable standard for permit issuance, the mitigation may occur within the same watershed as the proposed project.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00523

Introduced
3/17/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Report Pass
3/25/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 12-18, 2025, as Prevention Week in the State of New York