New York State Senator

Nathalia Fernandez 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 2)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00777

Introduced
1/8/25  
Clarifies violations of provisions prohibiting third-party restaurant reservation services from arranging unauthorized restaurant reservations with food service establishments.
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New York Senate Bill S00791

Introduced
1/8/25  
Clarifies certain provisions of the Alex R. Jimenez New York state military immigrant family legacy program.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00878

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Amends procedures required for the custodial interrogation of children to provide additional protections and for taking juveniles and sixteen and seventeen year olds into custody.
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New York Senate Bill S00726

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Waives the state's sovereign immunity in state and federal courts with regard to liability for violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act; waives the immunity of all instrumentalities and political subdivisions of the state.
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New York Senate Bill S00845

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Prohibits drug, cannabis or alcohol testing of pregnant or postpartum individuals and newborns unless the individual consents and it is within the scope of medical care, or the testing is necessary for a medical emergency.
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New York Senate Bill S00836

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Prohibits a municipality from relocating migrants from such municipality to another municipality in New York unless and until a resolution authorizing the relocation has been adopted by the governing bodies of both the municipality to which the migrants are to be relocated and the county in which the receiving municipality is located; mandates written notice prior to location; provides for a fine for violations.
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New York Senate Bill S00872

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Creates minority and women-owned business enterprise regional advocates; provides that the advocates will help ensure that municipal agencies comply with the provisions of law relating to minority and women-owned business enterprises.
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New York Senate Bill S00965

Introduced
1/8/25  
Requires insurers to provide insurance coverage for treatment of rare diseases, life-threatening conditions or diseases, degenerative and disabling conditions, or diagnoses involving medically fragile children, by a provider of the patient's choice.
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New York Senate Bill S00940

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
4/22/26  
Requires all insurance policies and health maintenance organization contracts to provide coverage for maternity patients and their newborns for hospital stays of at least 48 hours following childbirth by natural delivery and 96 hours following childbirth by caesarean section; provides such coverage for patients who are recipients of medicaid.
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New York Senate Bill S00914

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to creating a separate tax on inheritance income, creating a separate tax on gift income, the computation of the estate tax, and creating a gift tax.
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New York Senate Bill S00929

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Engrossed
1/22/25  
Enrolled
12/8/25  
Provides for the protection of health information; establishes requirements for communications to individuals about their health information; requires either written consent or a designated necessary purpose for the processing of an individual's health information.
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New York Senate Bill S00954

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes the teachers' fossil fuel divestment act; requires the New York state teachers' retirement system to divest the retirement system of any stocks, securities, equities, assets, or other obligations of corporations or companies included on an exclusion list of coal producers and oil and gas producers.
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New York Senate Bill S00953

Introduced
1/8/25  
Raises the tax rate on corporate income; increases the state conformity to federal taxation of corporate profit shifting; imposes an additional tax on individual business income in response to federal tax benefits for pass-through business income.
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New York Senate Bill S00596

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
5/13/25  
Refer
5/13/25  
Engrossed
5/29/25  
Enrolled
12/8/25  
Chaptered
12/19/25  
Provides a rebuttable presumption relating to recertification as a minority and women-owned business enterprise if there is no change in the ownership of the enterprise and no material change in the nature or management of the enterprise from the time of approval of the previous minority and women-owned business enterprise certification.
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New York Senate Bill S00563

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Enacts the good jobs guarantee program to provide workforce training and opportunities for employment for residents of New York state to secure high paying jobs through the acquisition of job skills.