New York State Senator

Nathalia Fernandez 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 38)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03146

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Authorizes certain health care professionals licensed to practice in other jurisdictions to practice in this state.
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New York Senate Bill S03151

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Enacts the "cannabis adult-use transition act"; increases the number of members on the state cannabis advisory board from thirteen to seventeen voting appointed members; provides that an eligible registered organization shall be authorized as a registered organization adult-use cultivator processor distributor retail dispensary upon approval of an application to the office of cannabis management that must be available to such registered organizations no later than August first, two thousand twenty-five and remain available thereafter; provides that the office must approve or deny such application within thirty days of its submission or it shall be deemed approved; makes related provisions.
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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 S03214

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Prohibits the sale of foods containing synthetic color additives in schools except under certain circumstances off and away from the premises or on premises at least a half hour after the end of the school day.
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New York Senate Bill S03185

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Report Pass
5/5/25  
Provides outpatient insurance coverage for non-pharmacological treatments and non-opioid drugs for chronic pain.
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New York Senate Bill S03235

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Provides that the weekly benefit which the disabled employee is entitled to receive for disability commencing: on or after January first, two thousand twenty-eight shall be fifty percent of the employee's average weekly wage but shall not exceed fifty percent of the state average weekly wage; on or after January first, two thousand twenty-nine shall be fifty-five percent of the employee's average weekly wage but shall not exceed fifty-five percent of the state average weekly wage; on or after January first, two thousand thirty shall be sixty percent of the employee's weekly average wage but shall not exceed sixty percent of the state average weekly wage; and on or after January first of each succeeding year, shall be sixty-seven percent of the employee's average weekly wage but shall not exceed sixty-seven percent of the state average weekly wage.
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New York Senate Bill S03231

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Refer
2/3/26  
Engrossed
3/23/26  
Relates to the qualification of voters; provides that a citizen who is seventeen years of age at the time of a primary election and who will be eighteen years of age at the time of the general election for which such primary election is held, shall be eligible to vote in such primary election.
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New York Senate Bill S03251

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Provides for the electronic transmission of vehicle certificate of titles.
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New York Senate Bill S03236

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Engrossed
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Engrossed
5/13/25  
Refer
5/13/25  
Engrossed
5/21/25  
Enrolled
11/17/25  
Chaptered
11/21/25  
Allows pharmacy technicians to practice in any pharmacy under the supervision of a pharmacist.
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New York Senate Bill S03279

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Includes correctional facilities and local correctional facilities as publicly-assisted housing accommodations for purposes of the division of human rights; defines correctional facilities and local correctional facilities.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03195

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Provides per diem rates of payment by governmental agencies for inpatient services provided by facilities designated by the federal department of health and human services as exempt extended neoplastic disease care hospitals.
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New York Senate Bill S03191

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Prohibits early voting on federal holidays; adds an additional day to the early voting period.
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New York Senate Bill S03202

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Prohibits accessing or distributing certain sexually explicit depictions of children; prohibits consent to such depictions by anyone under eighteen years of age; makes such crimes eligible for bail; includes certain crimes as sex offenses.
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New York Senate Bill S03203

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Report Pass
3/4/25  
Engrossed
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
2/24/26  
Relates to preserving access to affordable drugs; provides that an agreement resolving or settling, on a final or interim basis, a patent infringement claim, in connection with the sale of a pharmaceutical product, shall be presumed to have anticompetitive effects if a nonreference drug filer receives anything of value from another company asserting patent infringement and if the nonreference drug filer agrees to limit or forego research, development, manufacturing, marketing, or sales of the nonreference drug filer's product for any period of time.