New York State Senator

Nathalia Fernandez 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 4)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00382

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Adds fetal alcohol spectrum disorders to the definition of developmental disability.
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New York Senate Bill S00394

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
4/8/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Establishes application processing and review requirements for reprieves, commutations and pardons by the governor; requires the governor to provide: a written notification that the application has been received; a receipt number that the applicant can then use to check on the applicant's application status; guidelines for supplementing the application with additional or updated information; and a notification when a decision is made on the application; requires quarterly reports to the legislature regarding reprieves, commutations and pardons.
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New York Senate Bill S00381

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
2/4/25  
Engrossed
3/12/25  
Refer
3/12/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
5/11/26  
Directs the commissioner of labor to create and distribute to employers written materials regarding mental health services and resources available to employees to be posted in the workplace; directs voluntary guidance for employers to put in place strategies and programs to support the mental health and wellness of their employees; provides that such guidance be in written and digital resources and in English or translated to an additional primary language or languages as applicable.
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New York Senate Bill S00377

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes an annual cost of living adjustment for human services programs indexed to inflation.
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New York Senate Bill S00399

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Makes it illegal for certain persons to possess or sell a pistol converter or a converted pistol; directs the superintendent of the state police to publish a list of pistols that the superintendent has determined to be convertible pistols.
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New York Senate Bill S00401

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Establishes the "tenant opportunity to purchase act"; prevents the displacement of middle and lower-income tenants in New York and preserves affordable housing by providing an opportunity for tenants to own or remain renters in the properties in which they reside.
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New York Senate Bill S00404

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Prohibits the search, with or without a warrant, of geolocation and keyword data of a group of people who are under no individual suspicion of having committed a crime, but rather are defined by having been at a given location at a given time or searched particular words, phrases, character strings, or websites.
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New York Senate Bill S00402

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Includes temporarily erected structures in the definition of "substandard or insanitary area".
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New York Senate Bill S00205

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
4/24/25  
Refer
4/24/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
3/9/26  
Establishes that when an actor threatens to disseminate or publish a still or video image depicting such other person with one or more intimate parts exposed or engaging in sexual conduct with another person, including a still or video image created or altered by digitization, where such person may reasonably be identified from the still or video image itself or from information displayed in connection with the still or video image within the provisions of unlawful dissemination or publication of an intimate image.
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New York Senate Bill S00270

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
3/3/25  
Refer
3/3/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
2/3/26  
Provides an exemption from requirements for the alienation of parkland for renewable energy generating projects with a generating capacity not exceeding two megawatts and which are located above real property currently used for vehicle parking.
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New York Senate Bill S00518

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
5/19/25  
Refer
5/19/25  
Engrossed
5/29/25  
Refer
5/29/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
2/3/26  
Requires the inclusion of cultural competency training in the basic training and pre-employment course curricula for state police officers and municipal police officers and sheriffs, members of fire departments and companies, corrections officers, first responders, emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical technicians.
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New York Senate Bill S00551

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires child protective services to orally and in writing disclose certain information to parents and caretakers who are the subject of a child protective services investigation; requires such oral and written disclosure to contain certain information regarding the rights of the person under investigation.
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New York Senate Bill S00514

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to the mandatory coverage of hearing aids by insurers and other organizations.
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New York Senate Bill S01026

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Relates to establishing a voluntary waiver of the right to purchase firearms, rifles or shotguns; requires the division of state police to maintain statewide records of individuals who have waived the right to purchase firearms, rifles, or shotguns and any revocations of such waivers.
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New York Senate Bill S01049

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Enacts the "gender identity respect, dignity and safety act"; relates to the treatment and placement of incarcerated individuals based upon gender identity; requires that incarcerated individuals in state and local correctional facilities who have a gender identity different from their assigned sex at birth be addressed and have access to commissary items, clothing and other materials that are consistent with the person's gender identity; establishes that incarcerated individuals shall be placed in a correctional facility with persons of the gender that most closely aligns with such person's self-attested gender identity unless the person opts out of such placement.