New York State Senator

Nathalia Fernandez 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 45)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02057

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/15/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
4/21/26  
Enacts the "beauty justice act"; provides for the regulation of ingredients in personal care products and cosmetics; prohibits the sale of personal care products and cosmetic products containing certain restricted products.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02085

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/15/25  
Establishes new targets for offshore wind electricity generation; includes the requirements that there is at least 15 gigawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by 2040, at least 18 gigawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by 2045 and at least 20 gigawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by 2050.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02033

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/15/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Requires parity in the mental and physical health treatment of the residents of New York state; provides that both mental and physical health "will be matters of public concern and provision therefor shall be made by the state and by such of its subdivisions".
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New York Senate Bill S02046

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/15/25  
Engrossed
6/5/25  
Refer
6/5/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Establishes the mental health educational opportunity program and the mental health higher educational opportunity program to provide additional educational opportunities for students at certain universities and colleges in the state to enroll in academic programs that lead to a degree or degrees required for licensure in any of the mental health professions.
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New York Senate Bill J00229

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/15/25  
Report Pass
1/22/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim January 27, 2025, as Holocaust Remembrance Day in the State of New York
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02128

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/15/25  
Report Pass
3/24/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
2/24/26  
Requires certain health insurance issuers to certify that at least a majority of prescription drug rebates are provided to patients at the point of sale.
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New York Senate Bill S02133

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/15/25  
Provides that certain persons shall not be deemed a distributor for certain sales of premium cigars; provides that the tax on premium cigars shall be at the rate of seventy-five percent of the wholesale price or fifty cents, whichever is less, and is intended to be imposed only once upon the sale of any premium cigars; defines "premium cigar".
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New York Senate Bill S02198

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/15/25  
Prohibits consumer reporting agencies and lenders from using an individual's late payment of cashless tolls to determine their credit worthiness.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02131

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/15/25  
Relates to securing payment of wages for work already performed; creates a lien remedy for all employees; provides grounds for attachment; relates to procedures where employees may hold shareholders of non-publicly traded corporations personally liable for wage theft; relates to rights for victims of wage theft to hold the ten members with the largest ownership interests in a company personally liable for wage theft.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02132

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/15/25  
Establishes the baby bucks allowance to provide income to eligible participants for the last three months of pregnancy and the first 18 months of the child's life; excludes income received from the baby bucks allowance for purposes of supplemental nutrition assistance program eligibility.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02168

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/15/25  
Allows the New York state thruway authority to provide a discounted toll rate to farmers transporting agricultural products.
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New York Senate Bill S02165

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/15/25  
Prohibits hospital interference with patient care where the practitioner is acting in good faith and within the scope of their practice; defines emergency medical conditions; requires appropriate medical screening and stabilizing treatment of persons in an emergency department, including pregnant persons, or appropriate transfer.
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New York Senate Bill S02127

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/15/25  
Suspends all unnecessary travel to states that have discriminatory laws for access to women's reproductive health services, including but not limited to, limitations on access to abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02709

Introduced
1/22/25  
Provides protections for telecommunications tower technicians, including requiring certain trainings during work hours without a loss of pay; requires certain reporting by bidders for telecommunication contracts.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00194

Introduced
1/15/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim June 21, 2025, as Community Organizers Day in the State of New York