New York State Senator

Nikki Lucas 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 3)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08007

Introduced
4/21/25  
Refer
4/21/25  
Requires food service establishments to permit the use of reusable beverage and food containers provided by customers when requesting a beverage refill or requesting leftovers from a partially consumed meal to be packaged and post signs to inform customers that they are permitted to do so.
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New York Assembly Bill A09470

Introduced
1/6/26  
Refer
1/6/26  
Enacts the "Edeedson 'Joshy' Cine, Jr. Transparency Act"; requires businesses that possess surveillance footage relevant to an ongoing New York state law enforcement investigation into a felony offense believed to have been committed on the premises of such business shall immediately release such surveillance footage to a New York state law enforcement agency upon receipt of a formal written request by such law enforcement agency; establishes exceptions to the requirement to immediately release footage; establishes penalties.
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New York Assembly Bill A10343

Introduced
2/26/26  
Refer
2/26/26  
Report Pass
3/31/26  
Engrossed
4/20/26  
Extends provisions of law providing for certain fees and expenses in unemployment insurance proceedings to December 31, 2028.
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New York Assembly Bill A10357

Introduced
2/26/26  
Refer
2/26/26  
Report Pass
5/13/26  
Refer
5/13/26  
Report Pass
5/20/26  
Refer
5/20/26  
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 Assembly Bill A09565

Introduced
1/14/26  
Excludes violations occurring within one hundred feet from a place of worship, funeral home, or similar institution from bus operation-related traffic regulations as part of participation in a ceremony or religious service.
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New York Assembly Bill A09571

Introduced
1/16/26  
Increases short-term disability benefits.
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New York Assembly Bill A01958

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Grants authority to a hospice medical director or a physician designated by such director, to sign a death certificate.
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New York Assembly Bill A02598

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Establishes Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as school holidays, with dates established by religious law and tradition; allows for school districts and municipalities with a population of less than fifty thousand to opt into the recognition of such holidays.
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New York Assembly Bill A01936

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Requires any regulation that mandates prior authorization to establish a mechanism for submission of requests for prior authorization by health care providers directly to the medical indemnity fund; requires the medical indemnity fund administrator to notify qualified plaintiffs which costs are qualifying health care costs to be paid from the fund and which are not within a reasonably prompt period of time.
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New York Assembly Bill A02572

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Exempts income earned by a head of household or any person in the household from certain job training or adult education programs from the determination of need for public assistance programs.
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New York Assembly Bill A02520

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
4/28/25  
Refer
4/28/25  
Report Pass
6/6/25  
Refer
6/6/25  
Report Pass
6/9/25  
Engrossed
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Enrolled
10/9/25  
Provides parity to durable medical equipment providers by requiring Medicaid managed care organizations to reimburse such providers at no less than one hundred percent of the medical assistance durable medical equipment and complex rehabilitation technology fee schedule for the same service or item.
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New York Assembly Bill A02608

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Creates parity for incarcerated individual telephone services for international calls to family members outside continental United States, Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam or Central Northern Mariana Islands by requiring identical restrictions on the duration or number of phone calls and use of unit or facility phones made available to incarcerated individuals who are calling family members who are not outside continental United States, Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam or Central Northern Mariana Islands.
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New York Assembly Bill A00192

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Directs the state commission of correction to promulgate rules and regulations for strip searches in correctional facilities which at a minimum include a requirement that no fewer than two staff members shall be present for any strip search.
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New York Assembly Bill A00127

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Refer
4/2/25  
Provides for findings of the state board of parole necessary for discretionary release of incarcerated individuals on parole.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00988

Introduced
2/26/26  
Mourning the death of the Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson and honoring his lifetime of service, leadership, and advocacy for civil rights and social justice