New York State Senator

Pamela Helming 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 22)

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Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05325

Introduced
2/20/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Directs the department of financial services to conduct a study examining the increasing costs of insurance premiums, the lack of availability of insurance coverage for losses from flooding, and the possibility of supporting a private flood insurance market in the state.
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New York Senate Bill S05331

Introduced
2/20/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Engrossed
6/16/25  
Enrolled
11/3/25  
Chaptered
11/12/25  
Establishes an online insurance verification system for motor vehicle insurance; requires insurers to provide necessary information.
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New York Senate Bill S05310

Introduced
2/20/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Permits a waiver of the diligent effort requirement in limited circumstances for certain insurance coverage to be placed by licensed excess line brokers with unauthorized insurers where a retail producing insurance broker seeks to procure or place commercial lines insurance through an unaffiliated wholesale excess line insurance broker.
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New York Senate Bill S05288

Introduced
2/20/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
3/17/26  
Relates to the proper form of exhibits for submission; provides every exhibit shall be clearly identified, but no specific method of labeling shall be required.
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New York Senate Bill S05350

Introduced
2/20/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Relates to veterans' eligibility for public housing; expands eligibility requirements to include veterans of the recent conflicts; requires granting of a preference for public housing to veterans or families of veterans who have a military service connected disability.
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New York Senate Bill S05407

Introduced
2/21/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Report Pass
3/5/25  
Engrossed
6/4/25  
Refer
6/4/25  
Establishes the "first responder peer support program act" which supplies peer-to-peer mental health programs to first responders.
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New York Senate Bill S05400

Introduced
2/21/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Engrossed
4/30/25  
Refer
4/30/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
3/24/26  
Exempts operators of law enforcement and fire department vessels from laws which regulate vessels on the navigable waters of the state while such operators are in the course of responding to emergencies.
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New York Senate Bill S05465

Introduced
2/21/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Report Pass
3/17/25  
Authorizes municipalities to adopt a local law, ordinance or resolution providing for a sales tax exemption for clothing and footwear after March 1, 2025 and no later than August 1, 2025; provides for the repeal of such provisions on January 1, 2026.
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New York Senate Bill S05469

Introduced
2/21/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Allows for unlicensed personnel to administer certain seizure rescue medication in schools, on school grounds and at school events; provides that such medicine may be left with a school health official to be used as needed.
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New York Senate Bill S05436

Introduced
2/21/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Enacts the "grid resiliency act" relating to the operation of major electric generation facilities, peaker plants, and simple cycle and regenerative combustion turbines, and to tax credits for the purchase and installation of residential auxiliary electric generating equipment and for disruptions in electric or gas service.
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New York Senate Bill S05457

Introduced
2/21/25  
Alters the definition of "drug" in the vehicle and traffic law to include any substance or combination of substances that impair, to any extent, physical or mental abilities; defines impairment and intoxication; provides that refusal to submit to a breath test and/or oral/bodily fluid test shall be a traffic infraction; makes related provisions.
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New York Senate Bill S05468

Introduced
2/21/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Allows a tax exemption for taxpayers in the amount of the purchase price of a fire extinguisher, fire alarm, heat alarm or carbon monoxide alarm purchased for residential use during the month of October.
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New York Senate Bill J01020

Introduced
5/14/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 19, 2025, as Italian American Day in the State of New York

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New York Senate Bill S07934

Introduced
5/14/25  
Refer
5/14/25  
Requires pure captive insurance companies and group captive insurance companies who are a public entity, political subdivision, public authority, public benefit corporation, or a subsidiary thereof to hold at least two meetings each year in this state, have a majority of members required to be residents of this state, file an annual report with the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, and the minority leaders of the senate and assembly, and submit to additional examinations.
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New York Senate Bill S07935

Introduced
5/14/25  
Refer
5/14/25  
Adds the game of bunco to the games of chance.