New York State Senator

Patricia Fahy 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 32)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01489

Introduced
1/10/25  
Designates a portion of state route one hundred fifty-nine in the town of Rotterdam, county of Schenectady, as the "John M. Grassia III Memorial Bridge".
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New York Senate Bill S01496

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Directs a study on the feasibility of adjusting the compulsory attendance age of minors attending full time instruction; requires report and recommendations on or before July 1, 2027.
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New York Senate Bill S01492

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Removes the exemption for restaurants, taverns or similar food service establishments from the New York state bag waste reduction act.
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New York Senate Bill S01493

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Relates to regulation of PFAS as a toxic air pollutant; requires the department to ensure certain process operations use appropriate control technology for PFAS emissions; establishes a fence line monitoring program to monitor PFAS emissions in disadvantaged communities, to provide public reports, and related duties.
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New York Senate Bill S01494

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Relates to penalties for striking a pedestrian crossing a street while operating a motor vehicle.
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New York Senate Bill S01497

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Implements a one year phase-in period for a local law, ordinance or resolution imposing a paper carryout bag reduction fee where forty percent of such fees are returned to such county or city for the purpose of purchasing and distributing reusable bags, with priority given to low- and fixed-income communities, and after the first year, such forty percent of fees shall be remitted to the person who collected the fees.
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New York Senate Bill S01491

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Authorizes a weighted selection process prioritizing children who would be eligible to receive free or reduced price lunch and/or who are emergent multilingual learners for the allocation of certain prekindergarten seats in school districts where there are more eligible children than can be served in a given school year.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York Senate Bill S01515

Introduced
1/10/25  
Removes expenditures for emergency medical services from the limit on real property tax levies by local governments.
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New York Senate Bill S03139

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Establishes a statewide program to provide free SUNY, CUNY, and community college tuition to active volunteer firefighters, volunteer emergency medical services providers, and volunteer auxiliary police officers.
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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 S03149

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Establishes the child victims act fund which provides grant awards in reimbursement to public school districts and voluntary foster care agencies located within the state who have been named as defendants in certain child sexual abuse legal cases and in which it can be demonstrated by the public school district or voluntary foster care agency that no insurance policy for the covered period can be located after a good-faith effort to do so has been made, there was a monetary judgment issued or settlement agreement with regard to such action and where it can be demonstrated by the public school district or voluntary foster care agency that payment in full of such judgment or settlement would put a substantial burden on the district's or agency's ability to execute its mission and negatively impact its existing student population.
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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 S03157

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Engrossed
6/5/25  
Refer
6/5/25  
Engrossed
6/17/25  
Enrolled
12/8/25  
Chaptered
12/19/25  
Authorizes a licensed dental hygienist, collaborative practice to provide services without supervision in collaboration with a licensed dentist under a collaborative practice agreement.
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New York Senate Bill S03141

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Exempts certain property and services used in the cultivation of cannabis for adult-use from sales and compensating use taxes.
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New York Senate Bill S03173

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Relates to clarifying which entities handle the reporting of pregnancy loss; the responsibilities of health care providers and penalties for not protecting the identities of individuals who suffered a pregnancy loss.