New York State Senator

Patrick Burke 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 A06588

Introduced
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Designates all agents employed by the city of New York police department in the titles of traffic enforcement agent I and traffic enforcement agent II as peace officers.
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New York Assembly Bill A05756

Introduced
2/20/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Relates to first responders, including correction officers, coming into contact with saliva by spitting, throwing, tossing, or expelling from or by an individual.
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New York Assembly Bill A04876

Introduced
2/7/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Requires that public schools provide instruction on climate change, including but not limited to identifying the causes and impacts of climate change on individuals, environments and communities, and learning to evaluate solutions.
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New York Assembly Bill A05882

Introduced
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Requires a pharmacy benefit manager to pay a participating pharmacy at minimum at the national average drug acquisition cost (NADAC) rate, or at the pharmacy acquisition cost rate if greater or there is not a NADAC rate, plus a professional dispensing fee that is at minimum the professional dispensing fee paid under the state medical assistance program.
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New York Assembly Bill A05860

Introduced
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Report Pass
6/13/25  
Refer
6/13/25  
Relates to the right to unemployment benefits based on employment with certain educational institutions, including the state university of New York, the city university of New York and public community colleges; clarifies the meaning of certain terms relating to such rights to unemployment benefits.
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New York Assembly Bill A04603

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Report Pass
5/6/25  
Refer
5/6/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
5/12/26  
Refer
5/12/26  
Report Pass
5/14/26  
Engrossed
5/28/26  
Establishes visiting policies for incarcerated people, to provide incarcerated people opportunities for personal contact with relatives, friends, clergy, volunteers and other persons to promote better institutional adjustment and better community adjustment upon release.
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New York Assembly Bill A05056

Introduced
2/11/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Makes commissioners full time employees of boards outside the city of New York.

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New York Assembly Bill K00096

Introduced
2/7/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim February 2025, as Black History Month in the State of New York
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New York Assembly Bill A05286

Introduced
2/12/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Establishes a home repair project revolving loan program and revolving loan fund for emergent or essential home repair projects for low and middle-income households.
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New York Assembly Bill A05156

Introduced
2/12/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Creates a Great Lakes and state waters bill of rights that declares the right of the Great Lakes and state waters to exist, flourish and naturally evolve.
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New York Assembly Bill K00509

Introduced
5/14/25  
Congratulating the State of Israel on the 77th Anniversary of its establishment and reaffirming the bonds of friendship, cooperation, and shared values between the people of the State of New York and Israel
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New York Assembly Bill K00511

Introduced
5/14/25  
Commemorating the three-year Anniversary of the mass shooting at Tops Friendly Markets in Buffalo, New York, on May 14, 2025, and honoring the victims, survivors, families, and community at large in wake of this
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New York Assembly Bill A08416

Introduced
5/15/25  
Refer
5/15/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Report Pass
5/29/25  
Engrossed
5/29/25  
Refer
5/29/25  
Engrossed
6/9/25  
Enrolled
6/18/25  
Chaptered
6/20/25  
Chaptered
6/18/25  
Passed
6/20/25  
Extends certain provisions relating to the sale of bonds and notes of the city of New York, the issuance of bonds or notes with variable rates of interest, interest rate exchange agreements of the city of New York, the refunding of bonds, and the down payment for projects financed by bonds; extends the New York state financial emergency act for the city of New York; makes further amendments relating to the effectiveness thereof.
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New York Assembly Bill A08530

Introduced
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Authorizes the part-time judge of the city court of Lackawanna to reside anywhere in Erie county.
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New York Assembly Bill K00405

Introduced
4/29/25  
Honoring the memory of the deceased members of the New York State Assembly, in recognition of their distinguished careers in public service