New York State Senator

Paula Kay 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 25)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02514

Introduced

1/17/25

Refer

1/17/25

Refer

1/7/26

Authorizes pharmacists to administer injections for contraceptive use.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02468

Introduced

1/17/25

Refer

1/17/25

Report Pass

3/25/25

Refer

3/25/25

Report Pass

3/25/25

Refer

3/25/25

Report Pass

5/20/25

Refer

5/20/25

Report Pass

5/29/25

Engrossed

6/9/25

Refer

6/9/25

Engrossed

6/13/25

Enrolled

12/1/25

Vetoed

12/5/25

Creates the state office of the utility consumer advocate to represent interests of residential utility customers including a proposed change of rates, charges, terms and conditions of service, the adoption of rules, regulations, guidelines, orders, standards or final policy decisions.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02444

Introduced

1/17/25

Refer

1/17/25

Refer

1/7/26

Exempts toothpaste, toothbrushes and dental floss from the payment of sales tax.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01838

Introduced

1/14/25

Refer

1/14/25

Refer

1/7/26

Relates to the sale and possession of self-defense spray devices in the state; removes the requirement that only authorized dealers and pharmacists could sell such devices; permits shipping of such devices within the state; repeals certain provisions of law relating thereto.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01698

Introduced

1/14/25

Refer

1/14/25

Report Pass

5/20/25

Refer

5/20/25

Report Pass

6/5/25

Refer

6/5/25

Report Pass

6/6/25

Requires municipal officials to attempt to identify and notify the owners of a deceased dog or cat recovered on public roads by such municipal employees.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01816

Introduced

1/14/25

Refer

1/14/25

Report Pass

5/28/25

Refer

5/28/25

Refer

1/7/26

Includes animal fighting as a criminal act for purposes of enterprise corruption crimes.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01502

Introduced

1/10/25

Refer

1/10/25

Report Pass

2/4/25

Restricts certain substances from being used in menstrual products.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01556

Introduced

1/10/25

Refer

1/10/25

Report Pass

5/20/25

Refer

5/20/25

Report Pass

6/13/25

Refer

6/13/25

Report Pass

6/17/25

Enacts the "food safety and chemical disclosure act"; prohibits certain food additives and food color additives; provides that in an action to enforce compliance, the recognition by the federal food and drug administration of any of these substances as safe may not be alleged as a defense; establishes requirements for the reporting of GRAS (generally recognized as safe) substances.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02181

Introduced

1/15/25

Refer

1/15/25

Refer

1/7/26

Provides lead service line identification by a public water system that serves certain areas.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02177

Introduced

1/15/25

Refer

1/15/25

Report Pass

5/28/25

Refer

5/28/25

Report Pass

6/4/25

Refer

6/4/25

Report Pass

6/6/25

Engrossed

6/6/25

Refer

6/6/25

Engrossed

6/12/25

Enrolled

12/8/25

Vetoed

12/19/25

Removes expenditures for emergency medical services from the limit on real property tax levies by local governments.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02074

Introduced

1/15/25

Refer

1/15/25

Refer

1/7/26

Provides for the sealing of unfounded, exonerated, and pending claims made against law enforcement officers; requires such claims to be redacted from disciplinary records.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02169

Introduced

1/15/25

Refer

1/15/25

Refer

1/7/26

Exempts receipts from the services provided by a farrier in shoeing a horse including reasonable fees for travel and shoeing a horse in a remote location on a farm.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02352

Introduced

1/16/25

Refer

1/16/25

Refer

1/7/26

Requires insurers and health plans to grant automatic preauthorization approvals to eligible health care professionals in certain circumstances.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02332

Introduced

1/16/25

Refer

1/16/25

Report Pass

4/29/25

Engrossed

5/20/25

Refer

5/20/25

Engrossed

3/11/26

Refer

3/11/26

Engrossed

4/29/26

Requires any website or mobile application associated with an electronic benefit transfer system to be offered in the twelve most common non-English languages spoken by limited-English proficient individuals in the state, based on data in the most recent American Community Survey published by the United States Census Bureau.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00028

Introduced

1/21/25

Passed

1/21/25

Commemorating the observance of the 40th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the State of New York, on January 20, 2025

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