New York State Senator

Peter Harckham 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 26)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05565

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Report Pass
5/12/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Requires health insurance policies and Medicaid to cover patient navigation services.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05591

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Establishes an Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) leadership institute within the state university of New York as an initiative for Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) leaders in higher education with a mission to retain and grow from within SUNY a greater proportion of Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) professionals at SUNY campuses; creates an eight member advisory council.
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New York Senate Bill S05587

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Excludes the amount of state and local taxes and fees from the amount on which an interchange fee is charged for that electronic payment transaction by a credit or debit card network; prohibits a payment card network from altering or manipulating the computation and imposition of interchange fees.
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New York Senate Bill S04330

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Relates to granting certain individuals youthful offender status; adds a new category of individuals eligible for young adult offender status; provides for process and sentencing requirements related to such statuses.
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New York Senate Bill S04336

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Engrossed
5/15/25  
Refer
5/15/25  
Requires gas and electric utilities to make available to landlords or lessors, upon request of prospective tenants or lessees, information concerning gas and electric charges incurred for residential rental premises.
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New York Senate Bill S04369

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Engrossed
4/28/25  
Refer
4/28/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
3/9/26  
Provides a permit for a memorial lands facility.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05684

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
2/27/25  
Relates to returnable bottles; adds noncarbonated soft drinks, certain noncarbonated fruit or vegetable juices, coffee and tea beverages, carbonated fruit beverages and cider to the definition of "beverage"; provides that beginning April 1, 2027, the handling fee will be six cents for each beverage container accepted by a deposit initiator from a dealer or operator of a redemption center; directs the multi-agency bottle bill fraud investigation team to submit a report on findings of pervasive bottle redemption fraud in New York state.
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New York Senate Bill S05709

Introduced
2/28/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Prohibits the importing, possession, or sale of any part or product of the skin or body of a kangaroo for commercial purposes.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05751

Introduced
2/28/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Amends the constitution to delete the requirement that registration for purposes of voting be completed at least ten days before election day; provides that laws be made to adequately safeguard against deception in the exercise of the right of suffrage.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05763

Introduced
2/28/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
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.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05728

Introduced
2/28/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Expands participation in the New York state secure choice savings program.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05730

Introduced
2/28/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Establishes the water resiliency projects fund for flood mitigation, stormwater mitigation and other water related resiliency projects; makes an appropriation therefor.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05729

Introduced
2/28/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Adds hazardous air quality to the state definition of a disaster; requires explicit inclusion of air quality emergency preparedness in local comprehensive emergency management plans with an action plan and annual inventory of air quality emergency resources.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05759

Introduced
2/28/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Report Pass
5/13/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Establishes a moratorium on the sale and use of biosolids; defines terms.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05781

Introduced
2/28/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Report Pass
4/7/25  
Requires all authorities having jurisdiction over a population exceeding five thousand residents to adopt a residential automated solar permitting platform by June thirtieth, two thousand twenty-seven.