New York State Senator

Peter Harckham 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 48)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01849

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Report Pass
1/27/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Refer
6/10/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
3/18/26  
Engrossed
5/18/26  
Requires more specific data reporting by the chief administrator to include information relating to all courts in the unified court system, including town and village courts.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01846

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Requires utility companies to reimburse consumers for spoilage of food and medication due to the lack of refrigeration in the event of a power outage lasting seventy-two hours or more.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01919

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Engrossed
4/9/25  
Refer
4/9/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
2/5/26  
Eliminates sporting license fees for honorably discharged, disabled veterans.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01833

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Refer
6/10/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
2/24/26  
Engrossed
4/21/26  
Enacts the "harmful algal bloom monitoring and prevention act"; establishes the harmful algal bloom monitoring and prevention fund.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01893

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Establishes a civil cause of action for employees who are subjected to an abusive work environment; provides employers shall be vicariously liable for such work environment.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01946

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Report Pass
4/9/25  
Engrossed
5/29/25  
Refer
5/29/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
1/28/26  
Engrossed
4/22/26  
Relates to the expungement of syringe convictions of criminally possessing a hypodermic instrument.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02000

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Engrossed
3/18/25  
Requires that health insurance policies shall provide coverage for follow-up screening or diagnostic services for lung cancer; provides that no patient cost sharing shall be imposed for follow-up screening or diagnostic services for lung cancer.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01937

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Authorizes municipalities in the county of Rockland to add unpaid housing code violation penalties, costs and fines to such municipalities' annual tax levy in accordance with applicable law.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02430

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
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.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00247

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
1/22/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim January 2025, as Cervical Cancer Awareness Month in the State of New York

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01848

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Engrossed
3/11/25  
Refer
3/11/25  
Engrossed
5/20/25  
Enrolled
12/1/25  
Requires utilities to notify property owners prior to beginning any non-emergency construction or other work that may interfere with a property owner's ability to use, or access such owner's property; requires notice to include, but not limited to, a description of the work to be performed, the expected duration of such work, the location of such work, any road closures or detours that may occur due to such work, any action that may directly and materially impact the use of such property, and the contact information for the utility performing such work; provides notice may include electronic communications, signage, and written materials; exempts cases where a natural or man-made disaster or state of emergency occurs.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01982

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Refer
6/10/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
4/29/26  
Relates to the completion of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs; directs the municipal police training council to promulgate rules and regulations relating to qualification for municipal police forces for persons who were previously sworn members of the state police and to provide certificates to such persons who meet such qualifications.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01985

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Engrossed
5/13/25  
Refer
5/13/25  
Engrossed
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Enrolled
10/9/25  
Chaptered
10/16/25  
Requires police officers to take temporary custody of firearms for not less than one hundred twenty hours when responding to reports of family violence.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01984

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Engrossed
3/24/25  
Refer
3/24/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
4/16/26  
Directs the commissioner to publicly publish an annual report on the environmental radiation surveillance program and analyze such report showing trends and cumulative impact, as well as notify other relevant agencies if contamination has exceeded EPA standards for maximum amounts of contamination allowed in drinking water or food.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01988

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Establishes a retirement benefit review panel.