New York State Senator

Peter Harckham 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 56)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00423

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Refer

1/7/26

Relates to an aid rollback for charter schools.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00454

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Relates to parole eligibility for certain incarcerated persons age fifty-five or older if they have served at least fifteen years of their sentence or sentences.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00440

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Refer

1/7/26

Report Pass

4/21/26

Relates to voting rights and access for incarcerated individuals; authorizes polling places to be available at correctional facilities and local facilities; requires such facilities to provide persons detained or confined in such facilities access to register to vote or apply for an absentee ballot; requires voting information to be included in the inmate handbook.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00487

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Engrossed

2/25/25

Refer

2/25/25

Refer

1/7/26

Engrossed

2/26/26

Refer

2/26/26

Designates August thirty-first of each year as a day of commemoration to be known as "Overdose Awareness Day".

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00461

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Prohibits the use in an industrial plant of any product or substance that contains perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, including vats, conveyor belts, molds, ovens, pans, pots, chemicals used as mold releasers, lubricants, seals and coatings.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00448

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Enacts the "Empowering People in Rights Enforcement (EMPIRE) Worker Protection Act"; relates to the delegation of state enforcement authority to private actors; authorizes an affected employee, whistleblower, representative organization or an organizational deputy to initiate a public enforcement action on behalf of the commissioner for certain provisions of the labor law, or any regulation promulgated thereunder.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00550

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Report Pass

1/21/25

Engrossed

5/19/25

Refer

5/19/25

Engrossed

6/9/25

Refer

6/9/25

Engrossed

6/16/25

Enrolled

12/8/25

Chaptered

12/19/25

Passed

12/19/25

Requires a caller making a report of suspected child abuse or maltreatment to the central register to leave their name and contact information; prohibits the office of children and family services from releasing information identifying a person who made such a report.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J01887

Introduced

4/14/26

Refer

4/14/26

Passed

4/20/26

Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim April 2026, as Arab American Heritage Month in the State of New York

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J01925

Introduced

4/17/26

Refer

4/17/26

Report Pass

4/21/26

Passed

4/21/26

Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 2026, as Lyme Disease Awareness Month in the State of New York

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S09960

Introduced

4/17/26

Refer

4/17/26

Establishes the crimes of benefiting from a labor trafficking venture, benefiting from a sex trafficking venture and aggravated benefiting from a sex trafficking venture; establishes civil action for victims of benefiting from a trafficking venture; revives such actions otherwise barred by the existing statute of limitations, grants trial preference to such actions; directs the chief administrator of the courts to promulgate rules for the timely adjudication of certain revived actions.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J01927

Introduced

4/20/26

Refer

4/20/26

Report Pass

4/21/26

Passed

4/21/26

Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim April 19-25, 2026, as Crime Victims' Rights Week in the State of New York

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S09965

Introduced

4/20/26

Refer

4/20/26

Provides for the removal and other disciplinary action of part-time teaching assistants; provides for the procedure of such actions; authorizes suspension pending the determination of charges.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J01934

Introduced

4/22/26

Refer

4/22/26

Report Pass

4/28/26

Passed

4/28/26

Recognizing May 2, 2026, as I Love My Park Day in the State of New York

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J01931

Introduced

4/22/26

Refer

4/22/26

Report Pass

4/28/26

Passed

4/28/26

Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim April 2026, as Sikh Heritage Month in the State of New York

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S10011

Introduced

4/22/26

Refer

4/22/26

Directs the public service commission, in consultation with the New York State energy research and development authority, to create an agrivoltaics incentive program to support agrivoltaic projects designed to maximize agricultural and environmental co-benefits.

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