New York State Senator

Rachel May 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 J00380

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
2/25/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim February 15-22, 2025, as FFA Week in the State of New York
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New York Senate Bill S04908

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Relates to the creation of an innovative housing initiative for persons with a developmental disability who wish and are able to safely reside in such a setting; directs the division of housing and community renewal to establish guidelines for the dissemination of disclosure materials for the offer and sale of interests in residential environments formed under the innovative housing initiative; creates an exemption from certain filing requirements for residential environments that are formed as cooperative interests in realty for persons receiving services under the innovative housing initiative.
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New York Senate Bill J00255

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Report Pass
1/28/25  
Commending Brandon Gruttemeyer upon the occasion of his designation as recipient of a Liberty Medal, the highest honor bestowed upon an individual by the New York State Senate
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New York Senate Bill J00260

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Report Pass
1/28/25  
Commending Jose Cristales upon the occasion of his designation as recipient of a Liberty Medal, the highest honor bestowed upon an individual by the New York State Senate
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New York Senate Bill S02721

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Report Pass
1/27/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Establishes the mobile and manufactured home replacement program to eliminate older mobile and manufactured homes and replace them with new manufactured, modular or site-built homes; makes related provisions.
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New York Senate Bill S04602

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Provides remedies for disrupted voting times and locations during elections; directs that the BOE extend voting to account for the disruption.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02713

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Enacts "local control for speed limits"; authorizes cities, villages, and towns to adjust the speed limit to lower than fifty-five miles per hour, but not less than twenty-five miles per hour, for portions of state highways that are particularly dangerous.
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New York Senate Bill S02672

Introduced
1/22/25  
Increases the notice of cancellation requirements for automobile broker businesses.
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New York Senate Bill S04402

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Relates to funds concerning state university health care facilities; prohibits the use of such funds for payment of certain debts related to a state university health care facility.
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New York Senate Bill S04418

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Prohibits ticket sales that exceed the capacity of a place of entertainment or not-for-profit venue; provides that a violation of such provisions constitutes a misdemeanor punishable by a fine and imprisonment for a period not to exceed one year.
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New York Senate Bill S04387

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Requires consideration as a quantitative factor whether the commodities or services were manufactured or will be performed by a labor union with respect to the awarding of certain procurement contracts.
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New York Senate Bill S04414

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Establishes an optional local tax exemption for affordable multi-family housing, to be implemented by cities, towns and villages based on recommendations developed by the division of housing and community renewal for each economic development region.
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New York Senate Bill S04401

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Relates to journalism usage fees; requires notice to be given to a covered platform by an eligible digital journalism provider requiring covered platforms to pay journalism usage fees to eligible digital journalism providers; establishes arbitration requirements for disputes over such fees.
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New York Senate Bill S04407

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Relates to the number of signatures needed for designating petitions in counties with a population of two hundred fifty thousand or fewer.
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New York Senate Bill S04574

Introduced
2/7/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Engrossed
4/22/25  
Refer
4/22/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
2/10/26  
Enacts the "PFAS discharge disclosure act"; requires certain SPDES permit holders to conduct PFAS monitoring and disclose the results from such monitoring.