New York State Senator

Rachel May 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 32)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S08096

Introduced
5/15/25  
Refer
5/15/25  
Prevents public employers from diminishing health insurance benefits provided to retirees and their dependents or the contributions such employer makes for such health insurance coverage below the level of such benefits or contributions made on behalf of such retirees and their dependents by such public employer.
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New York Senate Bill S08042

Introduced
5/15/25  
Refer
5/15/25  
Requires gas pipeline facilities to accelerate the repair, rehabilitation, and replacement of equipment or pipelines that are leaking or leak prone and increase safety reporting relating to gas pipeline leaks; requires the public service commission to establish timelines for the repair, rehabilitation or replacement of leaking or leak prone infrastructure; requires the commission to provide a gas safety report to the legislature.
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New York Senate Bill S08084

Introduced
5/15/25  
Refer
5/15/25  
Establishes an animal abuser registry; requires background checks for pet store and animal shelter licenses.
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New York Senate Bill J01059

Introduced
5/16/25  
Refer
5/16/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Commemorating the Carlos Lezama Archives and Caribbean Cultural Center's Lunch by the Bay honoring Paul Romeo as 2025 Father of the Year on June 29, 2025
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New York Senate Bill J01066

Introduced
5/19/25  
Refer
5/19/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim October 9, 2025, as Sneakers Day in the State of New York
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New York Senate Bill J01067

Introduced
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Honoring the Lexington School for the Deaf upon the occasion of hosting its 28th Annual Basketball Classic vs. Assembly/Senate All-Stars on May 20, 2025
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New York Senate Bill S07580

Introduced
4/22/25  
Provides that a scholarship for academic excellence that is declined by a student prior to the end of their high school program shall be granted to the next most qualified student, if practicable.
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New York Senate Bill S07618

Introduced
4/23/25  
Refer
4/23/25  
Report Pass
5/14/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
3/24/26  
Requires certain labeling to be used to indicate the safety dates and quality dates of food products; requires the department of agriculture and markets to educate consumers about such provisions.
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New York Senate Bill S07617

Introduced
4/23/25  
Refer
4/23/25  
Enacts the safer consumption services act which provides for the establishment of a program to provide safe injection sites.
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New York Senate Bill J00849

Introduced
4/24/25  
Refer
4/24/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim July 2025, as Juvenile Arthritis Month in the State of New York
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New York Senate Bill S07638

Introduced
4/24/25  
Refer
4/24/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Provides that certain purchase contracts to purchase food can be awarded to a qualified bidder who fulfills certain values based procurement standards when such bid is not more than 10% higher than the lowest responsible bidder and when the bidder makes publicly available data on where such bidder sources their food items; sets forth the criteria for values based procurement standards to include local economies, environmental resilience, racial equity, valued workforce, valued agricultural sector, animal welfare, and nutrition.
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New York Senate Bill S07651

Introduced
4/25/25  
Refer
4/25/25  
Requires the commissioner of labor, in consultation with the commissioner of health and the commissioner of environmental conservation, to develop instructional tools and materials for industries at high-risk for occupational tick exposures; requires such materials to provide information on the identification of ticks and tick removal, and protection from tick bites; requires such materials to be available to high-risk employers and employees at no charge.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S08064

Introduced
5/15/25  
Refer
5/15/25  
Authorizes certain school districts and their municipalities to sign a memorandum of understanding authorizing a one-time annual increase to the amount of school district expenditures funded by city funds to be excluded from the maintenance of effort calculation.
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New York Senate Bill S07601

Introduced
4/23/25  
Refer
4/23/25  
Provides that municipal broadband service companies are authorized to provide broadband service to tenants in multi-family housing; provides that landlords shall not interfere with the installation of such service, demand or accept payment for allowing the service on the property, or discriminate in rental charges between tenants who receive broadband service and those that don't.
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New York Senate Bill S07662

Introduced
4/25/25  
Refer
4/25/25  
Requires a local health department to report positive cytomegalovirus results.