New York State Senator

Rachel May 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 42)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01515

Introduced
1/10/25  
Removes expenditures for emergency medical services from the limit on real property tax levies by local governments.
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New York Senate Bill S01526

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Requires that parents of students at student orientations, back to school nights, or other beginning of year events, at schools that participate in the national school lunch program or school breakfast program, receive notification of eligibility, and access to application, for free or reduced price meals for students.
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New York Senate Bill S03157

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Engrossed
6/5/25  
Refer
6/5/25  
Engrossed
6/17/25  
Enrolled
12/8/25  
Chaptered
12/19/25  
Authorizes a licensed dental hygienist, collaborative practice to provide services without supervision in collaboration with a licensed dentist under a collaborative practice agreement.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York Senate Bill S03072

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Engrossed
4/3/25  
Refer
4/3/25  
Engrossed
5/28/25  
Enrolled
12/8/25  
Chaptered
12/19/25  
Prohibits the use of consumer credit history in hiring, employment and licensing determinations.
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New York Senate Bill S03100

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Engrossed
3/17/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Expands coverage for the treatment of asthma to include a second rescue and maintenance inhaler, along with any medically necessary devices for children under nineteen years of age.
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New York Senate Bill S03107

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Establishes a school ventilation and energy efficiency assessment, repair and verification program to require each school to: obtain an HVAC Assessment Report performed by qualified testing personnel documenting the functionality of the existing system or lack thereof, and obtain a report from a mechanical engineer identifying any upgrades, replacements or other measures recommended to improve the functionality, health and safety and/or energy efficiency of the HVAC system; adjust, and, if necessary, repair existing building HVAC systems, and install or replace HVAC systems, if necessary, to ensure proper and efficient operation, as well as compliance with health and safety standards; obtain an HVAC Verification Report performed by qualified testing personnel documenting any upgrades, replacements, installations or any other work performed on the HVAC system functions as designed and/or in compliance with health and safety standards; install CO2 sensors in classrooms, assembly areas, kitchen or cafeteria areas or building office spaces to provide ongoing verification that proper ventilation is maintained during operation; makes related provisions.
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New York Senate Bill S03066

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Allows credit unions, savings banks, savings and loan associations and federal savings associations to accept and secure deposits from municipal corporations.
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New York Senate Bill S03154

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
4/8/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Directs the office of children and family services to establish Dolly Parton's statewide imagination library program for encouraging children from birth to five years of age, inclusive, to develop a love of reading and learning; directs the office of children and family services to promote the statewide development of local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; advance and strengthen local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs with the goal of increasing enrollment; recruit volunteers to assist in the development, promotion, and coordination of local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; solicit donations, gifts, and other funding to financially support local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; develop community engagement; develop, promote, and coordinate a public awareness campaign to make donors aware of the opportunity to donate to the affiliate programs and make the public aware of the opportunity to register eligible children to receive books through the program; administer the local match requirement and coordinate the collection and remittance of local program costs for books and mailing; and develop statewide marketing and communication plans; establishes the imagination library of New York fund.
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New York Senate Bill S03144

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Requires accessible buses to be available within a service area measuring three miles from any bus line of the authority or its subsidiaries.
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New York Senate Bill S03207

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
3/19/26  
Establishes maximum contaminant levels in drinking water for certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS); sets such levels at no higher than 4 parts per trillion (ppt) for perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and no higher than 10 parts per trillion (ppt) for perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA), perfluorohexane sulfonate (PFHxS), and hexafluoropropylene oxide dimer acid (HFPO-DA).
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New York Senate Bill S03214

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Prohibits the sale of foods containing synthetic color additives in schools except under certain circumstances off and away from the premises or on premises at least a half hour after the end of the school day.
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New York Senate Bill S03161

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Engrossed
2/12/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Engrossed
6/13/25  
Enrolled
11/17/25  
Chaptered
11/21/25  
Moves the Amistad Commission from the department of state to the state education department.
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New York Senate Bill S03179

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Engrossed
3/24/25  
Refer
3/24/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
2/25/26  
Relates to the definition of coal tar and its use in pavement products.
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New York Senate Bill S03203

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Report Pass
3/4/25  
Engrossed
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
2/24/26  
Relates to preserving access to affordable drugs; provides that an agreement resolving or settling, on a final or interim basis, a patent infringement claim, in connection with the sale of a pharmaceutical product, shall be presumed to have anticompetitive effects if a nonreference drug filer receives anything of value from another company asserting patent infringement and if the nonreference drug filer agrees to limit or forego research, development, manufacturing, marketing, or sales of the nonreference drug filer's product for any period of time.
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New York Senate Bill S03245

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Relates to payments in lieu of taxes; provides that the tax base growth factor or quantity change factor includes the change in assessed value for each property on the exempt side of the tax rolls under a payment in lieu of tax agreement; allows a local government or school district to elect to include the equivalent taxable value of property subject to a payment in lieu of taxes agreement in the calculation of its quantity change factor.