New York State Senator

Rachel May 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 49)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00229

Introduced

1/15/25

Refer

1/15/25

Report Pass

1/22/25

Passed

1/22/25

Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim January 27, 2025, as Holocaust Remembrance Day in the State of New York

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02124

Introduced

1/15/25

Refer

1/15/25

Engrossed

2/4/25

Refer

2/4/25

Refer

1/7/26

Authorizes the pass-through or transfer of the credits for rehabilitation of historic properties; authorizes the allocation of the credit in a separate manner from any federal certified historic tax credit.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02149

Introduced

1/15/25

Refer

1/15/25

Refer

1/7/26

Requires that a business allow a consumer to cancel a contract between the two parties using the same method that was used to enter into the contract; provides exemptions.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02131

Introduced

1/15/25

Refer

1/15/25

Refer

1/7/26

Relates to securing payment of wages for work already performed; creates a lien remedy for all employees; provides grounds for attachment; relates to procedures where employees may hold shareholders of non-publicly traded corporations personally liable for wage theft; relates to rights for victims of wage theft to hold the ten members with the largest ownership interests in a company personally liable for wage theft.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02132

Introduced

1/15/25

Refer

1/15/25

Refer

1/7/26

Establishes the baby bucks allowance to provide income to eligible participants for the last three months of pregnancy and the first 18 months of the child's life; excludes income received from the baby bucks allowance for purposes of supplemental nutrition assistance program eligibility.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02126

Introduced

1/15/25

Refer

1/15/25

Engrossed

2/12/25

Refer

2/12/25

Refer

1/7/26

Report Pass

1/28/26

Engrossed

5/18/26

Refer

5/18/26

Directs the commissioner to convene statewide and regional conventions to bring together underrepresented educators annually to discuss experiences, best practices, and afford for networking, mentorship opportunities, and support.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02146

Introduced

1/15/25

Refer

1/15/25

Refer

1/7/26

Repeals and reenacts statute of limitation provisions on wrongful death, personal injury and property damage actions against professional engineers, architects, landscape architects, land surveyors, geologists and construction contractors to provide for a limitations period of ten years after completion of improvement to real property; "completion", which constitutes the accrual date for the limitations period, is defined; provides for a one year extension for injuries to person or property or wrongful death which occur during the tenth year after completion.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01910

Introduced

1/14/25

Refer

1/14/25

Refer

1/7/26

Requires the filing of additional transferor and contributor identification information in campaign receipt and expenditure statements for the receipt of amounts over one hundred dollars, including the full name, full residential address including any suite, floor, or apartment, occupation, employer and employer's full business address in the case of an individual, and the full name and address of any partnership, committee, association, corporation, labor organization or group of persons.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01913

Introduced

1/14/25

Refer

1/14/25

Report Pass

2/4/25

Refer

1/7/26

Report Pass

1/27/26

Relates to establishing the "340B prescription drug anti-discrimination act"; prohibits pharmaceutical manufacturers and pharmacy benefit managers from discriminating against covered entities and New York state pharmacies based on participation in the drug discount program authorized by section 340B of the federal public health service act.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02164

Introduced

1/15/25

Refer

1/15/25

Refer

1/7/26

Requires health insurance policies to include coverage of optional anesthesia for certain contraceptive and menstrual health procedures including, but not limited to, loop electrosurgical excision procedure, colposcopy, ablation, and intrauterine device insertion.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02165

Introduced

1/15/25

Refer

1/15/25

Refer

1/7/26

Prohibits hospital interference with patient care where the practitioner is acting in good faith and within the scope of their practice; defines emergency medical conditions; requires appropriate medical screening and stabilizing treatment of persons in an emergency department, including pregnant persons, or appropriate transfer.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02162

Introduced

1/15/25

Refer

1/15/25

Refer

1/7/26

Enacts the "pollinator promotion act" to authorize the commissioner of environmental conservation to promote the health and viability of pollinators in the state and to make municipal adoption and implementation of pollinator promotion plans eligible for climate adaptation and mitigation projects under the climate smart communities program; requires consideration of certain pollinator health initiatives on SUNY campuses; directs the departments of education and environmental conservation to develop guidelines for school districts to implement certain pollinator friendly practices; directs the implementation of certain pollinator friendly practices on highway verges.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02163

Introduced

1/15/25

Refer

1/15/25

Refer

1/7/26

Authorizes and directs the state board of elections, in cooperation with county boards of elections, to create an online petitioning system for designating petitions; provides that use of such online petitioning system shall not preclude the collection and use of paper designating petitions; authorizes the state board of elections to promulgate necessary rules and regulations.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02709

Introduced

1/22/25

Refer

1/22/25

Provides protections for telecommunications tower technicians, including requiring certain trainings during work hours without a loss of pay; requires certain reporting by bidders for telecommunication contracts.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01832

Introduced

1/14/25

Refer

1/14/25

Refer

1/7/26

Requires the department of transportation to develop an updated New York state bicycle and pedestrian plan adapted from the department's nineteen hundred ninety-seven New York state bicycle and pedestrian plan, to be re-evaluated and updated every five years.

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