New York State Senator

Rachel May 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 53)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04071

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Engrossed
4/3/25  
Refer
4/3/25  
Includes stormwater in the definition of sewage for purposes of certain water, sewer, and water and sewer authorities; defines stormwater.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04069

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Requires any municipality which conducts lead testing to provide notices to the owner and any tenants of a residence upon a positive test and inform the owner and any tenants of lead abatement programs and other resources; requires municipalities to notify tenants of lead testing.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04060

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Establishes the climate relocation planning and preparation act to prepare state government and regional planning councils for the possibility of increased in-migration to New York state due to climate change.
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New York Senate Bill S04058

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Relates to low or moderate income housing developments; allows local zoning boards of appeals to approve affordable housing developments; provides for an appeals process to the division of housing and community renewal; creates a state zoning board of appeals within the division to hear such appeals; directs the division to conduct a study to integrate low income housing tax credit applications with the zoning application process under this act.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04068

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to establish rules and regulations for a college or university seeking to cease operations in an orderly process.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04059

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Provides that restaurants and third-party food delivery service may provide single-use food service items to customers when explicitly requested by the customer; prohibits certain plastic single-use items.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04061

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Permits and encourages state owned parking facilities to install solar canopies in any parking garage, open parking lot or other parking facility owned and/or operated by the state of New York, that offers parking spaces for the purposes of public use, state employee use or pay-per-usage constructed prior to January first, 2030; requires such installation after January 1, 2030.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04417

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Engrossed
6/13/25  
Refer
6/13/25  
Relates to conciliation and non-compliance with public assistance employment.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04386

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Establishes a chief sustainability officer to coordinate efforts across state agencies and other state government entities to address climate change mitigation and climate sustainability efforts.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04067

Introduced
1/31/25  
Codifies the disparate impact standard in the human rights law; provides that in cases of alleged housing discrimination, an unlawful discriminatory practice may be established by a practice's discriminatory effect.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04102

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Refer
6/10/25  
Requires the establishment of community housing waiting lists within the office of mental health service system; directs each provider of housing services in the office of mental health system to provide, on a monthly basis, the office of mental health with a list of each person referred to, admitted to, applying for, withdrawing an application for and denied admission to housing provided by such provider; requires the community-based agency performing assessments of persons with a documented mental illness to provide the office with the names of such who have been assessed and who meet the eligibility criteria for the array of funded and/or licensed housing programs; requires such office to publish such waiting lists on a monthly basis.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04433

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Engrossed
2/25/25  
Requires the clear and conspicuous disclosure of pricing changes for online grocery delivery and online pick-up services; imposes a fine of not more than one hundred dollars for the first offense and not more than two hundred fifty dollars for a second and each subsequent offense for violations.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02657

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Engrossed
2/12/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Establishes the bilingual teachers of tomorrow teacher recruitment and retention program to attract and retain bilingual, certified teachers in schools with a bilingual teacher shortage; provides for grants and procedures for applying for such grants and eligibility requirements for fund distribution.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04472

Introduced
2/5/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Implements automatic market rate increases for child care assistance such that assistance will be equal to the applicable payment rate established by the department.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00466

Introduced
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Report Pass
3/11/25  
Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Buffalo Zoo