New York State Senator

Rachel May 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 63)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S08633

Introduced

12/29/25

Refer

12/29/25

Refer

1/7/26

Relates to coercive control; provides that the family court and the criminal courts shall have concurrent jurisdiction over acts which constitute coercive control; provides that courts may issue orders of protection upon a finding of coercive control; directs the office of court administration, in consultation with the office for the prevention of domestic violence and certain organizations, to develop and administer training for judges and court clerks on coercive control.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S09829

Introduced

4/7/26

Refer

4/7/26

Establishes that when mechanically propelled vessels meet swimmers, kayaks, canoes, row boats, paddleboards, crew racing shells or other nonmotorized boats or floatation devices proceeding in such direction as to involve risk of collision, the swimmer, kayak, canoe, row boat, paddleboard, crew-racing shell or other nonmotorized boat or floatation device shall have the right of way.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S07131

Introduced

4/1/25

Refer

4/1/25

Refer

1/7/26

Establishes standards for the design and construction of all-gender bathrooms in the state and in New York city; provides standards will be permitted in both new construction and existing structures undergoing repair, renovation, or alteration work.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S07122

Introduced

4/1/25

Refer

4/1/25

Refer

1/7/26

Directs the state to provide annual base funding to community colleges operating under the university of the state of New York; requires funding to be indexed to inflation; requires annual reporting.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S08442

Introduced

6/18/25

Refer

6/18/25

Refer

1/7/26

Prohibits non-physician organizations or their representatives to hold majority shares in or serve as directors of professional corporations organized to practice medicine.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J01300

Introduced

12/31/25

Refer

12/31/25

Report Pass

1/21/26

Passed

1/21/26

Congratulating the York Middle/High School Girls Varsity Volleyball Team upon the occasion of winning the NYSPHSAA Class D State Championship

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S09821

Introduced

4/7/26

Refer

4/7/26

Enacts the "Empowering People in Rights Enforcement (EMPIRE) Worker Protection Act"; relates to the delegation of state enforcement authority to private actors; authorizes an affected employee, whistleblower, representative organization or an organizational deputy to initiate a public enforcement action on behalf of the commissioner for certain provisions of the labor law, or any regulation promulgated thereunder.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S09869

Introduced

4/9/26

Refer

4/9/26

Establishes a task force to study aging in place in mental health housing; provides for the repeal of such task force upon expiration thereof.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J01859

Introduced

4/9/26

Refer

4/9/26

Report Pass

4/21/26

Passed

4/21/26

Commemorating April 8, 2026, as the One-Year Anniversary of the Jet Set nightclub tragedy in the Dominican Republic, and paying tribute to the many lives lost and injured in the incident

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00594

Introduced

3/27/25

Refer

3/27/25

Passed

4/8/25

Congratulating Carman Bogle for her ceaseless dedication as Mayor of the Village of Cambridge, New York

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J01252

Introduced

6/12/25

Refer

6/12/25

Report Pass

6/12/25

Passed

6/12/25

Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim June 2025, as LGBTQIA+ Pride Month in the State of New York

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S08347

Introduced

6/4/25

Refer

6/4/25

Refer

1/7/26

Establishes the "SNAP for students act" requiring the office of temporary and disability assistance to create informational materials to provide information regarding student eligibility for SNAP benefits and to provide digital versions of such materials to institutions of higher education in the state; requires institutions of higher education to notify students of their potential eligibility for SNAP benefits.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S07165

Introduced

4/3/25

Refer

4/3/25

Engrossed

6/5/25

Refer

6/5/25

Refer

1/7/26

Report Pass

1/27/26

Engrossed

2/4/26

Refer

2/5/26

Authorizes the public service commission to consider non-economic loss suffered by consumers, including pain and suffering or mental anguish, when determining penalties against a public utility company, corporation or person or a combination gas and electric corporation.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S08421

Introduced

6/9/25

Refer

6/9/25

Engrossed

6/12/25

Refer

6/12/25

Refer

1/7/26

Enacts the "Customer Savings and Reliability Act" in relation to regional affordable gas transition plans to guide an orderly, affordable, and equitable right-sizing of the utility gas system in a manner that aligns with climate justice and emissions reduction provisions.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S08417

Introduced

6/9/25

Refer

6/9/25

Engrossed

6/12/25

Refer

6/12/25

Engrossed

6/16/25

Enrolled

12/8/25

Chaptered

12/19/25

Passed

12/19/25

Provides that in the case of any application for gas service to a building which is not supplied with gas, a utility corporation or municipality shall be obligated to provide gas service to such building.

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