New York State Senator

Rebecca Kassay 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00695

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Enacts the "Joseph Fletcher act"; permits certain claims by essential employees for compensation based on death due to COVID-19 which were previously denied or not timely filed.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00410

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires hate crime awareness curriculum or instruction for school districts.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00412

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Adds impersonation of a utility employee or delivery person to criminal impersonation in the first degree.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00472

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes the "clean fuel standard of 2026"; provides such standard is intended to reduce greenhouse gas intensity from the on-road transportation sector, with further reductions to be implemented based upon advances in technology.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00782

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Restricts amplified sound coming from motor vehicles; allows for exceptions for certain police vehicles and certain vehicles used for business or political purposes.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00756

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Report Pass
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Defines the term "construction projects" to mean the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement of any school building where a district receives any apportionment for debt service or building aid and the school building is sited within the Long Island region; provides that each contract involving the award of a construction project shall require the use of a project labor agreement for all contractors and subcontractors on such project.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00807

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Provides that any service outside of a city with a population of more than one million, that is designated as a microtransit service shall be eligible for statewide mass transportation operating assistance regardless of vehicle size; defines "microtransit service" to mean a technology-enabled on-demand service with dynamically generated routing that uses a managed fleet of multi-passenger vehicles dedicated to that service.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00800

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Provides that a person is guilty of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the first degree when such person commits the offense of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree and causes the death or serious physical injury of another person.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00785

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Report Pass
6/6/25  
Refer
6/6/25  
Report Pass
6/11/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Enrolled
7/23/25  
Chaptered
7/24/25  
Requires schools safety plans to include a cardiac emergency response plan that addresses the use of appropriate personnel and measures to respond to incidents involving any individual experiencing sudden cardiac arrest or similar life-threatening emergency on any school site owned or operated by a school or at a location of a school sponsored event.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00787

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes the New York state first home grant program; directs the commissioner of homes and community renewal, in consultation with the state comptroller, to implement such program; provides assistance on behalf of a first time home buyer qualified for such program; and for costs in connection with the acquisition, involving an eligible mortgage loan, of an eligible home, including downpayment costs, closing costs, and costs to reduce the rates of interest on eligible mortgage loans; subsidies to make shared equity homes affordable to home buyers by discounting the price for which the home will be sold and to preserve the affordability of the home for subsequent home buyers; and pre-occupancy home modifications required to accommodate qualified home buyers or members of their household with disabilities; excludes the amount of any grant to any first time home buyer awarded or any federal first time home buyer grant program from taxable income for the purpose of calculating New York adjusted gross income.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00783

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Makes permanent provisions relating to preferred source status for entities that provide employment to certain persons.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00791

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Enacts the "sick leave for pets care act"; allows employees to receive paid sick leave for the medical diagnosis or treatment of such employees' sick pets.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00780

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Enacts the "Supervising Upcoming Professionals for Practice in Official Roles in Therapy (SUPPORT) act"; provides that for licensure as a clinical social worker, an applicant may satisfy the experience requirements under supervision of a mental health practitioner who has been granted the privilege to diagnose and develop assessment-based treatment plans under article one hundred sixty-three of the education law.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00817

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires the commissioner of the office of addiction services and supports to require mental health evaluations for participants in substance use disorder treatment programs and to promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate such requirement.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00828

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes the fifteenth day of the month of Kartika on the Hindu calendar in each year, known as Diwali, as a statewide school holiday.