New York State Senator

Rebecca Seawright 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 52)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01502

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Restricts certain substances from being used in menstrual products.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01507

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Requires shelter allowances be set at up to one hundred percent of the fair market rent for the local social services district.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01607

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
5/19/26  
Relates to the provision of breast pumps and related collection and storage materials to certain incarcerated nursing birth parents who are confined in or committed to an institution or local correctional facility with or without their child subject to specific time limitations; requires institutions and local correctional facilities to provide pumps and related materials to such incarcerated birth parents; requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to issue an annual report on data relating to incarcerated birth parents.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01529

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Report Pass
5/29/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Refer
6/10/25  
Engrossed
3/11/26  
Requires the disclosure of lead-based paint test reports in real estate transactions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01499

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Establishes the New York long term care trust program to provide long term care benefits for eligible residents who have paid the required premium contributions and are in need of assistance with at least two activities of daily living as determined by the department of health.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01556

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
6/13/25  
Refer
6/13/25  
Enacts the "food safety and chemical disclosure act"; prohibits certain food additives and food color additives; provides that in an action to enforce compliance, the recognition by the federal food and drug administration of any of these substances as safe may not be alleged as a defense; establishes requirements for the reporting of GRAS (generally recognized as safe) substances.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01670

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Prohibits the use of restraints on and the use of force against incarcerated individuals during labor and incarcerated individuals who have experienced different pregnancy outcomes, absent extraordinary circumstances, and on pregnant and post-pregnancy persons during a custodial interrogation; provides for certain exceptions for restraints to be used and in such case limits the use to wrist restraints.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01597

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
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.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01626

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Prohibits health care practitioners from performing a virginity examination or supervising the performance of a virginity examination on a patient; defines "virginity examination".
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01494

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Repeals the rebates for stock transfer tax paid; dedicates funds of the stock transfer tax fund and stock transfer incentive fund to various funds; establishes the safe water and infrastructure action program.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01565

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Establishes the homeless protection act which designates certain offenses against homeless persons as hate crimes; includes the definition of homelessness.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01558

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
5/5/26  
Requires retailers to post warning signs of the tracking and collecting of customers biometric data through electronic devices; provides for civil penalties.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01580

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Establishes the teachers' fossil fuel divestment act; requires the New York state teachers' retirement system to divest the retirement system of any stocks, securities, equities, assets, or other obligations of corporations or companies included on an exclusion list of coal producers and oil and gas producers.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02080

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/15/25  
Directs a feasibility study on installing solar panels on all public buildings.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02239

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/15/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
1/21/26  
Engrossed
1/27/26  
Refer
1/27/26  
Includes contacts via text, email, private message, direct message or other electronic communication in the definition of the offense of aggravated harassment in the second degree.