New York State Senator

Robert Jackson 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 14)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02533

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Authorizes the dispensing of abortion medication under certain conditions; requires insurance policies providing coverage for contraception to provide coverage for abortion medication.
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New York Senate Bill S02513

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Enacts "Cecilia's act for rights in the sex trades"; decriminalizes certain prostitution offenses; amends provisions relating to prosecution of such offenses and vacating judgments.
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New York Senate Bill S02547

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Establishes a culturally responsive education curriculum and standards; requires all school districts, charter schools and private schools to integrate culturally responsive education throughout the education of all students at all grade levels; establishes a pilot program in culturally responsive education; appropriates $25,000,000 therefor.
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New York Senate Bill S02596

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
5/5/26  
Relates to an individual's right to request a hearing regarding an unemployment insurance benefits claim; provides such a hearing can be requested if benefits or a written notice of determination denying their claim are not received within thirty days of providing all required information.
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New York Senate Bill S02595

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Removes the exclusion of part-time employees from certain definitions relating to employment and expanding the definition of employer; removes certain exclusions for employer notice requirements for the closing of a facility; removes the discretionary reduction of penalties for employers for certain acts or omissions concerning notice requirements for mass layoffs, relocations or employment loss; removes the maximum time period for determining back pay and other liabilities for certain employees who experience employment loss; allows the attorney general to take certain action to assist certain employees in receiving back pay and other liabilities; requires employers to pay severance to employees when there is a plant closing, relocation, or mass layoff.
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New York Senate Bill S02626

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Increases the amount of residential solar tax credits.
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New York Senate Bill S02590

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Engrossed
4/1/25  
Refer
4/1/25  
Engrossed
5/21/25  
Enrolled
9/22/25  
Chaptered
9/26/25  
Requires nonpublic schools provide and maintain on-site automatic external defibrillator (AED) equipment on school grounds and assure that AED equipment is available for off-site curricular events, extracurricular events or school-sponsored athletic events.
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New York Senate Bill S02594

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Requires any public school located in a city with a population of one million or more to offer a remote learning option to all primary and secondary students when such public school is located in a county determined by the federal centers for disease control and prevention to have a substantial or high level of community transmission of any illness deemed by the federal centers for disease control and prevention to be an outbreak.
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New York Senate Bill S02589

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Engrossed
4/2/25  
Refer
4/2/25  
Engrossed
5/21/25  
Enrolled
11/17/25  
Chaptered
11/21/25  
Clarifies valid reasons to obtain an absentee ballot for elections in school districts which do not utilize poll registration.
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New York Senate Bill S02627

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Engrossed
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
3/16/26  
Establishes the homeowner protection program; provides that the department of law shall establish the homeowner protection program to ensure the availability of free housing counseling and legal services to homeowners for the purposes of mitigating threats to homeownership; provides that the department of law shall provide grants to eligible not-for-profit housing counseling organizations and legal services organizations to provide services under the program.
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New York Senate Bill S02637

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Provides grants to address food insecurity among students at public institutions for higher education.
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New York Senate Bill S02635

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Enacts the "vicarious liability for housing discrimination act"; imposes vicarious liability on a person for unlawful discriminatory practices related to the sale, rental, or lease of certain property by such person's agent.
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New York Senate Bill S02640

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Refer
6/10/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
3/23/26  
Includes veterans in the definition of military status to protect veterans from being unlawfully discriminated against.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02631

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Requires public elementary schools to start no earlier than eight a.m. and public secondary schools to start no earlier than eight thirty a.m.
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New York Senate Bill S02632

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Enacts the solar for schools act which provides grants for eligible school districts to purchase and install solar and geothermal power sources; defines terms; directs the New York state energy and research development authority to establish such grant program; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof; makes an appropriation therefor.