New York State Senator

Robert Jackson 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 28)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06637

Introduced

3/19/25

Refer

3/19/25

Refer

1/7/26

Establishes certain rights and remedies for employees who are wrongfully discharged; establishes remedies for wrongful discharge; allows an employee or employer to make a written offer to arbitrate a dispute covered under this act; defines terms.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06634

Introduced

3/19/25

Refer

3/19/25

Refer

1/7/26

Prohibits employers from discriminating against individuals based on such individual's status as a caregiver.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06633

Introduced

3/19/25

Refer

3/19/25

Refer

1/7/26

Relates to establishing commercial rent regulation; establishes a right to renew leases and authorizes the rent guidelines board to establish maximum rents.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06630

Introduced

3/19/25

Refer

3/19/25

Refer

1/7/26

Provides for increased participation in state contracts and subcontracts by certified minority and women-owned business enterprises; relates to certain performance and payment bond requirements.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06629

Introduced

3/19/25

Refer

3/19/25

Refer

1/7/26

Prohibits any employer, labor organization, employment agency or licensing agency, or employees or agents thereof, to seek high school, college or graduate program graduation dates from a prospective employee for an interview or as a condition for employment.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06628

Introduced

3/19/25

Refer

3/19/25

Refer

1/7/26

Prohibits the city school district from reimbursing charter schools for leasing a privately owned or other publicly owned facility; prohibits charter school employee contracts from including a non-disclosure agreement.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06632

Introduced

3/19/25

Refer

3/19/25

Refer

1/7/26

Requires the city of New York to consult with the community board of the district and all local elected officials where a proposed homeless shelter or use of commercial hotel space to shelter homeless individuals shall be located, at least three hundred sixty-five days beforehand.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06635

Introduced

3/19/25

Refer

3/19/25

Refer

1/7/26

Imposes an additional two percent sales tax on retail sales of motor vehicles over $70,000, excluding commercial vehicles and electric vehicles, jewelry over $5,000 and articles of clothing, footwear, handbags, luggage, umbrellas, wallets or watches sold for over $1,000; provides that such tax shall be distributed equally to the credit of the state university of New York and the city university of New York.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06636

Introduced

3/19/25

Refer

3/19/25

Refer

1/7/26

Suspends all unnecessary travel to states that have enacted a law that voids or repeals, or has the effect of voiding or repealing, existing state or local protections against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression or have enacted a law that authorizes or requires discrimination against same-sex couples or their families or on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression, including any law that creates an exemption to antidiscrimination laws in order to permit discrimination against same-sex couples or their families or on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06631

Introduced

3/19/25

Refer

3/19/25

Refer

1/7/26

Provides for cost-of-living adjustments; provides that the base benefit amount shall be increased annually by reference to the consumer price index for each applicable calendar year beginning on September 1, 2025.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06719

Introduced

3/20/25

Refer

3/20/25

Report Pass

4/29/25

Report Pass

5/27/25

Refer

1/7/26

Relates to determinations of appropriate educational programs for certain students in a school district in a city having a population of one million or more.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06670

Introduced

3/19/25

Refer

3/19/25

Provides a half exemption for the sale of the first $35,000 for a battery, electric, or plug-in hybrid electric vehicle from state sales and compensating use taxes and a full exemption on such sales where the vehicle was assembled in the United States utilizing union labor; authorizes local governments to elect such incentives; repeals the hybrid exemption after ten years.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06639

Introduced

3/19/25

Refer

3/19/25

Report Pass

4/8/25

Refer

1/7/26

Increases the limitation of overtime compensation in final average salary calculations from fifteen percent to thirty percent.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06673

Introduced

3/19/25

Refer

3/19/25

Refer

1/7/26

Relates to conversions of real property in public housing developments in relation to the RAD program; sets notice requirements for public housing authorities.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06640

Introduced

3/19/25

Refer

3/19/25

Report Pass

4/2/25

Engrossed

6/9/25

Refer

6/9/25

Engrossed

6/11/25

Enrolled

12/8/25

Vetoed

12/19/25

Provides an option for beneficiaries of NYC transit authority members to receive a lump sum equal to the pension reserve where a member who is eligible for a service retirement dies prior to filing for retirement.

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