New York State Senator

Robert Jackson 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 45)

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Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York Senate Bill S05550

Introduced
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Authorizes high school students to vote on city-wide education councils regardless of age.
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New York Senate Bill S05539

Introduced
2/24/25  
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 Senate Bill S05591

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Establishes an Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) leadership institute within the state university of New York as an initiative for Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) leaders in higher education with a mission to retain and grow from within SUNY a greater proportion of Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) professionals at SUNY campuses; creates an eight member advisory council.
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New York Senate Bill S05609

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Report Pass
5/5/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Prohibits the use of biometric surveillance technology by law enforcement; establishes the biometric surveillance regulation task force; provides for the expiration and repeal of certain provisions.
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New York Senate Bill S05598

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
4/20/26  
Enacts protections for private education loan borrowers and cosigners; requires certain notifications from creditors and debt collectors; prohibits acceleration; enacts provisions for cosigner release.
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New York Senate Bill S05593

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Engrossed
6/5/25  
Refer
6/5/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
1/27/26  
Provides that subsequent requests for an extension of a suspension period for certain rate, charge or other changes by utilities shall require approval by the public service commission and shall be valid for one month, after which the commission shall review and determine the necessity of a further extension; provides limitations on retroactive rate recovery by utilities.
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New York Senate Bill S04354

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Provides final discipline authority over civilian complaints to the civilian complaint review board; creates a hearing officer and adjudicative body for such complaint review board.
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New York Senate Bill S04411

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Directs the metropolitan transportation authority, in conjunction with the New York city transit authority, to develop weekly and monthly tickets valid for optional, discounted transfers between such authorities.
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New York Senate Bill S04364

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Ensures that boards of elections provide adequate notice to each voter before and after a board cancels the voter's registration or places such voter in inactive status.
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New York Senate Bill S04421

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Provides a fare-free bus pilot program in New York City for one year, subject to appropriations.
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New York Senate Bill S05684

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
2/27/25  
Relates to returnable bottles; adds noncarbonated soft drinks, certain noncarbonated fruit or vegetable juices, coffee and tea beverages, carbonated fruit beverages and cider to the definition of "beverage"; provides that beginning April 1, 2027, the handling fee will be six cents for each beverage container accepted by a deposit initiator from a dealer or operator of a redemption center; directs the multi-agency bottle bill fraud investigation team to submit a report on findings of pervasive bottle redemption fraud in New York state.
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New York Senate Bill S05706

Introduced
2/28/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
3/4/26  
Authorizes certain nursing students to administer certain vaccines pursuant to patient specific orders or non-patient specific orders; authorizes physicians and certified nurse practitioners to prescribe and order a patient specific order or non-patient specific order to a nursing student to administer certain vaccines.
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New York Senate Bill S05695

Introduced
2/28/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Provides the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly the ability to appoint four members each of the state university of New York's board of trustees; reduces the members of such board the governor appoints to seven.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York Senate Bill S04320

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Extends the pilot program to examine the effects of waiving the state civil service examination fee to December 31, 2027.
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New York Senate Bill S04426

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Relates to waiving the earning limitations for retired sworn officers employed by a district attorney as investigators.