New York State Senator

Robert Jackson 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 93)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00056

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Engrossed
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Establishes through the department of health a drug checking services program to allow individuals to bring drugs or controlled substances and have them tested for contaminants, toxic substances, or hazardous compounds; requires the department to establish public health surveillance of the unregulated drug supply; provides exemptions for participants in the drug checking program from certain controlled substance offenses.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00172

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
2/4/25  
Report Pass
3/4/25  
Engrossed
3/4/25  
Refer
3/5/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Increases short-term disability benefits.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00050

Introduced
1/8/25  
Extends paid family leave benefits to employees who perform construction, demolition, reconstruction, excavation, rehabilitation, repairs, renovations, alterations, or improvements for multiple employers pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement who shall be eligible for family leave benefits if they were employed for at least twenty-six of the last thirty-nine weeks by any covered employer which is signatory to a collective bargaining agreement.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00173

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes an unemployment bridge program and an unemployment bridge program fund to provide wage replacement to workers that do not qualify for unemployment insurance or other worker wage assistance programs and who have lost a major source of income due to lost work (Part A); establishes the "Digital Ad Tax Act (DATA)" creating a tax on digital advertising services (Part B).
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00158

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Authorizes certain persons confined in institutions operated by the department of corrections and community supervision to apply for a sentence reduction.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00118

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/28/25  
Engrossed
3/20/25  
Refer
3/20/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Relates to the dissemination of information pertaining to individuals suffering from Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia through the NY Connects: Choices for Long Term Care program.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00031

Introduced
1/8/25  
Provides that the thruway authority shall issue permits for ambulances and fire vehicles exempting such vehicles from paying tolls on the thruway when engaged in an emergency operation.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00179

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Relates to authorizing the payment of costs, up to eighty dollars, of diapers for an eligible child two years of age or younger for children receiving safety net assistance.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00036

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Engrossed
1/22/25  
Enrolled
2/3/25  
Chaptered
2/3/25  
Permits prescription labels for mifepristone, misoprostol, and their generic alternatives to include the name of the prescribing health care practice instead of the name of the prescriber at the prescriber's request.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00106

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Establishes safety requirements for operators who use bicycles with electric assist for commercial purposes and the businesses that employ such operators.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00054

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
5/13/25  
Refer
5/13/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
4/28/26  
Prohibits the use of intoxication of the victim as a defense in sex crimes where the victim is under the extreme influence of any substance which renders them incapable of appraising or controlling such victim's conduct and incapable of clearly expressing lack of consent.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00078

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
2/11/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
2/25/26  
Refer
2/25/26  
Requires colleges, universities, professional, proprietary and graduate schools to provide written notice to all students of the institution's tuition liability policy.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00017

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
4/28/26  
Allows industrial development agencies to make grants to municipalities for open space preservation, parkland improvements and conservation easements where the municipal governing body finds that the grant encourages tourism or otherwise improves quality of life.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00159

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
4/8/25  
Provides for findings of the state board of parole necessary for discretionary release of incarcerated individuals on parole.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00105

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Enacts the "Consumer and Small business Protection Act"; relates to standing for persons affected by prohibited or unlawful business practices; expands prohibited acts to include unfair, deceptive or abusive acts.