New York State Senator

Robert Ortt 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00761

Introduced
1/8/25  
Relates to including information about Down Syndrome in the health care and wellness education and outreach program; amends the effectiveness thereof.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00587

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Establishes an income tax deduction for cash and credit card tips received which are considered wages or compensation.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00722

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Prohibits funding for SUNY, CUNY or community colleges which, directly or indirectly, permit terrorist organizations on campus; provides that the state university trustees adopt rules and regulations that any student group or student organization that receives funding from the state university of New York that directly or indirectly promotes, encourages, advocates, or permits any terrorist advocacy or activities on campuses, shall be ineligible for funding, including funding from student activity fee proceeds.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00690

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Enacts the "donor-conceived person protection act" to ensure that reproductive tissue banks, licensed by the department of health, collect and verify medical information from any donor it procures reproductive tissue from and to disseminate such information to a recipient before a recipient purchases or otherwise receives such tissue, and to donor-conceived persons, if any, when such persons turn eighteen years of age or earlier upon consent of the recipient parent or guardian; defines terms.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00851

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes a housing infrastructure tax credit to provide a credit of up to ten percent of costs for infrastructure projects related to the construction of new homes or multiple dwellings commenced and completed within a specific time period.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00836

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Prohibits a municipality from relocating migrants from such municipality to another municipality in New York unless and until a resolution authorizing the relocation has been adopted by the governing bodies of both the municipality to which the migrants are to be relocated and the county in which the receiving municipality is located; mandates written notice prior to location; provides for a fine for violations.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00942

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Makes life imprisonment without parole mandatory for defendants convicted of murder in the first degree or second degree and the victim is a police officer, peace officer, first responder or correctional officer.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00960

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Relates to items of appropriation.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00907

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Enacts "Alix's law"; relates to leaving the scene of an incident without reporting it; relates to operating a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00615

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes the offenses of menacing a police officer or peace officer in the first degree and menacing a police officer or peace officer in the second degree; relates to circumstances under which an officer is not required to issue an appearance ticket; makes conforming changes.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00356

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to paratransit services; directs that an applicant for recertification submit correspondence from a licensed physician in lieu of an in-person assessment.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00222

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Provides that it shall be a class C felony to subject another person to physical contact that results in such person falling onto subway tracks.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00270

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
3/3/25  
Refer
3/3/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
2/3/26  
Provides an exemption from requirements for the alienation of parkland for renewable energy generating projects with a generating capacity not exceeding two megawatts and which are located above real property currently used for vehicle parking.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01154

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Permits those licensed to carry or possess a pistol or revolver or to purchase or take possession of a semi-automatic rifle or licensed to hunt wildlife to purchase or take possession of ammunition without requiring contacting the statewide license and record database.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01189

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Relates to licensure requirements for fiscal intermediaries.