New York State Senator

Sam Berger 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00509

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Allows camp employees to administer medications and treatment to children, under parent or guardian consent and authorization, pursuant to a patient specific order and in compliance with regulations.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00410

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires hate crime awareness curriculum or instruction for school districts.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00570

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to providing transportation for children with a disability; removes the requirement that a child attends the school the district is providing transportation to for the purpose of receiving services or programs similar to special educational programs recommended for such child by the local committee on special education.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00585

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Repeals provisions relating to public financing.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00600

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Includes physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, respiratory therapists, respiratory therapy technicians, and recreational therapists within the existing statutory staffing standards for nursing homes.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00756

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Report Pass
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Defines the term "construction projects" to mean the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement of any school building where a district receives any apportionment for debt service or building aid and the school building is sited within the Long Island region; provides that each contract involving the award of a construction project shall require the use of a project labor agreement for all contractors and subcontractors on such project.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00792

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Excludes Medicare premiums from the definition of income for purposes of the senior citizen rent increase exemptions (SCRIE) program and the disability rent increase exemption (DRIE).
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00839

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Permits a school food authority to attribute moneys spent on purchases of food products from New York state farmers, growers, producers or processors made for its school breakfast program to the thirty percent of costs for school breakfast, snack and lunch service programs.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00823

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires all state and private agencies with mandatory reporters of incidents involving vulnerable people to retrain all staff on reporting to a 9-1-1 operator and the county district attorney's office and state and private websites; requires written materials to be updated.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00782

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Restricts amplified sound coming from motor vehicles; allows for exceptions for certain police vehicles and certain vehicles used for business or political purposes.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00788

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires that the distinctive license plate numbers issued to the owner of a registered motor vehicle be changed and the registration record for such motor vehicle be updated to reflect such change within a week after such plates being stolen.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00753

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Provides that the course consisting of classroom driver training and highway safety instruction that is required of driver's license applicants shall be not more than six hours instead of five.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00800

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Provides that a person is guilty of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the first degree when such person commits the offense of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree and causes the death or serious physical injury of another person.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00780

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Enacts the "Supervising Upcoming Professionals for Practice in Official Roles in Therapy (SUPPORT) act"; provides that for licensure as a clinical social worker, an applicant may satisfy the experience requirements under supervision of a mental health practitioner who has been granted the privilege to diagnose and develop assessment-based treatment plans under article one hundred sixty-three of the education law.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00110

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Divides the one hundred ninth precinct of the New York city police department into two separate subdivisions.