New York State Senator

Sam Berger 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 4)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09566

Introduced
1/14/26  
Refer
1/14/26  
Report Pass
2/5/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Report Pass
5/5/26  
Engrossed
5/11/26  
Refer
5/11/26  
Extends the duration of limited permits to practice licensed clinical social work and use the title licensed clinical social worker, or practice licensed master social work and use the title licensed master social worker from twelve to twenty-four months with the ability to be renewed for up to two additional one-year periods.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00111

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Prohibits certain surcharges on certain credit or debit card transactions in the city of New York; provides that no agency or department of the city of New York, or any tribunal located therein, shall be authorized to impose a surcharge on a holder who elects to use a credit or debit card in lieu of payment by cash, check, or similar means to pay any fine, civil penalty, or fee owed.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00113

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Provides an exemption to the prohibition on tinted windows in automobiles for emergency ambulance service vehicles.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09521

Introduced
1/14/26  
Raises the minimum fee for temporary interpreters; requires that town and village courts share in the compensation of such temporary interpreters.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09565

Introduced
1/14/26  
Excludes violations occurring within one hundred feet from a place of worship, funeral home, or similar institution from bus operation-related traffic regulations as part of participation in a ceremony or religious service.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09528

Introduced
1/14/26  
Sets minimum staffing standards for employees performing emergency medical services in the 911 system in a city with a population of over one million people.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09570

Introduced
1/15/26  
Refer
1/15/26  
Report Pass
4/21/26  
Refer
4/21/26  
Permits local governments to extend the existing clergy residential property tax exemption to include clergy residing in co-ops; clarifies that the clergy property tax exemption shall not affect eligibility for certain other tax abatements.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09571

Introduced
1/16/26  
Increases short-term disability benefits.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02598

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Establishes Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as school holidays, with dates established by religious law and tradition; allows for school districts and municipalities with a population of less than fifty thousand to opt into the recognition of such holidays.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02481

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Establishes the crime of aggravated offering of a false accusation against a peace officer or police officer for knowingly reporting false or baseless information relating to wrongdoing by a police or peace officer to a law enforcement agency; creates a private right of action for damages.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02440

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Report Pass
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Requires each appropriate institution housing a defendant due to mental disease or defect to assign a critical time intervention care management team to the defendant and make a single point of access referral for the defendant prior to such defendant's discharge.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02571

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Relates to the practice of professional geology.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02534

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Provides for the initiation of treatment for COVID-19, influenza, and pharyngitis resulting from a Group A streptococcal infection by a licensed pharmacist in certain circumstances.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02588

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Authorizes certain licensed health service professionals to form limited liability companies.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02619

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
5/19/25  
Refer
5/19/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
5/12/26  
Establishes certain rights upon the expiration of ground lease residential cooperative apartment buildings.