New York State Senator

Samra Brouk 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 Senate Bill S00643

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
5/21/25  
Refer
5/22/25  
Establishes the youth justice innovation fund to make funds available to community-based organizations for services and programs with the purpose of youth development and preventing youth arrest and incarceration.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00639

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to special provisions for the operation of bicycles when approaching stop signs and traffic-control signals including steady circular red signals and red arrow signals.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00660

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Relates to detaining persons for longer than twenty-four hours.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00594

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Requires all public school districts, charter schools and non-public schools in the state that participate in the national school lunch program or school breakfast program as provided in the national child nutrition act to serve breakfast and lunch at no cost to the student.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00571

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Prohibits landlords, lessors, sub-lessors and grantors from demanding brokers' fees from a tenant.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00557

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
5/5/25  
Refer
5/5/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
5/4/26  
Relates to designating the month of May as "Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month".
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00665

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes a state SNAP minimum benefit program to provide a minimum amount of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits that is higher than the amount of federal SNAP benefits.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00878

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Amends procedures required for the custodial interrogation of children to provide additional protections and for taking juveniles and sixteen and seventeen year olds into custody.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00845

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Prohibits drug, cannabis or alcohol testing of pregnant or postpartum individuals and newborns unless the individual consents and it is within the scope of medical care, or the testing is necessary for a medical emergency.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00884

Introduced
1/8/25  
Enacts the "crash victims bill of rights"; requires accident reports to be delivered to victims of accidents or their next of kin; requires victim impact statements to be delivered at traffic infraction hearings by injured parties or their next of kin; requires employers to grant leave of absence to employees delivering a victim impact statement at a traffic infraction hearing; directs the superintendent of financial services to conduct a study and complete a report on certain automobile crash information.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00945

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Provides that the Governor's annual budget proposal to the Legislature shall include statements of any new legislation, amendment to legislation, or limitation on the effect of any legislation contained in the budget; makes related provisions granting the legislature an equal role with the governor in the budget process.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00937

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Prohibits the use of aversive conditioning which includes any procedure which causes obvious signs of physical pain, including but not limited to hitting, pinching and electric shock; prohibits the use of any procedure or punishment which denies a vulnerable person reasonable sleep, shelter, bedding, bathroom facilities and any other aspect expected of a humane existence; defines terms.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00914

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to creating a separate tax on inheritance income, creating a separate tax on gift income, the computation of the estate tax, and creating a gift tax.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00929

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Engrossed
1/22/25  
Enrolled
12/8/25  
Provides for the protection of health information; establishes requirements for communications to individuals about their health information; requires either written consent or a designated necessary purpose for the processing of an individual's health information.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00954

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes the teachers' fossil fuel divestment act; requires the New York state teachers' retirement system to divest the retirement system of any stocks, securities, equities, assets, or other obligations of corporations or companies included on an exclusion list of coal producers and oil and gas producers.