New York State Senator

Scott Bendett 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 27)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09072

Introduced

9/5/25

Refer

9/5/25

Refer

1/7/26

Establishes a digital legal mail program for the delivery of privileged correspondences to incarcerated individuals housed at correctional facilities; requires law offices sending legal mail via digital platforms to incarcerated individuals to register with the department of corrections.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09127

Introduced

9/26/25

Refer

9/26/25

Refer

1/7/26

Includes aggravated threat of mass harm, making a threat of mass harm, aggravated harassment in the second degree, harassment in the first degree, menacing in the third degree, menacing in the second degree, menacing in the first degree, and aggravated harassment in the first degree in being eligible for bail; makes aggravated threat of mass harm and making a threat of mass harm eligible to be considered hate crimes; increases the penalties for aggravated threat of mass harm and making a threat of mass harm.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09125

Introduced

9/26/25

Refer

9/26/25

Refer

1/7/26

Provides that mobile sports wagering operators and mobile sports wagering platforms are prohibited from limiting the size and frequency of deposits or wagers of authorized sports bettors because the bettor obtains financial benefit or due to the bettor's waging activity; provides exceptions for suspicious wagering activity and indications of a gambling disorder; requires such operators and platforms to provide electronic written notice when an authorized sports bettor is limited or banned.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09237

Introduced

11/7/25

Refer

11/7/25

Refer

1/7/26

Provides a temporary extension for payment of real property taxes owed by a person who has been a furloughed or designated non-pay federal employee due to a period of lapse in discretionary appropriations by the federal government, or by the spouse or domestic partner of such person; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09113

Introduced

9/26/25

Refer

9/26/25

Refer

1/7/26

Report Pass

1/20/26

Engrossed

3/24/26

Refer

3/24/26

Requires that procedures for placements on, and removals from, the list of persons self-excluded from gambling includes procedures that allow a person to submit requests electronically; requires such procedures to ensure parity between electronic and non-electronic requests with respect to record retention and transmission of requests to licensed gaming facilities and mobile sports wagering platforms.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09137

Introduced

10/17/25

Refer

10/17/25

Refer

1/7/26

Makes permanent certain provisions relating to reimbursement for commercial and Medicaid services provided via telehealth; establishes the rural healthcare professional loan repayment award program and the rural healthcare professional tax credit program; establishes a tax credit for rural healthcare providers.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09254

Introduced

11/21/25

Refer

11/21/25

Refer

1/7/26

Enacts the Northeast Regional Health Insurance Compact Act directing the governor to invite the governors of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, Maine, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania to participate in a Northeast Regional Health Insurance Compact Summit along with their respective health and insurance regulators, to discuss the feasibility of creating a Regional Health Insurance Collaborative that allows residents of participating states to purchase qualified health insurance plans offered in any member state.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09312

Introduced

12/10/25

Refer

12/10/25

Refer

1/7/26

Ensures Medicaid spending results in real access to medical care by increasing transparency in Medicaid managed care network adequacy reviews and safeguarding continuity of care in light of recent major provider network withdrawals.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00291

Introduced

4/1/25

Refer

4/1/25

Passed

4/2/25

Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim March 25-31, 2025, as Farmworker Awareness Week in the State of New York

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00785

Introduced

6/11/25

Refer

6/11/25

Passed

6/12/25

Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim August 7, 2025, as Purple Heart Day in the State of New York

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09108

Introduced

9/26/25

Refer

9/26/25

Refer

1/7/26

Includes a town, acting through its dog control officers acting at the behest of a police officer to seize an animal, as an impounding organization for the purpose of authorizing such town to file a petition requesting that the person from whom an animal is seized or the owner of the animal to post a security.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K01255

Introduced

5/1/26

Refer

5/1/26

Passed

5/4/26

Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 2026, as Lupus Awareness Month in the State of New York

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K01251

Introduced

5/1/26

Refer

5/1/26

Passed

5/4/26

Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 3-9, 2026, as Legislative Staff Week in the State of New York

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A11242

Introduced

5/1/26

Refer

5/1/26

Directs the department of transportation to construct and install safety gates at a certain railroad crossing in the village of Castleton-on-Hudson, county of Rensselaer within 2 years of the effective date.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K01256

Introduced

5/4/26

Passed

5/4/26

Commemorating the 75th Annual observance of the National Day of Prayer in the State of New York on Thursday, May 7, 2026

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