New York State Senator

Shelley Mayer 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 35)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00072

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Report Pass

1/27/25

Refer

1/7/26

Relates to establishing the housing access voucher program; provides that the commissioner of the division of housing and community renewal shall implement a program of rental assistance in the form of housing vouchers for eligible individuals and families who are homeless or who face an imminent loss of housing; provides that the commissioner shall designate housing access voucher local administrators in the state to administer the program.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00413

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Engrossed

3/24/25

Refer

3/24/25

Refer

1/7/26

Engrossed

3/25/26

Refer

3/25/26

Makes the release of any claim by an employee, or independent contractor who is a natural person, against an employer, unenforceable if, as a condition of such resolution, the employee or independent contractor is prohibited from applying for, accepting, or engaging in future employment with such employer, or any entity or entities related to such employer.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00454

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Relates to parole eligibility for certain incarcerated persons age fifty-five or older if they have served at least fifteen years of their sentence or sentences.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00440

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Refer

1/7/26

Report Pass

4/21/26

Relates to voting rights and access for incarcerated individuals; authorizes polling places to be available at correctional facilities and local facilities; requires such facilities to provide persons detained or confined in such facilities access to register to vote or apply for an absentee ballot; requires voting information to be included in the inmate handbook.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00487

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Engrossed

2/25/25

Refer

2/25/25

Refer

1/7/26

Engrossed

2/26/26

Refer

2/26/26

Designates August thirty-first of each year as a day of commemoration to be known as "Overdose Awareness Day".

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00448

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Enacts the "Empowering People in Rights Enforcement (EMPIRE) Worker Protection Act"; relates to the delegation of state enforcement authority to private actors; authorizes an affected employee, whistleblower, representative organization or an organizational deputy to initiate a public enforcement action on behalf of the commissioner for certain provisions of the labor law, or any regulation promulgated thereunder.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J01887

Introduced

4/14/26

Refer

4/14/26

Passed

4/20/26

Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim April 2026, as Arab American Heritage Month in the State of New York

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S09932

Introduced

4/16/26

Refer

4/16/26

Requires the department of public service to assign an administrative law judge to oversee the process in policy proceedings before the public service commission; provides that the department of public service shall be considered a party in policy proceedings.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S09933

Introduced

4/16/26

Refer

4/16/26

Requires the department of public service to assign an administrative law judge to preside over all rate case settlement negotiations.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J01925

Introduced

4/17/26

Refer

4/17/26

Report Pass

4/21/26

Passed

4/21/26

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

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00522

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Refer

1/7/26

Relates to requirements for applications for charter schools.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00524

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Engrossed

2/26/25

Refer

2/26/25

Refer

1/7/26

Engrossed

2/9/26

Refer

2/10/26

Refer

2/9/26

Engrossed

3/30/26

Refer

3/30/26

Establishes the crime of voyeurism in the first and second degree which is defined as when someone for their own amusement, entertainment, profit, sexual arousal or sexual gratification trespasses or uses an instrument to observe for the purpose of viewing a person dressing or undressing or the sexual or other intimate parts of such person at a place and time when such person has a reasonable expectation of privacy, without such person's knowledge or consent.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00528

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Report Pass

1/28/25

Refer

1/7/26

Relates to the salaries of certain teachers and aides employed by boards of cooperative educational services; puts limits on certain administrative and clerical expenses.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J01907

Introduced

4/16/26

Refer

4/16/26

Report Pass

4/28/26

Passed

4/28/26

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

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J01895

Introduced

4/16/26

Refer

4/16/26

Report Pass

4/21/26

Passed

4/21/26

Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim June 21, 2026, as Yoga Day in the State of New York

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