New York State Senator

Steven Otis 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 12)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A06804

Introduced

3/14/25

Refer

3/14/25

Refer

1/7/26

Report Pass

4/28/26

Engrossed

5/4/26

Refer

5/4/26

Provides that court records in a proceeding under articles 77, 78 and 81 of the mental hygiene law shall not be perused, examined, disclosed, taken or copied by any other person than a party, the attorney or counsel of a party, the guardian, the court evaluator or the court examiner except by order of the court.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A06453

Introduced

3/5/25

Refer

3/5/25

Report Pass

5/29/25

Refer

5/29/25

Report Pass

6/12/25

Refer

6/12/25

Report Pass

6/12/25

Relates to the training and use of artificial intelligence frontier models; defines terms; establishes remedies for violations.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A06473

Introduced

3/5/25

Refer

3/5/25

Refer

1/7/26

Relates to the provision of financial assistance to museums, zoos, botanical gardens, aquariums and other cultural institutions located in low-income urban, suburban or rural communities, or that provide educational services to students from such communities.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A06506

Introduced

3/5/25

Refer

3/5/25

Refer

1/7/26

Requires the commissioner of environmental conservation to establish standards for and a program of inspection and certification of green roofs prior to and after installation, including standards for environmentally acceptable chemical fertilizers and the testing of runoff water for evidence of such fertilizers; establishes a green roof installation tax credit in the amount of fifty-five percent of qualified expenditures with a credit maximum of five thousand dollars.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A06540

Introduced

3/5/25

Refer

3/5/25

Report Pass

5/6/25

Refer

5/6/25

Report Pass

5/20/25

Refer

5/20/25

Report Pass

6/17/25

Requires synthetic content creations system providers to include provenance data on synthetic content produced or modified by a synthetic content creations system that such provider makes available.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A06598

Introduced

3/6/25

Refer

3/6/25

Refer

1/7/26

Relates to the age requirement for voting in a primary election; provides that a person who is seventeen years of age at the time of a primary election and who will be eighteen years of age at the time of the general election for which such primary election is held, shall be eligible to vote in such primary election.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A06590

Introduced

3/6/25

Refer

3/6/25

Refer

3/24/25

Refer

1/7/26

Refer

1/30/26

Relates to the qualification of voters; provides that a citizen who is seventeen years of age at the time of a primary election and who will be eighteen years of age at the time of the general election for which such primary election is held, shall be eligible to vote in such primary election.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A06543

Introduced

3/6/25

Refer

3/6/25

Report Pass

5/28/25

Refer

5/28/25

Refer

1/7/26

Relates to returnable bottles; adds noncarbonated soft drinks, certain noncarbonated fruit or vegetable juices, coffee and tea beverages, carbonated fruit beverages and cider to the definition of "beverage"; provides that beginning April 1, 2027, the handling fee will be six cents for each beverage container accepted by a deposit initiator from a dealer or operator of a redemption center; directs the multi-agency bottle bill fraud investigation team to submit a report on findings of pervasive bottle redemption fraud in New York state.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A06563

Introduced

3/6/25

Refer

3/6/25

Refer

1/7/26

Requires the notification of a crime victim or witness of the death of the accused if such person dies during pending judicial proceedings or during any period of incarceration, parole or post-release supervision, or when an order of protection exists.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05675

Introduced

2/19/25

Refer

2/19/25

Refer

1/7/26

Relates to gender balance on boards of state and local public authorities; provides that all appointive state and local authorities heretofore or hereafter established by law or resolution shall have recommendations for appointments, or reappointments that are gender balanced.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05673

Introduced

2/19/25

Refer

2/19/25

Refer

1/7/26

Waives the registration fee and service charge for distinctive plates for volunteer firefighters and members of volunteer ambulance services where the applicant has attended twenty-five percent or more of the emergency calls for the previous year.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05685

Introduced

2/19/25

Refer

2/19/25

Report Pass

2/24/25

Refer

2/24/25

Report Pass

6/4/25

Refer

6/4/25

Report Pass

6/6/25

Engrossed

6/6/25

Refer

6/6/25

Engrossed

6/10/25

Enrolled

11/17/25

Chaptered

11/21/25

Passed

11/21/25

Relates to the New York state masters-in-education teacher incentive scholarship program.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05730

Introduced

2/20/25

Refer

2/20/25

Refer

1/7/26

Directs every peer-to-peer mobile service to require users to create a personal identification code associated with the user's account that is required to be used when certain actions are taken and to require users to set a monetary amount for intended transfers above which the use of a personal identification number will be required to authenticate the user's identity.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A06487

Introduced

3/5/25

Refer

3/5/25

Refer

1/7/26

Expands the training time for local municipalities in relation to the open meetings law; requires at least one hour of such training be provided by the committee on open government or an appropriate entity in relation to compliance with the open meetings law and if not provided, a justification shall be given.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A06486

Introduced

3/5/25

Refer

3/5/25

Report Pass

4/29/25

Refer

4/29/25

Report Pass

5/20/25

Refer

5/20/25

Report Pass

5/21/25

Requires nonpublic schools provide and maintain on-site automatic external defibrillator (AED) equipment on school grounds and assure that AED equipment is available for off-site curricular events, extracurricular events or school-sponsored athletic events.

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