New York State Senator

Steven Otis 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 17)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05786

Introduced

2/20/25

Refer

2/20/25

Refer

1/7/26

Report Pass

5/5/26

Prohibits termination of electricity or heat service during forecasts of 85 degrees or more than or thirty-two degrees or below.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05811

Introduced

2/20/25

Refer

2/20/25

Refer

1/7/26

Enacts the "construction insurance transparency act" to require insurers providing coverage for liability under the scaffold law to report, on an annual basis, to the superintendent of financial services relating to its finances and claims paid thereunder.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05832

Introduced

2/20/25

Refer

2/20/25

Report Pass

4/30/25

Refer

4/30/25

Report Pass

5/29/25

Refer

5/29/25

Report Pass

6/17/25

Enacts the "PFAS discharge disclosure act"; requires certain SPDES permit holders to conduct PFAS monitoring and disclose the results from such monitoring.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08332

Introduced

5/13/25

Refer

5/13/25

Report Pass

5/20/25

Refer

5/20/25

Report Pass

5/27/25

Refer

5/27/25

Report Pass

6/6/25

Relates to additional considerations regarding the assessment of solar or wind energy systems through a discounted cash flow approach.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08309

Introduced

5/13/25

Refer

5/13/25

Refer

1/7/26

Report Pass

5/5/26

Engrossed

5/11/26

Refer

5/11/26

Requires the New York state bridge authority, the Thousand Islands bridge authority, the Nassau county bridge authority, the Ogdensburg bridge authority, and the New York state thruway authority to develop a feasibility study to promote bicycle and pedestrian access on bridges and provide a report to the governor, temporary president of the senate, speaker of the assembly, and the public a copy of such plan.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08417

Introduced

5/15/25

Refer

5/15/25

Report Pass

5/19/25

Refer

5/19/25

Report Pass

5/27/25

Refer

5/27/25

Report Pass

5/29/25

Engrossed

5/29/25

Refer

5/29/25

Engrossed

6/11/25

Enrolled

9/10/25

Chaptered

9/10/25

Passed

9/10/25

Extends the effectiveness of the September 11th worker protection task force act.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08427

Introduced

5/15/25

Refer

5/15/25

Report Pass

5/27/25

Refer

5/27/25

Report Pass

6/16/25

Refer

6/16/25

Report Pass

6/16/25

Enacts the "fostering affordability and integrity through reasonable (FAIR) business practices act", to expand the attorney general's ability to protect New Yorkers from unfair, deceptive and abusive business practices.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08429

Introduced

5/15/25

Refer

5/15/25

Report Pass

5/20/25

Refer

5/20/25

Report Pass

6/13/25

Refer

6/13/25

Report Pass

6/13/25

Establishes a fraud assessment commission; directs the chair of the workers' compensation board, in consultation with the workers' compensation fraud inspector general and the fraud assessment commission, to establish an assessment for workers' compensation fraud investigations to fund the investigation and prosecution of workers' compensation fraud, willful failure to secure payment of workers' compensation, and failure to keep true and accurate records; establishes the workers' compensation fraud investigation fund in the joint custody of the chair of the workers' compensation board, the commissioner of labor, and the comptroller, which shall consist of monies received from the imposition of the assessment for workers' compensation fraud investigations.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08463

Introduced

5/16/25

Refer

5/16/25

Report Pass

5/20/25

Refer

5/20/25

Report Pass

6/9/25

Refer

6/9/25

Report Pass

6/10/25

Authorizes the commissioner of education to conduct a survey regarding instruction on Asian American, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islander history within the state; establishes an Asian American, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islander history advisory committee; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08476

Introduced

5/16/25

Refer

5/16/25

Report Pass

5/19/25

Refer

5/19/25

Report Pass

6/13/25

Refer

6/13/25

Report Pass

6/13/25

Protects veterans from fraud and unaccredited representatives; institutes a civil penalty of up to $10,000 for violation; establishes the class A misdemeanor crime of unaccredited representation of a veteran; establishes a veterans' services fund.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08491

Introduced

5/20/25

Refer

5/20/25

Refer

1/7/26

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.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08064

Introduced

4/22/25

Refer

4/22/25

Refer

1/7/26

Enacts the student journalist education act to protect student speech at educational institutions unless such speech is libelous, an invasion of privacy, or incites students to commit an unlawful act, violate school policies, or to materially and substantially disrupt the orderly operation of the school.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00509

Introduced

5/14/25

Passed

5/14/25

Congratulating the State of Israel on the 77th Anniversary of its establishment and reaffirming the bonds of friendship, cooperation, and shared values between the people of the State of New York and Israel

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08465

Introduced

5/16/25

Refer

5/16/25

Report Pass

5/28/25

Refer

5/28/25

Report Pass

5/29/25

Engrossed

6/5/25

Refer

6/5/25

Engrossed

6/9/25

Enrolled

12/8/25

Chaptered

12/12/25

Passed

12/12/25

Relates to prevailing wage for those involved in hauling of concrete and asphalt in the counties of Nassau, Putnam, Suffolk, and Westchester, and in the city of New York.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08086

Introduced

4/24/25

Refer

4/24/25

Report Pass

6/12/25

Refer

6/12/25

Report Pass

6/12/25

Directs counties, in coordination with their regional emergency medical services councils, to develop and maintain comprehensive county emergency medical system plans that provide for coordinated emergency medical systems within such counties.

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