New York State Senator

Steven Otis 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 2)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00661

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires hospitals to provide medically supervised detoxification services to all patients requiring such services; provides, that if the hospital is at ninety percent capacity or greater, such hospital shall connect the patient to an alternative facility within such patient's network to access such medically supervised detoxification services without any increased risk to the health or life of the patient.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00506

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Defines noncompliant state agency; provides for timelines and procedures for state agency contracts involving not-for-profit corporations.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00589

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Report Pass
3/11/25  
Refer
3/11/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Relates to port authority organization, appearance and notice; establishes the port authority transportation advisory committee.
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New York Assembly Bill A00635

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Provides a tax credit for qualified caregiving expenses.
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New York Assembly Bill A00691

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
3/25/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Report Pass
5/29/25  
Refer
5/29/25  
Relates to the unearned income of a child when the parent or non-parent caregiver chooses to exclude such child from the public assistance household.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00733

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
6/5/25  
Refer
6/5/25  
Repeals provisions relating to persons knowing themselves to be infected with venereal disease.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00767

Introduced
1/8/25  
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 Assembly Bill A00755

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Report Pass
5/29/25  
Engrossed
4/28/26  
Requires the department of health examine heat-related deaths in the state of New York; requires the department to issue a report to the temporary president of the senate, speaker of the assembly and the governor.
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New York Assembly Bill A00785

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Report Pass
6/6/25  
Refer
6/6/25  
Report Pass
6/11/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Enrolled
7/23/25  
Chaptered
7/24/25  
Requires schools safety plans to include a cardiac emergency response plan that addresses the use of appropriate personnel and measures to respond to incidents involving any individual experiencing sudden cardiac arrest or similar life-threatening emergency on any school site owned or operated by a school or at a location of a school sponsored event.
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New York Assembly Bill A00836

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Report Pass
5/29/25  
Refer
5/29/25  
Report Pass
6/9/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Relates to utility intervenor reimbursement to a participant for its reasonable costs of participation in any proceeding before the Public Service Commission (PSC).
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00838

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Relates to the organization of industrial development agencies and the definition of labor organization.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00697

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/19/25  
Refer
5/19/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Prohibits the use of the term "excited delirium" as a diagnosis, label, or cause of death on death certificates, autopsy reports, police reports or any report, policy or procedure by a public agency or contractor; defines excited delirium.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00610

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires the department of education to develop school health and mental health professionals to student ratios in public schools for students who do not receive services pursuant to the individuals with disabilities education act.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00073

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
3/25/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Requires the display of certain labels and warnings on gas stoves sold, displayed for sale, or offered for sale at retail to a consumer in this state; authorizes the department of state to adopt regulations regarding the placement and format of such labels; provides for penalties; authorizes the attorney general to enforce such provisions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00136

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
4/28/25  
Refer
4/28/25  
Report Pass
4/28/25  
Refer
4/28/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Engrossed
4/29/25  
Refer
4/29/25  
Engrossed
6/9/25  
Enrolled
12/31/25  
Chaptered
2/6/26  
Relates to the medical aid in dying act; relates to a terminally ill patient's request for and use of medication for medical aid in dying.