New York State Senator

Steven Otis 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 20)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07683

Introduced
4/4/25  
Refer
4/4/25  
Report Pass
4/15/25  
Engrossed
4/28/25  
Refer
4/28/25  
Engrossed
3/9/26  
Limits recordkeeping and reporting duties of public notaries to electronic notarization acts.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07686

Introduced
4/4/25  
Refer
4/4/25  
Report Pass
6/10/25  
Refer
6/10/25  
Enacts the "public renewables transparency act"; relates to the New York power authority's conferral process; requires the conferral report be posted on the authority's website; provides that the authority shall provide an option for stakeholders to submit comments remotely as well, and incorporate feedback from such sessions and written comments into the final draft of the strategic plan; makes related provisions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07738

Introduced
4/8/25  
Refer
4/8/25  
Report Pass
4/30/25  
Refer
4/30/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Prohibits the sale of certain products that contain regulated perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances; requires manufacturers of products containing PFAS to provide notice of such fact to persons that offer the products for sale or distribution; provides penalties for violations.
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New York Assembly Bill A07734

Introduced
4/8/25  
Refer
4/8/25  
Increases the jurisdictional limit from $3,000 to $5,000 for justice courts; increases filing fees.
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New York Assembly Bill A08758

Introduced
6/2/25  
Refer
6/2/25  
Enacts the accelerate solar for affordable power (ASAP) act to set a new target for distributed solar energy capacity and direct the public service commission to advance reforms to the utility interconnection process to ensure timely and cost-effective integration of new distributed energy resources.
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New York Assembly Bill A08779

Introduced
6/2/25  
Refer
6/2/25  
Prohibits automatic license plate reader users from selling, sharing, allowing access to, or transferring automatic license plate reader information to any state or local jurisdiction for the purpose of investigating or enforcing a law that denies or interferes with a person's right to choose or obtain reproductive health care services or any lawful health care services.
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New York Assembly Bill A01547

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Requires search engines such as Google, Yahoo or Bing to include a notice to users when searching limited services pregnancy center listings that such limited services pregnancy centers provide limited medical and abortion care and may not have medical professionals onsite; requires social media networks such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr and Flickr to include such consumer notice on any posts or advertisements by such centers.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01572

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Report Pass
2/24/25  
Engrossed
3/25/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Enrolled
10/9/25  
Requires the superintendent to promulgate regulations which provide standardized definitions for commonly used terms and phrases in certain insurance policies.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01593

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Relates to state assistance for food and vet expenses for guide dogs, hearing dogs and service dogs of individuals qualifying for social services; requires regulations set an amount of no less than $50 a month; clarifies that service dogs do not have to be certified to qualify for such benefits.
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New York Assembly Bill A03411

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Report Pass
5/29/25  
Refer
5/29/25  
Report Pass
6/5/25  
Refer
6/5/25  
Report Pass
6/11/25  
Engrossed
1/28/26  
Refer
1/28/26  
Requires the owner, licensee or operator of a generative artificial intelligence system to conspicuously display a notice on the system's user interface that is reasonably calculated to consistently apprise the user that the outputs of the generative artificial intelligence system may be inaccurate.
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New York Assembly Bill A03398

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Refer
4/29/25  
Directs the department of environmental conservation to conduct a study of ecological restoration needs of Jamaica Bay; imposes a five-year moratorium on placing sediment or fill in the borrow pits in Jamaica Bay.
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New York Assembly Bill A03415

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Report Pass
3/25/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Requires public-facing websites operated by political committees to contain "paid for by" language; adds such public-facing websites to the list of political communications that qualify as independent expenditures.
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New York Assembly Bill A03264

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
4/28/26  
Refer
4/28/26  
Report Pass
5/12/26  
Refer
5/12/26  
Authorizes shelters for victims of domestic violence to be reimbursed for any payment differential for housing a single individual in a room intended for double occupancy where a single occupancy room is not available.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07714

Introduced
4/8/25  
Refer
4/8/25  
Establishes certain consumer rights for the protection of consumer health, safety and/or privacy needs related to utility meters.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00336

Introduced
4/8/25  
Refer
4/8/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim April 9, 2025, as West Point Day in New York State