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Steven Otis 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 27)

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01626

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Prohibits health care practitioners from performing a virginity examination or supervising the performance of a virginity examination on a patient; defines "virginity examination".
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01580

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Establishes the teachers' fossil fuel divestment act; requires the New York state teachers' retirement system to divest the retirement system of any stocks, securities, equities, assets, or other obligations of corporations or companies included on an exclusion list of coal producers and oil and gas producers.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02181

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/15/25  
Provides lead service line identification by a public water system that serves certain areas.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02177

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/15/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Report Pass
6/4/25  
Refer
6/4/25  
Report Pass
6/6/25  
Engrossed
6/6/25  
Refer
6/6/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Enrolled
12/8/25  
Removes expenditures for emergency medical services from the limit on real property tax levies by local governments.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02174

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/15/25  
Permits the commissioner of motor vehicles to require any licensed driver to submit to an examination or reexamination prior to such licensed driver's normal renewal date upon receipt of a recommendation from a court having jurisdiction of traffic offenses, or the governor or chief magistrate of a state or territory stating that the driver's ability to operate a motor vehicle safely is questionable.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02237

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/15/25  
Report Pass
3/11/25  
Refer
3/11/25  
Report Pass
5/29/25  
Refer
5/29/25  
Aligns state and local procurement laws with federal law prohibiting the procurement of certain information and communications technology and electronic parts or products which are determined to pose a risk to state and national security.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02318

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Refer
4/29/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Raises the exclusion of certain indebtedness of school districts other than school districts in a city with one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants or more according to the latest federal census.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02273

Introduced
1/16/25  
Enacts the state and local government food waste prevention and diversion act; requires facilities generating excess food waste to take measures to minimize such waste.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02321

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Report Pass
3/11/25  
Engrossed
3/17/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Engrossed
3/19/26  
Requires all agencies to submit to the committee on open government a log of all freedom of information law requests for each year in which they received or have pending a request for records; requires the committee on open government to publish, on one webpage, all freedom of information law request logs it receives.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01167

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Relates to providing hazard payments to essential workers during a state disaster emergency; provides that certain employers shall make hazard payments to essential workers during a state disaster emergency provided no hazard payment shall exceed twenty-five thousand dollars in any year for any essential worker earning less than two hundred thousand dollars per year or five thousand dollars for any essential worker earning more than two hundred thousand dollars.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01255

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Requires applicants to the department of environmental conservation for permits to disclose information concerning other permits held and/or revoked, enforcement actions, criminal convictions, fees or fines owed, and other information relating to compliance by the applicant or any corporation of which they are an officer, director, or large stockholder with state, federal, or foreign environmental laws or regulations and certain other laws.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01220

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Relates to supervision by certain nurse practitioners; makes certain provisions permanent relating to nurse practitioners.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01296

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Report Pass
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Establishes the rare disease advisory council to identify best practices, raise awareness regarding rare diseases, evaluate barriers to access to care, and to make recommendations to the legislature and the governor.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01125

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Establishes the professional practice of community midwifery; defines as the management in the home, birth center, or community setting, of normal pregnancies, child birth, and postpartum care, including newborn evaluation, resuscitation and referral for infants; sets requirements for license and practice.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01172

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Authorizes the dispensing of abortion medication under certain conditions; requires insurance policies providing coverage for contraception to provide coverage for abortion medication.