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Steven Otis 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 8)

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00203

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Report Pass
6/10/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Enrolled
12/8/25  
Chaptered
12/12/25  
Requires hospitals to establish a violence prevention program which includes a workplace safety and security assessment and develop a safety and security plan that addresses identified workplace violence threats or hazards.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00065

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
6/10/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Directs the office of victim services, in consultation with the office for the prevention of domestic violence, to establish a statewide supervised visitation initiative including culturally sensitive services that provide language access for those who need it and that are affordable for those with limited means to pay; requires the submission of regular assessments and reports.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00129

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Directs the commissioner of education to change the name of the state high school equivalency diploma, formerly known as the general education development (GED) program, to the Excelsior diploma.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00074

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Establishes a real property tax exemption for the primary residence of veterans with a 100 percent service connected disability.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00118

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to school climate and codes of conduct on school property and disciplinary action following violation of such codes of conduct; makes conforming amendments.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00170

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires the metropolitan transportation authority to post signage over mass transit seats indicating that individuals should give up their seats for the elderly, pregnant and disabled; provides such signage shall be conspicuously posted and visible from all seats; provides costs and expenses to be paid through appropriated funds.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03180

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Enacts the "bird safe buildings act" directing the commissioner of general services to incorporate practices and strategies to reduce bird fatality resulting from collisions with certain state-owned or state-leased buildings, and for other purposes; requires the commissioner to develop a design guide that includes features, methods and strategies, and best practices for reducing bird fatalities.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03175

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Requires student onboarding and ongoing education on reproductive health services available to students including where the closest reproductive health clinics are located; all resources available to a student seeking reproductive health services including but not limited to financial assistance and mental health services and any reproductive health resources available to a student through the institution.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03117

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Provides additional protections at reproductive health clinics; prohibits interference with phone lines, the release of offensive odors, and noises intended to jeopardize the health of persons receiving reproductive health services or to interfere with the safe and effective delivery of such services.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03038

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
3/25/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Prohibits creditors from enforcing a consumer debt incurred as a result of fraud, duress, intimidation, threat, force, identity theft, exploitation of the debtor's personal information or similar economic abuse perpetrated against a debtor; establishes a right of action by the debtor for relief against creditors for violations; makes related provisions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03061

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Creates a tax abatement for geothermal well systems up to $62,500 for two years.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03119

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Ensures that library staff of free association, public, and hospital libraries, and with certain advice, Indian libraries, are able to develop collections, services, and programming that reflect the values and protections established under the human rights law and the equal rights amendment to the state constitution.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04821

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
3/24/26  
Engrossed
5/5/26  
Directs the New York state bridge authority to provide a report by July 1, 2027, outlining their efforts and progress on decreasing and deterring suicide attempts on authority bridges.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04903

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Establishes a career and technical education (CTE) diploma; establishes a CTE pathway to a diploma shall be based on a curriculum designed to provide students with technical skills and shall demonstrate that the student is ready for a career as determined by regulations of the commissioner.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04914

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Relates to prevailing wage requirements applicable to brownfield remediation work performed under private contract as it relates to certain remediation activities, for sites that are seeking or have received a determination that the site is eligible for the tangible property credit component of the brownfield redevelopment tax credit, and the work is paid for in whole or in part by public funds.