New York State Senator

Steven Rhoads 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00728

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Authorizes the governor and lieutenant-governor, commissioner of general services, secretary of state, comptroller, attorney general, and members of the legislature, provided that such request does not impact upon the department's ability to manage its facilities as determined by the director of the facility, to visit any facility designated by the commissioner of mental health for care and treatment.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00942

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Makes life imprisonment without parole mandatory for defendants convicted of murder in the first degree or second degree and the victim is a police officer, peace officer, first responder or correctional officer.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00852

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
3/3/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Enacts the "homebuyer renovation property tax exemption act" to grant an exemption of up to fifteen thousand dollars from taxation levied by or on behalf of any county, city, town, village or school district in which such residential property is located for a period of five years from the date of purchase of the property; defines "primary residential property".
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00850

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Establishes the "first-time homebuyer tax credit act"; provides that a qualified taxpayer shall be allowed a credit against the taxes imposed by this article for taxes levied on the taxpayer's primary residence by or on behalf of any county, city, town, village, or school district in which such property is located.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00897

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Allows nursing employees to request a sink designated for washing breast pump equipment in the room designated for nursing.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00908

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Prohibits persons convicted of murder or sentenced to life without parole or where the defendant acting either alone or with one or more other persons, commits or attempts to commit robbery, burglary, kidnapping, arson, rape in the first degree, criminal sexual act in the first degree, sexual abuse in the first degree, aggravated sexual abuse, escape in the first degree, or escape in the second degree, and, in the course of and in furtherance of such crime or of immediate flight therefrom, such defendant, or another participant, if there be any, intentionally causes the death of: a police officer; a peace officer; a firefighter; emergency medical technician, ambulance driver, paramedic, physician or registered nurse involved in a first response team, or any other individual who, in the course of official duties, performs emergency response; or an employee of a state correctional institution or was an employee of a local correctional facility, when such person was engaged in the course of performing their official duties, from being eligible for commutation of sentence.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00906

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Makes permanent provisions creating a presumption relating to certain lung disabilities incurred by volunteer firefighters.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00140

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Report Pass
1/14/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim February 8, 2025, as Snowmobile Ride Day in the State of New York
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01285

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Engrossed
4/8/25  
Refer
4/8/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
3/5/26  
Allows for written instructions regarding elements to be supplied to a jury.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01269

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Provides for the use of airway clearance devices in schools; provides for training for school employees.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01310

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Establishes the school mental health services program coordinator to provide qualifying public and nonpublic schools with mental health services professionals.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01278

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Prohibits persons who have been convicted of animal cruelty from working at an animal shelter; makes such violation a class A misdemeanor.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01277

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Provides for loan forgiveness for mental health nurses that make a commitment to practice in a "rural" tract or county.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00725

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes that making a terroristic threat is a qualifying offense for bail.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01268

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Prohibits state funding of any degree-granting institution of higher education if such institution permits terrorist organizations or activities in support of such organizations on campus; prohibits any student group or organization of receiving funding from the degree-granting institution if such group or organization directly or indirectly promotes, encourages, advocates, or engages in any terrorist advocacy or activities on campus.