New York State Senator

Steven Rhoads 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 25)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05539

Introduced
2/24/25  
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 Senate Bill S05568

Introduced
2/25/25  
Authorizes the department of transportation to establish and implement a state memorial sign program to memorialize persons who died due to injuries sustained in a fatal motor vehicle crash on state highways.
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New York Senate Bill S05577

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Limits the provision of charitable bail to misdemeanor defendants who are first time offenders.
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New York Senate Bill S05579

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Increases the amount of money a public retirement system retiree may earn in a position of public service in the year 2026 and thereafter to $65,000.
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New York Senate Bill S05611

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Establishes a climate action cost council; limits the number of rules and regulations that may be promulgated annually to meet CLCPA goals.
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New York Senate Bill S04428

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Requires all public authorities owning, leasing, and controlling critical infrastructure to study the potential consequences of privatization.
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New York Senate Bill S05779

Introduced
2/28/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Engrossed
6/6/25  
Refer
6/6/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
3/16/26  
Requires certain entities to stock opioid antagonists and to store naloxone nasal sprays with or adjacent to automated external defibrillator cabinets.
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New York Senate Bill S05755

Introduced
2/28/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Engrossed
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Directs the commissioner of health to establish a cannabis awareness program for youths age eighteen and younger designed to educate about the effects and risks associated with cannabis use, including that it is illegal for persons under the age of twenty-one.
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New York Senate Bill J00433

Introduced
2/28/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Report Pass
3/4/25  
Commemorating the 38th Annual SOMOS Spring Conference to be held March 7-9, 2025, and paying tribute to its host, SOMOS, Inc.
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New York Senate Bill S05819

Introduced
3/3/25  
Refer
3/3/25  
Extends the time period for tenancy rights from 30 days to 90 days of possession; requires the adjudication of certain recovery proceedings to occur within 30 days of the filing of the petition.
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New York Senate Bill J00439

Introduced
3/3/25  
Refer
3/3/25  
Report Pass
3/4/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim March 2025, as Women's History Month in the State of New York, recognizing the invaluable contributions of women in all aspects of society
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New York Senate Bill S05784

Introduced
3/3/25  
Refer
3/3/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Refer
6/13/25  
Engrossed
6/16/25  
Enrolled
12/1/25  
Chaptered
12/1/25  
Directs the commissioner of the office of general services to erect a monument to be known as the "New York state Holocaust memorial" in the Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza to memorialize the victims of the Holocaust and to educate the public about the history of the Holocaust and the dangers of antisemitism, racism, and all manifestations of intolerance.
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New York Senate Bill S05848

Introduced
3/3/25  
Requires the state fire administrator to make available a specialized electric vehicle emergency response training program to provide training to individuals responsible for providing emergency response and recovery following incidents involving electric vehicles; defines emergency medical services agency.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04325

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Engrossed
6/4/25  
Refer
6/4/25  
Authorizes Powell House, in the village of Farmingdale, county of Nassau, to apply for and receive a retroactive property tax exemption with respect to the 2024-2025 school tax assessment rolls and the 2025 general tax assessment roll.
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New York Senate Bill S04324

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Grants retroactive tier IV membership in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Kenneth Panaro.