New York State Senator

Steven Rhoads 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 3)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00851

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes a housing infrastructure tax credit to provide a credit of up to ten percent of costs for infrastructure projects related to the construction of new homes or multiple dwellings commenced and completed within a specific time period.
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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 S00940

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
4/22/26  
Requires all insurance policies and health maintenance organization contracts to provide coverage for maternity patients and their newborns for hospital stays of at least 48 hours following childbirth by natural delivery and 96 hours following childbirth by caesarean section; provides such coverage for patients who are recipients of medicaid.
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New York Senate Bill S00961

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires that notice be provided to any officer or employee of the department of corrections and community supervision whose personal information is the subject of a subpoena duces tecum.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00917

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Enacts the "credit for rural broadband act"; provides for a refundable tax credit for costs paid for new construction of new broadband networks to residences and small businesses located in rural, unserved areas.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00930

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes a task force for the review of the state administrative procedure act to ensure that administrative rulemaking, adjudication and licensing is consistent, uniform, and not unnecessarily burdensome for regulated entities.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00924

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires the Empire State Development corporation's broadband program office to assist in the provision and expansion of broadband internet access service and to address inequities in the availability of such service.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00927

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to the regulation of social media companies and social media platforms; provides for age requirements for the use of social media and parental consent; prohibits certain data collection from social media accounts; limits the hours a minor can have access to social media; establishes penalties for violations.
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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 S00580

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes the small farm disaster recovery grant program; provides grants for the purchase and replanting of crops destroyed by natural disaster.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00538

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Prohibits persons whose income is greater than one hundred twenty-five percent of the area median income from occupying certain housing accommodations.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00584

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Grants school districts the ability to implement telehealth school-based mental health clinics; establishes the student mental telehealth reimbursement fund; relates to funding the student mental telehealth reimbursement fund.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00589

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Enacts the "our school our rules act"; prohibits mandatory regionalization plans.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00828

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Provides that the New York state health care quality and cost containment commission shall: evaluate each mandated benefit; investigate current practices of health plans with regard to the mandated benefit; investigate the potential premium impact of repealing and/or modifying the mandated benefits on all segments of the insurance market; hold at least two public hearings; submit a report to the legislature; makes related provisions.