New York State Senator

Steven Rhoads 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 36)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03454

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Establishes criminal offenses committed against the elderly or disabled persons.
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New York Senate Bill S03474

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Enhances the assisted outpatient treatment program; eliminates the expiration and repeal of Kendra's Law.
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New York Senate Bill S03453

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Relates to enhancing penalties and protecting victims of crimes of domestic violence.
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New York Senate Bill S03436

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Allows school districts to permit home-schooled students to participate in district interscholastic sports.
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New York Senate Bill S03411

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Provides a tax credit for the installation of fire sprinkler systems for residential properties.
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New York Senate Bill S04358

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Report Pass
3/4/25  
Engrossed
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Engrossed
6/16/25  
Enrolled
12/8/25  
Chaptered
12/19/25  
Expands the veterans tuition awards program to allow the transfer of unused benefits to a spouse, survivor or child; defines terms.
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New York Senate Bill S03482

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Establishes requirements for granting licensure and provisional endorsement licensure for the practice of mental health counseling.
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New York Senate Bill S03426

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Prohibits individuals who are under the age of twenty-one to purchase or possess any products containing Kratom.
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New York Senate Bill S03471

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Establishes business franchise, personal income and insurance franchise tax credits for the expenses of employer provided or sponsored child care.
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New York Senate Bill S03488

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Engrossed
6/17/25  
Enrolled
12/8/25  
Provides a performance of duty presumption for diseases of the heart for members who serve as an ambulance medical technician, ambulance medical coordinator, ambulance medical technician/supervisor or a member who performs ambulance medical technician related services, or a police medic, police medic coordinator, police medic supervisor, bureau director police emergency ambulance services - county, assistant bureau director police emergency ambulance services - county, or a member who performs police medic or police emergency ambulance related services and is employed in the Nassau county police department.
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New York Senate Bill S03500

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Designates March twenty-first as a day of commemoration to be known as "Down Syndrome Awareness Day".
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New York Senate Bill S03507

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Requires nursing homes and assisted living facilities to provide and maintain automated external defibrillators in quantities and types deemed by the commissioner to be adequate to ensure ready and appropriate access for use during emergencies.
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New York Senate Bill S03489

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Repeals the driver's license access and privacy act.
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New York Senate Bill S03545

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Relates to environmental quality reviews of housing development projects that propose to build twenty or more units; provides that municipalities shall not be prohibited from performing their own environmental reviews.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00277

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Report Pass
1/28/25  
Mourning the tragic and untimely death of Omer Maxim Neutra