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Steven Rhoads 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 40)

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Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03640

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
1/29/25  
Relates to warning labels on cannabis products; includes advertising, deceptively advertising, branding, marketing, packaging, displaying, labelling, offering for ingestion outside of packaging, or administering cannabis products in contravention of a certain section of the cannabis law or rules and regulations in the criminal sale of cannabis in the first degree.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03649

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
1/29/25  
Requires that local governments comply with a detainer request issued by a federal law enforcement agency; requires that such local government not interfere with the ability of federal law enforcement officials to conduct enforcement activities at municipal or county jails in furtherance of their duty to enforce federal laws.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03652

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
1/29/25  
Prohibits certain restrictions on motor vehicle sales or use.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03644

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
1/29/25  
Designates certain offenses against emergency medical services personnel, firefighters, and law enforcement officers as hate crimes; includes the definition of emergency medical services personnel, firefighters, and law enforcement officers.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03658

Introduced
1/29/25  
Enacts the feathered lives also count 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; requires the commissioner to report to the governor and the legislature.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03624

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
1/29/25  
Relates to the required disclosure upon the release of a juvenile or adolescent offender from the custody of the office of children and family services of certain records that are necessary to ascertain the nature of such offender's conviction and would be beneficial in identifying and mitigating any risk that such offender could pose if released.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03693

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
1/29/25  
Engrossed
3/3/25  
Refer
3/3/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
2/11/26  
Relates to computer-related crimes; creates the crimes unlawful disruption of computer services in the first and second degree, unlawful computer access assistance in the first and second degree, unauthorized use of internet domain name or profile, and unlawful introduction of a computer contaminant; allows for a civil action for compensatory damages for victims of such crimes.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03767

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
1/29/25  
Requires the state university of New York and the city university of New York to examine and conduct a study on the availability of campus services, programs and resources for veteran students.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03740

Introduced
1/29/25  
Establishes the "recovery ready workplace act" which provides for the certification of an employer to become a recovery ready workplace; defines terms; establishes the recovery-ready workplace program; provides criteria for employers to obtain certification as a recovery ready workplace; provides for employee involvement.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03743

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
1/29/25  
Establishes a co-navigation services program for persons who are deaf-blind to provide services to a person who is deaf-blind that assist the person to physically access the person's environment and to make informed decisions, including providing visual and environmental information or sighted guide services and assisting with communication accessibility by communicating in the preferred language and communication mode of the person who is deaf-blind.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00297

Introduced
1/30/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Report Pass
2/4/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim February 4, 2025, as Canada Day in the State of New York, in celebration of this great Empire State's long-standing economic and cultural relationship with Canada
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J01471

Introduced
1/20/26  
Refer
1/20/26  
Commemorating the observance of the 41st Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the State of New York, on January 19, 2026
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S08955

Introduced
1/21/26  
Enacts the "fair pay for home care act" relating to minimum wages applicable to home care aides; provides for a minimum wage of 150% of the applicable statewide or regional minimum wage.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00278

Introduced
1/30/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Report Pass
2/4/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 17, 2025, as Necrotizing Enterocolitis Awareness Day in the State of New York
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J00280

Introduced
1/30/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Report Pass
2/4/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 2025, as Speech-Language-Hearing Month in the State of New York