New York State Senator

Steven Rhoads 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 49)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00054

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
5/13/25  
Refer
5/13/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
4/28/26  
Prohibits the use of intoxication of the victim as a defense in sex crimes where the victim is under the extreme influence of any substance which renders them incapable of appraising or controlling such victim's conduct and incapable of clearly expressing lack of consent.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00175

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes the crime of aggravated offering of a false accusation against a police officer or peace officer for knowing the information reported to be false or baseless, such person reports, by word or action, to a law enforcement officer or agency, the wrongdoing by a police officer or peace officer in the performance of such officer's duties; requires the posting of bail.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00109

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
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 S00145

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Amends Kendra's law, in relation to making the provisions thereof permanent.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00066

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Authorizes the carrying of service-issued firearms by military personnel at recruiting centers while on duty.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00022

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Enacts the "child survivor privacy act"; provides protections for child victims and child witnesses; restricts information to the public regarding a child witness or child victim's identity or proceeding; defines child witness; provides that whenever practical, the same prosecutor, advocate, and/or social worker shall handle all aspects of a case involving an alleged child victim.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00094

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires high schools in grades nine through twelve to provide a course in financial literacy; requires students to complete such course as a condition of graduation.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00174

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Enacts the "commuter rail employee rights protection act".
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00233

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Prohibits the passage of bills by the legislature between the hours of midnight and eight o'clock a.m. unless 2/3 of the legislature is present; requires two-thirds approval for messages of necessity.
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New York Senate Bill S00041

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Directs the office of mental health to develop materials relating to suicide prevention and identifying signs of depression for school-aged children; authorizes school districts to include suicide prevention in health class curriculum.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00181

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
5/14/25  
Refer
5/14/25  
Engrossed
5/21/25  
Enrolled
11/3/25  
Chaptered
11/12/25  
Expands the membership of the interagency task force on trafficking in persons to include the commissioner of the department of transportation, the commissioner of the department of motor vehicles and the executive director of the New York state thruway authority.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00059

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Creates a state trooper highway memorial task force to develop and establish guidelines for recognition of members of the division of state police who have died in the line of duty; provides such recognition shall be by means of dedicating a portion of the state highway system, or the placement of a memorial plaque or marker along a state highway.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00058

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes the crime of making a terroristic threat against a police officer; makes such crime a class C felony.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00073

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
3/5/25  
Refer
3/5/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Engrossed
6/17/25  
Enrolled
12/8/25  
Chaptered
12/19/25  
Relates to rechargeable battery recycling; adds a battery used as the principal electric power source for an electric scooter or bicycle with electric assist to the definition of "rechargeable battery"; provides that a battery manufacturer may not sell, offer for sale, or distribute rechargeable batteries in the state unless the battery manufacturer is implementing or participating under an approved plan; allows a city with a population of one million or more to enforce through its own agencies.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00016

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Enacts Jacobe's Law requiring school administrators to contact the parents or guardians of students when bullying or harassment has occurred.