New York State Senator

William Barclay 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00684

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Includes intentionally selecting a victim based on certain actual or perceived traits in the crime of murder in the first degree; provides that sentence for commission of certain provisions of murder in the first degree is death or life without parole.
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New York Assembly Bill A00632

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Includes offenses involving the possession, display or discharge of a firearm, rifle, shotgun, machine-gun, or disguised gun as qualifying offenses for the purpose of allowing a principal to be eligible to be held on bail.
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New York Assembly Bill A00653

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Prohibits the governing board of a municipal corporation from adopting any law, ordinance, regulation or policy that prohibits, or has the effect of prohibiting, the connection or reconnection of a utility service to a customer based upon the type or source of energy to be delivered to the customer.
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New York Assembly Bill A00655

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Directs the department of environmental conservation, in conjunction with the department of health and the department of labor, to establish the municipal asbestos abatement grant program to provide financial assistance to municipalities for the abatement of asbestos in vacant and/or abandoned commercial properties; makes a $15,000,000 appropriation therefor.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00624

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to requiring the regents to adopt a policy that ensures all students enrolled at state university of New York and city university of New York institutions are able to express themselves freely without fear of intimidation or harm.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00385

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Creates an assembly standing committee on ethics and guidance of eight members.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00363

Introduced
4/22/25  
Congratulating the Daldrop Group on the groundbreaking of its new facility in Oswego County, New York, on April 3, 2025
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New York Assembly Bill K00362

Introduced
4/22/25  
Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Palermo Volunteer Fire Department
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08053

Introduced
4/22/25  
Refer
4/22/25  
Provides for temporary exemptions to educational institutions from certain requirements related to the use of multi-occupancy bathrooms and locker rooms; authorizes the use of state building aid for related facility improvements.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00985

Introduced
2/25/26  
Honoring Investigator Michael Theetge of the Chemung County Sheriff's Office upon the occasion of his designation as recipient of the Order of the Blue Heart Award from Wounded Blue
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New York Assembly Bill K00827

Introduced
1/12/26  
Refer
1/12/26  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim January 9, 2026, as Law Enforcement Appreciation Day in the State of New York
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09527

Introduced
1/14/26  
Makes the first one hundred thousand dollars of an individual's private pension non-taxable.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00537

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to requiring bills with a threshold level of co-sponsorship to be brought to the floor for a vote to be taken thereon.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00498

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Repeals the estate tax.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02046

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Requires residents of the state, who are foreign refugees, to register with the office of temporary and disability assistance; directs such office to provide registration information to the office of children and family services, the department of health, the office for new Americans, the department of law, the division of state police, the NYC police department, county sheriff's offices, municipal police departments, and the division of homeland security and emergency services; directs the office for new Americans to conduct background screenings of all refugees who register; requires refugee resettlement agencies to submit quarterly reports to the bureau of refugee and immigrant assistance on the refugees to whom it provides assistance, and to monitor the activities of such refugees for a certain period of time; directs the division of homeland security and emergency services to develop and implement a plan to ensure compliance by refugee resettlement agencies.