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

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00545

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to the proper venue for an impounding organization to file a petition for a security to be paid by the owner of a seized animal currently in the care of such organization.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00665

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to the creation of a crime database of all convictions in New York state of animal cruelty, fighting, neglect, abandonment and mistreatment; makes such crime database available to all law enforcement entities, district attorneys, duly incorporated humane societies, societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, dog or cat protective associations and animal control officers.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00618

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
1/21/26  
Engrossed
1/27/26  
Refer
1/27/26  
Requires employers to inform their employees that non-disclosure or non-disparagement provisions in their employment contracts do not prohibit them from speaking with law enforcement, the equal employment opportunity commission, the state division of human rights, a local commission on human rights, or an attorney retained by the employee.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00646

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to coverage and billing procedures in the Medicaid program for complex rehabilitation technology for patients with complex medical needs.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00559

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Provides for the declination of a designation as a candidate or nomination for a party position if the person designated or nominated has received a diagnosis of a serious health condition or has resigned the office for which they are nominated or designated to run for re-election.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00602

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Provides that restaurants may provide single-use plastic straws to customers when explicitly requested by the customer; prohibits single-use plastic stirrers.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00446

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to the New York city housing authority and mold remediation; establishes after reporting such authority shall have 15 days to remediate such reported mold.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00494

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
1/21/26  
Adds courses at a licensed New York state driving school approved by the commissioner of motor vehicles to the list of driver education providers.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00629

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to establishing the tenancy deposit protection program; requires the commissioner of housing and community renewal to establish a program to hold security deposits in third-party accounts and create a dispute resolution process regarding the withholding of security deposits.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00625

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Provides that in a school district in a city having a population of one million or more, the parent or person in parental relation to a child shall be entitled to the presumption that the school identified in a settlement agreement is the student's operative placement for the purposes of pendency until there is an intervening, pendency-changing event.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00492

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes the permanent child care workforce pay equity fund and provides for the distribution thereof; makes an appropriation therefor.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00555

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes the city of White Plains industrial development agency and provides for its functions, powers, and duties.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00513

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes the crime of doxing a police officer, peace officer, or state officer when a person knowingly makes restricted personal information about a police officer, peace officer, state officer, or a member of the immediate family of such officer, publicly available with the intent to threaten, intimidate, or incite the commission of a crime of violence against the police officer, peace officer, state officer, or a member of the immediate family of such officer; or with the intent and knowledge that the restricted personal information will be used to threaten, intimidate, or facilitate the commission of a crime of violence against the police officer, peace officer, state officer, or a member of the immediate family of such officer; requires the posting of bail.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00565

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/21/25  
Engrossed
3/26/25  
Refer
3/26/25  
Engrossed
4/9/25  
Enrolled
12/8/25  
Prohibits the establishment of new for-profit hospices or increasing the capacity of existing for-profit hospices.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00672

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Reconvenes the New York state sea level rise task force to review the report and recommendations previously issued by the task force, and to determine the progress made in effectuating such recommendations and what recommendations require additional efforts; develop an updated evaluation of ways of protecting New York's remaining coastal ecosystems and natural habitats, and increasing coastal community resilience in the face of sea level rise, applying the best available science as to sea level rise and its anticipated impacts; and updating previous recommendations and, if appropriate, making new recommendations on sea level rise resiliency.