New York State Senator

William Colton 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 10)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09522

Introduced

1/14/26

Refer

1/14/26

Expands eligibility for the tuition assistance program by restoring eligibility to graduate students; makes optional semesters, quarters or terms eligible for awards.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09528

Introduced

1/14/26

Refer

1/14/26

Sets minimum staffing standards for employees performing emergency medical services in the 911 system in a city with a population of over one million people.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09571

Introduced

1/16/26

Refer

1/16/26

Increases short-term disability benefits.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01885

Introduced

1/14/25

Refer

1/14/25

Refer

1/7/26

Promotes understanding, awareness and enforcement of animal crimes laws.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01991

Introduced

1/14/25

Refer

1/14/25

Refer

1/7/26

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.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01903

Introduced

1/14/25

Refer

1/14/25

Refer

1/7/26

Restricts consecutive hours of work for health care workers except in the case of certain emergencies and surgical procedures.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02431

Introduced

1/16/25

Refer

1/16/25

Report Pass

2/24/25

Clarifies how certain non-billing information regarding the delivery of water is disclosed to residents of cooperatives, condominiums or multi-family dwellings; requires water-works corporations to notify customers of their ability to receive non-billing related information.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02565

Introduced

1/17/25

Refer

1/17/25

Report Pass

2/4/25

Engrossed

3/26/25

Refer

3/26/25

Creates the New York electronic communications privacy act; requires government agents and agencies to obtain a search warrant for physical or electronic access to electronic device information.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02596

Introduced

1/21/25

Refer

1/21/25

Refer

1/7/26

Establishes new targets for offshore wind electricity generation; includes the requirements that there is at least 15 gigawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by 2040, at least 18 gigawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by 2045 and at least 20 gigawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by 2050.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02598

Introduced

1/21/25

Refer

1/21/25

Refer

1/7/26

Establishes Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as school holidays, with dates established by religious law and tradition; allows for school districts and municipalities with a population of less than fifty thousand to opt into the recognition of such holidays.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02448

Introduced

1/17/25

Refer

1/17/25

Refer

1/7/26

Requires the use of risk and needs assessments in parole decisions; provides a process permitting incarcerated individuals to correct verifiable factual mistakes or errors in their risk and needs assessments or other non-confidential documents given the board prior to their appearances.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02633

Introduced

1/21/25

Refer

1/21/25

Report Pass

5/19/25

Refer

5/19/25

Report Pass

6/6/25

Refer

6/6/25

Report Pass

6/9/25

Engrossed

5/5/26

Refer

5/5/26

Directs the president of the state civil service commission to conduct a study on job vacancies across state agencies and determine which, if any, state agencies are understaffed.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01890

Introduced

1/14/25

Refer

1/14/25

Report Pass

4/2/25

Engrossed

5/28/25

Refer

5/28/25

Engrossed

6/11/25

Enrolled

10/9/25

Vetoed

10/16/25

Enacts the low impact landscaping rights act, preventing homeowners' associations from adopting or enforcing any rules or regulations that would effectively prohibit, or impose unreasonable limitations on, the installation or maintenance of low impact landscaping.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02382

Introduced

1/16/25

Refer

1/16/25

Refer

1/7/26

Provides for the appeal of disputes between shareholders and boards of directors of residential cooperatives to a hearing officer appointed by the attorney general.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02524

Introduced

1/17/25

Refer

1/17/25

Refer

1/7/26

Prohibits the unauthorized sale, purchase or transfer of any cemetery marker, flag holder, monument, statue or other physical memorabilia that is over 75 years old that commemorates the life or death of a veteran or group of veterans, including but not limited to a military unit, company, battalion or division, if such cemetery marker, flag holder, monument, statue or other physical memorabilia that commemorates the life or death of a veteran or group of veterans has been placed in any cemetery; makes violations a class B misdemeanor; permits cemeteries to make such sales upon application to the state cemetery board and upon certain conditions.

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