New York State Senator

William Colton 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 2)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00738

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to women's health in correctional facilities; establishes a women's health education program; requires HIV and STD testing to be offered to incarcerated individuals; provides pregnant incarcerated individuals with access to prenatal vitamins as well as a specialized diet tailored to pregnancy needs; requires a study and report on women's health in prison.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00622

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
6/4/25  
Engrossed
3/31/26  
Requires mandatory health insurance coverage for acupuncture services upon the prescription of a health care provider acting within the provider's scope of practice.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00520

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes a forestry stewardship and habitat conservation credit for personal income and business franchise taxes.
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New York Assembly Bill A00521

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Report Pass
5/29/25  
Engrossed
5/29/25  
Refer
5/29/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Enrolled
12/8/25  
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 Assembly Bill A00680

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to the mandatory coverage of hearing aids by insurers and other organizations.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00546

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Increases the penalty for multiple convictions of torturing, killing or failing to provide sustenance to an animal to a felony, if convicted within five years from the date of a prior conviction.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00493

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Authorizes a supreme court judge hearing a petition for an "extreme risk protection order" to also hear a petition for a regular order of protection pursuant to the criminal procedure law, the domestic relations law and/or the family court act.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00472

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes the "clean fuel standard of 2026"; provides such standard is intended to reduce greenhouse gas intensity from the on-road transportation sector, with further reductions to be implemented based upon advances in technology.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00676

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Imposes an additional tax on income attributable to long-term capital gain.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00479

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Entitles employees 45 years of age or older to take one day off every ten years to undergo a colonoscopy.
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New York Assembly Bill A00667

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Prohibits the use of leg-gripping traps.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00640

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to the creation of a court appointed advocate for animals.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00694

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires courts, prior to accepting a plea, to provide notice to the defendant that such plea and the acceptance thereof could result in deportation, removal from the United States, exclusion from the United States or denial of citizenship, if the defendant is not a citizen of the United States.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00664

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Prohibits a person convicted of "Buster's Law" from owning or possessing a companion animal unless authorized by court order, after appropriate psychiatric or psychological testing.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00464

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes a program for specific individuals to become complex care assistants and provide private duty nursing services to certain Medicaid enrollees.