New York State Senator

William Colton 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 4)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00832

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires at least a ratio of one clinical, non-student mental health staff member per one thousand students on all SUNY and CUNY campuses and for state colleges and universities to update such ratio every five years.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00073

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
3/25/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Requires the display of certain labels and warnings on gas stoves sold, displayed for sale, or offered for sale at retail to a consumer in this state; authorizes the department of state to adopt regulations regarding the placement and format of such labels; provides for penalties; authorizes the attorney general to enforce such provisions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00215

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to the maintenance of a database on intellectual property generated by state employees or developed through state-funded research which shall include, at a minimum, a brief description of the intellectual property and up-to-date contact information for each item.
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New York Assembly Bill A00216

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Directs the department of environmental conservation to establish a perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances removal treatment installation grant program, providing a one-time grant to private well users for the installation of PFAS treatment or service connection to a public water system; directs the department of environmental conservation to establish a perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances removal treatment maintenance rebate program, providing a rebate to private well users for the maintenance of PFAS treatment equipment.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00263

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Refer
1/29/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Increases the length of the term of office of members of the legislature to six years; imposes term limits for members of the legislature.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00226

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
3/25/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities to create a staffing plan for workforce emergencies when experiencing staffing shortages.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00244

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires every employer to provide each employee with the equivalent number of hours as three full work days for such employee of paid sick leave for a miscarriage or stillbirth of an infant born to the employee.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00166

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to securing payment of wages for work already performed; creates a lien remedy for all employees; provides grounds for attachment; relates to procedures where employees may hold shareholders of non-publicly traded corporations personally liable for wage theft; relates to rights for victims of wage theft to hold the ten members with the largest ownership interests in a company personally liable for wage theft.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00196

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Enacts the "dialogue and decorum act" which establishes the crime of disruption or disturbance of a lawful assembly; makes such crime an unclassified misdemeanor.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00182

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Refer
4/2/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
5/21/25  
Engrossed
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Engrossed
3/17/26  
Requires the department of financial services to fulfill certain requirements to implement homeowner natural disaster preparedness, home safety and loss prevention courses.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00095

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Directs the MTA to establish a half fare rate program for veterans.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00149

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires epinephrine devices in schools; requires training in the administration of epinephrine where a student is reasonably believed to be suffering from anaphylaxis.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00091

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires high-sugar beverages to be labeled with a safety warning stating that the beverage contains 100% or more of the FDA recommended daily intake of added sugar.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00077

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Prohibits the sale of flavored smokeless tobacco within five hundred feet of a public or private elementary or secondary school; defines "flavored smokeless tobacco"; authorizes the commissioner to impose a civil penalty for violations.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00084

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to increasing short-term disability benefits.