New York State Senator

William Colton 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 5)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00101

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Prohibits the use of intoxication of the victim as a defense in sex crimes where the victim is under the influence of any drug, intoxicant, or other substance to a degree which rendered the victim temporarily incapable of appraising or controlling such person's conduct and such condition was known or reasonably should have been known to a person in the actor's situation.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00106

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to increasing the standards of monthly need and home energy grant amounts for persons in receipt of public assistance.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00072

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Creates climate liability for fossil fuel related activity which caused or contributed to climate change; creates a right of action.
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New York Assembly Bill A00066

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Requires a caller making a report of suspected child abuse or maltreatment to the central register to leave their name and contact information; prohibits the office of children and family services from releasing information identifying a person who made such a report.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00199

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Makes it illegal for certain persons to possess or sell a pistol converter or a converted pistol; directs the superintendent of the state police to publish a list of pistols that the superintendent has determined to be convertible pistols.
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New York Assembly Bill A00387

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
3/18/25  
Engrossed
5/14/25  
Refer
5/14/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Enrolled
12/1/25  
Chaptered
12/10/25  
Requires general hospitals to provide language assistance services; requires general hospitals to develop a language assistance program to ensure meaningful access to the general hospital's services and reasonable accommodation for all patients who require language assistance.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00984

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires a call-blocking service to be provided in state contracts that include procurement of a voice service; provides that a voice service provider shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability for failure of a call-blocking service to block a call, or mistakenly blocking a call that should not have been blocked.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00971

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Provides that a business entity may not provide false caller identification information with the intent to defraud or harass any party; provides definition of business entity.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00852

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Engrossed
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Engrossed
3/17/26  
Requires bicycles advertised for sale or resale in New York state to have an identifying serial number in legible boldfaced figures in one of certain specified areas on the bicycle; requires advertisements for bicycles to clearly and conspicuously include a photograph of such bicycles; exempts online marketplaces from placing identifying serial numbers on bicycles.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00862

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Prohibits the taking of zoo, petting zoo, carnival or circus animals; provides that violations shall be punishable by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than two thousand dollars.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00863

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires the department of labor to conduct a study on the impact of job automation on the workforce in New York state.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00939

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires the administration and the instruction in preparation of the TASC examination in the Chinese and Korean languages for pupils who are proficient in these languages and of limited English proficiency.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01012

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
2/4/25  
Engrossed
3/20/25  
Refer
3/20/25  
Engrossed
3/18/26  
Establishes a comprehensive electric vehicle fast charging station implementation plan; requires the New York state energy and research development authority to further establish a "Fast Charge NY working group" to develop such plan; makes related provisions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01077

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Report Pass
5/22/25  
Refer
5/22/25  
Enables safe access to public roads for all users by utilizing complete street design principles.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00871

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Prohibits vivisection at colleges, universities, professional, proprietary or graduate schools in the state where a scientifically and educationally satisfactory method or strategy exists; defines vivisection to mean experimentation through surgery on a living organism to view living internal structure.