New York State Senator

William Colton 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 53)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04138

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Authorizes the justice center to create a central registry for employees for all current and prospective agencies, sponsoring agencies or other providers of services that are certified, authorized, approved or funded through contract by the office for people with developmental disabilities to streamline criminal background checks.
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New York Assembly Bill A04188

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Prohibits increases in rates of homeowners' insurance in excess of twenty-five percent per year except where agreed to in the policy.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04727

Introduced
2/5/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/24/25  
Engrossed
4/2/25  
Refer
4/2/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Enrolled
12/8/25  
Chaptered
12/19/25  
Extends paid family leave benefits to employees who perform construction, demolition, reconstruction, excavation, rehabilitation, repairs, renovations, alterations, or improvements for multiple employers pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement who shall be eligible for family leave benefits if they were employed for at least twenty-six of the last thirty-nine weeks by any covered employer which is signatory to a collective bargaining agreement.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04659

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Exempts innovative and alternative septic systems that provide for enhanced treatment technologies from sales and use taxes.
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New York Assembly Bill A04716

Introduced
2/5/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Report Pass
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Report Pass
6/11/25  
Engrossed
3/18/26  
Requires washing machines sold after a certain date to contain a microfiber filtration system that meets certain specifications.
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New York Assembly Bill A06600

Introduced
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Limits retaliation against incarcerated individuals following the filing of a grievance, by requiring more than the oral or written statement of the subject of a grievance filed by an incarcerated individual for the purposes of finding such incarcerated individual guilty at an evidentiary or disciplinary hearing for misbehavior.
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New York Assembly Bill A06578

Introduced
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
5/29/25  
Refer
5/29/25  
Report Pass
6/10/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Refer
6/10/25  
Engrossed
5/5/26  
Establishes the artificial intelligence training data transparency act requiring developers of generative artificial intelligence models or services to post on the developer's website information regarding the data used by the developer to train the generative artificial intelligence model or service, including a high-level summary of the datasets used in the development of such system or service.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A06629

Introduced
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Enacts the MEGA corporations act mandating worldwide combined reporting for large corporations that have more than one billion dollars in gross receipts.
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New York Assembly Bill A06581

Introduced
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Engrossed
5/20/25  
Excludes certain amphibians and reptiles from the definition of small game and makes conforming changes.
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New York Assembly Bill A06546

Introduced
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Prohibits the ownership, operation or control of pharmacies directly or indirectly by pharmacy benefit managers.
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New York Assembly Bill A06599

Introduced
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
2/25/26  
Establishes an independent office of chief medical examiner in the department of corrections and community supervision.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A06549

Introduced
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Establishes the "stop online predators act"; requires operators of covered platforms to conduct age verification to determine whether a user is a covered minor; requires operators of covered platforms to utilize certain default privacy settings for covered minors; requires operators of covered platforms to require parental approval of certain activity related to a covered minor's covered platform account.
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New York Assembly Bill A06666

Introduced
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to make correctional facility water testing results accessible directly, upon request, to incarcerated individuals and correctional facility staff in such facilities and make such water testing results available to the public on the website of the department.
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New York Assembly Bill A06663

Introduced
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Establishes the "New York junk fee prevention act"; requires clear and conspicuous pricing practices regarding trash junk fees.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00170

Introduced
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim March 2025, as Women's History Month in the State of New York