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William Colton 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 61)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08962

Introduced
8/13/25  
Refer
8/13/25  
Enacts the "New York fundamental artificial intelligence requirements in (FAIR) news act"; provides requirements for fairness in disclosures to news media workers, news media consumers, oversight of AI systems, and workplace protections for news media workers.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09001

Introduced
8/13/25  
Refer
8/13/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
2/10/26  
Refer
2/10/26  
Report Pass
4/21/26  
Engrossed
4/27/26  
Directs the commissioner of the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services to establish a program for individuals to receive free drug test strips to detect the presence of medetomidine, benzodiazepine, nitazenes, and/or other harmful contaminants; directs the commissioner of the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services, in cooperation with the commissioner of the department of health, to develop and conduct a public awareness and educational campaign on the dangers of medetomidine, benzodiazepine, nitazenes, and/or other harmful contaminants.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08961

Introduced
8/13/25  
Refer
8/13/25  
Relates to the definition of drug-related paraphernalia; clarifies that drug-related paraphernalia shall not impact substances that are not considered controlled substances.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08979

Introduced
8/13/25  
Refer
8/13/25  
Provides that no corporation, partnership, limited liability company, firm, online platform, or any other business entity doing business in this state shall knowingly sell, offer for sale, or deliver medetomidine to individuals without proof of its intended use for institutional, veterinary, or scientific purposes.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08889

Introduced
6/10/25  
Refer
6/10/25  
Enacts the "Customer Savings and Reliability Act" in relation to regional affordable gas transition plans to guide an orderly, affordable, and equitable right-sizing of the utility gas system in a manner that aligns with climate justice and emissions reduction provisions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09039

Introduced
9/5/25  
Refer
9/5/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Establishes the "accountability of costs for data centers act"; requires each electric corporation, gas corporation and municipality to establish an independent classification of service for large energy use facilities that is separate and distinct from other classifications of service; authorizes the department of public service to develop financial surety requirements.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09055

Introduced
9/5/25  
Refer
9/5/25  
Establishes a tax credit for food service establishment donations to food pantries, in the amount of fifty percent of the marketed value of each of the taxpayer's qualified donations up to six dollars per qualified donation, beginning with the 2027 tax year.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09051

Introduced
9/5/25  
Refer
9/5/25  
Expands the solar energy system equipment tax credit to cover solar energy system equipment installed in a community solar array; defines "community solar array" to mean a location other than a person's principal residence where solar energy system equipment is owned and installed for use in such person's principal residence.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09047

Introduced
9/5/25  
Refer
9/5/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Prohibits the sale, offer for sale, or distribution of foam flotation docks, buoys and floating structures in the state where such foam flotation is not fully encapsulated to prevent degradation into the environment.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08884

Introduced
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Regulates the development and use of certain artificial intelligence systems to prevent algorithmic discrimination; requires independent audits of high risk AI systems; provides for enforcement by the attorney general as well as a private right of action.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09111

Introduced
9/26/25  
Refer
9/26/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
5/11/26  
Refer
5/11/26  
Report Pass
5/14/26  
Engrossed
5/28/26  
Refer
5/28/26  
Defines "portable solar generation device"; exempts portable solar generation devices from interconnection or net metering requirements; requires the state energy conservation construction code to allow for portable solar generation devices to be connected to a building's wiring through an electrical outlet.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09110

Introduced
9/26/25  
Refer
9/26/25  
Elevates assault of an employee of the New York city department of parks and recreation to a class D felony.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00762

Introduced
6/10/25  
Refer
6/10/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim September 15-21, 2025, as Diaper Need Awareness Week in the State of New York
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00671

Introduced
6/4/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim September 21-27, 2025, as Diaper Need Awareness Week in the State of New York
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00724

Introduced
6/6/25  
Refer
6/6/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim September 7-13, 2025, as Suicide Prevention Week in the State of New York