New York State Senator

William Colton 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 8)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08918

Introduced
7/16/25  
Refer
7/16/25  
Directs the regents to adopt rules to permit lifeguard certification training courses to satisfy required physical education credits.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07625

Introduced
4/1/25  
Refer
4/1/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
5/19/26  
Refer
5/19/26  
Requires gas pipeline facilities to accelerate the repair, rehabilitation, and replacement of equipment or pipelines that are leaking or leak prone and increase safety reporting relating to gas pipeline leaks; requires the public service commission to establish timelines for the repair, rehabilitation or replacement of leaking or leak prone infrastructure; requires the commission to provide a gas safety report to the legislature.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07624

Introduced
4/1/25  
Refer
4/1/25  
Establishes the human services wage commission for the purpose of investigating whether the wages paid to human services workers are sufficient to provide adequate maintenance and to protect the health and welfare of employees; defines terms; provides for the duties of the commission; requires reporting.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07544

Introduced
4/1/25  
Refer
4/1/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Report Pass
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Report Pass
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Relates to enforcement of pole attachment safety and quality and utility pole and attachment identification.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08908

Introduced
7/16/25  
Refer
7/16/25  
Prohibits local, state and federal law enforcement officers from wearing any mask or personal disguise while interacting with the public in the performance of their duties; excludes certain protective masks.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07963

Introduced
4/16/25  
Refer
4/16/25  
Eliminates late fees for residential utility customers; provides that no late payment charges may be imposed on residential customers.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07966

Introduced
4/16/25  
Refer
4/16/25  
Enacts the nursing education support act to allocate additional funds to nursing programs at community colleges across New York state to expand capacity, improve program quality, and ensure a robust pipeline of skilled nurses to meet the state's healthcare needs.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08007

Introduced
4/21/25  
Refer
4/21/25  
Requires food service establishments to permit the use of reusable beverage and food containers provided by customers when requesting a beverage refill or requesting leftovers from a partially consumed meal to be packaged and post signs to inform customers that they are permitted to do so.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08018

Introduced
4/22/25  
Refer
4/22/25  
Report Pass
4/30/25  
Refer
4/30/25  
Report Pass
4/30/25  
Engrossed
5/13/25  
Refer
5/13/25  
Engrossed
6/4/25  
Enrolled
7/29/25  
Chaptered
7/29/25  
Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage oysters from December 31, 2025 to December 31, 2027.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09437

Introduced
1/6/26  
Refer
1/6/26  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
1/12/26  
Report Pass
1/12/26  
Refer
1/12/26  
Extends DEC's authority to regulate management of crabs; authorizes the department of environmental conservation to take any actions necessary to ensure any quota limiting the taking of horseshoe crabs does not exceed certain thresholds.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09436

Introduced
1/6/26  
Refer
1/6/26  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
1/12/26  
Report Pass
1/12/26  
Refer
1/12/26  
Engrossed
1/13/26  
Report Pass
1/12/26  
Engrossed
1/13/26  
Refer
1/13/26  
Engrossed
1/21/26  
Enrolled
2/13/26  
Chaptered
2/13/26  
Relates to finding alternatives to the use of pesticides in the monarch preservation plan and allowing agricultural lands that are not in active production be used to enhance the monarch butterfly habitat.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09453

Introduced
1/6/26  
Refer
1/6/26  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
1/21/26  
Refer
1/21/26  
Report Pass
1/21/26  
Engrossed
1/21/26  
Refer
1/21/26  
Engrossed
1/29/26  
Enrolled
2/13/26  
Chaptered
2/13/26  
Relates to requirements regarding employers including opioid antagonists where first aid kits are required by federal law; amends the effectiveness thereof.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09465

Introduced
1/6/26  
Refer
1/6/26  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
1/21/26  
Refer
1/21/26  
Report Pass
2/25/26  
Refer
2/25/26  
Provides protections for telecommunications tower technicians, including requiring that all tower technicians performing work pursuant to a contract with a state agency complete training requirements determined by the office of general services prior to commencing work pursuant to such contracts; repeals legislative intent relating to such tower technician protections; relates to the effectiveness thereof.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09454

Introduced
1/6/26  
Refer
1/6/26  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
1/21/26  
Report Pass
1/21/26  
Refer
1/21/26  
Requires contractors and subcontractors performing construction work for covered renewable energy systems to have apprenticeship agreements; relates to the effectiveness of provisions of law related thereto.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09466

Introduced
1/6/26  
Refer
1/6/26  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
1/21/26  
Refer
1/21/26  
Extends paid family leave benefits to certain construction employees 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; relates to the effectiveness thereof.