New York State Senator

Yudelka Tapia 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00701

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Repeals the requirement that applicants must pass an examination in order to qualify as a licensed master social worker.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00618

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
1/21/26  
Engrossed
1/27/26  
Refer
1/27/26  
Requires employers to inform their employees that non-disclosure or non-disparagement provisions in their employment contracts do not prohibit them from speaking with law enforcement, the equal employment opportunity commission, the state division of human rights, a local commission on human rights, or an attorney retained by the employee.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00687

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Provides that certain communications made without malice regarding an incident of sexual assault, harassment or discrimination shall be deemed privileged; provides that a prevailing defendant in an action brought against such defendant for making a communication that is privileged shall be entitled to attorney's fees and costs for such defense.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00699

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires the implementation of an electronic benefit transfer system using industry-standard commercial electronic funds transfer technology.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00643

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to the purchase of claims by corporations or collection agencies; relates to the inference of an assignee's intent and purpose in taking an assignment of a claim against an obligor that is not an eligible obligor.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00492

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes the permanent child care workforce pay equity fund and provides for the distribution thereof; makes an appropriation therefor.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00565

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/21/25  
Engrossed
3/26/25  
Refer
3/26/25  
Engrossed
4/9/25  
Enrolled
12/8/25  
Prohibits the establishment of new for-profit hospices or increasing the capacity of existing for-profit hospices.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00514

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Refer
4/2/25  
Relates to parole eligibility for certain incarcerated persons age fifty-five or older if they have served at least fifteen years of their sentence or sentences.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00574

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires accessible buses to be available within a service area measuring three miles from any bus line of the authority or its subsidiaries.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00472

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes the "clean fuel standard of 2026"; provides such standard is intended to reduce greenhouse gas intensity from the on-road transportation sector, with further reductions to be implemented based upon advances in technology.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00567

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Directs payment of certain internet sales and use taxes into the central business district tolling capital lockbox fund partially dedicated for the MTA to be made without appropriation.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00793

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Provides that no autonomous vehicle may be used for taxi, livery or transportation network company vehicle services in any city with a population of one million or more without first being licensed by the New York City taxi and limousine commission; requires the New York City taxi and limousine commission to establish a license for use of an autonomous vehicle as a taxicab and to promulgate rules regarding such license and the operation of autonomous taxicabs.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00774

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes protections for minors who are featured in compensated video content that generate earnings from being shared on social media or other video-sharing websites.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00805

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
2/25/25  
Engrossed
3/26/25  
Relates to requiring gender neutral bathrooms in state-owned buildings; provides that if no single-occupancy bathroom can be designated as gender neutral in a state-owned building, a multiple-occupancy bathroom shall be designated as gender neutral instead; requires state-owned and state-leased buildings to provide adequate notice regarding gender neutral bathrooms.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00765

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
4/21/26  
Refer
4/21/26  
Report Pass
4/21/26  
Engrossed
4/22/26  
Requires that a health care provider who administers an immunization to a person nineteen years of age or older must report such information to the department of health or to the New York city citywide immunization registry unless the person receiving the immunization objects to such reporting.