New York Senator Brian Kavanagh [D] | Senate | Bills | Introduced

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NYS09661Intro
25%
Establishes maximum contaminant levels in drinking water for certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS); sets such levels at 4 parts per trillion (ppt) for perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and 10 parts pe...
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2024-05-16
To Senate Health Committee
NYS08898Intro
25%
Enacts the tropical rainforest economic & environmental sustainability act requiring that companies contracting with the state do not contribute to tropical forest degradation or deforestation directly or through their supply chains; establishes the ...
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2024-05-16
SUBSTITUTED BY A9711
NYS09395Intro
25%
Allows real property tax fraud to be prosecuted by expanding tax fraud acts to cover certain acts of fraud under title two of article four of the real property tax law.
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2024-05-15
To Senate Investigations and Government Operations Committee
NYS09396Intro
25%
Creates a presumption that certain harassing acts by an owner are intended to cause a tenant to vacate their dwelling units or to surrender or waive any rights in relation to such occupancy.
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2024-05-15
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS09426Intro
25%
Requires the board of directors of a cooperative apartment corporation to notify applicants seeking to purchase shares of the corporation of the reason or reasons the board of directors has refused such request.
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2024-05-15
To Senate Housing, Construction, and Community Development Committee
NYS09457Intro
25%
Makes the senior citizen rent increase exemption (SCRIE) and disability rent increase exemption (DRIE) permanent.
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2024-05-15
To Senate Aging Committee
NYS02944Intro
25%
Prohibits requiring that an individual have a court proceeding initiated against him or her in order to qualify for a rent arrears grant or ongoing rental assistance.
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2024-05-14
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS05004Intro
25%
Provides an exemption for the sale and installation of residential and commercial geothermal heat pump systems equipment.
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2024-05-14
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS09389Intro
25%
Allows access to juvenile delinquency records for the purposes of a firearm background check; authorizes the denial of a firearm license for an applicant who is under the age of thirty and who as a juvenile was adjudicated delinquent for an offense w...
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2024-05-14
To Senate Children and Families Committee
NYS00774Intro
25%
Establishes the "earned time act" providing for time allowances against the term or maximum term of sentences imposed by the court to be credited on an annual pro rata basis.
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2024-05-13
To Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee
NYS09346Intro
25%
Requires each town, village, and city to develop a "housing action plan for everyone", including consideration of local needs and specific strategies to address those local needs.
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2024-05-13
To Senate Local Government Committee
NYS09326Intro
25%
Establishes the bank of Rochester, including provisions related to definitions; sponsors and corporate structure; powers and restrictions; governance; charter requirements; financial and operations frameworks; transparency and financial reporting; in...
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2024-05-13
To Senate Banks Committee
NYS02689Intro
25%
Enacts the "Renewable Capitol act"; requires the office of general services, in consultation with the power authority of the state of New York, to ensure that all operations that power, heat or cool the empire state plaza complex shall entirely use r...
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2024-05-07
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS00307Intro
25%
Provides for findings of the state board of parole necessary for discretionary release of incarcerated individuals on parole.
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2024-05-06
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS06089Intro
25%
Relates to the purchase of zero-emission buses and the procurement of electric-powered buses, vehicles or other related equipment and infrastructure; requires public utilities to have infrastructure, capacity, facilities, and transmission and distrib...
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2024-05-06
RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN
NYS08106Intro
25%
Increases the amount of geothermal energy systems tax credits.
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2024-05-06
RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN
NYS00237Intro
25%
Relates to returnable bottles; adds noncarbonated soft drinks, certain noncarbonated fruit or vegetable juices, coffee and tea beverages, carbonated fruit beverages and cider to the definition of "beverage"; provides that beginning April 1, 2026, the...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS07791Intro
25%
Enacts the "faith-based affordable housing act" for development on residential land; defines terms; provides that each village, town, and city shall allow the construction and occupation of residential buildings on any covered site up to the specifie...
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2024-05-01
To Senate Housing, Construction, and Community Development Committee
NYS09084Intro
25%
Clarifies certain provisions relating to the prohibition on budget planning; allows the attorney general to apply for an order enjoining or restraining commission or continuance of violations.
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2024-04-22
To Senate Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYS09072Intro
25%
Requires local governments to prepare and adopt an affordable housing plan no later than December 31, 2024; defines local government as a city, town or village; requires plan to identify the regional need for affordable housing, as well as such need ...
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2024-04-16
To Senate Local Government Committee
NYS09074Intro
25%
Requires municipalities to include an Affordable Housing Needs Assessment to establish a data-based foundation for the creation and preservation of affordable housing in the municipality, utilizing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development...
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2024-04-16
To Senate Local Government Committee
NYS09073Intro
25%
Requires municipalities to determine whether it is in the public interest to create a comprehensive plan adapted to the special requirements of the municipality and to determine whether it is in the public interest to update such comprehensive plan a...
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2024-04-16
To Senate Local Government Committee
NYS02986Intro
25%
Provides for state assistance to local governments for the enforcement of fire prevention and building codes using monies paid into the code enforcement account.
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2024-04-15
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS08385Intro
25%
Relates to an exemption for certain property from the prohibition of alcohol sales within a certain distance of a church for a condominium building in Manhattan.
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2024-04-15
SUBSTITUTED BY A8615
NYS07127Intro
25%
Establishes twenty-five year retirement programs for members of the New York city employees' retirement system employed as fire protection inspectors and associate fire protection inspectors.
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2024-03-27
To Senate Civil Service and Pensions Committee
NYS06471Intro
25%
Enacts the "Marvin Mayfield act", eliminating mandatory minimum sentences.
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2024-03-27
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS02276Intro
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Establishes a program to address the legalization of specified basements and cellars and the conversion of other specified basements and cellars in a city with a population of one million or more.
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2024-03-22
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS08847Intro
25%
Provides for the revocation of licenses to sell cigarettes, tobacco products, alcohol and lottery tickets for the possession or sale of illicit cannabis in violation of the cannabis law.
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2024-03-20
To Senate Budget and Revenue Committee
NYS03434Intro
25%
Eliminates provisions exempting employees with disabilities from the minimum wage law; provides that laws or minimum wage orders that authorize an employer to pay a wage that is less than the minimum wage are valid provided that under such laws or or...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Disabilities Committee
NYS07927Intro
25%
Protects wolves by requiring animals which could be wolves be submitted for a DNA test and, when determined to be wolves, requiring the department take action to protect wolves from being taken in the future.
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2024-03-01
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS08652Intro
25%
Relates to emergency rental assistance; prohibits the requirement that a court proceeding has been initiated against an individual in order for such individual to qualify for a rent arrears grant or ongoing rental assistance (Part A); removes the req...
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2024-02-26
To Senate Social Services Committee
NYS06055Intro
25%
Prohibits certain food additives and food color additives; provides that in an action to enforce compliance, the recognition by the federal food and drug administration of any of these substances as safe may not be alleged as a defense.
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2024-02-22
To Senate Agriculture Committee
NYS08615Intro
25%
Establishes requirements for the reporting of GRAS (generally recognized as safe) substances.
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2024-02-21
To Senate Agriculture Committee
NYS00541Intro
25%
Enacts the "Empowering People in Rights Enforcement (EMPIRE) Worker Protection Act"; relates to the delegation of state enforcement authority to private actors; authorizes an affected employee, whistleblower, representative organization or an organiz...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Labor Committee
NYS00183Intro
25%
Relates to assisting persons with medically diagnosed HIV infection.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS02962Intro
25%
Relates to creating the Neighborhood Small Business Rent Increase Exemption; provides a tax abatement for limiting rent increases on small businesses in a city of one million or more persons.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS05270Intro
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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2024-02-13
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS01939Intro
25%
Increases the state code enforcement powers of the secretary of state by establishing a state code enforcement office headed by an ombudsperson.
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2024-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS02505Intro
25%
Relates to the creation of a statewide residential rental registry providing information relating to rental units including the number and types of code violations issued by the appropriate enforcement agency, and the number of findings of harassment...
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2024-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS02348Intro
25%
Relates to including the illegal conversions of dwelling units in the definition of harassment.
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2024-02-12
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS07793Intro
25%
Adds certain human services programs to the designated human services programs eligible for a cost of living adjustment.
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2024-02-02
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS00568Intro
25%
Relates to establishing the housing access voucher program; provides that the commissioner of the division of housing and community renewal shall implement a program of rental assistance in the form of housing vouchers for eligible individuals and fa...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS00667Intro
25%
Relates to the composition of boards of elections; provides that such boards shall have other qualifications for performing their duties as the legislature may direct.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee
NYS02080Intro
25%
Establishes an affordable independent senior housing assistance program which shall provide grants within amounts appropriated or otherwise available therefor to affordable independent senior housing properties to establish and operate resident assis...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS02506Intro
25%
Relates to creating a new acquisition fund for community land trusts located in New York state; provides that moneys of the fund shall be expended solely to carry out the affordable home ownership development program exclusively for community land tr...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS03189Intro
25%
Enacts the "fair pay for home care act" relating to minimum wages applicable to home care aides; provides for a minimum wage of 150% of the applicable statewide or regional minimum wage.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Health Committee
NYS07797Intro
25%
Allows the alteration or repeal of real property tax exemptions for private institutions of higher education.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee
NYS08386Intro
25%
Requires high-sugar beverages to be labeled with a safety warning stating that the beverage contains 100% or more of the FDA recommended daily intake of added sugar.
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2024-01-25
To Senate Agriculture Committee
NYS00569Intro
25%
Relates to establishing a maximum rent of one-third of household income for the senior citizens rent increase exemption and disability rent increase exemption.
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2024-01-23
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS08169Intro
25%
Requires healthcare facilities to maintain a fifty percent operating threshold of certain reusable healthcare protective textiles in their inventory unless a reprieve is provided for supply chain issues; provides a fine may be assessed for failure to...
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2024-01-10
To Senate Health Committee
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