New York Senator Brian Kavanagh [D]

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NYS06768Intro
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Directs the commissioner of education to establish an incentive program for school districts wishing to implement programs of foreign language in the elementary schools; directs the commissioner of education to establish an incentive program for coll...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS00668Intro
25%
Relates to low or moderate income housing developments; allows local zoning boards of appeals to approve affordable housing developments; provides for an appeals process to the division of housing and community renewal; creates a state zoning board o...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Housing, Construction, and Community Development Committee
NYS07298Intro
25%
Prohibits insurance discrimination because of the affordability of residential buildings and residential construction projects.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Insurance Committee
NYS07299Intro
25%
Establishes the crimes of unlawful purchase of body armor in the first and second degree; establishes the crimes of unlawful sale of body armor in the first and second degree.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS05360Intro
25%
Establishes the office of equity for energy and climate to support local and communally developed climate projects to support disadvantaged communities, including by establishing and administering the community solutions fund and the solutions grants...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS07402Intro
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Relates to rent impairing violations and eviction proceedings.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Housing, Construction, and Community Development Committee
NYS07497Intro
25%
Establishes the Brooklyn-Queens expressway authority for the purposes of the continuance, further development and improvement of transportation along the Brooklyn-Queens expressway and other services related thereto.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Transportation Committee
NYS00217Intro
25%
Prohibits the search, with or without a warrant, of geolocation and keyword data of a group of people who are under no individual suspicion of having committed a crime, but rather are defined by having been at a given location at a given time or sear...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS00306Intro
25%
Prohibits governmental entities from entering into agreements to house individuals in immigration detention facilities; requires governmental entities to terminate existing contracts for the detention of individuals in immigration detention facilitie...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee
NYS00998Intro
25%
Relates to the establishment of a single computerized state DNA identification index; requires municipalities to expunge any DNA record stored in a municipal DNA identification index.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Internet and Technology Committee
NYS04547Intro
25%
Establishes sales tax exemptions for residential and commercial energy storage systems equipment.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Budget and Revenue Committee
NYS07590Intro
25%
Establishes the New York Health program, a comprehensive system of access to health insurance for New York state residents; provides for administrative structure of the plan; provides for powers and duties of the board of trustees, the scope of benef...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Health Committee
NYS05385Intro
25%
Establishes a moratorium on the use of forensic child custody evaluators in family court proceedings by the office of court administration.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Children and Families Committee
NYS03156Intro
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Requires the New York city department of buildings to confirm that there are no tenants living at certain properties prior to approving or issuing permits for the demolition or the substantial alteration or renovation of such properties.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Cities 1 Committee
NYS07905Intro
25%
Enacts the climate and community investment act; prioritizes the allocation of public investments in disadvantaged communities; addresses climate change challenges through the expansion and growth of clean and renewable energy sources; adopts best va...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS00278Intro
25%
Establishes a course of instruction and learning expectations on climate education in all public pre-kindergarten, elementary and secondary schools which shall include various principles and concepts including environmental justice.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Education Committee
NYS03389Intro
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Limits the use of fossil fuels in the research or production of energy for purposes of the excelsior jobs program; prohibits businesses engaged in the production, transmission, distribution, transportation or storage of fossil fuels from participatio...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Commerce, Economic Development and Small Business Committee
NYS05551Intro
25%
Establishes a tax on annual gross revenue derived from digital ads.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Budget and Revenue Committee
NYS03179Intro
25%
Provides for absence from school for the mental or behavioral health of the minor.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Education Committee
NYS07764Intro
25%
Establishes the water resiliency projects fund for flood mitigation, stormwater mitigation and other water related resiliency projects; makes an appropriation therefor.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS07663Intro
25%
Establishes a state SNAP minimum benefit program to provide a minimum amount of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits that is higher than the amount of federal SNAP benefits.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Social Services Committee
NYS02643Intro
25%
Relates to the operation of bicycles at stop signs and traffic-control signals.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Transportation Committee
NYS01691Intro
25%
Relates to enacting the "New York photovoltaic module stewardship and take-back program act"; provides that the department of environmental conservation shall develop guidance for a photovoltaic module stewardship and take-back program to guide manuf...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS05209Intro
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Expands the drug take back act to include single-use and reusable electronic cigarettes.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Health Committee
NYS00128Intro
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Prohibits the sale of beverage containers connected to each other by a separate holding device constructed of plastic.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS00143PassEnacts the "Tax-free debt forgiveness act"; excludes certain student loan forgiveness amounts authorized under 20 U.S.C. Sections 1098aa, 1098bb, 1098cc, 1098dd or 1098ee from state income tax.
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2023-12-22
APPROVAL MEMO.72
NYS01856PassEnacts the birds and bees protection act; prohibits the sale of certain pesticides or use of seeds coated with such pesticides; requires the department of environmental conservation to review the latest scientific information concerning certain pesti...
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2023-12-22
APPROVAL MEMO.77
NYS02980PassEstablishes the legal regulated rent for the combination of two or more vacant apartments; defines permanently vacated; relates to exemptions from rent stabilization on the basis of substantial rehabilitation; relates to public hearings by the city r...
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2023-12-22
APPROVAL MEMO.82
NYS02943VetoRelates to applying the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019 to rent calculations and rent records maintenance and destruction for all rent stabilized apartments.
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2023-12-22
VETOED MEMO.132
NYS04099PassProvides that it shall be unlawful for any person to organize, sponsor, conduct, promote, or participate in any contest, competition, tournament or derby where the objective of such contest or competition is to take wildlife.
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2023-12-22
SIGNED CHAP.762
NYS07548VetoRelates to motions to vacate judgment; authorizes filing motions to vacate judgment for a conviction that was subsequently decriminalized; authorizes motions to vacate judgment to be filed at any time after entry of a judgment obtained at trial or by...
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2023-12-22
VETOED MEMO.148
NYS05941PassRequires businesses to notify consumers of an upcoming automatic renewal or continuous service charge to the consumer's account forty-five days prior to such charge; requires businesses to include instructions on how to cancel such renewal or charge ...
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2023-12-13
SIGNED CHAP.728
NYS00214PassExpands eligibility for victims and survivors of crime to access victim compensation funds by removing the mandatory law enforcement reporting requirement, providing alternative forms of evidence that would show that a qualifying crime was committed ...
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2023-12-08
APPROVAL MEMO.43
NYS06577PassRelates to the theft of real property; provides certain protections for victims of real property theft; authorizes a stay of foreclosure proceedings pending an investigation into theft or fraud.
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2023-11-14
SIGNED CHAP.630
NYS02985PassEnacts the "housing affordability, resiliency, and energy efficiency investment act"; relates to the modernization of affordable housing financing authorities that authorize financing for the construction and rehabilitation of affordable housing.
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2023-10-23
SIGNED CHAP.535
NYS04709PassAuthorizes a tax abatement for alterations and improvements to multiple dwellings for purposes of preserving habitability in affordable housing.
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2023-10-23
SIGNED CHAP.536
NYS00580PassMakes community violence prevention services available, to the extent permitted by federal law, to any Medicaid beneficiary who has received medical treatment for an injury sustained as a result of an act of community violence and has been referred b...
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2023-10-17
SIGNED CHAP.531
NYS05984PassProvides for conditional registration of voters during early voting.
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2023-09-20
SIGNED CHAP.479
NYS06519PassEstablishes a deadline for changing the location of a polling place for early voting by requiring that no location change may occur within forty-eight hours of the commencement of an early voting period unless there is a disaster or a declared state ...
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2023-09-20
SIGNED CHAP.480
NYS07511PassRelates 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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2023-09-15
SIGNED CHAP.470
NYS02946PassEnacts the "9/11 notice act"; provides for notice to past and present employees of eligibility for the September eleventh victim compensation fund and the World Trade Center health program.
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2023-09-11
SIGNED CHAP.364
NYS04887PassEnacts the "roadway excavation quality assurance act"; relates to workers on excavations; provides that utility companies or their contractors shall use competent workers and shall pay the prevailing wage on projects where a permit to use, excavate, ...
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2023-08-16
SIGNED CHAP.278
NYS03509Intro
25%
Requires Medicaid managed care plans to reimburse retail pharmacies in an amount equal to the fee-for-service rate; allows retail pharmacies the opportunity to participate in another provider's network under the medical assistance program; prohibits ...
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2023-08-11
RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN
NYS06943PassExtends certain powers of the New York state housing finance agency.
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2023-07-19
SIGNED CHAP.205
NYS07573Intro
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Declares Asian Lunar New Year a school holiday.
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2023-06-10
SUBSTITUTED BY A7768
NYS07456Intro
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Requires the New York city housing authority to provide written notice to residents of disruptions to water services when water is not safe for drinking or cooking; requires the New York city housing authority to establish measures to ensure all cont...
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2023-06-09
SUBSTITUTED BY A7273
NYS07551Intro
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Provides for automatic sealing of certain convictions after a certain passage of time from either imposition of sentence, release from parole or probation, and if the defendant does not have a current charge pending; excludes certain offenses; permit...
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2023-06-09
SUBSTITUTED BY A1029C
NYS06640Intro
25%
Updates and modifies the tax abatements for certain solar and electric storage systems; grants real property tax abatements for solar parking canopy structures.
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2023-06-07
SUBSTITUTED BY A6113B
NYS06965Intro
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Relates to applicants eligible for a rent increase exemption order and abatement of taxes pursuant to certain local law, ordinance or resolution in a city with a population of one million or more; provides that such applicants shall be those found el...
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2023-06-07
SUBSTITUTED BY A7394
NYS06636Intro
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Provides for the types of damages that may be awarded to the persons for whose benefit an action for wrongful death is brought.
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2023-06-06
SUBSTITUTED BY A6698
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