New York Senator Jose Serrano [D]

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NYS04939Intro
25%
Relates to establishing a product stewardship program for primary batteries.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS01978Intro
25%
Increases the minimum wage annually; provides for the enforcement of the minimum wage; repeals certain provisions of law relating thereto.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Labor Committee
NYS01977Intro
25%
Relates to securing payment of wages for work already performed; creates a lien remedy for all employees; provides grounds for attachment; relates to procedures where employees may hold shareholders of non-publicly traded corporations personally liab...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee
NYS02345Intro
25%
Enacts "the prison minimum wage act" relating to payment for labor performed by incarcerated individuals.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee
NYS01797Intro
25%
Relates to claim settlement practices when an insurer refuses to pay or is delaying payment of a settlement; provides a policyholder a private right of action against such insurer doing business in the state who has refused or delayed payment of an i...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Insurance 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
NYS04883Intro
25%
Establishes the Early Learning Child Care Act to impose a payroll tax on certain employers for the purposes of addressing child care affordability, accessibility, and quality for families with children under five years of age; establishes the early l...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Budget and Revenue 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
NYS01633Intro
25%
Relates to the eligibility of occupants of public housing authorities for rental assistance; authorizes occupants of public housing authorities to receive rental assistance at the same times as all other eligible populations.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Housing, Construction, and Community Development Committee
NYS06280Intro
25%
Relates to the funding of certain CUNY programs by the state including the city university of New York's accelerated study in associate programs (ASAP) and the accelerate, complete, engage (ACE) program; provides state shall pay until both programs a...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Higher Education Committee
NYS05181Intro
25%
Prohibits the discharge of any radiological agent into the waters of the state.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS01276Intro
25%
Relates to the manner in which certain provisions of the correction law are enforced.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee
NYS06831Intro
25%
Increases the types of firearms that are to be included in the firearm ballistic identification databank.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYS00996Intro
25%
Requires public schools to offer plant-based food options in food service.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Education Committee
NYS05567Intro
25%
Provides for minimum wage requirements for miscellaneous industry workers.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS07406Intro
25%
Enacts the childhood lead poisoning prevention and safe housing act to make enforcement of lead hazard control standards in the state of New York more certain and more effective; creates a loan fund to assist owners in complying with lead-safe requir...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Health Committee
NYS00320Intro
25%
Prohibits drug, cannabis or alcohol testing and screening of pregnant or postpartum individuals and newborns unless the individual consents and it is within the scope of medical care, or the testing or screening is necessary for a medical emergency.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Women's Issues 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
NYS06327Intro
25%
Establishes new targets for offshore wind electricity generation; includes the requirements that there is at least 9,900 megawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by 2035, 15,800 megawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by 2040, at l...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Energy and Telecommunications 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
NYS07692Intro
25%
Establishes a task force to examine, evaluate and determine the feasibility of establishing a state-funded version of SNAP; requires the task force to report its findings and a policy brief to the governor and the legislature.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Social Services Committee
NYS07775Intro
25%
Creates a temporary state pesticide commission to study the effects of the application of pesticides in cities with a population of one million or more.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS07918Intro
25%
Provides that the Muslim holidays of Eid Ul-Fitr and Eid Ul-Adha shall be school holidays in the city school district of the city of New York.
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2024-01-03
To Senate New York City Education Committee
NYS07894Intro
25%
Enacts the "Modernized voter registration act of New York".
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2024-01-03
To Senate Elections Committee
NYS07913Intro
25%
Enacts "private environmental law enforcement act"; authorizes any private citizen who has an interest which is or may be adversely affected to commence civil judicial actions for injunctive or declaratory relief to remedy environmental harms under c...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation 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
NYS03254Intro
25%
Provides that in any jurisdiction in which a party is eligible under local law for free legal counsel, if such party has in good faith attempted to secure such counsel and is unable to obtain counsel through no fault of their own, the court shall adj...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Housing, Construction, and Community Development Committee
NYS00285Intro
25%
Adds arts and music education as a common school branch that should be incorporated into the public school curriculum to provide a more well-rounded education for children.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Education Committee
NYS01800Intro
25%
Establishes the nail salon minimum standards council act; establishes the nail salon minimum standards council which shall investigate wages and standards within the nail salon industry and submit recommendations on minimum wages, regulations and sta...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Labor Committee
NYS01532Intro
25%
Requires the board of education and the trustees or sole trustee of every school district to establish policies and procedures regarding the treatment of transgender or gender non-conforming students.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Education Committee
NYS02860Intro
25%
Enacts the "gender identity respect, dignity and safety act"; relates to the treatment and placement of incarcerated individuals based upon gender identity; requires that incarcerated individuals in state and local correctional facilities who have a ...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee
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
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
NYS04859VetoEnacts the New York tropical deforestation-free procurement act requiring that companies contracting with the state do not contribute to tropical primary forest degradation or deforestation directly or through their supply chains; establishes the sup...
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2023-12-22
VETOED MEMO.135
NYS01196PassRequires health insurance policies and medicaid to cover biomarker testing for diagnosis, treatment, appropriate management, or ongoing monitoring of a covered person's disease or condition when the test is supported by medical and scientific evidenc...
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2023-12-22
APPROVAL MEMO.76
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
NYS00608PassProhibits selling a drug subject to a shortage for an unconscionably excessive price.
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2023-12-13
SIGNED CHAP.725
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
NYS05026PassEnacts the "freelance isn't free act"; provides for the payment of freelance workers as independent contractors, including requiring written contracts; timely payment of compensation and handling controversies relating to payment, complaint procedure...
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2023-11-21
APPROVAL MEMO.35
NYS04982PassProtects employee freedom of speech and conscience by prohibiting employers from coercing employees into attending or participating in meetings sponsored by the employer concerning the employer's views on political or religious matters.
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2023-09-06
SIGNED CHAP.354
NYS06893PassProvides that it shall be unlawful to discharge any radiological substance into the Hudson River in connection with the decommissioning of a nuclear power plant; provides for attorney general enforcement.
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2023-08-18
SIGNED CHAP.279
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
NYS07551Intro
25%
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
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NYS01163Intro
25%
Relates to acknowledging the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery in the city of New York and the state of New York; establishes the New York state community commission on reparations remedies to examine the institution...
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2023-06-08
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NYS07455Intro
25%
Extends authorization for certain health care professionals licensed to practice in other jurisdictions to practice in this state in connection with an event sanctioned by the New York Road Runners.
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2023-06-07
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NYS07480Intro
25%
Extends provisions of law relating to the Terence Cardinal Cooke health care center until December 31, 2028.
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2023-06-07
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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
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NYJ01317PassCongratulating Quinton A. Owens upon the occasion of receiving the distinguished rank of Eagle Scout
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2023-06-06
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