New York Senator Kevin Thomas [D] | Senate

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NYS06650Intro
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Provides that where mandatory continuing education programs are offered through electronic or other remote means where the licensee must provide proof of attendance by responding to a visual or auditory prompt in the program, such program shall confo...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Higher Education Committee
NYS06742Intro
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Grants the department of financial services jurisdiction over the financing of motor vehicles; requires motor vehicle dealer finance managers to be licensed by the department of financial services.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Banks Committee
NYS06759Intro
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Allows a tax exemption for taxpayers in the amount of the purchase price of a fire extinguisher, fire alarm, heat alarm or carbon monoxide alarm purchased for residential use during the month of October.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Budget and Revenue Committee
NYS01802Intro
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Prohibits employers from using the federal electronic employment verification system to check the employment authorization status of an existing employee or an applicant who has not been offered employment and prohibits municipalities from requiring ...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Labor Committee
NYS02416Intro
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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 institutio...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS05567Intro
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Provides for minimum wage requirements for miscellaneous industry workers.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS06824Intro
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Provides additional powers and duties of the Hempstead union free school district monitors including overriding and proposing resolutions adopted by the school board, requiring the board and school district officers to undergo training, and the appro...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Education Committee
NYS02423Intro
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Relates to parole eligibility for certain incarcerated persons age fifty-five or older.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee
NYS07063Intro
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Authorizes the Friendship Engine and Hose Company to file an application for exemption from real property taxes with respect to the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 assessment rolls.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Local Government Committee
NYS07147Intro
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Relates to requiring municipalities, authorities and agencies to obtain liability insurance on each duly appointed police officer in an amount not less than $200,000.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Local Government Committee
NYS07426Intro
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Requires the board of elections to post sample ballots online at least twelve days prior to the first day of early voting; requires such ballots to be posted in a searchable database.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Elections Committee
NYS06880Intro
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Relates to annual professional performance reviews of teachers and principals; establishes an optional system of annual professional performance review plans; repeals provisions relating to streamlined removal procedures for teachers rated ineffectiv...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Education Committee
NYS07553Engross
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Requires automobile brokers to maintain a place of business; requires certain notices and recordkeeping; makes related provisions.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYS07533Intro
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Permits the Nourish New York program to distribute certain funds without an application or competitive procurement process.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Agriculture Committee
NYS07590Intro
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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
NYS04265Intro
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Provides for the regulation of ingredients in personal care products and cosmetics to include restricted substances which shall be provided on lists identified by the commissioner.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS04547Intro
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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
NYS07635Intro
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Exempts vehicles owned by civil service employees, college students and commercial and residential repair businesses from tolls charged under the central business district tolling program.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Transportation Committee
NYS07683Intro
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Relates to defining veteran; includes national guard members who have served for at least twenty years, part of which was during any war or period of hostilities.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs Committee
NYS07774Intro
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Requires that an entity which pays funds which are profits from a crime, as defined by statute, to a family member, including a former spouse, of a person charged with or convicted of a crime, give notice of such payment of funds to the office of vic...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee
NYS07663Intro
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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
NYS07684Intro
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Establishes an Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) leadership institute within the state university of New York as an initiative for Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) leaders in higher education with a miss...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Higher Education Committee
NYS07692Intro
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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
NYS06179Intro
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Establishes Eid Ul-Fitr and Eid Ul-Adha as public holidays, with dates established by religious law and tradition.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee
NYS02783Intro
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Prohibits landlords, lessors, sub-lessors and grantors from demanding brokers' fees from a tenant.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee
NYS04199Intro
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Provides that the superintendent of financial services shall establish standards for hurricane windstorm deductibles, creating uniformity in the operation of such deductibles with respect to the triggering event.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Insurance 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
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
NYS03285PassRequires children's non-regulated camps to register annually with the department of health; imposes civil penalties for violations.
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2023-12-22
APPROVAL MEMO.83
NYS05056VetoDirects the superintendent of financial services to create a private education debt registry which shall contain information and documentation relating to loans issued by creditors including interest rates and copies of the notes and instruments used...
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2023-12-22
VETOED MEMO.137
NYS06521PassRe-establishes the adult cystic fibrosis assistance program to reimburse the cost of providing health care or health insurance to eligible individuals who have cystic fibrosis.
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2023-12-22
APPROVAL MEMO.89
NYS07441PassExtends provisions of law relating to reports by the legislative commission on the future of the Long Island Power Authority.
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2023-12-22
SIGNED CHAP.771
NYS07549VetoEstablishes a temporary in rem foreclosure moratorium to prohibit tax districts from foreclosing on real property for delinquent taxes.
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2023-12-22
VETOED MEMO.149
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
NYS02202PassDesignates a portion of the state highway system as the "Trooper Theodore A. Dobbs Memorial Bridge" in the town of North Hempstead, county of Nassau.
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2023-09-29
SIGNED CHAP.515
NYS05176PassAuthorizes the assessor of Nassau county to grant the World Restoration Center Inc. retroactive real property tax exempt status upon an application therefor.
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2023-09-15
SIGNED CHAP.432
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
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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
NYS06444PassExtends the authority of the county of Nassau to impose hotel and motel taxes; extends the expiration of certain provisions relating to a surcharge on tickets to places of entertainment in such county, a charge for copying and searching for police ac...
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2023-07-28
SIGNED CHAP.261
NYS01051Engross
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Establishes the 15 member New York Asian American and Pacific Islander commission to develop policies to improve the community, economic and social well-being, and the health and educational needs important to Asian American and Pacific Islander comm...
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2023-06-10
SUBSTITUTED BY A3301A
NYS01991Intro
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Relates to establishing a twenty year retirement plan for members or officers of law enforcement; includes every non-seasonally appointed sworn member or officer of the division of law enforcement in the department of environmental conservation, a fo...
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2023-06-09
SUBSTITUTED BY A4018
NYS06714Intro
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Establishes the New York state organized retail crime task force to provide the governor and the legislature with information on organized retail crime and various countermeasures to counter losses from such crime in the state.
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2023-06-09
SUBSTITUTED BY A6568B
NYS00536Engross
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Prohibits clauses restricting certain research and restricts advertisement and promotion of electronic cigarettes.
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2023-06-08
SUBSTITUTED BY A5994B
NYJ01381PassCommending Valedictorian Berlinda Pierre-Louis of Westbury High School, in recognition of her outstanding accomplishments
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2023-06-08
ADOPTED
NYJ01380PassCommending Valedictorian Rachel Lyons of Baldwin High School, in recognition of her outstanding accomplishments
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2023-06-08
ADOPTED
NYJ01378PassCommending Valedictorian Leila Naraine of Carle Place Middle Senior High School, in recognition of her outstanding accomplishments
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2023-06-08
ADOPTED
NYJ01376PassCommending Valedictorian James Vinciguerra of Garden City High School, in recognition of his outstanding accomplishments
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2023-06-08
ADOPTED
NYJ01372PassCommending Valedictorian Cameron Coletti of Rockville Centre South Side High School, in recognition of her outstanding accomplishments
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2023-06-08
ADOPTED
NYJ01377PassCommending Valedictorian Aidian Sasenarine of Freeport High School, in recognition of his outstanding accomplishments
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2023-06-08
ADOPTED
NYJ01369PassCommending Valedictorian Gloria Guerrier of West Hempstead High School, in recognition of her outstanding accomplishments
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2023-06-08
ADOPTED
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