New York Senator Kevin Thomas [D] | Bills

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NYS06244Intro
25%
Authorizes the town of Hempstead to transfer ownership of certain parkland constituting the town marina to the village of Freeport.
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2024-04-17
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS07680Intro
25%
Authorizes the county of Nassau assessor to accept an application for a real property tax exemption from Innovative Resources for Independence for a portion of the 2021 school taxes, all of the 2022-2023 school taxes and all of the 2022 general taxes...
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2024-04-17
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS05963Engross
50%
Requires the commissioner to establish Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander history and civic impact curriculum or instructions for school districts.
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2024-04-16
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS06162Engross
50%
Ensures that color vision requirements for appointment of police officers are tailored to only eliminate individuals with extreme color vision deficiencies from eligibility; provides methods under which an individual can meet such requirements after ...
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2024-04-16
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYS09081Intro
25%
Requires microchipping of certain animals possessed by animal protective associations and rescue organizations.
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2024-04-16
To Senate Agriculture Committee
NYS01669Engross
50%
Allows the granting of academic credit at state or city operated institutions to veterans.
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2024-04-15
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYS06341Engross
50%
Criminalizes the harassment of a child when the perpetrator intentionally or knowingly harasses, annoys or alarms a child or a child's parent or guardian; establishes a private right of action for harassment of a child.
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2024-04-15
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS00099Engross
50%
Grants employees access to personnel records; requires notice of negative information in such records and an opportunity for a review; permits employee to include certain information in personnel records.
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2024-04-11
AMENDED ON THIRD READING 99A
NYS05618Intro
25%
Increases the amount of years of military service credit a member may purchase from three years to four years; provides that the provisions of such act shall not be subject to the requirement that the state shall make an equal payment to the retireme...
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2024-04-10
To Senate Civil Service and Pensions Committee
NYS09030Intro
25%
Designates a portion of the state highway system in the hamlet of Uniondale as Jomani "Jo-Jo" Wright Way.
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2024-04-10
To Senate Transportation Committee
NYS06273Intro
25%
Establishes a retirement service credit for volunteer fire or emergency service.
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2024-04-08
To Senate Civil Service and Pensions Committee
NYS05085Intro
25%
Requires motor vehicle dealer franchisors to fully compensate franchised motor vehicle dealers for warranty service agreements.
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2024-04-03
SUBSTITUTED BY A4066B
NYS00419Engross
50%
Authorizes municipalities to adopt a local law, ordinance or resolution providing for a sales tax exemption for clothing and footwear after March 1, 2023 and no later than August 1, 2023; provides for the repeal of such provisions on January 1, 2024.
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2024-04-02
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS08928Intro
25%
Relates to the general hospital indigent care pool and funding for safety net and enhanced safety net hospitals.
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2024-03-28
To Senate Health Committee
NYS02714Engross
50%
Enables safe access to public roads for all users by utilizing complete street design principles.
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2024-03-27
To Assembly Transportation Committee
NYS02144Engross
50%
Exempts income earned by a head of household or any person in the household from certain job training or adult education programs from the determination of need for public assistance programs.
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2024-03-27
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYS02301Engross
50%
Establishes the crime of voyeurism in the first and second degree which is defined as when someone for their own amusement, entertainment, profit, sexual arousal or sexual gratification trespasses for the purpose of viewing a person dressing or undre...
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2024-03-26
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYS02675Engross
50%
Designates August thirty-first of each year as a day of commemoration to be known as "Overdose Awareness Day".
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2024-03-26
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYS01099Intro
25%
Amends procedures required for the custodial interrogation of children to provide additional protections and for taking juveniles and sixteen and seventeen year olds into custody.
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2024-03-26
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS07108Intro
25%
Relates to authorizing state university police, regional state park police and detective investigators for the office of the attorney general to receive additional service credit in an optional twenty year retirement plan.
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2024-03-25
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS02019Engross
50%
Establishes the congressional chartered veterans service organizations fund; provides for gifts made to such fund on an individual's personal income tax return.
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2024-03-20
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS00014Engross
50%
Makes the release of any claim by an employee, or independent contractor who is a natural person, against an employer, unenforceable if, as a condition of such resolution, the employee or independent contractor is prohibited from applying for, accept...
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2024-03-18
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYS00346Engross
50%
Directs the development of materials to be provided to new employees relating to student loan repayment information.
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2024-03-18
To Assembly Banks Committee
NYS00540Engross
50%
Enacts provisions relating to the lease of credit card terminals; requires disclosures; prohibits certain practices.
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2024-03-18
To Assembly Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYS01571Engross
50%
Requires the ethics commission of the unified court system to post each state-paid judge's annual financial disclosures on the ethics commission's public website for five years beginning with filings made on January 1, 2018.
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2024-03-14
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS08631Intro
25%
Permits a candidate who was depicted in materially deceptive media in a political communication to seek injunctive or other equitable relief prohibiting the publication of such materially deceptive media unless certain disclosures are provided; estab...
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2024-03-14
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS00362Engross
50%
Enacts protections for private education loan borrowers and cosigners; requires certain notifications from creditors and debt collectors; prohibits acceleration; enacts provisions for cosigner release.
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2024-03-13
To Assembly Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYS01731Engross
50%
Prohibits the use of consumer credit history in hiring, employment and licensing determinations.
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2024-03-11
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS04511Engross
50%
Expands the eligibility period for indigent legal service attorneys to receive certain loan forgiveness; increases loan reimbursement for certain attorneys who work in legal services with indigent clients.
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2024-03-11
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYS07286Intro
25%
Provides that for taxable years beginning on and after January first, two thousand twenty-four, a resident taxpayer who serves as an active volunteer firefighter or as a volunteer ambulance worker shall be allowed a credit against the tax imposed equ...
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2024-03-07
To Senate Budget and Revenue Committee
NYS08748Intro
25%
Authorizes bail for principals charged with concealment of a human corpse.
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2024-03-07
To Senate Codes 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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2024-03-05
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS08197Intro
25%
Directs 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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2024-03-05
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS06239Intro
25%
Permits the court to withhold the names and addresses of jurors in certain proceedings; sets factors for determining good cause to issue protective orders for juries.
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2024-03-04
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS02237Engross
50%
Provides for coverage for certain individuals under the 1332 state innovation program.
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2024-02-28
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS06050Engross
50%
Relates to requiring the use of project labor agreements for large scale construction projects under the state university construction fund; provides an exception to such requirement may be granted; provides that the fund may require every contractor...
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2024-02-28
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS01159Intro
25%
Requires disclosure of information concerning non-invasive prenatal screening for chromosomal abnormalities including the benefits and limitations of non-invasive prenatal testing, the difference between non-invasive prenatal testing and prenatal dia...
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2024-02-27
AMENDED ON THIRD READING 1159B
NYS03600Intro
25%
Provides for certain death benefits to county fire marshals, supervising fire marshals, fire marshals, assistant fire marshals, assistant chief fire marshals, chief fire marshals and division supervising fire marshals employed by Nassau county.
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2024-02-27
RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN
NYS04129Intro
25%
Requires nonpublic and private elementary and secondary schools to require their prospective employees to submit fingerprints through the commissioner of education for the purpose of criminal background checks; authorizes conditional appointment of e...
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2024-02-27
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS04246Intro
25%
Enacts the "packaging reduction and recycling infrastructure act" to require companies selling, offering for sale, or distributing packaging materials and products to register with a packaging reduction organization to develop a packaging reduction a...
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2024-02-27
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS06733Engross
50%
Expands health care services provided by telehealth to include services delivered through a facility licensed under article twenty-eight of the public health law that is eligible to be designated or has received a designation as a federally qualified...
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2024-02-27
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS00509Engross
50%
Requires internet-based food delivery service providers to post a hyperlink to the NYC lookup tool to view the most recent sanitary inspection grade of any food service establishment.
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2024-02-26
AMENDED ON THIRD READING (T) 509A
NYS00506Engross
50%
Enacts "Vincent Scheppa's law" authorizing, in certain cases, the provision of private duty nursing services to a medical assistance recipient by a relative who is a registered professional nurse.
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2024-02-26
To Assembly Health Committee
NYS08641Intro
25%
Allows camp operators and employees to administer medications and treatment to children, under parent direction and authorization.
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2024-02-26
To Senate Health Committee
NYS08595Intro
25%
Relates to traffic ticket liability for midwives responding to emergency medical situations.
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2024-02-22
To Senate Transportation Committee
NYS05832Intro
25%
Relates to increasing the mandatory retirement age of New York state regional park police from 62 to 65 years old.
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2024-02-21
RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN
NYS08610Intro
25%
Requires that seat belts be available and used on charter buses for persons age 8 through 16.
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2024-02-21
To Senate Transportation 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
NYS03335Engross
50%
Establishes the office of flooding prevention and mitigation to manage and coordinate the work of task forces, commissions, and other bodies and programs tasked with examining issues related to flooding, to review and assess best practices and make r...
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2024-02-13
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYS02821Intro
25%
Expands eligibility for temporary disability insurance and paid family leave benefits; makes conforming technical changes.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Finance Committee
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