New York Senator Rachel May [D]

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NYS02435Intro
25%
Requires the governor to meet with the assembly and with the senate once a month for the purpose of answering questions relating to the strategic direction, financial status and general governance of the state.
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2025-01-17
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS02430Intro
25%
Requires that public schools provide instruction on climate change, including but not limited to identifying the causes and impacts of climate change on individuals, environments and communities, and learning to evaluate solutions.
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2025-01-17
To Senate Education Committee
NYS02456Intro
25%
Enacts the "language barrier elimination act" to provide translations to limited English proficient individuals in connection with services provided through the department of labor, department of family assistance or department of health.
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2025-01-17
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS02438Intro
25%
Requires potable water testing at state and local parks at least once every three years and any finding of lead contamination must be abated within ninety days.
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2025-01-17
To Senate Health Committee
NYS00176Intro
25%
Provides a civil action for deprivation of rights which is caused by any person or public entity.
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2025-01-16
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS00415Intro
25%
Provides for minimum wage requirements for miscellaneous industry workers; establishes a one fair wage reimbursement credit.
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2025-01-16
To Senate Labor Committee
NYS02271Intro
25%
Prohibits an employer, licensing agency or employment agency from requesting or requiring that a prospective employee disclose their age, date of birth or date of graduation from an educational institution on an initial employment application or duri...
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2025-01-16
To Senate Investigations and Government Operations Committee
NYS02275Intro
25%
Enacts the online revenues and expenditures transparency act to provide for the development of a single, searchable budget database website accessible to the public, at no cost.
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2025-01-16
To Senate Budget and Revenue Committee
NYS02240Intro
25%
Removes the lifetime ban on jury duty for convicted felons; suspends jury service of any person serving a term of incarceration for a felony conviction during the period of such incarceration.
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2025-01-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee
NYS02273Intro
25%
Includes contacts via text, email, private message, direct message or other electronic communication in the definition of the offense of aggravated harassment in the second degree.
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2025-01-16
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS02237Intro
25%
Enacts the "fair college admissions act"; prohibits legacy admissions policies at colleges and universities in New York; declares such policies and practices to be discriminatory and inequitable.
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2025-01-16
To Senate Higher Education Committee
NYS02235Intro
25%
Prohibits and regulates the discovery and disclosure of immigration status; prohibits police officers, peace officers, school resource officers, probation agencies, state entities, state employees, and municipal corporations from questioning individu...
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2025-01-16
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS02304Intro
25%
Provides for the appointment of a standing committee on conference to resolve differences between similar, but not identical bills and resolutions; provides that such committee may refer bills and resolutions to sub-committees for disposition; provid...
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2025-01-16
To Senate Investigations and Government Operations Committee
NYS02244Intro
25%
Prohibits any local police department, county sheriff's office, the division of the state police or any agency that employs a peace officer in this state from participating in the 1033 federal excess property program for the purposes of receiving let...
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2025-01-16
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS02330Intro
25%
Imposes an excise tax on sugary drinks; establishes a community health equity fund to utilize the revenues generated by such tax.
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2025-01-16
To Senate Budget and Revenue Committee
NYS02332Intro
25%
Repeals managed long term care provisions for Medicaid recipients; establishes provisions for fully integrated plans for long term care including PACE and MAP plans.
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2025-01-16
To Senate Health Committee
NYS02327Intro
25%
Requires 10% of the penalties imposed by the superintendent of financial services to be deposited in the community development financial institution fund.
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2025-01-16
To Senate Banks Committee
NYS02221Intro
25%
Provides for the establishment of a biennial budgeting system for the state of New York replacing the state annual budget process.
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2025-01-16
TO ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR OPINION
NYS02082Intro
25%
Provides for a working families tax credit; directs quarterly prepayment of the credit; provides for a sliding reduction in the credit for incomes which exceed a certain threshold.
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2025-01-15
To Senate Budget and Revenue Committee
NYS02058Intro
25%
Requires each institution within the state university of New York and the city university of New York offering in-person student instruction to have at least one vending machine making emergency contraception available for purchase.
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2025-01-15
To Senate Higher Education Committee
NYS02075Intro
25%
Defines noncompliant state agency; provides for timelines and procedures for state agency contracts involving not-for-profit corporations.
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2025-01-15
To Senate Procurement and Contracts Committee
NYS02040Intro
25%
Requires transmitters of money to provide a warning which informs consumers of certain fraudulent activities that may occur.
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2025-01-15
To Senate Banks Committee
NYS02057Intro
25%
Enacts the "beauty justice act"; provides for the regulation of ingredients in personal care products and cosmetics; prohibits the sale of personal care products and cosmetic products containing certain restricted products.
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2025-01-15
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS02056Intro
25%
Enacts the "student voter empowerment act"; requires each institution of the state university of New York and the city university of New York to designate a staff member to act as a student voting coordinator; requires such coordinator to develop and...
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2025-01-15
To Senate Elections Committee
NYS02085Intro
25%
Establishes new targets for offshore wind electricity generation; includes the requirements that there is at least 15 gigawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by 2040, at least 18 gigawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by 2045 and...
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2025-01-15
To Senate Energy and Telecommunications Committee
NYS02048Intro
25%
Requires the department of transportation to establish a central registry of reports, audits, plans and public inspections regarding freight rail operators, rail cars and freight lines or routes and rights of way.
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2025-01-15
To Senate Transportation Committee
NYS02124Intro
25%
Authorizes the pass-through or transfer of the credits for rehabilitation of historic properties; authorizes the allocation of the credit in a separate manner from any federal certified historic tax credit.
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2025-01-15
To Senate Budget and Revenue Committee
NYS02132Intro
25%
Establishes the baby bucks allowance to provide income to eligible participants for the last three months of pregnancy and the first 18 months of the child's life; excludes income received from the baby bucks allowance for purposes of supplemental nu...
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2025-01-15
To Senate Children and Families Committee
NYS02053Intro
25%
Relates to permits and financial security for reclamation for salt mining beneath a lake; requires such permits to be subject to environmental quality review procedures; requires financial security to cover any damages directly or indirectly resultin...
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2025-01-15
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS02131Intro
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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2025-01-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee
NYS02164Intro
25%
Requires health insurance policies to include coverage of optional anesthesia for certain contraceptive and menstrual health procedures including, but not limited to, loop electrosurgical excision procedure, colposcopy, ablation, and intrauterine dev...
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2025-01-15
To Senate Insurance Committee
NYS02165Intro
25%
Prohibits hospital interference with patient care where the practitioner is acting in good faith and within the scope of their practice.
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2025-01-15
To Senate Health Committee
NYS02162Intro
25%
Enacts the "pollinator promotion act" to authorize the commissioner of environmental conservation to promote the health and viability of pollinators in the state and to provide state assistance payments to municipalities to adopt and implement pollin...
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2025-01-15
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS02146Intro
25%
Repeals and reenacts statute of limitation provisions on wrongful death, personal injury and property damage actions against professional engineers, architects, landscape architects, land surveyors and construction contractors to provide for a limita...
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2025-01-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee
NYS02163Intro
25%
Authorizes and directs the state board of elections, in cooperation with county boards of elections, to create an online petitioning system for designating petitions; provides that use of such online petitioning system shall not preclude the collecti...
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2025-01-15
To Senate Elections Committee
NYS00794Engross
50%
Establishes a native plant and seed supply, development and enhancement program; requires the commissioners of the departments of agriculture and markets, environmental conservation and economic development to develop a list of plants and seeds eligi...
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2025-01-14
To Assembly Agriculture Committee
NYS01839Intro
25%
Amends provisions about sex offenses and consent involving members of the clergy or other ministers of any religion or duly accredited Christian science practitioners.
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2025-01-14
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS01869Intro
25%
Imposes a highway use fee on outdoor advertising; establishes a New York state urban reforestation fund from fees imposed on outdoor advertising; makes provisions supporting urban forestry.
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2025-01-14
To Senate Transportation Committee
NYS01858Intro
25%
Expands protections regarding violations of safety conditions in adult care facilities; provides penalties for safety violations and operating without a valid license; prohibits reductions in fines in certain circumstances where a patient is endanger...
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2025-01-14
To Senate Health Committee
NYS01857Intro
25%
Establishes a three-year pilot hospital medical debt relief program to provide hospital medical debt relief to eligible residents of the state utilizing a not-for-profit organization to identify, acquire and cancel medical debt of such eligible resid...
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2025-01-14
To Senate Health Committee
NYS01850Intro
25%
Establishes the safe water and infrastructure action program for the purpose of making payments toward the replacement and rehabilitation of certain existing local drinking water, storm water and sanitary sewer systems; applies to any county, city, t...
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2025-01-14
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS01832Intro
25%
Requires the department of transportation to develop an updated New York state bicycle and pedestrian plan adapted from the department's nineteen hundred ninety-seven New York state bicycle and pedestrian plan, to be re-evaluated and updated every fi...
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2025-01-14
To Senate Transportation Committee
NYS01851Intro
25%
Establishes a New York Main Street development center in the division of housing and community renewal.
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2025-01-14
To Senate Housing, Construction, and Community Development Committee
NYS01833Intro
25%
Enacts the "harmful algal bloom monitoring and prevention act"; establishes the harmful algal bloom monitoring and prevention fund.
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2025-01-14
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS02001Intro
25%
Provides that a caregiver shall be eligible for assistance for child care under the child care block grant regardless of the hours the parent actually works.
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2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 21 @ 1:30 pm]
To Senate Children and Families Committee
NYS01984Intro
25%
Directs the commissioner to publicly publish an annual report on the environmental radiation surveillance program and analyze such report showing trends and cumulative impact, as well as notify other relevant agencies if contamination has exceeded EP...
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2025-01-14
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS01910Intro
25%
Requires the filing of additional transferor and contributor identification information in campaign receipt and expenditure statements for the receipt of amounts over one hundred dollars, including the full name, full residential address including an...
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2025-01-14
To Senate Elections Committee
NYS01986Intro
25%
Extends the time period from eighteen years to twenty-five years that a school shall be guaranteed recovery of energy performance contract costs from energy savings incurred by school districts over that time period.
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2025-01-14
To Senate Education Committee
NYS01994Intro
25%
Prohibits requiring parents or caretakers to earn a minimum wage to be eligible for child care assistance.
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2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 10:00 am]
To Senate Social Services Committee
NYS00056Intro
25%
Establishes through the department of health a drug checking program to allow individuals to bring drugs or controlled substances and have them tested for contaminants, toxic substances, or hazardous compounds; requires the department to establish pu...
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2025-01-13
To Senate Health Committee
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