New York State Senator

Andrew Gounardes Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00452

Introduced
1/8/25  
Requires all agencies to submit to the committee on open government a log of all freedom of information law requests for each year in which they received or have pending a request for records; requires the committee on open government to publish, on one webpage, all freedom of information law request logs it receives.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00454

Introduced
1/8/25  
Relates to parole eligibility for certain incarcerated persons age fifty-five or older if they have served at least fifteen years of their sentence or sentences.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00487

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
2/25/25  
Designates August thirty-first of each year as a day of commemoration to be known as "Overdose Awareness Day".
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00514

Introduced
1/8/25  
Relates to the mandatory coverage of hearing aids by insurers and other organizations.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00524

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
2/26/25  
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 undressing or the sexual or other intimate parts of such person at a place and time when such person has a reasonable expectation of privacy, without such person's knowledge or consent.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00550

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/21/25  
Engrossed
5/19/25  
Requires a caller making a report of suspected child abuse or maltreatment to the central register to leave their name and contact information; prohibits the office of children and family services from releasing information identifying a person who made such a report.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00551

Introduced
1/8/25  
Requires child protective services to orally and in writing disclose certain information to parents and caretakers who are the subject of a child protective services investigation; requires such oral and written disclosure to contain certain information regarding the rights of the person under investigation.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00559

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
2/10/25  
Engrossed
4/30/25  
Increases compensation of election inspectors to $300 and coordinators to $350 in New York city.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00594

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires all public school districts, charter schools and non-public schools in the state that participate in the national school lunch program or school breakfast program as provided in the national child nutrition act to serve breakfast and lunch at no cost to the student.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00639

Introduced
1/8/25  
Relates to special provisions for the operation of bicycles when approaching stop signs and traffic-control signals including steady circular red signals and red arrow signals.