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 S02689

Introduced
1/22/25  
Requires public schools to offer plant-based food options in food service.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02705

Introduced
1/22/25  
Enacts the student suicide prevention act; requires the governing board or body of every local educational agency serving students in grades seven to twelve, to adopt policies, procedures and guidelines on student suicide prevention, intervention and postvention for students in such grades.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02709

Introduced
1/22/25  
Provides protections for telecommunications tower technicians, including requiring certain trainings during work hours without a loss of pay; requires certain reporting by bidders for telecommunication contracts.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02710

Introduced
1/22/25  
Restores 20 year service retirement for New York city police officers.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03072

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Engrossed
4/3/25  
Refer
4/3/25  
Prohibits the use of consumer credit history in hiring, employment and licensing determinations.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03144

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Requires accessible buses to be available within a service area measuring three miles from any bus line of the authority or its subsidiaries.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03146

Introduced
1/23/25  
Authorizes certain health care professionals licensed to practice in other jurisdictions to practice in this state.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03173

Introduced
1/24/25  
Relates to clarifying which entities handle the reporting of pregnancy loss; the responsibilities of health care providers and penalties for not protecting the identities of individuals who suffered a pregnancy loss.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03206

Introduced
1/24/25  
Prevents individuals from being denied standing in private actions alleging violations of the environmental quality review provisions of the environmental conservation law solely on the basis that the injury alleged by such individual does not differ in kind or degree from the injury that would be suffered by the public at large.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03220

Introduced
1/24/25  
Relates to establishing an office of antibiotic-resistance control; establishes the antibiotics education fund; includes methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other antibiotic-resistant infections in the definition of airborne infectious disease.