New York State Senator

Andrew Gounardes Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04883

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Excludes one-time federal assistance in the calculation of operating revenue for purposes of minimum direct resident care spending by residential health care facilities.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04884

Introduced
2/13/25  
Establishes an emergency aid grant matching program to provide matching funds to campuses of the state university of New York and the city university of New York for the provision of emergency aid grants to eligible students.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04898

Introduced
2/14/25  
Amends the definition of public employee to include persons holding positions by appointment or employment in the organized militia of the state.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04914

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Engrossed
5/22/25  
Protects individuals who provide or receive legally protected health activity, including reproductive health care and gender-affirming care, from criminal or civil liability or professional sanctions imposed by jurisdictions outside the state.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05016

Introduced
2/18/25  
Authorizes visitation at all general confinement correctional facilities seven days a week.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05037

Introduced
2/18/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Engrossed
6/6/25  
Establishes visiting policies for incarcerated people, to provide incarcerated people opportunities for personal contact with relatives, friends, clergy, volunteers and other persons to promote better institutional adjustment and better community adjustment upon release.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05067

Introduced
2/18/25  
Directs the commissioner of education to change the name of the state high school equivalency diploma, formerly known as the general education development (GED) program, to the Excelsior diploma.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05091

Introduced
2/18/25  
Expands the Doctors Across New York program to include dentists.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05132

Introduced
2/19/25  
Refer
2/19/25  
Requires certain corporations authorized to operate in the state and subject to the supervision of the department of financial services that had annual gross revenues of at least five hundred million dollars ($500,000,000) in the prior calendar year to annually prepare a climate-related financial risk report for submission to the secretary of state and to make such report available to the public.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05155

Introduced
2/19/25  
Grants student loan forgiveness for certain municipal attorneys employed by political subdivisions of the state.