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 S07907

Introduced
5/13/25  
Refer
5/13/25  
Expands the imposition of sales tax on the sale of race horses made through claiming races to include the total sale price on each sale.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S07908

Introduced
5/13/25  
Relates to preventing minors from participating in sports wagering and creating accounts on mobile sports wagering platforms; requires platforms to employ commercially reasonable and technically feasible age assurance methods.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S07915

Introduced
5/14/25  
Refer
5/14/25  
Requires insurance coverage for early egg and peanut allergen introduction dietary supplements for infants at no cost.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S07922

Introduced
5/14/25  
Provides that no interest shall accrue on taxes imposed by a city with a population of one million or more unless a tax appeals tribunal shall have made a determination within one year from the date a petition is filed.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S07980

Introduced
5/15/25  
Relates to the determination of adjusted base proportions in special assessing units which are cities for fiscal year 2026.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S08063

Introduced
5/15/25  
Provides for relocation and employment assistance credits in cities with a population of one million or more.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S08087

Introduced
5/15/25  
Refer
5/15/25  
Relates to the definition of overtime ceiling for members who first become members of a public retirement system of the state on or after April first, two thousand twelve.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S08102

Introduced
5/15/25  
Requires manufacturers of internet-enabled devices to conduct commercially reasonable age assurance to determine whether a user is a covered minor and shall provide all websites, online services, online applications and mobile applications on such user's internet-enabled device and/or application store manufactured by the covered manufacturer with a digital signal that such user is a covered minor via a real-time application programming interface (API).
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S08123

Introduced
5/15/25  
Provides that members of the New York city teachers' retirement system with an active membership at the time, who participated in World Trade Center rescue, recovery or cleanup operations, and who are determined to have incurred a qualifying condition, be paid a duty disability retirement allowance equal to three-quarters of final average salary.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S08221

Introduced
5/23/25  
Enacts into law components of legislation that relate to live event ticket sales; establishes an annual professional reseller renewal fee; requires professional ticket resellers to provide their New York state ticket reseller license number as a condition of utilizing an online resale marketplace to resell tickets (Part A); provides criteria for when a purchaser may obtain a full refund of the amount paid for a ticket (Part B); relates to resale requirements for tickets; requires that if a licensee or other ticket reseller doesn't have possession of the ticket, then they shall have a written contract to obtain the offered ticket at a certain price from a person or entity in possession of the ticket or from a person or entity who has a contractual right to obtain such ticket, and tickets to the event have been placed on sale by the venue or entity hosting the event or its authorized agent before the licensee or reseller can advertise the sale of the tickets (Part C); relates to unlawful charges in connection with tickets; permits reasonable charges for costs actually rendered or otherwise in connection to customer support, technological and software infrastructure, and actual operational costs for sales away from the box office; defines terms (Part D); relates to the availability of tickets for sale to the general public; defines a term (Part E); relates to the resale of tickets included in a subscription or season ticket package (Part F); extends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to tickets to places of entertainment (Part G).