New York State Senator

Andrew Gounardes 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 22)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03235

Introduced
1/24/25  
Provides that the weekly benefit which the disabled employee is entitled to receive for disability commencing: on or after January first, two thousand twenty-eight shall be fifty percent of the employee's average weekly wage but shall not exceed fifty percent of the state average weekly wage; on or after January first, two thousand twenty-nine shall be fifty-five percent of the employee's average weekly wage but shall not exceed fifty-five percent of the state average weekly wage; on or after January first, two thousand thirty shall be sixty percent of the employee's weekly average wage but shall not exceed sixty percent of the state average weekly wage; and on or after January first of each succeeding year, shall be sixty-seven percent of the employee's average weekly wage but shall not exceed sixty-seven percent of the state average weekly wage.
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New York Senate Bill S03334

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Report Pass
3/4/25  
Engrossed
6/4/25  
Requires the commissioner to establish Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander history and civic impact curriculum or instructions for school districts.
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New York Senate Bill S03346

Introduced
1/27/25  
Enacts the climate and community investment act; prioritizes the allocation of public investments in disadvantaged communities; addresses climate change challenges through the expansion and growth of clean and renewable energy sources; adopts best value requirements for the solicitation, evaluation and award of renewable energy projects; establishes a community just transition program; establishes a climate pollution fee and a household and small business energy rebate; creates the climate and community investment authority.
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New York Senate Bill S03359

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Expands health care services provided by telehealth to include services delivered through a facility licensed under article twenty-eight of the public health law that is eligible to be designated or has received a designation as a federally qualified health center, including those facilities that are also licensed under article thirty-one or article thirty-two of the mental hygiene law.
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New York Senate Bill S03369

Introduced
1/27/25  
Relates to allowing for students in certain postsecondary education experience or transition programs to receive awards from the tuition assistance program.
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New York Senate Bill S03385

Introduced
1/27/25  
Enacts "Francesco's law" which establishes violations for the failure to safely store rifles, shotguns, and firearms in the presence of a minor or a prohibited person; requires the office of gun violence prevention to collect and analyze statistical and other information and data with respect to injuries or deaths of minors resulting from failure to safely store a firearm, rifle, or shotgun.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03386

Introduced
1/27/25  
Prohibits certain itemized deductions for charitable contributions for New York residents.
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New York Senate Bill S03387

Introduced
1/27/25  
Requires inclusion of complete street design for state and local transportation projects undertaken by DOT or which receive both federal and state funding and are subject to DOT oversight.
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New York Senate Bill S03388

Introduced
1/27/25  
Requires colleges to publish responses to the survey created by the Common Data Set Initiative, relating to admissions and financial aid process, annual expenses, academic offerings, graduation rate, student demographics, instructional faculty and class sizes, and degrees conferred, on an annual basis.
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New York Senate Bill S03389

Introduced
1/27/25  
Establishes the Brooklyn-Queens expressway authority for the purposes of the continuance, further development and improvement of transportation along the Brooklyn-Queens expressway and other services related thereto.
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New York Senate Bill S03390

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Refer
6/10/25  
Requires each institution of higher education to make publicly available its policy on notifying the parent, guardian, or emergency contact of a student under twenty-one of certain controlled substance and alcohol violations, including rule infractions, and controlled substance or alcohol related hospitalizations or overdoses; requires such colleges and institutions to conduct regular training on the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03391

Introduced
1/27/25  
Sets certain requirements for side under-ride guards for state fleet vehicles.
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New York Senate Bill S03392

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Establishes the "one city act" which applies to cities with a population of one million or more and provides for an agency to disclose the personal information of individuals that would otherwise be restricted from disclosure to another agency or agent thereof for the limited purpose of providing benefits, services, or care coordination to individuals or a research study concerning the provision of benefits, services or care coordination.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03393

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Engrossed
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Refer
6/5/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Requires pharmacies that are permanently discontinuing to notify customers of such discontinuance and provide information including locations of other nearby pharmacies.
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New York Senate Bill S03394

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Engrossed
6/13/25  
Enacts the "ceasing repeated and extremely egregious predatory (CREEP) behavior act"; provides for the issuance of anti-stalking orders.