New York State Senator

Andrew Gounardes 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 23)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York Senate Bill S03395

Introduced
1/27/25  
Permits the sale of goods that remain in a self-storage facility to enforce a lien by the facility through a public website, pursuant to notice requirements.
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New York Senate Bill S03396

Introduced
1/27/25  
Requires the boards of trustees of SUNY and CUNY to adopt policies requiring institutions thereof to grant course credit to students who serve as election inspectors, poll clerks, or election coordinators.
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New York Senate Bill S03397

Introduced
1/27/25  
Enacts the "faith-based affordable housing act" for development on residential land; defines terms; provides that each village, town, and city shall allow the construction and occupation of residential buildings on any covered site up to the specified densities; provides that all residential buildings constructed pursuant to this section in a town, village, or city with fewer than one million inhabitants shall set aside twenty percent of the residential floor area for households earning an average of eighty percent of area median income; outlines the densities for New York city; makes related provisions.
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New York Senate Bill S03398

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Engrossed
6/5/25  
Refer
6/5/25  
Relates to prohibiting retaliation against individuals who request a reasonable accommodation.
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New York Senate Bill S03399

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Provides that the sale of a rental vehicle to a rental business for use in such business is subject to taxes and shall not be considered a sale for resale.
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New York Senate Bill S03459

Introduced
1/27/25  
Requires motorists to exercise care to avoid colliding with any domestic or companion animal; increases fines and penalties for causing such injury and for leaving the scene of injury to certain animals without reporting.
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New York Senate Bill S03460

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Grants employees access to personnel records; requires notice of negative information in such records and an opportunity for a review; permits employee to include certain information in personnel records.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York Senate Bill S03414

Introduced
1/27/25  
Provides cost-of-living adjustments for certain public retirees, including an adjusted benefit in monthly installments that is equal to the percentage of the change in consumer price index according to the included schedule.
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New York Senate Bill S03415

Introduced
1/27/25  
Establishes the universal child care act to provide for the establishment and funding of universal child care in the state of New York; establishes a universal child care taskforce to help implement universal child care in the state and repeals certain provisions of the social services law relating thereto; establishes the permanent child care workforce pay equity fund; establishes a universal child care public option pilot program to provide universal child care in at least twenty locations throughout the state; makes an appropriation therefor.
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New York Senate Bill S03425

Introduced
1/27/25  
Establishes the New York Health program, a comprehensive system of access to health insurance for New York state residents; provides for administrative structure of the plan; provides for powers and duties of the board of trustees, the scope of benefits, payment methodologies and care coordination; establishes the New York Health Trust Fund which would hold monies from a variety of sources to be used solely to finance the plan; enacts provisions relating to financing of New York Health, including a payroll assessment, similar to the Medicare tax; establishes a temporary commission on implementation of the plan; provides for collective negotiations by health care providers with New York Health.
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New York Senate Bill S03438

Introduced
1/27/25  
Enacts a balanced budget requirement; creates the New York state governmental accounting review board.
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New York Senate Bill S03456

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Establishes the climate corporate data accountability act requiring certain business entities within the state to annually disclose scope 1, scope 2 and scope 3 emissions; establishes the climate accountability and emissions disclosure fund.
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New York Senate Bill S03486

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Engrossed
6/6/25  
Refer
6/6/25  
Relates to providing information to patients and the public on hospital rule-based exclusions; requires the commissioner of health to collect from each hospital a list of its hospital rule-based exclusions and publish such information on the department's website.
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New York Senate Bill S03547

Introduced
1/28/25  
Establishes school based health centers to be organized through school, community, and health provider relationships and provide services in keeping with state and local laws and regulations, as well as established medical standards, and best practices.
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New York Senate Bill S03592

Introduced
1/28/25  
Sets reimbursement rates for essential safety net hospitals at no less than regional average commercial rates for health care services provided by all hospitals in the same geographic region.