New York State Senator

Andrew Gounardes 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 27)

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Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York Senate Bill S04558

Introduced
2/7/25  
Requires fashion sellers to carry out environmental due diligence for the portions of their business related to wearing apparel, footwear or fashion bags, including wearing apparel, footwear or fashion bags produced as a private label; establishes a fashion remediation fund.
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New York Senate Bill S04559

Introduced
2/7/25  
Requires the appointment of a Title VI coordinator at every college and university in the state to ensure compliance with Title VI of the federal civil rights act of 1964; requires the division of human rights to develop training for students and employees; requires the Title VI coordinator to notify annually all students and employees of the institution's policies and procedures for reporting discrimination and harassment.
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New York Senate Bill S04589

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Provides for the calculation and analysis of certain health center costs.
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New York Senate Bill S04670

Introduced
2/11/25  
Relates to establishing Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, Diwali, Lunar New Year, Tihar, Bandi Chhor Divas and Onam as school holidays.
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New York Senate Bill S04759

Introduced
2/12/25  
Provides that when the division of criminal justice services conducts a search of its criminal history records and returns a report thereon, all references to undisposed cases shall be excluded.
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New York Senate Bill S04763

Introduced
2/12/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Engrossed
6/6/25  
Relates to the issuance of arrest warrants upon a youth; provides for the police officer to make a reasonable effort to notify the parent or other person legally responsible for the care of such youth or with whom the youth is domiciled that the youth has been arrested; provides that the police officer need not notify the parent or other person legally responsible when such youth is not also a juvenile offender and the notification would endanger the health and safety of such youth; amends provisions relating to sexually exploited children to include persons under the age of nineteen.
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New York Senate Bill S04774

Introduced
2/12/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Creates the crime of vehicular homicide; makes such crime a class B felony.
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New York Senate Bill S04799

Introduced
2/12/25  
Creates climate liability for fossil fuel related activity which caused or contributed to climate change; creates a right of action.
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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.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York Senate Bill S04600

Introduced
2/10/25  
Enacts the New York child data privacy protection act to prevent the exploitation of children's data; requires data controllers to assess the impact of its products on children for review by the bureau of internet and technology.
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New York Senate Bill S04601

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Exempts basic school supplies from sales tax during the 15 day period prior to Labor day.
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New York Senate Bill S04602

Introduced
2/10/25  
Provides remedies for disrupted voting times and locations during elections; directs that the BOE extend voting to account for the disruption.
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New York Senate Bill S04609

Introduced
2/10/25  
Establishes the New York children's online safety act; requires operators of covered platforms to conduct age verification to determine whether a user is a covered minor; requires operators of covered platforms to utilize certain default privacy settings for covered minors; requires operators of covered platforms to require parental approval of certain activity related to a covered minor's covered platform account.
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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.
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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.