New York State Senator

April Baskin Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04646

Introduced
2/10/25  
Suspends the registration of vehicles which have been documented multiple times by a photo speed violation monitoring system for speeding in a highway construction or maintenance work area.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04647

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Increases penalties for certain speed violations.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04648

Introduced
2/10/25  
Increases the number of photo speed violation monitoring systems in a highway construction or maintenance work area; makes such provisions permanent.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04649

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Imposes fines for failure to exercise due care and move over when approaching parked, stopped or standing motor vehicles on the shoulder of a highway.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04659

Introduced
2/10/25  
Relates to enacting the rent emergency stabilization for tenants act on local determinations of a housing emergency; authorizes a city with a population of one million or more to declare an emergency as to any class of housing accommodations if the vacancy rate for the housing accommodations in such class within such municipality is not in excess of five percent and a declaration of emergency may be made as to all housing accommodations if the vacancy rate for the housing accommodations within such municipality is not in excess of five percent; authorizes other cities, towns and villages to declare a housing emergency after considering publicly available data and holding public hearings.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05247

Introduced
2/20/25  
Extends the imposition of additional rates of sales and compensating use taxes by Erie county to November 30, 2027.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05249

Introduced
2/20/25  
Relates to automatic Medicaid eligibility for striking workers.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05535

Introduced
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Engrossed
4/2/25  
Requires certain documents and forms to be provided in the twelve most common non-English languages spoken by limited English proficient immigrants of five years or less according to the American community survey, as published by the United States census bureau.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05538

Introduced
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Engrossed
6/6/25  
Relates to automatic eligibility for early intervention services for children found to have elevated venous blood lead levels (at or above 5 mcg/dl).
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05539

Introduced
2/24/25  
Requires schools safety plans to include a cardiac emergency response plan that addresses the use of appropriate personnel and measures to respond to incidents involving any individual experiencing sudden cardiac arrest or similar life-threatening emergency on any school site owned or operated by a school or at a location of a school sponsored event.