New York State Senator

April Baskin Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06009

Introduced
3/4/25  
Relates to youth programs sponsored by fire departments; provides that participants may respond to an emergency or hazardous activity, but shall remain in an appropriate and safe designated area that has been established by the chief or officer in charge; provides such participants cannot respond to an emergency on a vehicle using lights and/or sirens; provides such participants may not enter a burning structure; protects volunteer fire departments and fire companies from certain criminal and civil liability potentially arising from the operation of a youth program.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06010

Introduced
3/4/25  
Provides that microbusinesses in New York are eligible for small business revolving loans and the linked deposit interest rate reductions.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06011

Introduced
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Includes part of Ridge Road in the city of Lackawanna as a state highway.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06012

Introduced
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Authorizes local municipalities to establish or expand tourism improvement districts and provide services thereto.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06013

Introduced
3/4/25  
Enacts the "Nurse of Tomorrow Act" to provide for grants from the state commissioner of education to public and not-for-profit hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, schools and other entities for nurse recruitment, education and retention costs and activities as described herein.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06014

Introduced
3/4/25  
Provides for supplemental aid payable to low spending high need school districts in the 2026-2027 school year and thereafter.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06015

Introduced
3/4/25  
Decreases the time a vacant property may sit in foreclosure in Erie county.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06016

Introduced
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Designates South Park Avenue in or near Lackawanna as a state highway.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06017

Introduced
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Engrossed
5/20/25  
Enacts the "food retail establishment subsidization for healthy communities act" (FRESH Communities); provides loans, loan guarantees, interest subsidies and grants to businesses, municipalities, not-for-profit corporations or local development corporations for the purpose of attracting, maintaining or permitting the expansion of food retail establishments in underserved areas.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06018

Introduced
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Engrossed
5/19/25  
Authorizes and directs the New York state power authority to rename the Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant located in the town of Lewiston, county of Niagara, to the Shirley J. Hamilton Niagara Power Plant.