New York State Senator

Brian Kavanagh Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00158

Introduced
1/8/25  
Authorizes certain persons confined in institutions operated by the department of corrections and community supervision to apply for a sentence reduction.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00159

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Provides for findings of the state board of parole necessary for discretionary release of incarcerated individuals on parole.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00161

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
5/13/25  
Expands the eligibility period for indigent legal service attorneys to receive certain loan forgiveness; increases loan reimbursement for certain attorneys who work in legal services with indigent clients.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00165

Introduced
1/8/25  
Establishes a billionaire mark-to-market tax taxing residents with one billion dollars or more in net assets.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00173

Introduced
1/8/25  
Establishes an unemployment bridge program and an unemployment bridge program fund to provide wage replacement to workers that do not qualify for unemployment insurance or other worker wage assistance programs and who have lost a major source of income due to lost work (Part A); establishes the "Digital Ad Tax Act (DATA)" creating a tax on digital advertising services (Part B).
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00176

Introduced
1/8/25  
Provides a civil action for deprivation of rights which is caused by any person or public entity.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00187

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
5/21/25  
Prohibits the sale of certain products that contain regulated perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances; requires manufacturers of products containing PFAS to provide notice of such fact to persons that offer the products for sale or distribution; provides penalties for violations.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00226

Introduced
1/8/25  
Requires the registration of bicycles with electric assist used for commercial purposes; provides liability of employers for certain violations.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00316

Introduced
1/8/25  
Prohibits governmental entities from entering into agreements to house individuals in immigration detention facilities; requires governmental entities to terminate existing contracts for the detention of individuals in immigration detention facilities.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00318

Introduced
1/8/25  
Eliminates court surcharges and fees and probation and parole surcharges and fees; eliminates the requirement that a parolee or releasee receiving a merit termination of sentence be financially able to comply with an order of restitution; eliminates the requirement that a person receiving a discharge of sentence be financially able to comply with an order of restitution and the payment of certain surcharges or fees (Part A); prohibits mandatory minimum fines for penal law and vehicle and traffic offenses (Part B); mandates that courts engage in an individualized assessment of a person's financial ability to pay a fine prior to imposing a fine (Part C); eliminates the availability of incarceration as a remedy for a failure to pay a fine, surcharge, or fee, lifts and vacates existing warrants issued solely on a person's failure to timely pay a fine, surcharge or fee and ends existing sentences of incarceration based on such failure (Part D); vacates existing unsatisfied civil judgments based on a person's failure to timely pay a surcharge, or fee (Part E); prohibits the collection of a fine, restitution or reparation from the funds of an incarcerated person; prohibits the payment of court fines, mandatory surcharges, certain fees, restitution, reparation or forfeitures from the earnings of prisoners (Part F); vacates existing unpaid surcharges, DNA databank fees, crime victim assistance fees, sexual offender registration fees, supplemental sex offender victim fees, or probation or parole supervision fees; repeals certain provisions of law relating to restrictions on remitting such fees (Part G).