New York State Senator

Cordell Cleare Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05665

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Directs the department of health to conduct an ongoing public awareness and education program on doulas and how beneficial they are to pregnancies.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05674

Introduced
2/27/25  
Establishes the New York State social housing development authority as a public benefit corporation to increase the supply of permanently affordable housing in the state through the acquisition of land and renovation or rehabilitation of existing real property, and through the construction of new, permanently affordable housing.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05742

Introduced
2/28/25  
Establishes an age-friendly health system technical assistance center to provide assistance in relation to age-friendly health systems; relates to hospital performance data.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05743

Introduced
2/28/25  
Establishes a cause of action for fertility fraud; allows patients who have undergone assisted reproduction procedures to bring a cause of action if human reproductive material other than that which was consented to by the patient is used in such procedure; allows for compensatory and punitive damages.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05744

Introduced
2/28/25  
Increases monetary penalties for public health law violations; provides support for the nursing home quality improvement demonstration program.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05745

Introduced
2/28/25  
Expands felony sex offenses to include promoting prostitution in the second degree, promoting prostitution in the first degree, compelling prostitution, sex trafficking, and sex trafficking of a child.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05746

Introduced
2/28/25  
Creates the district long-term care ombudsman council program to coordinate volunteer ombudsperson's in each assembly district.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05680

Introduced
2/27/25  
Provides notice of the death of an incarcerated individual occurring in the custody of the department of corrections and community supervision; requires the department to promptly notify the next kin and any other person designated as the representative of any incarcerated individual whose death takes place during custody.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05684

Introduced
2/27/25  
Relates to returnable bottles; adds noncarbonated soft drinks, certain noncarbonated fruit or vegetable juices, coffee and tea beverages, carbonated fruit beverages and cider to the definition of "beverage"; provides that beginning April 1, 2027, the handling fee will be six cents for each beverage container accepted by a deposit initiator from a dealer or operator of a redemption center; directs the multi-agency bottle bill fraud investigation team to submit a report on findings of pervasive bottle redemption fraud in New York state.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05751

Introduced
2/28/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Amends the constitution to delete the requirement that registration for purposes of voting be completed at least ten days before election day; provides that laws be made to adequately safeguard against deception in the exercise of the right of suffrage.