New York State Senator

Cordell Cleare Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S07522

Introduced
4/21/25  
Requires librarians for schools in every elementary, middle and high school in New York city.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S07523

Introduced
4/21/25  
Prohibits the sale and display of symbols of hate by state funded entities or at state funded events.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S07556

Introduced
4/22/25  
Enacts the "disadvantaged communities commitment act"; requires investor-owned energy utilities to collect and publish data on disadvantaged communities in certain service areas and file such statistics with the public service commission.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S07557

Introduced
4/22/25  
Creates parity for incarcerated individual telephone services for international calls to family members outside continental United States, Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam or Central Northern Mariana Islands by requiring identical restrictions on the duration or number of phone calls and use of unit or facility phones made available to incarcerated individuals who are calling family members who are not outside continental United States, Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam or Central Northern Mariana Islands.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S07558

Introduced
4/22/25  
Requires the written consent of a minor's parent, legal guardian or attorney for law enforcement collection of DNA from a minor prior to the lawful arrest of such minor.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S07559

Introduced
4/22/25  
Requires a yearly inspection of all audiological testing equipment in all schools.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S07536

Introduced
4/22/25  
Ensures free speech on all college and university campuses within the state; creates a cause of action for those who have their freedom of speech infringed upon by a college or university.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S07544

Introduced
4/22/25  
Establishes the cesarean births review board; provides such board shall be comprised of multidisciplinary experts to review the rate of cesarean births at hospitals in the state; provides reporting requirements.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S07545

Introduced
4/22/25  
Requires the department of health to develop and maternal health care providers to distribute written information about episiotomy to maternity patients.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S07547

Introduced
4/22/25  
Requires sexual and domestic violence awareness posters in cosmetology establishments.