New York State Senator

George Borrello 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 18)

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00908

Introduced
1/8/25  
Prohibits persons convicted of murder or sentenced to life without parole or where the defendant acting either alone or with one or more other persons, commits or attempts to commit robbery, burglary, kidnapping, arson, rape in the first degree, criminal sexual act in the first degree, sexual abuse in the first degree, aggravated sexual abuse, escape in the first degree, or escape in the second degree, and, in the course of and in furtherance of such crime or of immediate flight therefrom, such defendant, or another participant, if there be any, intentionally causes the death of: a police officer; a peace officer; a firefighter; emergency medical technician, ambulance driver, paramedic, physician or registered nurse involved in a first response team, or any other individual who, in the course of official duties, performs emergency response; or an employee of a state correctional institution or was an employee of a local correctional facility, when such person was engaged in the course of performing their official duties, from being eligible for commutation of sentence.
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New York Senate Bill S00917

Introduced
1/8/25  
Enacts the "credit for rural broadband act"; provides for a refundable tax credit for costs paid for new construction of new broadband networks to residences and small businesses located in rural, unserved areas.
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New York Senate Bill S00921

Introduced
1/8/25  
Requires individuals arrested in connection with a felony to submit a DNA sample; makes related provisions and technical corrections.
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New York Senate Bill S00924

Introduced
1/8/25  
Requires the Empire State Development corporation's broadband program office to assist in the provision and expansion of broadband internet access service and to address inequities in the availability of such service.
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New York Senate Bill S00930

Introduced
1/8/25  
Establishes a task force for the review of the state administrative procedure act to ensure that administrative rulemaking, adjudication and licensing is consistent, uniform, and not unnecessarily burdensome for regulated entities.
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New York Senate Bill S00942

Introduced
1/8/25  
Makes life imprisonment without parole mandatory for defendants convicted of murder in the first degree or second degree and the victim is a police officer, peace officer, first responder or correctional officer.
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New York Senate Bill S00960

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to items of appropriation.
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New York Senate Bill S00961

Introduced
1/8/25  
Requires that notice be provided to any officer or employee of the department of corrections and community supervision whose personal information is the subject of a subpoena duces tecum.
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New York Senate Bill S00972

Introduced
1/8/25  
Makes it a class A-1 felony to sell or transport an opiate controlled substance which causes the death of another person.
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New York Senate Bill S00979

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes the offense of aggravated reckless driving and allows for the seizure and forfeiture of vehicles used in connection with reckless driving or aggravated reckless driving.
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New York Senate Bill S00989

Introduced
1/8/25  
Establishes the offense of aggravated reckless endangerment; includes aggravated reckless endangerment as a qualified offense the court must consider and take into account for securing an order.
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New York Senate Bill S00991

Introduced
1/8/25  
Requires the department of economic development, job development authority, and urban development corporation to provide preferences to small businesses and entrepreneurs in the administration of their economic development assistance programs; requires annual reports thereon.
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New York Senate Bill S00995

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes a municipal senior center capital support program in the office for the aging to assist municipalities in accessing capital funds necessary for the purchase of senior buses; directs the director of the office for the aging to develop an application and establish criteria for the disbursement of grants to eligible municipalities for the purpose of procuring senior buses; makes an appropriation.
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New York Senate Bill S00996

Introduced
1/8/25  
Directs the division of criminal justice services to establish the safer communities grant program making grants available to investigative or prosecutorial entities involved with cases of homicides, rapes, sexual assaults, kidnappings, and non-fatal shootings; requires a report to the legislature; makes an appropriation therefor.
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New York Senate Bill S01040

Introduced
1/8/25  
Requires that the state university of New York's board of trustees shall adopt a policy requiring all state university of New York, city university of New York, college, and community college campuses that offer membership programs to the general public for the use of fitness and aquatic facilities, to permit disabled veterans to obtain a membership for the use of fitness and aquatic facilities upon the same terms and conditions as apply to the general public, but without payment of any fees or other charges; defines "disabled veteran".