New York State Senator

Gustavo Rivera Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04781

Introduced
2/12/25  
Makes tuition free for New York state residents at SUNY and CUNY schools and community colleges; requires state residency and employment for a period of five years after completion of academic program.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04862

Introduced
2/13/25  
Relates to transportation management brokers; provides that transportation management brokers are no longer required to manage the transportation services for Medicaid beneficiaries.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04903

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Enacts the "Shepherd Patterson law"; requires a physician who treats a minor patient with a medical condition that may cause a disability to provide certain educational information to such patient's parents or guardians indicating such minor is entitled to a free and appropriate public education as defined under section five hundred four of the federal rehabilitation act of nineteen hundred seventy-three; makes related provisions.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04914

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Engrossed
5/22/25  
Refer
5/22/25  
Protects individuals who provide or receive legally protected health activity, including reproductive health care and gender-affirming care, from criminal or civil liability or professional sanctions imposed by jurisdictions outside the state.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04925

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Engrossed
3/17/25  
Requires training to reduce abusive conduct and bullying in the workplace as part of a written workplace violence prevention program.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04928

Introduced
2/14/25  
Relates to the regulation of street vendors in cities with a population of one million or more by authorizing such cities to adopt a program to regulate street vendors; requires street vendors to obtain a permit; provides for penalties for failure to comply with such regulations.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04955

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Requires the Medicaid inspector general to comply with standards relating to the audit and review of medical assistance program funds.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05023

Introduced
2/18/25  
Relates to criminal mischief in the third degree and criminal mischief in the second degree.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05024

Introduced
2/18/25  
Requires the department of education to develop school health and mental health professionals to student ratios in public schools for students who do not receive services pursuant to the individuals with disabilities education act.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04801

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Relates to the amount of state aid reimbursement for public health services by a municipality in the city of New York when the municipality is providing some or all of certain identified core public health services.