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 S05379

Introduced
2/21/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Relates to prevailing wage requirements applicable to brownfield remediation work performed under private contract as it relates to certain remediation activities, for sites that are seeking or have received a determination that the site is eligible for the tangible property credit component of the brownfield redevelopment tax credit, and the work is paid for in whole or in part by public funds.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05535

Introduced
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Engrossed
4/2/25  
Requires certain documents and forms to be provided in the twelve most common non-English languages spoken by limited English proficient immigrants of five years or less according to the American community survey, as published by the United States census bureau.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05589

Introduced
2/25/25  
Provides public access to epinephrine auto-injector devices at schools; establishes public access epinephrine auto-injector device providers.
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 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.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05788

Introduced
3/3/25  
Relates to accessibility requirements in certain procurement contracts; requires contracts that include information and communication technologies (ICTs) are accessible to people with disabilities; requires that the ability of a prospective contractor to meet such requirement be considered in making the contract award.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05401

Introduced
2/21/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Establishes the clinical trial access and education fund to provide grants to eligible applicants to provide certain services for patients with life-threatening or disabling conditions or diseases.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05562

Introduced
2/25/25  
Provides presumptive eligibility for medical assistance benefits for individuals released from correctional facilities for at least sixty days following release.