New York State Senator

Jacob Ashby Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05432

Introduced
2/21/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Increases benefits for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05448

Introduced
2/21/25  
Establishes certain offenses based on homicide due to criminal sale of a controlled substance; establishes the offense of criminal sale of a controlled substance to a child in the first degree; expands the definition of controlled substances with respect to certain offenses; increases the felony classification of certain controlled substance offenses; includes electronic prescriptions and blank prescription forms in the definition of certain controlled substance offenses.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05457

Introduced
2/21/25  
Alters the definition of "drug" in the vehicle and traffic law to include any substance or combination of substances that impair, to any extent, physical or mental abilities; defines impairment and intoxication; provides that refusal to submit to a breath test and/or oral/bodily fluid test shall be a traffic infraction; makes related provisions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05542

Introduced
2/24/25  
Establishes the professional practice of community midwifery; defines as the management in the home, birth center, or community setting, of normal pregnancies, child birth, and postpartum care, including newborn evaluation, resuscitation and referral for infants; sets requirements for license and practice.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05441

Introduced
2/21/25  
Directs the department of environmental conservation to undertake a review of the regulations governing the permitting of landfills and transfer stations to ensure that such regulations integrate the latest scientific information.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05443

Introduced
2/21/25  
Establishes the crime of unlawful possession or sale of imitation drug paraphernalia when such person knowingly possesses, purchases, delivers, sells, or possesses with intent to sell or deliver any punch, die, plate, stone, pill press, tableting machine, encapsulating machine or any other equipment in order to print, imprint, or reproduce the trademark, trade name or other identifying mark, imprint or device of another or any likeness of any of the foregoing upon any substance or container or labeling thereof knowing, intending, or having reasonable cause to believe that it will be used to manufacture an imitation drug.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05490

Introduced
2/21/25  
Allows persons in recovery to have a distinguishing mark printed on their driver's license for cases of medical emergencies.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05491

Introduced
2/21/25  
Establishes a mental wellness group pilot program to partner with insurance companies to facilitate group therapy sessions for children ages ten through eighteen.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05518

Introduced
2/24/25  
Makes all costs and expenses of the department of public service and public service commission subject to appropriation by the legislature on the certification of the chair of the department and upon the audit and warrant of the comptroller.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05519

Introduced
2/24/25  
Phases out certain reimbursements for expenditures made by or on behalf of social services districts for medical assistance for needy persons, beginning with a 10% reduction for 2025, and ending with a 100% reduction for 2034, and remaining eliminated for each year thereafter.