New York State Senator

James Sanders 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 30)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06546

Introduced
3/17/25  
Requires certain safety standards for emergency shelter for victims and alleged victims of domestic violence during a declaration of a state disaster emergency for a disease outbreak; requires accommodations in a hotel or motel where a residential facility does not meet safety standards; requires full cost to be assumed by the state.
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New York Senate Bill S06547

Introduced
3/17/25  
Relates to the "Heather D. Heyer act" which increases penalties where a vehicle is used as a weapon in a hate crime and makes it illegal to travel upon a roadway in a vehicle within 1000 feet of a protest.
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New York Senate Bill S06548

Introduced
3/17/25  
Relates to providing minimum standards governing maternity policy for institutions employing police officers and correctional officers including uniform and/or equipment modifications, exemption from firearm qualification requirements, and ensuring there is no discrimination or poor treatment of pregnant individuals.
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New York Senate Bill S06553

Introduced
3/17/25  
Establishes a Green New Deal for New York task force; requires such task force to develop a detailed statewide, industrial, economic mobilization plan for the transition of the New York economy to become greenhouse gas emissions neutral by 2030 and to significantly draw down greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and oceans and to promote economic and environmental justice and equality.
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New York Senate Bill S06601

Introduced
3/18/25  
Requires the municipal police training council to ensure that issues related to motorcycle profiling are addressed in basic law enforcement training.
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New York Senate Bill S06602

Introduced
3/18/25  
Requires the sanitation department of the city of New York to provide owners, lessees or persons in charge of a premises at which a violation of the city solid waste disposal law is alleged to have occurred with a photograph of the materials, condition or situation constituting the violation.
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New York Senate Bill S06603

Introduced
3/18/25  
Creates the lupus research enhancement program; creates the lupus research enhancement fund.
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New York Senate Bill S06604

Introduced
3/18/25  
Authorizes local governments to pay higher levels of minimum wage.
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New York Senate Bill S06605

Introduced
3/18/25  
Requires the state university of New York and the city university of New York to establish courses of study on ethnic studies, women's studies, and social justice; requires students to complete at least one three-credit course on ethnic studies, women's studies, or social justice to graduate with a baccalaureate degree.
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New York Senate Bill S06606

Introduced
3/18/25  
Designates the month of September as firefighter, police officer and emergency medical technician appreciation month.
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New York Senate Bill S06607

Introduced
3/18/25  
Prohibits the liquor authority from revoking, suspending, or canceling a retail licensee's license without a hearing when the holder of the license was issued a summons for a violation that is unrelated to the sale or consumption of alcohol on premises.
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New York Senate Bill S06608

Introduced
3/18/25  
Creates the consumer overdraft protection act to ensure that consumers are informed of their options in regard to overdraft protection.
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New York Senate Bill S06609

Introduced
3/18/25  
Relates to water contamination, lead paint and air quality testing in New York city housing authority buildings.
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New York Senate Bill S06610

Introduced
3/18/25  
Relates to preventing and reporting acts of harassment at schools.
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New York Senate Bill S06611

Introduced
3/18/25  
Prohibits persons under the age of twenty-one years from possessing or using cannabis except for patients certified pursuant to article three of the cannabis law; provides for the seizure of such cannabis from a person under age twenty-one and the imposition of civil penalties, community service, or both for violations.