New York State Senator

James Sanders 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 34)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York Senate Bill S08134

Introduced
5/15/25  
Provides that retirement contributions of public employees with ten or more years of service shall be three per centum per annum.
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New York Senate Bill S08221

Introduced
5/23/25  
Enacts into law components of legislation that relate to live event ticket sales; establishes an annual professional reseller renewal fee; requires professional ticket resellers to provide their New York state ticket reseller license number as a condition of utilizing an online resale marketplace to resell tickets (Part A); provides criteria for when a purchaser may obtain a full refund of the amount paid for a ticket (Part B); relates to resale requirements for tickets; requires that if a licensee or other ticket reseller doesn't have possession of the ticket, then they shall have a written contract to obtain the offered ticket at a certain price from a person or entity in possession of the ticket or from a person or entity who has a contractual right to obtain such ticket, and tickets to the event have been placed on sale by the venue or entity hosting the event or its authorized agent before the licensee or reseller can advertise the sale of the tickets (Part C); relates to unlawful charges in connection with tickets; permits reasonable charges for costs actually rendered or otherwise in connection to customer support, technological and software infrastructure, and actual operational costs for sales away from the box office; defines terms (Part D); relates to the availability of tickets for sale to the general public; defines a term (Part E); relates to the resale of tickets included in a subscription or season ticket package (Part F); extends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to tickets to places of entertainment (Part G).

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S08199

Introduced
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Engrossed
6/5/25  
Directs the department of financial services to conduct a study on the banking development district program and to make recommendations to improve such program.
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New York Senate Bill S08233

Introduced
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Engrossed
6/13/25  
Authorizes agencies to procure goods, services and construction from special veteran emerging business enterprises; defines special veteran emerging business enterprises.
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New York Senate Bill S08289

Introduced
5/30/25  
Authorizes the department of health to designate a level one or level two trauma center in Far Rockaway, county of Queens.
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New York Senate Bill S08291

Introduced
5/30/25  
Requires that public contracts be divided by size into large, medium, small and micro contracts for the purpose of increasing opportunities for small businesses, including minority-owned business enterprises and women-owned business enterprises, to participate in state contracts.
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New York Senate Bill S08292

Introduced
5/30/25  
Extends the effectiveness of provisions of law relating to permissible fees in connection with open end loans from June 30, 2025 until June 30, 2027.
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New York Senate Bill S08299

Introduced
5/30/25  
Extends the effectiveness of provisions relating to limiting the check cashing exemption for national banks and other regulated entities to August 1, 2027.
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New York Senate Bill S08300

Introduced
5/30/25  
Directs the commissioner of the office of general services to erect a monument to be known as the "New York state African slavery and freedom memorial" in the Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza to memorialize victims of the African Holocaust, the Holocaust of Enslavement, the Black Holocaust, or the enslavement of Black people and to celebrate the universal values of freedom, democracy and human rights for all people.
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New York Senate Bill S08314

Introduced
6/2/25  
Allows the state liquor authority to issue a retail license for on-premises consumption for a premises which shall be located within two hundred feet of a building occupied as a church, synagogue or other place of worship.
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New York Senate Bill S08315

Introduced
6/2/25  
Allows the state liquor authority to issue a retail license for on-premises consumption for a premises which shall be located within two hundred feet of a building occupied as a school, church, synagogue or other place of worship.
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New York Senate Bill S08323

Introduced
6/2/25  
Expands the small business mentoring program to include contracts for construction or related services.
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New York Senate Bill S08357

Introduced
6/4/25  
Refer
6/4/25  
Engrossed
6/9/25  
Allows a bank, in the discretion of the comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance, to arrange for the redeposit of moneys, in whole or in part, through a deposit placement program.
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New York Senate Bill S08406

Introduced
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Relates to the community bank deposit program; increases the maximum amount of funds on deposit at a community banking institution to thirty million dollars.