New York State Senator

James Skoufis Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03102

Introduced
1/23/25  
Provides lifetime, premium-free insurance through the New York state of health marketplace to a person who donates a kidney during the course of their lifetime; establishes the kidney donor insurance fund.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03158

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Engrossed
4/8/25  
Includes animal fighting as a criminal act for purposes of enterprise corruption crimes.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03159

Introduced
1/23/25  
Disallows county industrial development agencies from offering incentives in municipalities which have their own industrial development agency.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03194

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Relates to defining "period of war" for the alternative veterans' exemption; includes more recent hostilities in the definition of "period of war".
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03277

Introduced
1/24/25  
Establishes a process for designating transfer-on-death beneficiaries for farming implements involving filing a document with the commissioner of agriculture and markets.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03107

Introduced
1/23/25  
Establishes a school ventilation and energy efficiency assessment, repair and verification program to require each school to: obtain an HVAC Assessment Report performed by qualified testing personnel documenting the functionality of the existing system or lack thereof, and obtain a report from a mechanical engineer identifying any upgrades, replacements or other measures recommended to improve the functionality, health and safety and/or energy efficiency of the HVAC system; adjust, and, if necessary, repair existing building HVAC systems, and install or replace HVAC systems, if necessary, to ensure proper and efficient operation, as well as compliance with health and safety standards; obtain an HVAC Verification Report performed by qualified testing personnel documenting any upgrades, replacements, installations or any other work performed on the HVAC system functions as designed and/or in compliance with health and safety standards; install CO2 sensors in classrooms, assembly areas, kitchen or cafeteria areas or building office spaces to provide ongoing verification that proper ventilation is maintained during operation; makes related provisions.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03133

Introduced
1/23/25  
Prohibits the manufacture, modification, sale, transfer, equipping, use, or operation of a robotic device or an uncrewed aircraft equipped or mounted with a weapon within the state.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03149

Introduced
1/23/25  
Establishes the child victims act fund which provides grant awards in reimbursement to public school districts and voluntary foster care agencies located within the state who have been named as defendants in certain child sexual abuse legal cases and in which it can be demonstrated by the public school district or voluntary foster care agency that no insurance policy for the covered period can be located after a good-faith effort to do so has been made, there was a monetary judgment issued or settlement agreement with regard to such action and where it can be demonstrated by the public school district or voluntary foster care agency that payment in full of such judgment or settlement would put a substantial burden on the district's or agency's ability to execute its mission and negatively impact its existing student population.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03173

Introduced
1/24/25  
Relates to clarifying which entities handle the reporting of pregnancy loss; the responsibilities of health care providers and penalties for not protecting the identities of individuals who suffered a pregnancy loss.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03239

Introduced
1/24/25  
Relates to the creation of a department of corrections and community supervision identification form; relates to the use of such form as proof of identity for individuals applying for a non-driver identification card or certain driver's licenses.