NY
New York State Senator

James Skoufis

D

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 S04781

Introduced
2/12/25  
Makes tuition free for New York state residents at SUNY and CUNY schools and community colleges; requires state residency and employment for a period of five years after completion of academic program.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04782

Introduced
2/12/25  
Prevents certain public institutions of higher education from using the scholastic aptitude test and ACT assessment in the admissions process on and after the two thousand twenty-six--two thousand twenty-seven academic year for New York resident applicants; requires SUNY and CUNY to create a new standardized test by the two thousand thirty--two thousand thirty-one academic year.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04783

Introduced
2/12/25  
Relates to information cable television companies must provide to subscribers regarding availability of required equipment at retail.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04784

Introduced
2/12/25  
Eliminates judicial immunity or quasi-judicial immunity for certain third parties, such as special masters, minor's counsel, investigators, therapists, evaluators, receivers, bankruptcy trustees, experts, and factfinders, who provide a report or finding to the family court.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04785

Introduced
2/12/25  
Establishes local labor requirements as part of the approval to receive a real property tax business investment exception; requires eighty-five percent of workers hired by a contractor or developer for a project to be from the same county or an adjoining county or, in certain circumstances, the state of New York.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04786

Introduced
2/12/25  
Eliminates the "look-back period" for home care for non-institutionalized Medicaid applicants; repeals a certain provision of law relating thereto.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04833

Introduced
2/13/25  
Ensures the decision to downcode an insurance claim is recognized as an adverse determination; prohibits health plans from reversing or altering medical necessity determinations made by a utilization review agent or external appeals agent as a result of an audit of claims.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04851

Introduced
2/13/25  
Expands which individuals qualify to be an individual's personal assistant for the purposes of consumer directed personal assistance programs to include an eligible individual's attorney-in-fact, health care proxy, or legal guardian.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04852

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Engrossed
3/19/25  
Directs the state fire prevention and building code council to update the state fire prevention and building code and the state energy conservation construction code within 18 months of the publication of any updated or revised edition of the international and national codes relating thereto, so as to ensure that the state's codes reflect such revisions and updates.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04829

Introduced
2/13/25  
Designates unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the third degree as a class E felony; designates unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the second degree as a class D violent felony offense; designates unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the first degree as a class B violent felony offense.