New York State Senator

Jeremy Cooney Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03148

Introduced

1/23/25

Refer

1/23/25

Includes fire districts within the definition of "municipal corporation" to include employees of fire districts within the health care and mental hygiene worker bonuses.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03149

Introduced

1/23/25

Refer

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.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03150

Introduced

1/23/25

Refer

1/23/25

Report Pass

3/10/25

Establishes the New York state first home grant program; directs the commissioner of homes and community renewal, in consultation with the state comptroller, to implement such program; provides assistance on behalf of a first time home buyer qualified for such program; and for costs in connection with the acquisition, involving an eligible mortgage loan, of an eligible home, including downpayment costs, closing costs, and costs to reduce the rates of interest on eligible mortgage loans; subsidies to make shared equity homes affordable to home buyers by discounting the price for which the home will be sold and to preserve the affordability of the home for subsequent home buyers; and pre-occupancy home modifications required to accommodate qualified home buyers or members of their household with disabilities; excludes the amount of any grant to any first time home buyer awarded or any federal first time home buyer grant program from taxable income for the purpose of calculating New York adjusted gross income.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03151

Introduced

1/23/25

Refer

1/23/25

Report Pass

5/28/25

Enacts the "cannabis adult-use transition act"; increases the number of members on the state cannabis advisory board from thirteen to seventeen voting appointed members; provides that an eligible registered organization shall be authorized as a registered organization adult-use cultivator processor distributor retail dispensary upon approval of an application to the office of cannabis management that must be available to such registered organizations no later than August first, two thousand twenty-five and remain available thereafter; provides that the office must approve or deny such application within thirty days of its submission or it shall be deemed approved; makes related provisions.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03152

Introduced

1/23/25

Refer

1/23/25

Report Pass

4/29/25

Establishes the Monroe county housing advocate program to provide to residents of Monroe county, information and resources to current or prospective tenants on housing issues such as securing housing, eviction matters, issue resolution with landlords, and any other topics such advocate deems important; and referrals to legal assistance or social service providers when applicable; makes related provisions.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03153

Introduced

1/23/25

Refer

1/23/25

Authorizes the commissioner of motor vehicles to establish a pilot program to evaluate the use of optional mobile or digital alternatives to driver's licenses and non-driver identification cards if specified requirements are met; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03154

Introduced

1/23/25

Refer

1/23/25

Report Pass

4/8/25

Directs the office of children and family services to establish Dolly Parton's statewide imagination library program for encouraging children from birth to five years of age, inclusive, to develop a love of reading and learning; directs the office of children and family services to promote the statewide development of local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; advance and strengthen local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs with the goal of increasing enrollment; recruit volunteers to assist in the development, promotion, and coordination of local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; solicit donations, gifts, and other funding to financially support local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; develop community engagement; develop, promote, and coordinate a public awareness campaign to make donors aware of the opportunity to donate to the affiliate programs and make the public aware of the opportunity to register eligible children to receive books through the program; administer the local match requirement and coordinate the collection and remittance of local program costs for books and mailing; and develop statewide marketing and communication plans; establishes the imagination library of New York fund.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03155

Introduced

1/23/25

Refer

1/23/25

Relates to health insurance coverage for in vitro fertilization.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03234

Introduced

1/24/25

Refer

1/24/25

Requires the commissioner of motor vehicles to adopt rules and regulations requiring the issuance and placement of special stickers identifying alternative fuel vehicles having a gross vehicle weight of ten thousand pounds or less; requires such stickers to be easily identifiable to first responders as alternative fuel vehicles; defines alternative fuel.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03178

Introduced

1/24/25

Refer

1/24/25

Requires the modification of restrictive covenants prior to the sale of real property when covenants, conditions and restrictions exist which discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, familial status, marital status, disability, national origin, source of income or ancestry.

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