New York State Senator

Jessica Scarcella-Spanton Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04553

Introduced
2/6/25  
Relates to certain promotions to lieutenant or sergeant in the detective bureau in the city of New York.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04554

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Engrossed
6/13/25  
Relates to filing timely notices of participation in World Trade Center rescue efforts for the purposes of receiving World Trade Center benefits.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04592

Introduced
2/10/25  
Allows evidence of a defendant's prior crimes or acts to be admissible in a criminal case for certain purposes including as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, state of mind of the defendant, state of mind of the victim or other party, absence of mistake or accident, identity, modus operandi, or common scheme or plan; requires that the prosecution provide reasonable notice of the general nature of any such evidence it intends to introduce at trial.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04653

Introduced
2/10/25  
Enacts the "television subscriber choice act" to enhance consumer choice and ensure that multichannel video programming distributors have the flexibility to offer programming packages that best meet the needs and preferences of their subscribers; requires that a video programmer shall offer each channel for license to a multichannel video programming distributor without requiring channel bundling requirements as a condition of carriage of such channel; makes it unlawful for a video programmer to demand unreasonable fees or other financial obligations for channel carriage; defines terms; makes related provisions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04666

Introduced
2/11/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Provides that for New York city police/fire members, uniformed correction/sanitation revised plan and investigator revised plan members of the New York city employees' retirement system, the service retirement benefit shall not be reduced by the primary social security retirement benefit commencing at age sixty-two.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04668

Introduced
2/11/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Relates to service retirement benefits for certain members of the New York city employees' retirement system; provides that for New York city uniformed correction/sanitation revised plan members of the New York city employees' retirement system, the service retirement benefit shall not be reduced by the primary social security retirement benefit commencing at age sixty-two.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04707

Introduced
2/11/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Relates to expanding the geographic area of employment of state university police officers, the centralization of the state university police by appointing a commissioner of state university police, and hiring of state university police officers.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04724

Introduced
2/12/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Ensures that public retirees are not having their skilled nursing care benefits reduced under the state health benefit plan at the time they enroll for medicare.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04727

Introduced
2/12/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Report Pass
3/18/25  
Engrossed
6/13/25  
Refer
6/13/25  
Provides that the normal service retirement benefit for police/fire members who are members of the New York city fire department pension fund shall be paid to such members of the New York city fire department pension fund without regard to age upon retirement after twenty years of service.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04732

Introduced
2/12/25  
Prohibits the diminution of health insurance benefits of public employee retirees and their dependents or reducing the employer's contributions for such insurance; defines employers to include the state, municipalities, school districts, and public authorities and commissions.