New York State Senator

Jessica Scarcella-Spanton 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 14)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02622

Introduced
1/21/25  
Repeals congestion pricing (Part A); increases the membership of the metropolitan transportation authority from sixteen to seventeen members; provides for the appointment for one member from each of New York City's boroughs on the written recommendation of the mayor of New York City (Part B); directs the metropolitan transportation authority to contract with a certified public accounting firm for the provision of an independent, comprehensive, forensic audit of the authority (Part C).
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New York Senate Bill S02623

Introduced
1/21/25  
Relates to the employment of veterans with disabilities program.
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New York Senate Bill S02624

Introduced
1/21/25  
Adds three additional family court judges to the county of Richmond; adds three additional judges to the civil court of the county of Richmond.
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New York Senate Bill S02710

Introduced
1/22/25  
Restores 20 year service retirement for New York city police officers.
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New York Senate Bill S02715

Introduced
1/22/25  
Limits the amount of the fine to be paid for violating the E-ZPass system for failing to pay a toll to not exceed the amount of such unpaid toll.
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New York Senate Bill S02716

Introduced
1/22/25  
Authorizes the justice center to create a central registry for employees for all current and prospective agencies, sponsoring agencies or other providers of services that are certified, authorized, approved or funded through contract by the office for people with developmental disabilities to streamline criminal background checks.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York Senate Bill S02637

Introduced
1/22/25  
Provides grants to address food insecurity among students at public institutions for higher education.
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New York Senate Bill S02681

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Engrossed
6/13/25  
Refer
6/13/25  
Requires the superintendent of state police to develop, maintain and disseminate to all members of the division of state police a critical incident leave policy requiring critical incident paid leave for any members directly involved in a critical incident; prohibits such superintendent from taking any punitive administrative action against any member of the division of state police granted critical incident leave solely on the basis of the provision of such leave.
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New York Senate Bill S02703

Introduced
1/22/25  
Requires reporting of statewide training hours allocated to each firefighter; requires such report shall identify the fire department or district providing the training.
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New York Senate Bill S02705

Introduced
1/22/25  
Enacts the student suicide prevention act; requires the governing board or body of every local educational agency serving students in grades seven to twelve, to adopt policies, procedures and guidelines on student suicide prevention, intervention and postvention for students in such grades.
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New York Senate Bill S02709

Introduced
1/22/25  
Provides protections for telecommunications tower technicians, including requiring certain trainings during work hours without a loss of pay; requires certain reporting by bidders for telecommunication contracts.
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New York Senate Bill S03026

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Engrossed
4/8/25  
Restricts the performance of surgical devocalization procedures on dogs and cats; prohibited for reasons of convenience in keeping or handling a dog or cat.
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New York Senate Bill S03135

Introduced
1/23/25  
Repeals the excise tax on medical cannabis and the medical cannabis trust fund.
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New York Senate Bill S03144

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Requires accessible buses to be available within a service area measuring three miles from any bus line of the authority or its subsidiaries.
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New York Senate Bill S03147

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Engrossed
3/26/25  
Provides that the sale of a non-indemnity legal service plan shall not constitute doing an insurance business in this state; makes related provisions.