New York State Senator

Jessica Scarcella-Spanton 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 19)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04530

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Exempts military members based at Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, New York and Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, New York on active duty who reside in NYC from the payment of E-ZPass tolls associated with the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.
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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 Senate Bill S04554

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Engrossed
6/13/25  
Refer
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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New York Senate Bill S04756

Introduced
2/12/25  
Enacts the "Velmanette Montgomery YouthBuild act"; sets program requirements; authorizes grants to eligible YouthBuild participants; establishes application requirements.
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New York Senate Bill S04774

Introduced
2/12/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Creates the crime of vehicular homicide; makes such crime a class B felony.
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New York Senate Bill S04777

Introduced
2/12/25  
Relates to first responders, including correction officers, coming into contact with saliva by spitting, throwing, tossing, or expelling from or by an individual.
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New York Senate Bill S04805

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Engrossed
3/17/25  
Shifts the conducting of the income verification process for the purposes of the senior citizen tax exemption from municipalities to the department of taxation and finance.