New York State Senator

John Liu Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02465

Introduced
1/21/25  
Allows home-schooled children to participate in interscholastic athletic activities and driver's education in the district where they reside.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02585

Introduced
1/21/25  
Relates to the definition of a public employee or employee; includes the unified court system and the legislature as public employers.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02593

Introduced
1/21/25  
Allows the chancellor of the city district of the city of New York to require pupils in public schools in the borough of Brooklyn or in the borough of Queens to attend school on anniversary day, but to declare a holiday for such pupils on an alternate date in the same school year to allow for the celebration of a significant cultural or religious holiday.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02594

Introduced
1/21/25  
Requires any public school located in a city with a population of one million or more to offer a remote learning option to all primary and secondary students when such public school is located in a county determined by the federal centers for disease control and prevention to have a substantial or high level of community transmission of any illness deemed by the federal centers for disease control and prevention to be an outbreak.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02628

Introduced
1/22/25  
Requires the department of education to establish professional development programs in culturally responsive instruction and provide access to those programs on its website.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02497

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Engrossed
3/4/25  
Permits the admissibility of testimony that a person reported acts of discrimination to another person in a civil trial under the human rights law, including the contents of such report.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02505

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Engrossed
2/12/25  
Establishes a task force to conduct a comprehensive study on the presence of educator diversity in the state, state actions taken to promote educator diversity, and how the state can encourage new initiatives to enhance and promote educator diversity in New York; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02523

Introduced
1/21/25  
Establishes a jobs and housing pilot program to create jobs in the construction industry and address the housing crisis by developing or redeveloping housing that is affordable to individuals earning up to one hundred thirty percent of the area median income, adjusted for family size.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02533

Introduced
1/21/25  
Authorizes the dispensing of abortion medication under certain conditions; requires insurance policies providing coverage for contraception to provide coverage for abortion medication.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02587

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Engrossed
3/19/25  
Establishes January 30th of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution".