New York State Senator

Jose Serrano Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00878

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Amends procedures required for the custodial interrogation of children to provide additional protections and for taking juveniles and sixteen and seventeen year olds into custody.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00914

Introduced
1/8/25  
Relates to creating a separate tax on inheritance income, creating a separate tax on gift income, the computation of the estate tax, and creating a gift tax.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00953

Introduced
1/8/25  
Raises the tax rate on corporate income; increases the state conformity to federal taxation of corporate profit shifting; imposes an additional tax on individual business income in response to federal tax benefits for pass-through business income.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00954

Introduced
1/8/25  
Establishes the teachers' fossil fuel divestment act; requires the New York state teachers' retirement system to divest the retirement system of any stocks, securities, equities, assets, or other obligations of corporations or companies included on an exclusion list of coal producers and oil and gas producers.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00956

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes an affordable independent senior housing assistance program which shall provide grants within amounts appropriated or otherwise available therefor to affordable independent senior housing properties to establish and operate resident assistance programs.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00988

Introduced
1/8/25  
Repeals the requirement that applicants must pass an examination in order to qualify as a licensed master social worker.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01001

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to including outpatient care provided by creative arts therapists in certain insurance policies covering care for other mental health services.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01048

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
3/10/25  
Requires public agencies to establish preliminary license application procedures to determine whether an applicant for a license would be ineligible for such license based on criminal history; establishes time frames for public agencies to respond to such applications; requires public agencies to report information regarding granting licenses annually.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01049

Introduced
1/8/25  
Enacts the "gender identity respect, dignity and safety act"; relates to the treatment and placement of incarcerated individuals based upon gender identity; requires that incarcerated individuals in state and local correctional facilities who have a gender identity different from their assigned sex at birth be addressed and have access to commissary items, clothing and other materials that are consistent with the person's gender identity; establishes that incarcerated individuals shall be presumptively placed in a correctional facility with persons of the gender that most closely aligns with such person's self-attested gender identity unless the person opts out of such placement.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01055

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
5/19/25  
Prohibits the division of criminal justice services from disclosing pending orders of adjournment in contemplation of dismissal on civil records of arrests and prosecutions.