New York State Senator

Julia Salazar Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02131

Introduced
1/15/25  
Relates to securing payment of wages for work already performed; creates a lien remedy for all employees; provides grounds for attachment; relates to procedures where employees may hold shareholders of non-publicly traded corporations personally liable for wage theft; relates to rights for victims of wage theft to hold the ten members with the largest ownership interests in a company personally liable for wage theft.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02132

Introduced
1/15/25  
Establishes the baby bucks allowance to provide income to eligible participants for the last three months of pregnancy and the first 18 months of the child's life; excludes income received from the baby bucks allowance for purposes of supplemental nutrition assistance program eligibility.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02235

Introduced
1/16/25  
Prohibits and regulates the discovery and disclosure of immigration status; prohibits police officers, peace officers, school resource officers, probation agencies, state entities, state employees, and municipal corporations from questioning individuals regarding their citizenship or immigration status; regulates the disclosure of information relating to immigration status.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02237

Introduced
1/16/25  
Enacts the "fair college admissions act"; prohibits legacy admissions policies at colleges and universities in New York; declares such policies and practices to be discriminatory and inequitable.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02240

Introduced
1/16/25  
Removes the lifetime ban on jury duty for convicted felons.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02269

Introduced
1/16/25  
Requires a motion picture theater that offers more than ten motion picture showings per week to provide scheduled showings of motion pictures with open motion picture captioning such that at least one quarter of all showings of a motion picture with four or more showings during a one-week time period shall have open motion picture captioning; provides exceptions and penalties for violations.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02274

Introduced
1/16/25  
Enacts The New Deal for CUNY; increases the ratio of faculty and mental health counselors to full-time students; requires that certain amounts of tuition be replaced by federal, state, and city funds.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02330

Introduced
1/16/25  
Imposes an excise tax on sugary drinks; establishes a community health equity fund to utilize the revenues generated by such tax.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02331

Introduced
1/16/25  
Decriminalizes the possession of buprenorphine from certain crimes.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02332

Introduced
1/16/25  
Repeals managed long term care provisions for Medicaid recipients; establishes provisions for fully integrated plans for long term care including PACE and MAP plans.