New York State Senator

Kevin Parker Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02414

Introduced
1/17/25  
Enacts the "political artificial intelligence disclaimer (PAID) act"; requires political communications that use synthetic media to disclose that they were created with the assistance of artificial intelligence; requires committees that use synthetic media to maintain records of such usage.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02415

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Prohibits publicly owned treatment works from accepting wastewater associated with the exploration, delineation, development, or production of natural gas from high-volume hydraulic fracturing; provides exceptions.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02416

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Engrossed
5/13/25  
Authorizes one or more individuals who are under a shared contract to opt-out of such contract without a fee, penalty or charge due to status as a domestic violence victim; prohibits the company from transferring any contractual or billing responsibility of such shared contract to any other account holders on such shared contract; prevents companies from prohibiting a person who has opted-out due to domestic violence status to enter into a new contract.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02417

Introduced
1/17/25  
Enacts the "coal to gas plant conversion and redevelopment blueprint act"; requires the development of a blueprint to guide the replacement and redevelopment of New York's coal burning facilities and their sites by 2031.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02418

Introduced
1/17/25  
Relates to the municipal sustainable energy loan program; includes water efficiency improvements and resiliency improvements in the municipal sustainable energy loan program.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02469

Introduced
1/21/25  
Establishes the office of ethnic and community media; provides duties of the executive director; requires each state agency to seek to direct at least fifty percent of its total spending on advertising to ethnic and community media outlets.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02470

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Engrossed
5/28/25  
Provides for a tax abatement for electric energy storage equipment placed in service after January 1, 2027 and before January 1, 2029.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02433

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Establishes certain rights upon the expiration of ground lease residential cooperative apartment buildings.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02439

Introduced
1/17/25  
Encourages the participation of minority- and women-owned business enterprises in state contracts by avoiding unnecessary and unjustified bundling of contract requirements that preclude minority- and women-owned business participation.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02442

Introduced
1/17/25  
Enacts the small insurer protection act prohibiting the filing of an application for an order of rehabilitation or liquidation of a small insurer on certain grounds unless such order is based on: the superintendent's adoption of a report on examination finding the company insolvent; or the annual or quarterly financial statements of the company, which show that the company's admitted assets do not exceed its liabilities and surplus to policyholders if the company does not maintain reserves in an amount determined reasonable by its independent loss reserve specialist or its appointed actuary.