New York State Senator

Kevin Parker Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03997

Introduced
1/31/25  
Amends the low income housing tax credit eligibility requirement to at least sixty percent of residential units be both rent-restricted and occupied by individuals whose income is one hundred twenty-five percent or less of area median gross income.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03998

Introduced
1/31/25  
Relates to civil actions for deprivation of constitutional rights; provides that a peace officer employed by a local government, who under color of law, subjects or causes to be subjected, including failing to intervene, any other person to the deprivation of any individual rights that create binding obligations on government actors secured by the bill of rights, article one of the state constitution, is liable to the injured party for legal or equitable relief or any other appropriate relief; provides that statutory immunities and statutory limitations on liability, damages or attorney fees shall not apply; governmental immunity shall not be a defense to liability; and qualified immunity shall not be a defense to liability.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03999

Introduced
1/31/25  
Enacts the "New York accountability in reporting act"; establishes the crimes of offering a false report for filing in the second degree and offering a false report for filing in the first degree; requires the creation of public databases for false reporting; provides for a civil remedy for convictions of such crimes.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04000

Introduced
1/31/25  
Relates to traffic stops conducted by law enforcement officers; defines "racial profiling"; authorizes division of criminal justice services to conduct a study relating to racial profiling; prohibits use of race or ethnicity of an individual as the sole factor in determining the existence of probable cause to place such person under arrest or take into custody.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04001

Introduced
1/31/25  
Relates to criminal history record searches and open warrants and when such warrants shall be excluded from reports.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04002

Introduced
1/31/25  
Relates to establishing an automatic expunction system for certain records including unconstitutional stops that occurred between January two thousand four and June two thousand twelve by the New York city police department that either resulted in the completion of a UF-250 form or a Form 61 complaint in which the SQF section was completed and led to arrests for either resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, criminal possession of a weapon, and offenses involving marihuana.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04003

Introduced
1/31/25  
Establishes the "Safe Staffing for Hospital Care Act"; establishes minimum staffing levels for various health care workers in different health care facilities; requires submission of staffing plans; prohibits most mandatory overtime.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04004

Introduced
1/31/25  
Provides that a mortgage investing institution that maintains a mortgage on any real property in the state of New York shall give ten days written notice prior to requiring payment of an increase in the amount of escrow if the dollar amount of such increase is more than five percent of the total monthly payment; provides that no service charge shall be imposed for the giving of such notice; defines that term "mortgage investing institutions" as any banking organization or other entity engaged in the business of offering mortgage financing to the public or investing in mortgages.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04005

Introduced
1/31/25  
Requires gluten cross-contamination safeguards in food establishments owned, operated or leased by any department or agency of the state.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04006

Introduced
1/31/25  
Provides that conviction of assault on a social services worker which prevents them from performing a lawful duty is a felony.