New York State Senator

Kevin Parker Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04465

Introduced
2/5/25  
Restricts consecutive hours of work for health care workers except in the case of certain emergencies and surgical procedures.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04474

Introduced
2/5/25  
Directs the office of temporary and disability assistance to promulgate rules and regulations requiring quarterly inspections of homeless shelters.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04513

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Engrossed
4/22/25  
Requires applicants for major projects located near a disadvantaged community to submit an enhanced public participation plan.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04653

Introduced
2/10/25  
Enacts the "television subscriber choice act" to enhance consumer choice and ensure that multichannel video programming distributors have the flexibility to offer programming packages that best meet the needs and preferences of their subscribers; requires that a video programmer shall offer each channel for license to a multichannel video programming distributor without requiring channel bundling requirements as a condition of carriage of such channel; makes it unlawful for a video programmer to demand unreasonable fees or other financial obligations for channel carriage; defines terms; makes related provisions.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04590

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Relates to establishing the New York state grid modernization commission; provides the commission shall conduct a study of research, development and demonstrations of electric grid modernization and shall issue such report to the state energy planning board for consideration in the state energy plan.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04651

Introduced
2/10/25  
Establishes an economy-wide cap and invest program to support greenhouse gas emissions reductions in the state by setting a maximum allowable amount of greenhouse gas emissions by covered entities and regulating the sale or auction of greenhouse gas emissions allowances to covered entities.