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 S06054

Introduced
3/5/25  
Relates to establishing the New York state council on mental health emergency and crisis response to make recommendations on topics including but not limited to: identifying best practices for response to mental health crises; initiatives to increase training opportunities and participation of mental health professionals, and other qualified individuals as members of mobile crisis outreach teams; identify training needs and methods to improve diversion from hospitalization after response from a mobile crisis outreach team; identify the need for establishing mobile crisis outreach teams in each region of the state and accessing alternatives to hospitalization; public education and outreach on the benefit of mobile crisis outreach teams and how to access their services; and any other recommendation deemed appropriate by the council.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06055

Introduced
3/5/25  
Relates to implementing equal employment opportunity and affirmative action for classified civil service positions in the service of the state; requires that each agency have a full-time affirmative action officer who reports directly to the agency head.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06056

Introduced
3/5/25  
Requires employers to provide up to ten additional days of unpaid leave for absences when the employee or employee's family member has been the victim of domestic violence, a family offense, sexual offense, stalking or human trafficking upon the employee's request for reasons related to such offense or offenses.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06057

Introduced
3/5/25  
Requires the same benefits and services for post-traumatic stress disorder for emergency dispatchers and correction officers as are afforded police and firefighters.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06058

Introduced
3/5/25  
Relates to the use of body-worn cameras by police officers; requires the department of environmental conservation and the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation establish a program to provide and require officers to wear body-worn cameras while on patrol.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06059

Introduced
3/5/25  
Relates to creating tax parity by imposing an eight and one-half percent tax on all combative sport event ticket sales.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06060

Introduced
3/5/25  
Relates to the timing of proceedings against a body or an officer.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06061

Introduced
3/5/25  
Relates to establishing the COVID-19 children scholarship; provides that children whose parent, primary caretaker or sibling died or was disabled as a result of contracting COVID-19 shall be eligible for such scholarship.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06062

Introduced
3/5/25  
Relates to jurisdiction over police discipline; provides that the civilian complaint review board and the police commissioner shall have concurrent jurisdiction over the discipline of the New York city police department and of the police force of the department.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06063

Introduced
3/5/25  
Prohibits the investment of certain public funds with the Trump organization; directs the comptroller to take appropriate action to sell, redeem, divest or withdraw any investment held in such organization.