New York State Senator

Kristen Gonzalez Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00448

Introduced
1/8/25  
Enacts the "Empowering People in Rights Enforcement (EMPIRE) Worker Protection Act"; relates to the delegation of state enforcement authority to private actors; authorizes an affected employee, whistleblower, representative organization or an organizational deputy to initiate a public enforcement action on behalf of the commissioner for certain provisions of the labor law, or any regulation promulgated thereunder.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00449

Introduced
1/8/25  
Requires the board of education and the trustees or sole trustee of every school district to establish policies and procedures regarding the treatment of transgender or gender non-conforming students.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00454

Introduced
1/8/25  
Relates to parole eligibility for certain incarcerated persons age fifty-five or older if they have served at least fifteen years of their sentence or sentences.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00527

Introduced
1/8/25  
Relates to revisions to charter schools that would expand the grades served at such charter schools.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00551

Introduced
1/8/25  
Requires child protective services to orally and in writing disclose certain information to parents and caretakers who are the subject of a child protective services investigation; requires such oral and written disclosure to contain certain information regarding the rights of the person under investigation.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00571

Introduced
1/8/25  
Prohibits landlords, lessors, sub-lessors and grantors from demanding brokers' fees from a tenant.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00574

Introduced
1/8/25  
Establishes the end toxic home flipping act; imposes a tax on the transfer of certain residential properties which are sold within two years of the prior conveyance of such property; exempts certain purchases of residential properties from mortgage recording taxes; imposes a tax on the transfer of certain properties in the city of New York which are sold for one million dollars or more.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00598

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/21/25  
Engrossed
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Establishes a state frontotemporal degeneration registry; defines terms; requires every physician, nurse practitioner, nurse physician assistant and general hospital that diagnoses or is treating a patient diagnosed with an FTD disorder to give notice to the department; requires certain information to be confidential; sets forth the duties of the commissioner of health; requires the department of health to create and maintain a webpage.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00606

Introduced
1/8/25  
Establishes the "Not on our dime!: Ending New York funding of Israeli settler violence act" to prohibit not-for-profit corporations from engaging in unauthorized support of Israeli settlement activity; allows for recovery of a civil penalty by the state attorney general; creates a private right of action for violations.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00614

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
4/8/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Provides presumptive eligibility for medical assistance benefits for persons released from correctional facilities for at least sixty days following release; provides for enrollment of such individuals upon release upon application, if eligible.