New York State Senator

Kristen Gonzalez Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05537

Introduced
2/24/25  
Prohibits mobile sports wagering operators and platforms from sending push notifications or text message notifications.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05668

Introduced
2/27/25  
Imposes liability for misleading, incorrect, contradictory or harmful information to a user by a chatbot that results in financial loss or other demonstrable harm.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05542

Introduced
2/24/25  
Establishes the professional practice of community midwifery; defines as the management in the home, birth center, or community setting, of normal pregnancies, child birth, and postpartum care, including newborn evaluation, resuscitation and referral for infants; sets requirements for license and practice.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05623

Introduced
2/26/25  
Relates to the right to unemployment benefits based on employment with certain educational institutions, including the state university of New York, the city university of New York and public community colleges; clarifies the meaning of certain terms relating to such rights to unemployment benefits.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05674

Introduced
2/27/25  
Establishes the New York State social housing development authority as a public benefit corporation to increase the supply of permanently affordable housing in the state through the acquisition of land and renovation or rehabilitation of existing real property, and through the construction of new, permanently affordable housing.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05680

Introduced
2/27/25  
Provides notice of the death of an incarcerated individual occurring in the custody of the department of corrections and community supervision; requires the department to promptly notify the next kin and any other person designated as the representative of any incarcerated individual whose death takes place during custody.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05681

Introduced
2/27/25  
Relates to second felony drug offenders.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05684

Introduced
2/27/25  
Relates to returnable bottles; adds noncarbonated soft drinks, certain noncarbonated fruit or vegetable juices, coffee and tea beverages, carbonated fruit beverages and cider to the definition of "beverage"; provides that beginning April 1, 2027, the handling fee will be six cents for each beverage container accepted by a deposit initiator from a dealer or operator of a redemption center; directs the multi-agency bottle bill fraud investigation team to submit a report on findings of pervasive bottle redemption fraud in New York state.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05775

Introduced
2/28/25  
Suspends the registration of a vehicle which has been documented five times within an eighteen month period by a photo violation monitoring device for failure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic-control indications for a period of ninety days.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05816

Introduced
3/3/25  
Establishes the homeless protection act which designates certain offenses against homeless persons as hate crimes; includes the definition of homelessness.