New York State Senator

Lea Webb Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05535

Introduced
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Engrossed
4/2/25  
Requires certain documents and forms to be provided in the twelve most common non-English languages spoken by limited English proficient immigrants of five years or less according to the American community survey, as published by the United States census bureau.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05539

Introduced
2/24/25  
Requires schools safety plans to include a cardiac emergency response plan that addresses the use of appropriate personnel and measures to respond to incidents involving any individual experiencing sudden cardiac arrest or similar life-threatening emergency on any school site owned or operated by a school or at a location of a school sponsored event.
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.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05556

Introduced
2/25/25  
Relates to gender indication on insurance claim forms; provides policies shall not exclude coverage if gender indication is different from sex assigned at birth or gender otherwise recorded.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05559

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Engrossed
3/20/25  
Creates, in addition to the existing sanction of criminal contempt of court, the remedies of labor law civil penalties and employee's right to bring civil action for unlawful discharge, penalty or discrimination on account of the exercise by an employee of a juror's right to be absent from employment by reason of jury service.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05591

Introduced
2/25/25  
Establishes an Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) leadership institute within the state university of New York as an initiative for Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) leaders in higher education with a mission to retain and grow from within SUNY a greater proportion of Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) professionals at SUNY campuses; creates an eight member advisory council.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05599

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Engrossed
3/20/25  
Places a cap on the amount that a rental vehicle company may charge a renter for refueling a rental vehicle; imposes a maximum fine for a violation of such cap on charges.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05600

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Engrossed
4/9/25  
Provides for a cap on the credit service charge computed and collected on a retail instalment contract.
NY

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 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.