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New York State Senator

Luis Sepulveda

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New York State Senator

Luis Sepulveda 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 12)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00401

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes the "tenant opportunity to purchase act"; prevents the displacement of middle and lower-income tenants in New York and preserves affordable housing by providing an opportunity for tenants to own or remain renters in the properties in which they reside.
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New York Senate Bill S00404

Introduced
1/8/25  
Prohibits the search, with or without a warrant, of geolocation and keyword data of a group of people who are under no individual suspicion of having committed a crime, but rather are defined by having been at a given location at a given time or searched particular words, phrases, character strings, or websites.
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New York Senate Bill S00406

Introduced
1/8/25  
Permits an exception from registration for nonresident pharmacies in cases of a specific patient need or a declared public health emergency under certain conditions.
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New York Senate Bill S00410

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Provides that the court shall not reduce jury awards as excessive in employment discrimination actions unless the court finds exceptional circumstances which compel the conclusion that the jury was influenced by partiality, prejudice, mistake or corruption.
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New York Senate Bill S00413

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
3/24/25  
Makes the release of any claim by an employee, or independent contractor who is a natural person, against an employer, unenforceable if, as a condition of such resolution, the employee or independent contractor is prohibited from applying for, accepting, or engaging in future employment with such employer, or any entity or entities related to such employer.
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New York Senate Bill S00416

Introduced
1/8/25  
Enacts the "keep police radio public act"; ensures that, except for sensitive information, all radio communications are accessible to emergency services organizations and professional journalists.
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New York Senate Bill S00427

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires chain restaurants to display an added sugars warning next to or directly under the name of each food item with high added sugars content wherever such food item is listed on a menu, menu board, or food tag, and by any self-serve dispensing point at which such food item is dispensed.
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New York Senate Bill S00428

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Requires chain restaurants to place an icon on menus next to food items that have a high content of sodium.
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New York Senate Bill S00429

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
5/13/25  
Authorizes the state inspector general to receive and investigate complaints of sexual assault in correctional facilities and other places operated by the department of corrections and community supervision for the confinement of persons; requires the state inspector general to establish protocol and procedures for such reports and investigations.
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New York Senate Bill S00430

Introduced
1/8/25  
Moves from the Office of Court Administration (OCA) to the Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) responsibility for certifying, establishing and implementing standards for pretrial services agencies of the state.
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New York Senate Bill S00440

Introduced
1/8/25  
Relates to voting rights and access for incarcerated individuals; authorizes polling places to be available at correctional facilities and local facilities; requires such facilities to provide persons detained or confined in such facilities access to register to vote or apply for an absentee ballot; requires voting information to be included in the inmate handbook.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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New York Senate Bill S00464

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
3/3/25  
Establishes an assumption of the inadmissibility of evidence of a defendant's creative or artistic expression against such defendant in a criminal proceeding; requires the proffering party to affirmatively prove that the evidence is admissible by clear and convincing evidence.