New York State Senator

Mario Mattera Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05868

Introduced
3/3/25  
Prohibits the diminution of health insurance benefits of public employee retirees and their dependents or reducing the employer's contributions for such insurance; defines employers to include the state, municipalities, school districts, and public authorities and commissions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05998

Introduced
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Report Pass
4/7/25  
Requires the court to consider a child's health and safety when making a decision regarding child custody and visitation; directs the court to review certain information as it relates to allegations of child abuse, domestic violence and child safety; requires the court to appoint an attorney to represent the child when credible allegations of serious risk to the child's safety have been made.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06233

Introduced
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Provides that for taxable years beginning on and after January first, two thousand twenty-five, a resident taxpayer who serves as an active volunteer firefighter or as a volunteer ambulance worker shall be allowed a credit against the tax imposed equal to eight hundred dollars; provides for a real property tax exemption under certain circumstances to an enrolled member of an incorporated volunteer fire company, fire department or incorporated voluntary ambulance service residing in such city, village, town, school district, special district, fire district or county.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06318

Introduced
3/10/25  
Requires instruction in arts and music education to be incorporated into curriculums for all public school students; requires school districts to ensure that appropriately certified teachers are providing such education; authorizes rules and regulations consistent with such provisions.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06437

Introduced
3/13/25  
Refer
3/13/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Provides for the transfer of service credit by a member of the New York city police pension fund into the New York city police pension fund.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06485

Introduced
3/14/25  
Relates to procedures relating to driving while ability impaired by drugs; defines impairment and intoxication; updates procedures for field testing of drivers suspected of being under the influence of drugs to include the use of oral/bodily fluid tests; provides that refusal to submit to such field tests is specified to be a traffic infraction; makes related provisions.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06559

Introduced
3/17/25  
Increases, at local option, real property tax exemptions for combat veterans who are 100% permanently disabled.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06640

Introduced
3/19/25  
Refer
3/19/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Engrossed
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Provides an option for beneficiaries of NYC transit authority members to receive a lump sum equal to the pension reserve where a member who is eligible for a service retirement dies prior to filing for retirement.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06671

Introduced
3/19/25  
Refer
3/19/25  
Authorizes a thirty year retirement benefit for certain members in Nassau county; provides a retirement allowance equal to 60 percent of a member's final average salary.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05932

Introduced
3/4/25  
Authorizes the town of Huntington to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands to the Huntington African American Museum.