New York State Senator

Michelle Hinchey 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 19)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00461

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Prohibits the use in an industrial plant of any product or substance that contains perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, including vats, conveyor belts, molds, ovens, pans, pots, chemicals used as mold releasers, lubricants, seals and coatings.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00514

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Relates to the mandatory coverage of hearing aids by insurers and other organizations.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00528

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Report Pass

1/28/25

Relates to the salaries of certain teachers and aides employed by boards of cooperative educational services; puts limits on certain administrative and clerical expenses.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00639

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Relates to special provisions for the operation of bicycles when approaching stop signs and traffic-control signals including steady circular red signals and red arrow signals.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00665

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Establishes a state SNAP minimum benefit program to provide a minimum amount of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits that is higher than the amount of federal SNAP benefits.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00591

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Report Pass

2/11/25

Permits a school food authority to attribute moneys spent on purchases of food products from New York state farmers, growers, producers or processors made for its school breakfast program to the thirty percent of costs for school breakfast, snack and lunch service programs.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00592

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Report Pass

2/4/25

Engrossed

5/6/25

Refer

5/6/25

Establishes the New York state youth in agriculture and entrepreneurship summer employment program to provide students with the opportunity to be educated on the agricultural industry and alternative career paths and to provide agricultural work experience and entrepreneurship work experience.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00593

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Engrossed

3/3/25

Refer

3/3/25

Includes certain land that is owned or rented as a farm operation for the production for sale of crops, livestock or livestock products as land used in agricultural production.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00594

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Report Pass

2/11/25

Requires all public school districts, charter schools and non-public schools in the state that participate in the national school lunch program or school breakfast program as provided in the national child nutrition act to serve breakfast and lunch at no cost to the student.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00595

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Report Pass

3/3/25

Engrossed

6/11/25

Refer

6/11/25

Establishes the small rental housing development initiative to provide funding to eligible applicants to construct small rental housing developments in eligible areas.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00596

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Engrossed

5/13/25

Refer

5/13/25

Engrossed

5/29/25

Provides a rebuttable presumption relating to recertification as a minority and women-owned business enterprise if there is no change in the ownership of the enterprise and no material change in the nature or management of the enterprise from the time of approval of the previous minority and women-owned business enterprise certification.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00597

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Report Pass

1/21/25

Engrossed

6/10/25

Refer

6/10/25

Establishes the "small water utility transparency act"; requires the public service commission and the department of environmental conservation to conduct audits of certain private water companies; requires certain private water companies which are under certain investigations to file public updates on the status of compliance with such orders.

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

Engrossed

6/6/25

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.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00599

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Establishes a farm-to-school food service reimbursement program for school districts which have purchased at least thirty percent of their total food products, including both dairy and non-dairy products, for their food service programs from New York state farmers, growers, producers or processors, based upon the number of federally reimbursable meals served to students under such program agreements entered into by the commissioner and such districts.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00600

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Engrossed

4/30/25

Refer

4/30/25

Requires certain municipal planning boards and zoning boards of appeals to receive at least one hour of environmentally conscious planning training annually.

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