New York State Senator

Michelle Hinchey 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 26)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02033

Introduced

1/15/25

Refer

1/15/25

Refer

1/31/25

Requires parity in the mental and physical health treatment of the residents of New York state; provides that both mental and physical health "will be matters of public concern and provision therefor shall be made by the state and by such of its subdivisions".

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02040

Introduced

1/15/25

Refer

1/15/25

Engrossed

3/10/25

Refer

3/10/25

Requires transmitters of money to provide a warning which informs consumers of certain fraudulent activities that may occur.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02057

Introduced

1/15/25

Refer

1/15/25

Engrossed

6/12/25

Refer

6/12/25

Enacts the "beauty justice act"; provides for the regulation of ingredients in personal care products and cosmetics; prohibits the sale of personal care products and cosmetic products containing certain restricted products.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02058

Introduced

1/15/25

Refer

1/15/25

Report Pass

3/11/25

Report Pass

5/13/25

Engrossed

6/9/25

Refer

6/9/25

Requires each institution within the state university of New York and the city university of New York offering in-person student instruction to have at least one vending machine making emergency contraception available for purchase.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02082

Introduced

1/15/25

Refer

1/15/25

Report Pass

2/11/25

Provides for a working families tax credit; directs quarterly prepayment of the credit; provides for a sliding reduction in the credit for incomes which exceed a certain threshold.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02085

Introduced

1/15/25

Refer

1/15/25

Establishes new targets for offshore wind electricity generation; includes the requirements that there is at least 15 gigawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by 2040, at least 18 gigawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by 2045 and at least 20 gigawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by 2050.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02164

Introduced

1/15/25

Refer

1/15/25

Requires health insurance policies to include coverage of optional anesthesia for certain contraceptive and menstrual health procedures including, but not limited to, loop electrosurgical excision procedure, colposcopy, ablation, and intrauterine device insertion.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02165

Introduced

1/15/25

Refer

1/15/25

Prohibits hospital interference with patient care where the practitioner is acting in good faith and within the scope of their practice; defines emergency medical conditions; requires appropriate medical screening and stabilizing treatment of persons in an emergency department, including pregnant persons, or appropriate transfer.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02233

Introduced

1/16/25

Refer

1/16/25

Provides for a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars for each offense committed, or by imprisonment for not more than one hundred eighty days or by both such fine and imprisonment for a class A misdemeanor where a stretch limousine has failed an inspection but an operator still operates such vehicle; provides for the seizure and redemption of unlawfully operated and unsafe commercial motor vehicles by an officer; requires such vehicle information to be entered into the New York statewide police information network as an impounded vehicle; makes related provisions.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02235

Introduced

1/16/25

Refer

1/16/25

Prohibits and regulates the discovery and disclosure of immigration status; prohibits police officers, peace officers, school resource officers, probation agencies, state entities, state employees, and municipal corporations from questioning individuals regarding their citizenship or immigration status; regulates the disclosure of information relating to immigration status.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02240

Introduced

1/16/25

Refer

1/16/25

Removes the lifetime ban on jury duty for convicted felons.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02243

Introduced

1/16/25

Refer

1/16/25

Requires highway projects that receive state funding to include the installation of broadband conduits suitable for fiber optic cables or wireless facilities that support broadband services; provides for access to such conduits on a competitively neutral and nondiscriminatory basis, for a charge not to exceed a cost-based rate.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02330

Introduced

1/16/25

Refer

1/16/25

Imposes an excise tax on sugary drinks; establishes a community health equity fund to utilize the revenues generated by such tax.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02062

Introduced

1/15/25

Refer

1/15/25

Refer

2/5/25

Provides that all persons have the right to grow, raise, harvest, produce and consume the food of their own choosing for their own nourishment, sustenance, bodily health and well-being, and the right to be free from hunger, malnutrition, starvation and the endangerment of life from the scarcity of or lack of access to nourishing food.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02182

Introduced

1/15/25

Refer

1/15/25

Report Pass

1/21/25

Engrossed

1/27/25

Refer

1/27/25

Engrossed

5/14/25

Refer

5/14/25

Engrossed

6/5/25

Permits the rendering of an estimated bill from a utility corporation or municipality under certain circumstances; requires each utility corporation and municipality within six months to submit to the commission a model for the calculation of and procedures for estimated bills that incorporates best practices and technology and accounts for any barriers to the use of actual meter readings.

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