New York State Senator

Michelle Hinchey 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 27)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02331

Introduced
1/16/25  
Decriminalizes the possession of buprenorphine from certain crimes.
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New York Senate Bill S02332

Introduced
1/16/25  
Repeals managed long term care provisions for Medicaid recipients; establishes provisions for fully integrated plans for long term care including PACE and MAP plans.
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New York Senate Bill S02415

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Prohibits publicly owned treatment works from accepting wastewater associated with the exploration, delineation, development, or production of natural gas from high-volume hydraulic fracturing; provides exceptions.
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New York Senate Bill S02430

Introduced
1/17/25  
Requires that public schools provide instruction on climate change, including but not limited to identifying the causes and impacts of climate change on individuals, environments and communities, and learning to evaluate solutions.
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New York Senate Bill S02443

Introduced
1/17/25  
Authorizes industrial development agencies to provide technical and financial assistance to agricultural producers for products grown, harvested or produced within the state.
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New York Senate Bill S02508

Introduced
1/21/25  
Relates to conditional release for eligible offenders who complete post-secondary degrees or programs; provides release twelve months before the completion of the controlling minimum period of imprisonment for eligible offenders who complete post-secondary degrees or programs.
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New York Senate Bill S02533

Introduced
1/21/25  
Authorizes the dispensing of abortion medication under certain conditions; requires insurance policies providing coverage for contraception to provide coverage for abortion medication.
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New York Senate Bill S02536

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Engrossed
6/13/25  
Refer
6/13/25  
Ensures that construction and fabrication done off of a public work site for specific use only in a public work project be compensated at the prevailing wage rate.
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New York Senate Bill S02626

Introduced
1/21/25  
Increases the amount of residential solar tax credits.
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New York Senate Bill S02627

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Engrossed
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Establishes the homeowner protection program; provides that the department of law shall establish the homeowner protection program to ensure the availability of free housing counseling and legal services to homeowners for the purposes of mitigating threats to homeownership; provides that the department of law shall provide grants to eligible not-for-profit housing counseling organizations and legal services organizations to provide services under the program.
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New York Senate Bill S02638

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Prohibits proceeds from the auction or sale of carbon dioxide emission allowances pursuant to New York's participation in the regional greenhouse gas initiative (RGGI) from being transferred into the state general fund; provides that if such proceeds are transferred to the state general fund, they shall be used for the purposes directed by the RGGI.
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New York Senate Bill S02666

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Relates to the provision of breast pumps and related collection and storage materials to certain incarcerated nursing birth parents who are confined in or committed to an institution or local correctional facility with or without their child subject to specific time limitations; requires institutions and local correctional facilities to provide pumps and related materials to such incarcerated birth parents, but not beyond the date such child reaches twenty-four months of age except in limited circumstances related to parole; allows children to remain with their incarcerated birth parents in a correctional institution until twenty-four months of age, or longer in certain cases related to parole; requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to issue an annual report on data relating to incarcerated birth parents.
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New York Senate Bill S02667

Introduced
1/22/25  
Prohibits the use of restraints on incarcerated individuals during labor, absent extraordinary circumstances, and on pregnant persons during a custodial interrogation.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02402

Introduced
1/17/25  
Provides for a tax credit for certain persons relocating to the state to provide or receive reproductive care or gender-affirming care.
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New York Senate Bill S02669

Introduced
1/22/25  
Removes the director of the office of the aging from deciding resources and information concerning Alzheimer's disease and any other dementia related matters; leaves such decisions to the commissioner of health.