New York State Senator

Michelle Hinchey 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 29)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03276

Introduced
1/24/25  
Provides for liability of the state to any person who suffers damage as a result of a defect in a state highway.
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New York Senate Bill S03293

Introduced
1/24/25  
Requires stretch limousines to be equipped with roll-over protection devices such as cages or pillars and anti-intrusion bars for the purpose of protecting rear compartment passengers.
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New York Senate Bill S03343

Introduced
1/27/25  
Requires broadband providers to offer high speed broadband service to certain low-income consumers at a cost of not more than five dollars per month.
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New York Senate Bill S03359

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Expands health care services provided by telehealth to include services delivered through a facility licensed under article twenty-eight of the public health law that is eligible to be designated or has received a designation as a federally qualified health center, including those facilities that are also licensed under article thirty-one or article thirty-two of the mental hygiene law.
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New York Senate Bill S03360

Introduced
1/27/25  
Permits a close friend to make an anatomical gift of a decedent's body.
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New York Senate Bill S03394

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Engrossed
6/13/25  
Enacts the "ceasing repeated and extremely egregious predatory (CREEP) behavior act"; provides for the issuance of anti-stalking orders.
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New York Senate Bill S03397

Introduced
1/27/25  
Enacts the "faith-based affordable housing act" for development on residential land; defines terms; provides that each village, town, and city shall allow the construction and occupation of residential buildings on any covered site up to the specified densities; provides that all residential buildings constructed pursuant to this section in a town, village, or city with fewer than one million inhabitants shall set aside twenty percent of the residential floor area for households earning an average of eighty percent of area median income; outlines the densities for New York city; makes related provisions.
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New York Senate Bill S03406

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Engrossed
3/17/25  
Expands remedies for violations of New York state uniform fire prevention and building code.
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New York Senate Bill S03415

Introduced
1/27/25  
Establishes the universal child care act to provide for the establishment and funding of universal child care in the state of New York; establishes a universal child care taskforce to help implement universal child care in the state and repeals certain provisions of the social services law relating thereto; establishes the permanent child care workforce pay equity fund; establishes a universal child care public option pilot program to provide universal child care in at least twenty locations throughout the state; makes an appropriation therefor.
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New York Senate Bill S03425

Introduced
1/27/25  
Establishes the New York Health program, a comprehensive system of access to health insurance for New York state residents; provides for administrative structure of the plan; provides for powers and duties of the board of trustees, the scope of benefits, payment methodologies and care coordination; establishes the New York Health Trust Fund which would hold monies from a variety of sources to be used solely to finance the plan; enacts provisions relating to financing of New York Health, including a payroll assessment, similar to the Medicare tax; establishes a temporary commission on implementation of the plan; provides for collective negotiations by health care providers with New York Health.
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New York Senate Bill S03456

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Establishes the climate corporate data accountability act requiring certain business entities within the state to annually disclose scope 1, scope 2 and scope 3 emissions; establishes the climate accountability and emissions disclosure fund.
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New York Senate Bill S03458

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Report Pass
3/4/25  
Engrossed
6/5/25  
Refer
6/5/25  
Provides that beginning in the 2026-2027 academic year, certain graduate students shall be required to pay 25% of all current and future mandatory university fees; provides that in the 2027-2028 academic year and thereafter, no mandatory university fees shall be charged, with the exclusion of the graduate student association student activity fee.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03476

Introduced
1/27/25  
Enacts the bucks for boilers act, which creates a program to aid in transition of housing units to electric heat pumps and other high energy efficiency upgrades.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03485

Introduced
1/27/25  
Relates to prescription drug formulary coverage for interchangeable biologics and biosimilars.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03486

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Engrossed
6/6/25  
Refer
6/6/25  
Relates to providing information to patients and the public on hospital rule-based exclusions; requires the commissioner of health to collect from each hospital a list of its hospital rule-based exclusions and publish such information on the department's website.