New York State Senator

Michelle Hinchey 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 41)

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Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S07898

Introduced
5/13/25  
Requires certain construction project contracts with a value of greater than or equal to five million dollars to include siting of solar energy arrays, major renewable energy facilities, or major electric transmission facilities.
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New York Senate Bill S07899

Introduced
5/13/25  
Refer
5/13/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Provides that priority shall be given to certain sites when developing renewable energy generating projects; defines "agrivoltaics".
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New York Senate Bill S07995

Introduced
5/15/25  
Authorizes the county of Ulster to establish an affordable housing fund to provide financial assistance to first-time homebuyers, production of affordable housing, emergency housing, or supportive housing for sale or rent, rehabilitation of existing buildings for conversion to affordable housing, emergency housing, or supportive housing, acquisition of interests in real property in existing housing units, and the provision of housing counseling services.
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New York Senate Bill S08021

Introduced
5/15/25  
Refer
5/15/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Requires the commissioner of the division of criminal justice services, the superintendent of the division of state police, and the commissioner of the department of corrections and community supervision and the person in charge of every state law enforcement agency to adopt and implement a tattoo police for all members of such law enforcement agency who are designated as police officers, peace officers and applicants for employment in such positions.
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New York Senate Bill S08188

Introduced
5/20/25  
Authorizes the town of Rhinebeck, county of Dutchess, to establish hotel and motel taxes within such town; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
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New York Senate Bill S08189

Introduced
5/20/25  
Authorizes a microbusiness licensee to change their license type to an adult use cannabis cultivation license, upon the approval of the office of cannabis management; directs the office to promulgate regulations allowing a microbusiness licensee to be licensed and operate without opening a retail storefront.
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New York Senate Bill S08213

Introduced
5/21/25  
Requires that any proposed capital expenditure to be considered in any matter affecting a major change in rates must be described by the utility and shall include the purpose, cost, and benefits to the ratepayers and shall be posted on the PSC website.
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New York Senate Bill S08217

Introduced
5/21/25  
Requires an operator of a covered platform with at least one million users to ensure that its covered platform provides a process to allow law enforcement agencies to contact such covered platform, which shall include making available a staffed hotline for the purposes of receiving and responding to questions about search warrants, acknowledging receipt of search warrants, and providing status updates on warrant compliance, and which shall provide continuous availability of such process; provides that an operator of a covered platform with at least one million users shall comply with a search warrant within seventy-two hours of receipt under certain circumstances; provides that a court may extend the time for compliance with a search warrant under certain circumstances.
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New York Senate Bill S08243

Introduced
5/27/25  
Provides that any time the produce security fund exceeds six million dollars on the one hundred twentieth day prior to the commencement of the next licensing year, the commissioner of agriculture and markets shall suspend the collection of the security fund fee; makes related provisions.
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New York Senate Bill S08264

Introduced
5/28/25  
Authorizes funds in the New York state cannabis revenue fund to be used for reasonable costs of implementing track and tracing of product programs.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S07914

Introduced
5/13/25  
Establishes an LGBTQ+ youth and young adult suicide prevention task force; provides for the number of members, manner of appointment and the topics to be reviewed.
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New York Senate Bill S07954

Introduced
5/14/25  
Relates to licensure requirements for fiscal intermediaries under the consumer directed personal assistance program.
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New York Senate Bill S08076

Introduced
5/15/25  
Directs the commissioner of education to conduct a study of recess held in elementary schools in kindergarten through grade six.
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New York Senate Bill S08096

Introduced
5/15/25  
Prevents public employers from diminishing health insurance benefits provided to retirees and their Medicare-eligible dependents or the contributions such employer makes for such health insurance coverage below the level of such benefits or contributions made on behalf of such retirees and their dependents by such public employer.
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New York Senate Bill S08221

Introduced
5/23/25  
Enacts into law components of legislation that relate to live event ticket sales; establishes an annual professional reseller renewal fee; requires professional ticket resellers to provide their New York state ticket reseller license number as a condition of utilizing an online resale marketplace to resell tickets (Part A); provides criteria for when a purchaser may obtain a full refund of the amount paid for a ticket (Part B); relates to resale requirements for tickets; requires that if a licensee or other ticket reseller doesn't have possession of the ticket, then they shall have a written contract to obtain the offered ticket at a certain price from a person or entity in possession of the ticket or from a person or entity who has a contractual right to obtain such ticket, and tickets to the event have been placed on sale by the venue or entity hosting the event or its authorized agent before the licensee or reseller can advertise the sale of the tickets (Part C); relates to unlawful charges in connection with tickets; permits reasonable charges for costs actually rendered or otherwise in connection to customer support, technological and software infrastructure, and actual operational costs for sales away from the box office; defines terms (Part D); relates to the availability of tickets for sale to the general public; defines a term (Part E); relates to the resale of tickets included in a subscription or season ticket package (Part F); extends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to tickets to places of entertainment (Part G).