New York State Senator

Nathalia Fernandez Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06319

Introduced
3/10/25  
Relates to motions to vacate judgment; authorizes filing motions to vacate judgment for a conviction that was subsequently decriminalized; authorizes motions to vacate judgment to be filed at any time after entry of a judgment obtained at trial or by plea.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06367

Introduced
3/11/25  
Extends the expiration date of free one day admission to the zoological park to December 31, 2030.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06400

Introduced
3/13/25  
Requires the commissioner of education to establish and enforce rules and regulations to incorporate at least a three credit course devoted to the instructional techniques necessary for effective literacy instruction which shall include delivering structured, systematic, explicit, evidence-based instruction aligned with the science of reading for prospective teachers.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06441

Introduced
3/13/25  
Refer
3/13/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Requires certain health insurance policies include coverage for services provided by pharmacists related to contraceptives.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06455

Introduced
3/14/25  
Requires homeless shelters to keep an opioid antagonist on hand at all times and trained personnel when required by when applicable law, regulation, code, or operating plan approved by a social services district or the commissioner otherwise requires employees to be at the premises, sets out the requirements for the training of those employees; develops a training plan for opioid overdoses in conjunction with a registered opioid overdose prevention program.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06485

Introduced
3/14/25  
Relates to procedures relating to driving while ability impaired by drugs; defines impairment and intoxication; updates procedures for field testing of drivers suspected of being under the influence of drugs to include the use of oral/bodily fluid tests; provides that refusal to submit to such field tests is specified to be a traffic infraction; makes related provisions.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06536

Introduced
3/17/25  
Withholds the governor's salary until the legislative passage of the budget occurs; provides such salary should be withheld if the budget has not passed prior to the first day of the fiscal year and shall not be paid until such passage occurs.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06630

Introduced
3/19/25  
Provides for increased participation in state contracts and subcontracts by certified minority and women-owned business enterprises; relates to certain performance and payment bond requirements.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06487

Introduced
3/14/25  
Empowers the council on the arts to designate Little Yemen as a cultural district.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06488

Introduced
3/14/25  
Provides that when approving proposals to enhance the existing benefits provided by a wetland or to create and maintain new wetland benefits in order to increase the likelihood that a proposed activity will meet the applicable standard for permit issuance, the mitigation may occur within the same watershed as the proposed project.