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New York State Senator

Nathalia Fernandez

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New York State Senator

Nathalia Fernandez Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06799

Introduced
3/24/25  
Prohibits a court from bifurcating the primary elections for members of the state and county committees and assembly district leaders and associate district leaders and all other party positions to be elected and all nominations for public office required to be made at a primary election in such year, except presidential primaries.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06806

Introduced
3/24/25  
Requires school districts and charter schools to establish a task force to make recommendations on model curriculum or instruction on the political, economic, and social contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual people, in an appropriate place in the curriculum of middle school and high school students.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06815

Introduced
3/25/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Provides that it shall be a defense to any prosecution for a violation of a bus lane restriction pursuant to a bus rapid transit program when an employee of the metropolitan transportation authority is performing authorized duties on behalf of such authority and is operating an authorized employer motor vehicle in the bus lane at the time of the violation and conducting lawful business or providing service to an official metropolitan transportation authority vehicle or personnel while in a bus lane.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06870

Introduced
3/25/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Engrossed
4/30/25  
Relates to conducting a study on the access of state public libraries and library systems to capital funding; provides the department of education, in consultation with the dormitory authority, the office of the state comptroller, and the public library systems of the state, shall assess and report on the capital needs of such public library systems, including public libraries and association libraries.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06891

Introduced
3/26/25  
Reforms the education requirements for persons who want to become certified public accountants; provides alternative pathways to being certified as certified public accountants.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06904

Introduced
3/26/25  
Provides that when a housing accommodation has been vacated after continuous tenancy or occupancy of ten years or more prior to vacancy, and the owner can demonstrate restoration of the unit, the new legal regulated rent shall be the rent agreed to by the owner and first tenant after such restoration and reserved in a lease or other rental agreement; makes related provisions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06914

Introduced
3/26/25  
Establishes the rental assistance payment standard pilot program where the owner of a housing accommodation shall be entitled to charge and collect a rent equal to the maximum amount that the rental assistance program prescribes for like housing accommodations, subject to rent reasonableness calculations.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06956

Introduced
3/27/25  
Refer
3/27/25  
Report Pass
4/8/25  
Relates to increasing the earnings limitation for positions of public service; increases the earnings limitation from $35,000 to $50,000 in 2025 and thereafter.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06976

Introduced
3/27/25  
Refer
3/27/25  
Establishes the New York road salt reduction council and the New York road salt reduction advisory committee to provide a mechanism for interagency cooperation and coordination to implement the recommendations of the report of the Adirondack road salt reduction task force.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S06978

Introduced
3/27/25  
Removes statute of limitations for certain civil actions related to child sexual assault offenses.