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New York State Senator

Nathalia Fernandez

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New York State Senator

Nathalia Fernandez 2023-2024 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 26)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2023-2024 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00351

Introduced
1/4/23  
Refer
1/4/23  
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 2023-2024 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00372

Introduced
1/4/23  
Refer
1/4/23  
Relates to providing secondary school pupils and adults in career education programs access to programs/courses sufficient to comprise a career major in electric vehicle maintenance and repair; establishes the working group on electric vehicle career education achievement.
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New York 2023-2024 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00378

Introduced
1/4/23  
Refer
1/4/23  
Report Pass
1/31/23  
Refer
1/3/24  
Relates to establishing a renewable hydrogen incentive and financing program to engage stakeholders to design and implement a competitive program for renewable hydrogen production for the purpose of meeting the state's clean energy and greenhouse emissions reductions targets.
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New York 2023-2024 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00382

Introduced
1/4/23  
Refer
1/4/23  
Relates to directing the department of health to remove the pharmacy benefit from the managed care benefit package; provides the pharmacy benefit under the fee for service program.
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New York 2023-2024 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00399

Introduced
1/4/23  
Refer
1/4/23  
Report Pass
5/23/23  
Refer
1/3/24  
Enacts the safer consumption services pilot program act which provides for the establishment of a pilot program to provide overdose prevention center pilot programs.
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New York 2023-2024 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00462

Introduced
1/4/23  
Refer
1/4/23  
Requires the department of education to study and report on the self-identified ethnicity and multilingual status of all licensed social workers and provide such report to the governor and legislature no later than one year after the effective date of this act.
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New York 2023-2024 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00463

Introduced
1/4/23  
Refer
1/4/23  
Requires school districts to establish a language assistance program for limited English proficient parents of students; requires record keeping and annual reporting; permits districts to jointly establish such programs.
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New York 2023-2024 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00470

Introduced
1/4/23  
Refer
1/4/23  
Relates to requiring state and local law enforcement officers to identify themselves to the public during law enforcement activities.
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New York 2023-2024 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00488

Introduced
1/4/23  
Refer
1/4/23  
Relates to enacting the New York state kratom consumer protection act; relates to labeling and other requirements for the sale of kratom products.
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New York 2023-2024 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00502

Introduced
1/4/23  
Refer
1/4/23  
Refer
1/3/24  
Report Pass
5/15/24  
Engrossed
6/4/24  
Relates to the expungement of syringe convictions of criminally possessing a hypodermic instrument.
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New York 2023-2024 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00541

Introduced
1/4/23  
Refer
1/4/23  
Enacts the "Empowering People in Rights Enforcement (EMPIRE) Worker Protection Act"; relates to the delegation of state enforcement authority to private actors; authorizes an affected employee, whistleblower, representative organization or an organizational deputy to initiate a public enforcement action on behalf of the commissioner for certain provisions of the labor law, or any regulation promulgated thereunder.
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New York 2023-2024 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00549

Introduced
1/5/23  
Refer
1/5/23  
Refer
1/3/24  
Provides that any claimant who has received certain unemployment benefits to which they were not entitled shall not be held liable for the amounts overpaid provided certain conditions exist; directs the department of labor to provide claimants who have previously been denied waivers with applications for individual waivers; repeals certain provisions of law relating thereto.
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New York 2023-2024 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00562

Introduced
1/5/23  
Refer
1/5/23  
Report Pass
1/24/23  
Enacts the "all-electric building act"; provides that the state energy conservation construction code shall prohibit infrastructure, building systems, or equipment used for the combustion of fossil fuels in new construction statewide no later than December 31, 2023 if the building is less than seven stories and July 1, 2027 if the building is seven stories or more.
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New York 2023-2024 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00568

Introduced
1/5/23  
Refer
1/5/23  
Report Pass
1/31/23  
Refer
1/3/24  
Relates to establishing the housing access voucher program; provides that the commissioner of the division of housing and community renewal shall implement a program of rental assistance in the form of housing vouchers for eligible individuals and families who are homeless or who face an imminent loss of housing; provides that the commissioner shall designate housing access voucher local administrators in the state to administer the program.
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New York 2023-2024 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00580

Introduced
1/5/23  
Refer
1/5/23  
Report Pass
1/31/23  
Engrossed
5/30/23  
Refer
5/30/23  
Engrossed
6/10/23  
Enrolled
10/13/23  
Chaptered
10/17/23  
Makes community violence prevention services available, to the extent permitted by federal law, to any Medicaid beneficiary who has received medical treatment for an injury sustained as a result of an act of community violence and has been referred by a certified or licensed health care provider or social services provider to receive community violence prevention services from a qualified violence prevention professional.