New York State Senator

Nathalia Fernandez 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 29)

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Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York Senate Bill S03057

Introduced
1/23/25  
Relates to the scope of responsibilities of the office of addiction services and supports; defines addiction professional.
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New York Senate Bill S03058

Introduced
1/23/25  
Requires nightlife establishments, sporting or event centers, theaters, concert venues, and amusement parks maintain a supply of opioid antagonists.
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New York Senate Bill S03191

Introduced
1/24/25  
Prohibits early voting on federal holidays; adds an additional day to the early voting period.
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New York Senate Bill S03195

Introduced
1/24/25  
Provides per diem rates of payment by governmental agencies for inpatient services provided by facilities designated by the federal department of health and human services as exempt extended neoplastic disease care hospitals.
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New York Senate Bill S03202

Introduced
1/24/25  
Prohibits accessing or distributing certain sexually explicit depictions of children; prohibits consent to such depictions by anyone under eighteen years of age; makes such crimes eligible for bail; includes certain crimes as sex offenses.
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New York Senate Bill S03203

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Report Pass
3/4/25  
Engrossed
5/20/25  
Relates to preserving access to affordable drugs; provides that an agreement resolving or settling, on a final or interim basis, a patent infringement claim, in connection with the sale of a pharmaceutical product, shall be presumed to have anticompetitive effects if a nonreference drug filer receives anything of value from another company asserting patent infringement and if the nonreference drug filer agrees to limit or forego research, development, manufacturing, marketing, or sales of the nonreference drug filer's product for any period of time.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York Senate Bill S03073

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Establishes a civil remedy for the protection of animals denied proper care by creating a special proceeding in the supreme court that will hold owners and caretakers liable if such animals under their care are mistreated.
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New York Senate Bill S03107

Introduced
1/23/25  
Establishes a school ventilation and energy efficiency assessment, repair and verification program to require each school to: obtain an HVAC Assessment Report performed by qualified testing personnel documenting the functionality of the existing system or lack thereof, and obtain a report from a mechanical engineer identifying any upgrades, replacements or other measures recommended to improve the functionality, health and safety and/or energy efficiency of the HVAC system; adjust, and, if necessary, repair existing building HVAC systems, and install or replace HVAC systems, if necessary, to ensure proper and efficient operation, as well as compliance with health and safety standards; obtain an HVAC Verification Report performed by qualified testing personnel documenting any upgrades, replacements, installations or any other work performed on the HVAC system functions as designed and/or in compliance with health and safety standards; install CO2 sensors in classrooms, assembly areas, kitchen or cafeteria areas or building office spaces to provide ongoing verification that proper ventilation is maintained during operation; makes related provisions.
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New York Senate Bill S03139

Introduced
1/23/25  
Establishes a statewide program to provide free SUNY, CUNY, and community college tuition to active volunteer firefighters, volunteer emergency medical services providers, and volunteer auxiliary police officers.
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New York Senate Bill S03144

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Requires accessible buses to be available within a service area measuring three miles from any bus line of the authority or its subsidiaries.
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New York Senate Bill S03146

Introduced
1/23/25  
Authorizes certain health care professionals licensed to practice in other jurisdictions to practice in this state.
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New York Senate Bill S03151

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Enacts the "cannabis adult-use transition act"; increases the number of members on the state cannabis advisory board from thirteen to seventeen voting appointed members; provides that an eligible registered organization shall be authorized as a registered organization adult-use cultivator processor distributor retail dispensary upon approval of an application to the office of cannabis management that must be available to such registered organizations no later than August first, two thousand twenty-five and remain available thereafter; provides that the office must approve or deny such application within thirty days of its submission or it shall be deemed approved; makes related provisions.
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New York Senate Bill S03154

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Directs the office of children and family services to establish Dolly Parton's statewide imagination library program for encouraging children from birth to five years of age, inclusive, to develop a love of reading and learning; directs the office of children and family services to promote the statewide development of local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; advance and strengthen local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs with the goal of increasing enrollment; recruit volunteers to assist in the development, promotion, and coordination of local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; solicit donations, gifts, and other funding to financially support local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; develop community engagement; develop, promote, and coordinate a public awareness campaign to make donors aware of the opportunity to donate to the affiliate programs and make the public aware of the opportunity to register eligible children to receive books through the program; administer the local match requirement and coordinate the collection and remittance of local program costs for books and mailing; and develop statewide marketing and communication plans; establishes the imagination library of New York fund.
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New York Senate Bill S03185

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Provides outpatient insurance coverage for non-opioid treatment of chronic pain including complementary and integrative treatments.
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New York Senate Bill S03214

Introduced
1/24/25  
Prohibits the sale of foods containing synthetic color additives in schools except under certain circumstances off and away from the premises or on premises at least a half hour after the end of the school day.