New York State Senator

Peter Harckham Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01456

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Requires certain watercraft, aircrafts, and trains to use clean energy, including ensuring such vehicles are zero-emissions; requires NYSERDA to study zero-emission commercial vehicles, the use of renewable energy in publicly funded airports, and the use of sustainable aviation fuel; requires NYSERDA to administer a grant program to flying schools and clubs that install charging infrastructure.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01463

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Engrossed
4/28/25  
Enacts a mattress collection program; requires mattress producers to establish a plan for the convenient and cost-effective recycling of used mattresses.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01477

Introduced
1/10/25  
Relates to the purchase of claims by corporations or collection agencies; relates to the inference of an assignee's intent and purpose in taking an assignment of a claim against an obligor that is not an eligible obligor.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01527

Introduced
1/10/25  
Establishes sales tax exemptions for commercial energy storage systems equipment.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01528

Introduced
1/10/25  
Establishes a tax on carbon-based fuels.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01538

Introduced
1/10/25  
Provides optional disability coverage for county probation officers.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01544

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Establishes energy efficiency measures by the public service commission and NYSERDA including requiring utilities to hire and train employees who are from priority populations or living in areas designated as environmental justice communities.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01548

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Engrossed
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Restricts certain substances from being used in menstrual products.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01464

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Enacts the "packaging reduction and recycling infrastructure act" to require companies selling, offering for sale, or distributing packaging materials and products to register with a packaging reduction organization to develop a packaging reduction and recycling plan.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01514

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Report Pass
3/3/25  
Engrossed
3/4/25  
Empowers the commissioner of labor to issue stop-work orders against employers for misclassification of employees as independent contractors or for providing false, incomplete, or misleading information to an insurance company on the number of employees of such employer.