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 S01937

Introduced
1/14/25  
Authorizes municipalities in the county of Rockland to add unpaid housing code violation penalties, costs and fines to such municipalities' annual tax levy in accordance with applicable law.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01946

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Relates to the expungement of syringe convictions of criminally possessing a hypodermic instrument.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01992

Introduced
1/14/25  
Establishes the "New York public banking act"; authorizes municipal and other local governments to form and control public banks through the ownership of capital stock or other ownership interests, and to loan or grant public funds or lend public credit to such public banks for the public purposes of achieving cost savings, strengthening local economies, supporting community economic development, and addressing infrastructure and housing needs for localities.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01982

Introduced
1/14/25  
Relates to the completion of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01983

Introduced
1/14/25  
Relates to the definition of tuition for children with handicapping conditions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01984

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Engrossed
3/24/25  
Directs the commissioner to publicly publish an annual report on the environmental radiation surveillance program and analyze such report showing trends and cumulative impact, as well as notify other relevant agencies if contamination has exceeded EPA standards for maximum amounts of contamination allowed in drinking water or food.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01985

Introduced
1/14/25  
Requires police officers to take temporary custody of firearms for not less than one hundred twenty hours when responding to reports of family violence.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01986

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Extends the time period from eighteen years to twenty-five years that a school shall be guaranteed recovery of energy performance contract costs from energy savings incurred by school districts over that time period.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01987

Introduced
1/14/25  
Requires hospitals to provide medically supervised detoxification services to all patients requiring such services; provides, that if the hospital is at ninety percent capacity or greater, such hospital shall connect the patient to an alternative facility within such patient's network to access such medically supervised detoxification services without any increased risk to the health or life of the patient.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01988

Introduced
1/14/25  
Establishes a retirement benefit review panel.