New York State Senator

Peter Harckham Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02131

Introduced
1/15/25  
Relates to securing payment of wages for work already performed; creates a lien remedy for all employees; provides grounds for attachment; relates to procedures where employees may hold shareholders of non-publicly traded corporations personally liable for wage theft; relates to rights for victims of wage theft to hold the ten members with the largest ownership interests in a company personally liable for wage theft.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02165

Introduced
1/15/25  
Prohibits hospital interference with patient care where the practitioner is acting in good faith and within the scope of their practice; defines emergency medical conditions; requires appropriate medical screening and stabilizing treatment of persons in an emergency department, including pregnant persons, or appropriate transfer.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02225

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Relates to modular construction work; provides that modular construction shall comply with any existing municipal licensing requirements for all electrical, plumbing, and fire suppression work.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02235

Introduced
1/16/25  
Prohibits and regulates the discovery and disclosure of immigration status; prohibits police officers, peace officers, school resource officers, probation agencies, state entities, state employees, and municipal corporations from questioning individuals regarding their citizenship or immigration status; regulates the disclosure of information relating to immigration status.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02240

Introduced
1/16/25  
Removes the lifetime ban on jury duty for convicted felons; repealer.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02274

Introduced
1/16/25  
Enacts The New Deal for CUNY; increases the ratio of faculty and mental health counselors to full-time students; requires that certain amounts of tuition be replaced by federal, state, and city funds.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02302

Introduced
1/16/25  
Establishes certification procedures for the profession of nurse anesthesia; provides for the issuance of a certification to practice as a certified registered nurse anesthetist upon the filing of an application, having a license as a registered professional nurse, having the appropriate educational requirements and paying the fifty dollar initial certification fee and the triennial thirty dollar registration fee.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02330

Introduced
1/16/25  
Imposes an excise tax on sugary drinks; establishes a community health equity fund to utilize the revenues generated by such tax.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02291

Introduced
1/16/25  
Expands the applicability of the assessment exemption for living quarters for parent or grandparent to include living quarters constructed or reconstructed before the effective date of the section providing such exemption.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02292

Introduced
1/16/25  
Enacts the whale awareness act directing the department of environmental conservation to establish recommendations and educational materials for reduction of marine mammal interactions.