New York State Senator

Peter Harckham 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 21)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01846

Introduced
1/14/25  
Requires utility companies to reimburse consumers for spoilage of food and medication due to the lack of refrigeration in the event of a power outage lasting seventy-two hours or more.
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New York Senate Bill S01849

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Report Pass
1/27/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Requires more specific data reporting by the chief administrator to include information relating to all courts in the unified court system, including town and village courts.
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New York Senate Bill S01893

Introduced
1/14/25  
Establishes a civil cause of action for employees who are subjected to an abusive work environment; provides employers shall be vicariously liable for such work environment.
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New York Senate Bill S01919

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Engrossed
4/9/25  
Eliminates sporting license fees for honorably discharged, disabled veterans.
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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 Senate Bill S01946

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Report Pass
4/9/25  
Engrossed
5/29/25  
Relates to the expungement of syringe convictions of criminally possessing a hypodermic instrument.
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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

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01848

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Engrossed
3/11/25  
Refer
3/11/25  
Requires utilities to notify property owners prior to beginning any non-emergency construction or other work that may interfere with a property owner's ability to use, or access such owner's property; requires notice to include, but not limited to, a description of the work to be performed, the expected duration of such work, the location of such work, any road closures or detours that may occur due to such work, any action that may directly and materially impact the use of such property, and the contact information for the utility performing such work; provides notice may include electronic communications, signage, and written materials; exempts cases where a natural or man-made disaster or state of emergency occurs.
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New York Senate Bill S01982

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Relates to the completion of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs; directs the municipal police training council to promulgate rules and regulations relating to qualification for municipal police forces for persons who were previously sworn members of the state police and to provide certificates to such persons who meet such qualifications.
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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 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.
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New York Senate Bill S01985

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Engrossed
5/13/25  
Refer
5/13/25  
Engrossed
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Requires police officers to take temporary custody of firearms for not less than one hundred twenty hours when responding to reports of family violence.
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New York Senate Bill S01986

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Report Pass
5/6/25  
Engrossed
6/9/25  
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.
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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.
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New York Senate Bill S01988

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