New York State Senator

Peter Harckham 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 30)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04535

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Report Pass
3/3/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Relates to conducting investigations into the administration and enforcement of the New York state uniform fire prevention and building code and the New York state energy conservation construction code by counties.
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New York Senate Bill S04547

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Relates to judicial diversion programs; establishes a diversion part in each county; repeals certain provisions of law relating thereto.
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New York Senate Bill S04554

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Engrossed
6/13/25  
Refer
6/13/25  
Relates to filing timely notices of participation in World Trade Center rescue efforts for the purposes of receiving World Trade Center benefits.
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New York Senate Bill S04558

Introduced
2/7/25  
Requires fashion sellers to carry out environmental due diligence for the portions of their business related to wearing apparel, footwear or fashion bags, including wearing apparel, footwear or fashion bags produced as a private label; establishes a fashion remediation fund.
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New York Senate Bill S04583

Introduced
2/7/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Relates to the health, safety and human rights of incarcerated pregnant individuals, incarcerated birthing parents and their children; requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to establish rules and regulations relating to conditions in institutions and correctional facilities and the treatment and care of birthing parents in such institutions and facilities.
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New York Senate Bill S04589

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Provides for the calculation and analysis of certain health center costs.
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New York Senate Bill S04611

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Engrossed
3/4/25  
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; relates to penalties for certain wage violations.
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New York Senate Bill S04646

Introduced
2/10/25  
Suspends the registration of vehicles which have been documented multiple times by a photo speed violation monitoring system for speeding in a highway construction or maintenance work area.
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New York Senate Bill S04647

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Increases penalties for certain speed violations.
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New York Senate Bill S04648

Introduced
2/10/25  
Increases the number of photo speed violation monitoring systems in a highway construction or maintenance work area; makes such provisions permanent.
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New York Senate Bill S04649

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Imposes fines for failure to exercise due care and move over when approaching parked, stopped or standing motor vehicles on the shoulder of a highway.
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New York Senate Bill S04659

Introduced
2/10/25  
Relates to enacting the rent emergency stabilization for tenants act on local determinations of a housing emergency; authorizes a city with a population of one million or more to declare an emergency as to any class of housing accommodations if the vacancy rate for the housing accommodations in such class within such municipality is not in excess of five percent and a declaration of emergency may be made as to all housing accommodations if the vacancy rate for the housing accommodations within such municipality is not in excess of five percent; authorizes other cities, towns and villages to declare a housing emergency after considering publicly available data and holding public hearings.
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New York Senate Bill S04685

Introduced
2/11/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Engrossed
4/24/25  
Refer
4/24/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Refer
6/10/25  
Provides for the inclusion of a faculty or staff member on the board of trustees of community colleges elected by and from among the faculty and staff of the college.
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New York Senate Bill S04732

Introduced
2/12/25  
Prohibits the diminution of health insurance benefits of public employee retirees and their dependents or reducing the employer's contributions for such insurance; defines employers to include the state, municipalities, school districts, and public authorities and commissions.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04571

Introduced
2/7/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Directs the New York state energy research and development authority to establish a floating solar incentive and education program to provide information and resources including technical assistance, access to industry standards, and financing available through the authority or other public or private sector sources, to municipalities, developers, builders, design professionals, and potential owners for the construction of floating solar.