New York State Senator

Rachel May 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 13)

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Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00528

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to the salaries of certain teachers and aides employed by boards of cooperative educational services; puts limits on certain administrative and clerical expenses.
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New York Senate Bill S00551

Introduced
1/8/25  
Requires child protective services to orally and in writing disclose certain information to parents and caretakers who are the subject of a child protective services investigation; requires such oral and written disclosure to contain certain information regarding the rights of the person under investigation.
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New York Senate Bill S00555

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
2/26/25  
Relates to requiring a medical facility or related service to obtain express prior written consent before filming and/or broadcasting of visual images of a patient's medical treatment.
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New York Senate Bill S00557

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
5/5/25  
Relates to designating the month of May as "Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month".
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New York Senate Bill S00559

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
2/10/25  
Engrossed
4/30/25  
Increases compensation of election inspectors to $300 and coordinators to $350 in New York city.
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New York Senate Bill S00571

Introduced
1/8/25  
Prohibits landlords, lessors, sub-lessors and grantors from demanding brokers' fees from a tenant.
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New York Senate Bill S00584

Introduced
1/8/25  
Grants school districts the ability to implement telehealth school-based mental health clinics; establishes the student mental telehealth reimbursement fund; relates to funding the student mental telehealth reimbursement fund.
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New York Senate Bill S00592

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
2/4/25  
Engrossed
5/6/25  
Establishes the New York state youth in agriculture and entrepreneurship summer employment program to provide students with the opportunity to be educated on the agricultural industry and alternative career paths and to provide agricultural work experience and entrepreneurship work experience.
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New York Senate Bill S00594

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires all public school districts, charter schools and non-public schools in the state that participate in the national school lunch program or school breakfast program as provided in the national child nutrition act to serve breakfast and lunch at no cost to the student.
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New York Senate Bill S00595

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
3/3/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Establishes the small rental housing development initiative to provide funding to eligible applicants to construct small rental housing developments in eligible areas.
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New York Senate Bill S00597

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/21/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Establishes the "small water utility transparency act"; requires the public service commission and the department of environmental conservation to conduct audits of certain private water companies; requires certain private water companies which are under certain investigations to file public updates on the status of compliance with such orders.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00568

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
3/19/25  
Establishes portable polling locations for early voting; provides that a county board of elections may establish one or more portable polling locations.
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New York Senate Bill S00569

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
1/13/25  
Authorizes county boards of elections to establish county-wide polling places where any person entitled to vote in such county by personal appearance may so vote on the day of a primary election or general election, subject to approval by the state board of elections.
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New York Senate Bill S00570

Introduced
1/8/25  
Relates to the removal of an election commissioner by the governor or by affirmative vote of a majority of commissioners of the state board of elections for incompetence, misconduct, or other good cause, provided that prior to removal, such election commissioner shall be given a written copy of the charges against them and have an opportunity to be heard in their defense.
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New York Senate Bill S00639

Introduced
1/8/25  
Relates to special provisions for the operation of bicycles when approaching stop signs and traffic-control signals including steady circular red signals and red arrow signals.