New York State Senator

Rachel May 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 38)

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Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04513

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Engrossed
4/22/25  
Requires applicants for major projects located near a disadvantaged community to submit an enhanced public participation plan.
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New York Senate Bill S04533

Introduced
2/6/25  
Expands the water resources planning council; directs such council to fulfill certain duties; requires reports from the council.
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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 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 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 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 S04670

Introduced
2/11/25  
Relates to establishing Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, Diwali, Lunar New Year, Tihar, Bandi Chhor Divas and Onam as school holidays.
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New York Senate Bill S04754

Introduced
2/12/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Engrossed
3/18/25  
Establishes the office of urban agriculture.
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New York Senate Bill S04757

Introduced
2/12/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Engrossed
5/19/25  
Establishes an "operation SNUG" program within the division of criminal justice services which provides grant awards to reduce, prevent or respond to gun violence.
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New York Senate Bill S04799

Introduced
2/12/25  
Creates climate liability for fossil fuel related activity which caused or contributed to climate change; creates a right of action.
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New York Senate Bill S04802

Introduced
2/13/25  
Requires hearings on claims for compensation to occur within 120 days; results in a default judgment for the claimant if such hearing has not occurred within 120 days.
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New York Senate Bill S04809

Introduced
2/13/25  
Establishes a captive insurance program for commuter vans, black cars, ambulettes and paratransit vehicles, small school buses, and charter buses that are engaged in the business of carrying or transporting nine to twenty-four passengers for hire; pre-arranged for-hire vehicles and accessible vehicles; defines terms.
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New York Senate Bill S04816

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Engrossed
4/9/25  
Includes Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases as occupational diseases for purposes of workers' compensation; clarifies that disability includes disability caused by Lyme disease or other tick-borne diseases; requires insurance coverage of long term medical care for Lyme disease and other tick borne diseases.
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New York Senate Bill S04827

Introduced
2/13/25  
Directs the canal corporation to create a chart to identify, map and model normal and flood water flows in the Oswego river basin and the Mohawk river basin and report on the completed chart by July 1, 2027; requires the updating of such chart every five years to account for any changes in the normal and flood water flows.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York Senate Bill S04574

Introduced
2/7/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Engrossed
4/22/25  
Enacts the "PFAS discharge disclosure act"; requires certain SPDES permit holders to conduct PFAS monitoring and disclose the results from such monitoring.