New York State Senator

Robert Jackson 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 41)

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Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02635

Introduced
1/22/25  
Enacts the "vicarious liability for housing discrimination act"; imposes vicarious liability on a person for unlawful discriminatory practices related to the sale, rental, or lease of certain property by such person's agent.
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New York Senate Bill S02637

Introduced
1/22/25  
Provides grants to address food insecurity among students at public institutions for higher education.
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New York Senate Bill S02640

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Includes veterans in the definition of military status to protect veterans from being unlawfully discriminated against.
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New York Senate Bill S02644

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Report Pass
5/5/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Prohibits the retrospective denial of payment for substance use disorder treatment services if an insured was covered for such services at the time treatment was initiated; requires insurers to notify a treatment provider when an insured has lost coverage based on termination of the insured's employment.
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New York Senate Bill S02657

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Engrossed
2/12/25  
Establishes the bilingual teachers of tomorrow teacher recruitment and retention program to attract and retain bilingual, certified teachers in schools with a bilingual teacher shortage; provides for grants and procedures for applying for such grants and eligibility requirements for fund distribution.
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New York Senate Bill S02666

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Relates to the provision of breast pumps and related collection and storage materials to certain incarcerated nursing birth parents who are confined in or committed to an institution or local correctional facility with or without their child subject to specific time limitations; requires institutions and local correctional facilities to provide pumps and related materials to such incarcerated birth parents, but not beyond the date such child reaches twenty-four months of age except in limited circumstances related to parole; allows children to remain with their incarcerated birth parents in a correctional institution until twenty-four months of age, or longer in certain cases related to parole; requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to issue an annual report on data relating to incarcerated birth parents.
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New York Senate Bill S02681

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Engrossed
6/13/25  
Refer
6/13/25  
Requires the superintendent of state police to develop, maintain and disseminate to all members of the division of state police a critical incident leave policy requiring critical incident paid leave for any members directly involved in a critical incident; prohibits such superintendent from taking any punitive administrative action against any member of the division of state police granted critical incident leave solely on the basis of the provision of such leave.
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New York Senate Bill S02689

Introduced
1/22/25  
Requires public schools to offer plant-based food options in food service.
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New York Senate Bill S02705

Introduced
1/22/25  
Enacts the student suicide prevention act; requires the governing board or body of every local educational agency serving students in grades seven to twelve, to adopt policies, procedures and guidelines on student suicide prevention, intervention and postvention for students in such grades.
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New York Senate Bill S02706

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Engrossed
4/22/25  
Refer
4/22/25  
Refer
5/29/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Refer
4/2/25  
Prohibits the use of drilling fluids, brine and flowback water from gas or oil wells, pools, or fields on any highway for any purpose including but not limited to de-icing or dust suppression.
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New York Senate Bill S02709

Introduced
1/22/25  
Provides protections for telecommunications tower technicians, including requiring certain trainings during work hours without a loss of pay; requires certain reporting by bidders for telecommunication contracts.
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New York Senate Bill S02710

Introduced
1/22/25  
Restores 20 year service retirement for New York city police officers.
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New York Senate Bill S02721

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Establishes the mobile and manufactured home replacement program to eliminate older mobile and manufactured homes and replace them with new manufactured, modular or site-built homes; makes related provisions.
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New York Senate Bill S03037

Introduced
1/23/25  
Requires that an organization applying for grant funding shall provide to arts agencies a certification that it will enter into a labor peace agreement with at least one bona fide labor organization either where such bona fide labor organization is actively representing employees providing services covered by the organization seeking such grant funding or upon notice by a bona fide labor organization that is attempting to represent employees who will provide services to the organization seeking such grant funding; relates to prevailing wage requirements for not-for-profit theaters and payment of their employees on productions funded by the New York state council on the arts or arts agencies of localities.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02703

Introduced
1/22/25  
Requires reporting of statewide training hours allocated to each firefighter; requires such report shall identify the fire department or district providing the training.