New York State Senator

Robert Rolison 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 30)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York Senate Bill S05125

Introduced
2/19/25  
Relates to assistance for certain small businesses including dry cleaners and those that practice nail specialty for necessary code related improvements.
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New York Senate Bill S05175

Introduced
2/19/25  
Authorizes localities to provide for an additional real property tax exemption for senior citizens who meet the income eligibility limits and other criteria to the extent of sixty-five percent of the assessed valuation of such real property.
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New York Senate Bill S05231

Introduced
2/19/25  
Establishes the crime of staging a construction site accident which is a class E felony.
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New York Senate Bill S05257

Introduced
2/20/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Engrossed
6/13/25  
Requires mandatory background checks for persons employed by or volunteering at any business, organization, or entity that regularly provides instructional, recreational or extracurricular services to minors, including but not limited to dance studios, gymnastic schools, martial arts academies, sports training facilities, music schools and performing arts schools, tutoring and academic enrichment centers; provides for enforcement and penalties; prohibits certain people from owning such businesses.
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New York Senate Bill S05280

Introduced
2/20/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Engrossed
5/12/25  
Relates to providing language access services to individuals relating to the tax abatement program for rent-controlled and rent-regulated property occupied by senior citizens or persons with disabilities.
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New York Senate Bill S05294

Introduced
2/20/25  
Requires hospitals to establish a violence prevention program which includes a workplace safety and security assessment and develop a safety and security plan that addresses identified workplace violence threats or hazards.
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New York Senate Bill S05382

Introduced
2/21/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Relates to the construction of facilities for chemical dependence services that promote the privacy of individuals while bathing, sleeping, using restrooms and receiving individual counseling services, while also allowing for maximization of the use of such facility.
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New York Senate Bill S05392

Introduced
2/21/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Engrossed
3/19/25  
Relates to permitting certain not-for-profit corporations engaged in engineering for certain conservation efforts to do business or provide professional engineering, land surveying, or professional geology services in the state.
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New York Senate Bill S05397

Introduced
2/21/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Engrossed
3/12/25  
Relates to certificates of honorable separation from or service in the armed forces of the United States; provides that such certificates shall be forwarded to the appropriate local veterans' service agency within 60 days of receipt.
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New York Senate Bill S05407

Introduced
2/21/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Report Pass
3/5/25  
Engrossed
6/4/25  
Establishes the "first responder peer support program act" which supplies peer-to-peer mental health programs to first responders.
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New York Senate Bill S05432

Introduced
2/21/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Increases benefits for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers.
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New York Senate Bill S05457

Introduced
2/21/25  
Alters the definition of "drug" in the vehicle and traffic law to include any substance or combination of substances that impair, to any extent, physical or mental abilities; defines impairment and intoxication; provides that refusal to submit to a breath test and/or oral/bodily fluid test shall be a traffic infraction; makes related provisions.
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New York Senate Bill S05465

Introduced
2/21/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Authorizes municipalities to adopt a local law, ordinance or resolution providing for a sales tax exemption for clothing and footwear after March 1, 2025 and no later than August 1, 2025; provides for the repeal of such provisions on January 1, 2026.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S05168

Introduced
2/19/25  
Refer
2/19/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Authorizes the City of Newburgh to add unpaid housing code violation penalties, costs and fines to such city's annual tax levy in accordance with applicable law.
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New York Senate Bill S05224

Introduced
2/19/25  
Refer
2/19/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Engrossed
6/16/25  
Authorizes the town of Union Vale, county of Dutchess, to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands and to lease the lands to Homeland Towers, LLC for the placement and operation of a wireless communications tower.