New York State Senator

Roxanne Persaud 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 26)

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New York Senate Bill S06805

Introduced
3/24/25  
Establishes instruction in financial literacy for students in sixth through eighth grade; requires such instruction to include content on budgeting, savings, credit, debt, insurance, investment, and other issues associated with personal financial responsibility as determined by the education department.
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New York Senate Bill S06807

Introduced
3/24/25  
Provides for the employment of mental health professionals by school districts.
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New York Senate Bill S06847

Introduced
3/25/25  
Relates to enacting the "adjacent neighbors' bill of rights"; requires the department of buildings to develop a bulletin known as the "adjacent neighbors' bill of rights" advising homeowners who are adjacent to a property under development or construction of their rights and available resources and post such bulletin on the department's website.
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New York Senate Bill S06904

Introduced
3/26/25  
Provides that when a housing accommodation has been vacated after continuous tenancy or occupancy of ten years or more prior to vacancy, and the owner can demonstrate restoration of the unit, the new legal regulated rent shall be the rent agreed to by the owner and first tenant after such restoration and reserved in a lease or other rental agreement; makes related provisions.
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New York Senate Bill S07545

Introduced
4/22/25  
Requires the department of health to develop and maternal health care providers to distribute written information about episiotomy to maternity patients.
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New York Senate Bill S07599

Introduced
4/23/25  
Refer
4/23/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Regulates automated decision-making by government agencies; requires agencies to conduct impact assessments; requires disclosure of automated decision-making tools utilized by governmental agencies.

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New York Senate Bill S06980

Introduced
3/27/25  
Refer
3/27/25  
Engrossed
5/20/25  
Creates a temporary state commission to study and make recommendations concerning the incidence of asthma in the borough of Brooklyn in New York city.
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New York Senate Bill S06992

Introduced
3/27/25  
Exempts baby bottles and bottle nipples from sales and compensating use tax.
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New York Senate Bill S06993

Introduced
3/27/25  
Exempts infant car seats from sales and compensating use tax.
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New York Senate Bill S06994

Introduced
3/27/25  
Exempts breast pumps and breast pump kits from sales and compensating use taxes; defines terms.
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New York Senate Bill S07223

Introduced
4/4/25  
Refer
4/4/25  
Engrossed
6/13/25  
Refer
6/13/25  
Relates to authorizing the city of New York to transfer and convey certain city owned property to the Bedford-Stuyvesant volunteer ambulance corps.
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New York Senate Bill S07224

Introduced
4/4/25  
Authorizes the reissuance of emergency assistance to needy families with children, safety net assistance, SNAP benefits, or emergency assistance for aged, blind and disabled persons in instances of fraud or theft of benefits.
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New York Senate Bill S07495

Introduced
4/17/25  
Enacts the menopause awareness improvement act; establishes a menopause education program; establishes course work or training in menopausal health; directs the commissioner of labor to conduct a study on the impact of menopause on the workforce.
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New York Senate Bill S07629

Introduced
4/23/25  
Requires the department of agriculture and markets to maintain a publicly available database of the results of its graded inspections on its website; requires the department to provide information as to where a customer may file a consumer report; requires the department to facilitate and coordinate the planning and implementation of an awareness and educational program to inform the general public on the standards retail food stores shall meet and how consumers may report retail food stores with poor sanitary conditions.
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New York Senate Bill S07685

Introduced
4/29/25  
Refer
4/29/25  
Engrossed
6/5/25  
Refer
6/5/25  
Relates to increasing the amount of the childcare center tax abatement for certain properties in a city having a population of one million or more for abatements taken in a tax year commencing on or after July first, two thousand twenty-five; provides that no such childcare center tax abatement shall be authorized for any tax year commencing on or after July first, two thousand thirty-two; extends the deadline for application for such childcare center tax abatement to March fifteenth, two thousand twenty-seven.