New York State Representative

Steven Otis 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 20)

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Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05641

Introduced
2/18/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Report Pass
4/30/25  
Authorizes municipalities to establish an emergency repair pilot program; enables municipalities to repair immediately hazardous code violations in buildings where the owner has not undertaken such repairs in a reasonable time.
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New York Assembly Bill A05673

Introduced
2/19/25  
Waives the registration fee and service charge for distinctive plates for volunteer firefighters and members of volunteer ambulance services where the applicant has attended twenty-five percent or more of the emergency calls for the previous year.
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New York Assembly Bill A05675

Introduced
2/19/25  
Relates to gender balance on boards of state and local public authorities; provides that all appointive state and local authorities heretofore or hereafter established by law or resolution shall have recommendations for appointments, or reappointments that are gender balanced.
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New York Assembly Bill A05685

Introduced
2/19/25  
Refer
2/19/25  
Report Pass
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Report Pass
6/4/25  
Refer
6/4/25  
Report Pass
6/6/25  
Engrossed
6/6/25  
Refer
6/6/25  
Relates to the New York state masters-in-education teacher incentive scholarship program.
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New York Assembly Bill A05714

Introduced
2/20/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Report Pass
5/13/25  
Refer
5/13/25  
Report Pass
6/13/25  
Refer
6/13/25  
Relates to the availability of technical assistance grants in brownfield site remedial programs; provides that the commissioner of environmental conservation shall provide grants to the New York city community board with jurisdiction over the site or to any not-for-profit corporation exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code at any site which may be affected by a brownfield site remedial program.
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New York Assembly Bill A05730

Introduced
2/20/25  
Directs every peer-to-peer mobile service to require users to create a personal identification code associated with the user's account that is required to be used when certain actions are taken and to require users to set a monetary amount for intended transfers above which the use of a personal identification number will be required to authenticate the user's identity.
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New York Assembly Bill A05811

Introduced
2/20/25  
Enacts the "construction insurance transparency act" to require insurers providing coverage for liability under the scaffold law to report, on an annual basis, to the superintendent of financial services relating to its finances and claims paid thereunder.
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New York Assembly Bill A05832

Introduced
2/20/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Report Pass
4/30/25  
Refer
4/30/25  
Report Pass
5/29/25  
Refer
5/29/25  
Enacts the "PFAS discharge disclosure act"; requires certain SPDES permit holders to conduct PFAS monitoring and disclose the results from such monitoring.
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New York Assembly Bill A05850

Introduced
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Refer
4/2/25  
Report Pass
6/5/25  
Prohibits the participation of certain animals in traveling animal acts; prohibits the department of environmental conservation from issuing permits or licenses allowing participation of certain animals in traveling animal acts; excludes certain permanent performing institutions; imposes a civil penalty not to exceed $1000 for a violation.
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New York Assembly Bill A05860

Introduced
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Report Pass
6/13/25  
Refer
6/13/25  
Relates to the right to unemployment benefits based on employment with certain educational institutions, including the state university of New York, the city university of New York and public community colleges; clarifies the meaning of certain terms relating to such rights to unemployment benefits.
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New York Assembly Bill A05882

Introduced
2/24/25  
Requires a pharmacy benefit manager to pay a participating pharmacy at minimum at the national average drug acquisition cost (NADAC) rate, or at the pharmacy acquisition cost rate if greater or there is not a NADAC rate, plus a professional dispensing fee that is at minimum the professional dispensing fee paid under the state medical assistance program.
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New York Assembly Bill A05892

Introduced
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Report Pass
6/4/25  
Refer
6/4/25  
Authorizes practitioners in institutional dispensers to dispense controlled substances as emergency treatment for use off the premises of the institutional dispenser; authorizes practitioners to dispense controlled substances for use in maintenance or detoxification treatment to an addict or habitual user.
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New York Assembly Bill A05953

Introduced
2/25/25  
Includes in the class E felony of vehicular assault in the second degree, the causing of serious physical injury while operating a vehicle with suspended, revoked or no license; creates the crime of vehicular homicide.
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New York Assembly Bill A05972

Introduced
2/25/25  
Provides language translation services to accommodate census self-reporting.
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New York Assembly Bill A05979

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Report Pass
6/13/25  
Refer
6/13/25  
Provides for the inclusion of a faculty or staff member on the board of trustees of community colleges elected by and from among the faculty and staff of the college.