New York State Representative

Steven Otis 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 4)

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Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00544

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires police officers to take temporary custody of firearms for not less than one hundred twenty hours when responding to reports of family violence.
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New York Assembly Bill A00565

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/21/25  
Engrossed
3/26/25  
Refer
3/26/25  
Prohibits the establishment of new for-profit hospices or increasing the capacity of existing for-profit hospices.
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New York Assembly Bill A00589

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Report Pass
3/11/25  
Refer
3/11/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Relates to port authority organization, appearance and notice; establishes the port authority transportation advisory committee.
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New York Assembly Bill A00602

Introduced
1/8/25  
Provides that restaurants may provide single-use plastic straws to customers when explicitly requested by the customer; prohibits single-use plastic stirrers.
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New York Assembly Bill A00610

Introduced
1/8/25  
Requires the department of education to develop school health and mental health professionals to student ratios in public schools for students who do not receive services pursuant to the individuals with disabilities education act.
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New York Assembly Bill A00635

Introduced
1/8/25  
Provides a tax credit for qualified caregiving expenses.
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New York Assembly Bill A00661

Introduced
1/8/25  
Requires hospitals to provide medically supervised detoxification services to all patients requiring such services; provides, that if the hospital is at ninety percent capacity or greater, such hospital shall connect the patient to an alternative facility within such patient's network to access such medically supervised detoxification services without any increased risk to the health or life of the patient.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00665

Introduced
1/8/25  
Relates to the creation of a crime database of all convictions in New York state of animal cruelty, fighting, neglect, abandonment and mistreatment; makes such crime database available to all law enforcement entities, district attorneys, duly incorporated humane societies, societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, dog or cat protective associations and animal control officers.
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New York Assembly Bill A00672

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
3/4/25  
Reconvenes the New York state sea level rise task force to review the report and recommendations previously issued by the task force, and to determine the progress made in effectuating such recommendations and what recommendations require additional efforts; develop an updated evaluation of ways of protecting New York's remaining coastal ecosystems and natural habitats, and increasing coastal community resilience in the face of sea level rise, applying the best available science as to sea level rise and its anticipated impacts; and updating previous recommendations and, if appropriate, making new recommendations on sea level rise resiliency.
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New York Assembly Bill A00678

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Allows pharmacy technicians to practice in any pharmacy under the supervision of a pharmacist.
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New York Assembly Bill A00683

Introduced
1/8/25  
Establishes an emergency heating energy assistance program benefit to provide emergency assistance to certain households where such household is threatened with shut-off or an energy emergency due to nonpayment.
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New York Assembly Bill A00691

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
3/25/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Report Pass
5/29/25  
Refer
5/29/25  
Relates to the unearned income of a child when the parent or non-parent caregiver chooses to exclude such child from the public assistance household.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00697

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/19/25  
Refer
5/19/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Prohibits the use of the term "excited delirium" as a diagnosis, label, or cause of death on death certificates, autopsy reports, police reports or any report, policy or procedure by a public agency or contractor; defines excited delirium.
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New York Assembly Bill A00733

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
6/5/25  
Refer
6/5/25  
Repeals provisions relating to persons knowing themselves to be infected with venereal disease.
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New York Assembly Bill A00755

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Requires the department of health examine heat-related deaths in the state of New York; requires the department to issue a report to the temporary president of the senate, speaker of the assembly and the governor.