New York State Senator

Steven Rhoads Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00022

Introduced
1/8/25  
Enacts the "child survivor privacy act"; provides protections for child victims and child witnesses; restricts information to the public regarding a child witness or child victim's identity or proceeding; defines child witness; provides that whenever practical, the same prosecutor, advocate, and/or social worker shall handle all aspects of a case involving an alleged child victim.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00023

Introduced
1/8/25  
Expands a certain tax credit for farmers to include the cost of construction of housing for farm workers.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00025

Introduced
1/8/25  
Bars a person who is convicted of a hate crime from attending any SUNY or CUNY institution; provides for the expulsion of a student who is convicted of hate crimes; provides for reinstatement of such student if the conviction is subsequently overturned.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00026

Introduced
1/8/25  
Increases the enhanced STAR property tax deduction for tax for final assessment rolls to be completed after two thousand twenty-six; provides a total exemption from school taxes for certain persons eighty years of age and older.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00041

Introduced
1/8/25  
Directs the office of mental health to develop materials relating to suicide prevention and identifying signs of depression for school-aged children; authorizes school districts to include suicide prevention in health class curriculum.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00054

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
5/13/25  
Prohibits the use of intoxication of the victim as a defense in sex crimes where the victim is under the influence of any drug, intoxicant, or other substance to a degree which rendered the victim temporarily incapable of appraising or controlling such person's conduct and such condition was known or reasonably should have been known to a person in the actor's situation.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00058

Introduced
1/8/25  
Establishes the crime of making a terroristic threat against a police officer; makes such crime a class C felony.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00059

Introduced
1/8/25  
Creates a state trooper highway memorial task force to develop and establish guidelines for recognition of members of the division of state police who have died in the line of duty; provides such recognition shall be by means of dedicating a portion of the state highway system, or the placement of a memorial plaque or marker along a state highway.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00062

Introduced
1/8/25  
Requires the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation to provide for the health, safety and welfare of the public using facilities under its jurisdiction, which shall include ensuring a minimum staff of three hundred eighty-five permanently appointed, full time regional state park police officers at state parks, beaches, campgrounds, historic sites and concert venues; makes related provisions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00066

Introduced
1/8/25  
Authorizes the carrying of service-issued firearms by military personnel at recruiting centers while on duty.