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 S01486

Introduced
1/10/25  
Enacts the "omnibus emergency services volunteer incentive act" to provide benefits to volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers; increases the personal income tax deduction after four or more years of service; exempts motor vehicles used in the performance of such volunteers' duties from registration fees, use taxes and special fees for volunteer license plates; authorizes the provision of municipal health insurance coverage to such volunteers; establishes a volunteer recruitment service loan forgiveness program.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01487

Introduced
1/10/25  
Relates to business income base and certain small business taxpayers.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01514

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Report Pass
3/3/25  
Engrossed
3/4/25  
Empowers the commissioner of labor to issue stop-work orders against employers for misclassification of employees as independent contractors or for providing false, incomplete, or misleading information to an insurance company on the number of employees of such employer.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01527

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Establishes sales tax exemptions for commercial energy storage systems equipment.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01559

Introduced
1/10/25  
Enacts the "Affordable NY act"; increases the STAR exemptions; adjusts personal income tax rates.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01600

Introduced
1/10/25  
Allows for distinctive plates to be issued for members of the New York city fire riders motorcycle club.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01616

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/13/25  
Provides parity to durable medical equipment providers by requiring Medicaid managed care organizations to reimburse such providers at no less than one hundred percent of the medical assistance durable medical equipment and complex rehabilitation technology fee schedule for the same service or item.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01663

Introduced
1/13/25  
Makes provisions permanent relating to disability due to disease or malfunction of the heart or coronary arteries.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01672

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/13/25  
Defines the term "construction projects" to mean the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement of any school building where a district receives any apportionment for debt service or building aid and the school building is sited within the Long Island region; provides that each contract involving the award of a construction project shall require the use of a project labor agreement for all contractors and subcontractors on such project.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01749

Introduced
1/13/25  
Prohibits the establishment or enforcement of regulations on the percentage of zero-emission vehicles in manufacturers' sales fleets of medium-duty and heavy-duty vehicles until the availability of charging infrastructure, and the cost and availability of zero-emission medium-duty and heavy-duty vehicles makes the sale of such vehicles more practicable.