New York State Senator

Steven Rhoads 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 22)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01847

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Report Pass
1/21/25  
Engrossed
1/27/25  
Requires consideration of evidence relating to the economic impact of major increases of rates or charges upon consumers and the areas affected by such increases of rates or charges prior to approval of any such rates or charges; establishes minimum data to be considered by the public service commission relating to such economic impact.
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New York Senate Bill S01850

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Establishes the safe water and infrastructure action program for the purpose of making payments toward the replacement and rehabilitation of certain existing local drinking water, storm water and sanitary sewer systems; applies to any county, city, town, village or public authority drinking water system, storm water system or sanitary sewer system within the state that is not under the maintenance and/or operational jurisdiction of a private entity.
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New York Senate Bill S01865

Introduced
1/14/25  
Enacts the lift our communities advertise locally (LOCAL) program which provides a tax credit on advertising for locally owned minority-owned and women-owned business enterprises, certified service-disabled veteran-owned business enterprises or a small business.
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New York Senate Bill S01866

Introduced
1/14/25  
Relates to establishing a green alert system for missing military members.
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New York Senate Bill S01889

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Designates the state of New York a purple heart state.
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New York Senate Bill S01908

Introduced
1/14/25  
Relates to the availability and purchase of zero-emission school buses.
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New York Senate Bill S01922

Introduced
1/14/25  
Relates to adding veterans to protected classes for unlawful housing discrimination.
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New York Senate Bill S01933

Introduced
1/14/25  
Provides that being eighteen years old or more, while in the course of committing rape in the first, second or third degree, criminal sexual act in the first, second or third degree, sexual abuse in the first degree, aggravated sexual abuse in the first, second, third or fourth degree, or incest in the first, second or third degree, against a person less than eighteen years old, such defendant intentionally causes the death of such person.
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New York Senate Bill S01934

Introduced
1/14/25  
Relates to the creation of the "No Hate NY" license plate and the "No Hate NY fund" to support hate crime awareness and prevention programs.
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New York Senate Bill S01938

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Engrossed
6/6/25  
Requires the principal of any high school to allow any local trade union, upon request, to enter the school for the purpose of trade union recruitment, including, but not limited to: making presentations; disseminating literature; and answering questions by students.
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New York Senate Bill S01940

Introduced
1/14/25  
Requires enhanced federal medical assistance percentage funds be directly shared with the counties and the city of New York; requires the comptroller examine and audit all funds received from the enhanced federal medical assistance percentage and the distributions made to counties and the city of New York.
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New York Senate Bill S01943

Introduced
1/14/25  
Expands the criteria for a hate crime to include trespass committed at a house of worship.
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New York Senate Bill S01947

Introduced
1/14/25  
Eliminates the registration fees charged for the issuance of volunteer firefighter distinctive license plates.
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New York Senate Bill S01951

Introduced
1/14/25  
Provides an exemption for the purposes of allowing the installation and use of fossil-fuel equipment and building systems where such are installed and used in a building or part of a building that is owned or occupied by a person who holds genuine and sincere religious beliefs and whose health and safety will be jeopardized due to the prohibition of the installation of fossil-fuel equipment and building systems because of such genuine and sincere religious beliefs.
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New York Senate Bill S01954

Introduced
1/14/25  
Enacts "the combating campus antisemitism act"; prohibits the granting of tuition assistance awards to any student who has knowingly engaged in promoting antisemitism in a manner that is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action, that constitutes "true threats"; makes related provisions.