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New York State Senator

Steven Rhoads

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New York State Senator

Steven Rhoads 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 26)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03639

Introduced
1/29/25  
Increases penalties for leaving the scene of an accident involving a death.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03640

Introduced
1/29/25  
Relates to warning labels on cannabis products; includes advertising, deceptively advertising, branding, marketing, packaging, displaying, labelling, offering for ingestion outside of packaging, or administering cannabis products in contravention of a certain section of the cannabis law or rules and regulations in the criminal sale of cannabis in the first degree.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03641

Introduced
1/29/25  
Enacts the "pupil privacy act" which requires schools to notify the parents or legal guardians of every student when a student protected information survey will be administered and provide such parent or legal guardian the opportunity to opt their child out of taking such survey.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03642

Introduced
1/29/25  
Relates to wage claims for manual workers; establishes an exception is provided from certain legal relief for instances of when payment is made within fourteen calendar days after the end of the week in which the wages were earned.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03643

Introduced
1/29/25  
Requires fair business practices in franchises.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03644

Introduced
1/29/25  
Designates certain offenses against emergency medical services personnel, firefighters, and law enforcement officers as hate crimes; includes the definition of emergency medical services personnel, firefighters, and law enforcement officers.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03645

Introduced
1/29/25  
Facilitates compliance with the sex offender registry for offenders without a registerable residence; defines "homeless sex offender" and "sex offender registration officer"; makes related provisions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03646

Introduced
1/29/25  
Relates to the definition of manual worker; provides such worker's primary duty is to engage in physical labor.
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New York Senate Bill S03649

Introduced
1/29/25  
Requires that local governments comply with a detainer request issued by a federal law enforcement agency; requires that such local government not interfere with the ability of federal law enforcement officials to conduct enforcement activities at municipal or county jails in furtherance of their duty to enforce federal laws.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03658

Introduced
1/29/25  
Enacts the feathered lives also count act directing the commissioner of general services to incorporate practices and strategies to reduce bird fatality resulting from collisions with certain state-owned or state-leased buildings, and for other purposes; requires the commissioner to develop a design guide that includes features, methods and strategies, and best practices for reducing bird fatalities; requires the commissioner to report to the governor and the legislature.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03693

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
1/29/25  
Engrossed
3/3/25  
Relates to computer-related crimes; creates the crimes unlawful disruption of computer services in the first and second degree, unlawful computer access assistance in the first and second degree, unauthorized use of internet domain name or profile, and unlawful introduction of a computer contaminant; allows for a civil action for compensatory damages for victims of such crimes.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03740

Introduced
1/29/25  
Establishes the "recovery ready workplace act" which provides for the certification of an employer to become a recovery ready workplace; defines terms; establishes the recovery-ready workplace program; provides criteria for employers to obtain certification as a recovery ready workplace; provides for employee involvement.
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New York Senate Bill S03743

Introduced
1/29/25  
Establishes a co-navigation services program for persons who are deaf-blind to provide services to a person who is deaf-blind that assist the person to physically access the person's environment and to make informed decisions, including providing visual and environmental information or sighted guide services and assisting with communication accessibility by communicating in the preferred language and communication mode of the person who is deaf-blind.
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New York Senate Bill S03767

Introduced
1/29/25  
Requires the state university of New York and the city university of New York to examine and conduct a study on the availability of campus services, programs and resources for veteran students.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03914

Introduced
1/30/25  
Subtracts from federal adjusted gross income any overtime compensation earned by an individual; defines overtime compensation.