New York State Senator

Thomas O'Mara Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02282

Introduced
1/16/25  
Enacts the "pretrial risk overview for threat evaluation, custody, and treatment (PROTECT) Act" to evaluate certain defendants; establishes a risk assessment instrument to aid judges in determining whether to release or detain a principal, where and when a release is appropriate and necessary conditions that should be imposed as part of such release; repeals provisions of law relating to qualifying offenses and allows a court to set bail or remand a principal where based on the risk assessment instrument, where the principal poses a safety risk or risk of flight; makes related provisions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02518

Introduced
1/21/25  
Directs the commissioner of health to conduct an investigation of the department's performance, compliance and enforcement of applicable state laws, rules, regulations, and directives or executive orders, with respect to mitigating the impact of COVID-19 in nursing homes, adult care facilities, and assisted living residences, and to propose a pandemic response plan for future disease outbreaks.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02538

Introduced
1/21/25  
Requires law enforcement and courts to notify the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) when an arrested person or defendant is not a United States citizen; adjusts certain maximum sentences for class A misdemeanors and unclassified misdemeanors; requires notification to be made to the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency prior to the release of certain noncitizens; repeals provisions of the "protect our courts act".
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02653

Introduced
1/22/25  
Requires the state pay taxes on the assessed value of properties of closed state prisons until such prison is reopened, used by another state agency, or is conveyed to a non-governmental entity.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02656

Introduced
1/22/25  
Relates to segregated confinement; provides that certain incarcerated individuals shall not be placed in a residential rehabilitation unit; makes related provisions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03194

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Relates to defining "period of war" for the alternative veterans' exemption; includes more recent hostilities in the definition of "period of war".
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03245

Introduced
1/24/25  
Relates to payments in lieu of taxes.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03359

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Expands health care services provided by telehealth to include services delivered through a facility licensed under article twenty-eight of the public health law that is eligible to be designated or has received a designation as a federally qualified health center, including those facilities that are also licensed under article thirty-one or article thirty-two of the mental hygiene law.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03380

Introduced
1/27/25  
Establishes daylight saving time as the year-round standard time of the state and the city of New York.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03381

Introduced
1/27/25  
Relates to investment of moneys in the state fish and game trust account.