New York State Senator

Toby Stavisky 2023-2024 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 23)

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New York 2023-2024 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00313

Introduced
1/4/23  
Refer
1/4/23  
Eliminates court surcharges and fees and probation and parole surcharges and fees; eliminates the requirement that a parolee or releasee receiving a merit termination of sentence be financially able to comply with an order of restitution; eliminates the requirement that a person receiving a discharge of sentence be financially able to comply with an order of restitution and the payment of certain surcharges or fees (Part A); prohibits mandatory minimum fines for penal law and vehicle and traffic offenses (Part B); mandates that courts engage in an individualized assessment of a person's financial ability to pay a fine prior to imposing a fine (Part C); eliminates the availability of incarceration as a remedy for a failure to pay a fine, surcharge, or fee, lifts and vacates existing warrants issued solely on a person's failure to timely pay a fine, surcharge or fee and ends existing sentences of incarceration based on such failure (Part D); vacates existing unsatisfied civil judgments based on a person's failure to timely pay a surcharge, or fee (Part E); prohibits the collection of a fine, restitution or reparation from the funds of an incarcerated person; prohibits the payment of court fines, mandatory surcharges, certain fees, restitution, reparation or forfeitures from the earnings of prisoners (Part F); vacates existing unpaid surcharges, DNA databank fees, crime victim assistance fees, sexual offender registration fees, supplemental sex offender victim fees, or probation or parole supervision fees; repeals certain provisions of law relating to restrictions on remitting such fees (Part G).
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New York Senate Bill S00343

Introduced
1/4/23  
Refer
1/4/23  
Creates a pedestrian safety rating system for motor vehicles which shall be posted on the department of motor vehicles' website.
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New York Senate Bill S00448

Introduced
1/4/23  
Refer
1/4/23  
Engrossed
6/1/23  
Refer
6/1/23  
Directs the commissioner of the division of homeland security and emergency services to conduct a review and analysis of the security measures taken at the transportation facilities of the metropolitan transportation authority and its subsidiaries; requires such director to issue confidential reports of his or her findings and recommendations.
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New York Senate Bill S00513

Introduced
1/4/23  
Refer
1/4/23  
Engrossed
6/9/23  
Refer
6/9/23  
Relates to establishing Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, Diwali, Lunar New Year, Tihar, Bandi Chhor Divas and Onam as school holidays.
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New York Senate Bill S00518

Introduced
1/4/23  
Refer
1/4/23  
Provides a fine of one thousand dollars for a person responsible for a trailer or semitrailer parked or left unattended in a city with a population of one million or more; makes certain exceptions.
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New York Senate Bill S00519

Introduced
1/4/23  
Refer
1/4/23  
Refer
1/3/24  
Engrossed
6/6/24  
Provides for increased fines for overnight parking of tractor-trailer combinations, tractors, truck trailers and semi-trailers on residential streets in the city of New York.
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New York Senate Bill S00544

Introduced
1/5/23  
Refer
1/5/23  
Establishes the class A misdemeanor of unlawful procurement of a firearm, for the purchase or acquisition of more than 1 firearm during any period of 30 days.
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New York Senate Bill S00546

Introduced
1/5/23  
Refer
1/5/23  
Report Pass
1/24/23  
Engrossed
6/6/23  
Refer
6/6/23  
Refer
1/3/24  
Report Pass
5/20/24  
Engrossed
6/3/24  
Enacts the "NYCHA utility accountability act"; requires the NYCHA to provide a rent reduction to tenants who experience a disruption in utility service.
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New York Senate Bill S00568

Introduced
1/5/23  
Refer
1/5/23  
Report Pass
1/31/23  
Refer
1/3/24  
Relates to establishing the housing access voucher program; provides that the commissioner of the division of housing and community renewal shall implement a program of rental assistance in the form of housing vouchers for eligible individuals and families who are homeless or who face an imminent loss of housing; provides that the commissioner shall designate housing access voucher local administrators in the state to administer the program.
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New York Senate Bill S00588

Introduced
1/5/23  
Refer
1/5/23  
Relates to the creation of home stability support supplement programs.
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New York Senate Bill S00590

Introduced
1/5/23  
Refer
1/5/23  
Prohibits any person from transporting, holding, buying, selling, giving, receiving or marketing a nonambulatory animal unless such animal is first humanely euthanized without undue delay from the time that such animal becomes nonambulatory; makes certain exceptions; provides violation provisions; defines relevant terms.
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New York Senate Bill S00610

Introduced
1/5/23  
Refer
1/5/23  
Report Pass
1/9/23  
Engrossed
1/9/23  
Refer
1/10/23  
Refer
1/3/24  
Report Pass
1/8/24  
Engrossed
1/8/24  
Refer
1/8/24  
Engrossed
6/7/24  
Enrolled
11/15/24  
Chaptered
11/22/24  
Authorizes boards of elections to establish absentee ballot drop-off locations.
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New York Senate Bill S00625

Introduced
1/5/23  
Refer
1/5/23  
Provides a one-year payroll tax credit for compensation of journalists; sets a maximum amount of the credit for journalist employers and a maximum amount of the credit statewide; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
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New York Senate Bill S00647

Introduced
1/5/23  
Refer
1/5/23  
Enacts the student journalist free speech act to protect student speech at educational institutions unless such speech is libelous, an invasion of privacy, or incites students to commit an unlawful act, violate school policies, or to materially and substantially disrupt the orderly operation of the school.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2023-2024 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00447

Introduced
1/4/23  
Refer
1/4/23  
Engrossed
3/20/23  
Refer
3/20/23  
Engrossed
3/27/23  
Enrolled
5/15/23  
Chaptered
5/15/23  
Requires nursing certificate and degree education programs to include clinical education; allows for one-third of such clinical education to be completed through simulation experience.