New York State Senator

William Colton Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00832

Introduced
1/8/25  
Requires at least a ratio of one clinical, non-student mental health staff member per one thousand students on all SUNY and CUNY campuses and for state colleges and universities to update such ratio every five years.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00836

Introduced
1/8/25  
Relates to utility intervenor reimbursement to a participant for its reasonable costs of participation in any proceeding before the Public Service Commission (PSC).
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00852

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Requires bicycles advertised for sale or resale in New York state to have an identifying serial number in legible boldfaced figures in one of certain specified areas on the bicycle; requires advertisements for bicycles to clearly and conspicuously include such bicycles identifying serial number; exempts online marketplaces from placing identifying serial numbers on bicycles.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00859

Introduced
1/8/25  
Prohibits the taking of non-native big game mammals in a fenced or other area from which there is no means for such mammal to escape.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00862

Introduced
1/8/25  
Prohibits the taking of zoo, petting zoo, carnival or circus animals; provides that violations shall be punishable by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than two thousand dollars.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00863

Introduced
1/8/25  
Requires the department of labor to conduct a study on the impact of job automation on the workforce in New York state.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00866

Introduced
1/8/25  
Relates to the employee status of an individual; establishes criteria for determining whether labor or services performed for remuneration qualify as employment.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00871

Introduced
1/8/25  
Prohibits vivisection at colleges, universities, professional, proprietary or graduate schools in the state where a scientifically and educationally satisfactory method or strategy exists; defines vivisection to mean experimentation through surgery on a living organism to view living internal structure.