New York State Senator

William Colton Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00354

Introduced
1/8/25  
Directs the Queens county board of elections to provide language assistance in Bengali, Punjabi and Hindi.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00355

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Report Pass
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Report Pass
3/18/25  
Engrossed
3/18/25  
Provides for a partial exemption from taxation of certain residential real property transferred by a governmental entity, nonprofit housing organization, land bank or community land trust to low-income households; sets forth conditions for the discontinuance of such exemption.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00357

Introduced
1/8/25  
Provides an owner or lessee access to adjoining property to make improvements or repairs for certain circumstances.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00387

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires general hospitals to provide language assistance services; requires general hospitals to develop a language assistance program to ensure meaningful access to the general hospital's services and reasonable accommodation for all patients who require language assistance.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00407

Introduced
1/8/25  
Prohibits the search, with or without a warrant, of geolocation and keyword data of a group of people who are under no individual suspicion of having committed a crime, but rather are defined by having been at a given location at a given time or searched particular words, phrases, character strings, or websites.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00479

Introduced
1/8/25  
Entitles employees 45 years of age or older to take one day off every ten years to undergo a colonoscopy.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00493

Introduced
1/8/25  
Authorizes a supreme court judge hearing a petition for an "extreme risk protection order" to also hear a petition for a regular order of protection pursuant to the criminal procedure law, the domestic relations law and/or the family court act.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00478

Introduced
1/8/25  
Enacts the "New York state YouthBuild act"; sets program requirements; authorizes grants to eligible YouthBuild participants; establishes application requirements.