New York Senator Robert Jackson [D]

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NYS08358Intro
25%
Establishes the retail worker safety act requiring retail worker employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence; directs the department of labor to produce a model workplace violence prevention training program; requires em...
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2024-05-09
[Hearing: May 13]
To Senate Labor Committee
NYS08726Intro
25%
Increases the dollar value of abandoned vehicles which may be seized by a local authority.
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2024-05-09
To Senate Transportation Committee
NYS00259Engross
50%
Requires cultural awareness and competence training for medical professionals, including two hours of course work or training encompassing minority healthcare issues; provides an exemption for certain individuals; requires hospitals and facilities to...
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2024-05-08
2ND REPORT CAL.
NYS01316Engross
50%
Relates to requiring the establishment of utility customer financial assistance programs and arrears reporting; requires utilities to report to the public service commission on customers who are in arrears due to the COVID-19 pandemic and to establis...
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2024-05-08
2ND REPORT CAL.
NYS01295Intro
25%
Provides that in toxic tort cases where the specific toxic etiological cause of injury is not known for up to ten years (instead of five years) after the injury itself is discovered a plaintiff shall have three years to file a claim from the time suc...
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2024-05-08
2ND REPORT CAL.
NYS01538Engross
50%
Prohibits the use of drilling fluids and flowback water from wells, pools or fields on any highway for any purpose including but not limited to de-icing or dust suppression.
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2024-05-08
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS02544Intro
25%
Modernizes the practice of podiatry specifically relating to ankle surgery.
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2024-05-08
To Senate Higher Education Committee
NYS04265Intro
25%
Provides for the regulation of ingredients in personal care products and cosmetics to include restricted substances which shall be provided on lists identified by the commissioner.
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2024-05-08
2ND REPORT CAL.
NYS02907Engross
50%
Provides for the licensing of vision impairment specialists.
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2024-05-08
2ND REPORT CAL.
NYS02129Engross
50%
Establishes the climate change adaptation cost recovery program to require companies that have contributed significantly to the buildup of climate-warming greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to bear a share of the costs of needed infrastructure invest...
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2024-05-08
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS04888Intro
25%
Implements additional restrictions on actions to recover overpayment of certain assistance.
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2024-05-08
2ND REPORT CAL.
NYS01489Intro
25%
Extends paid family leave benefits to employees who perform construction, demolition, reconstruction, excavation, rehabilitation, repairs, renovations, alterations, or improvements for multiple employers pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement ...
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2024-05-08
2ND REPORT CAL.
NYS03552Engross
50%
Provides for the licensing of genetic counselors; creates the state board for genetic counseling.
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2024-05-08
2ND REPORT CAL.
NYS01966Intro
25%
Provides immunity from prosecution for certain individuals engaged in prostitution who are victims of or witnesses to a crime and who report such crime or assist in the investigation or prosecution.
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2024-05-08
1ST REPORT CAL.1005
NYS00239Engross
50%
Enacts the "New York open water data act"; directs certain agencies, under the leadership of conveners, to identify and integrate key water data sets; provides duties and an annual plan for data to be researched and reported.
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2024-05-08
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS01860Engross
50%
Directs the commissioner of labor to create and distribute to employers written materials regarding mental health services and resources available to employees to be posted in the workplace; directs voluntary guidance for employers to put in place st...
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2024-05-08
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS00314Engross
50%
Directs the New York state energy and development authority to establish a ride clean rebate program for electric assist bicycles and electric scooters; defines terms; provides a fifty percent rebate for eligible pucrhases.
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2024-05-08
2ND REPORT CAL.
NYS06863Engross
50%
Relates to reporting requirements of SUNY and CUNY; relates to financial information and identifying vendor information of each contract; relates to a list of all foundation and state university employees by campus, department and location including ...
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2024-05-08
2ND REPORT CAL.
NYS00887Engross
50%
Establishes a dementia and Alzheimer's disease program database.
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2024-05-08
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS02278Intro
25%
Prohibits creditors from enforcing a consumer debt incurred as a result of fraud, duress, intimidation, threat, force, identity theft, exploitation of the debtor's personal information or similar economic abuse perpetrated against a debtor; establish...
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2024-05-08
2ND REPORT CAL.
NYS04198Engross
50%
Enacts the "New York wildlife crossing act"; directs the department of transportation and the New York state thruway authority to identify sites along all highways, thruways and parkways in the state where wildlife crossings are most needed to increa...
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2024-05-08
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYS00992Engross
50%
Prohibits the sale and distribution of anti-fogging sprays and wipes containing perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances; provides penalties for violations.
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2024-05-08
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS04743Engross
50%
Establishes a Black Leadership Institute within the state university of New York as an initiative for Black leaders in higher education with a mission to retain and grow from within SUNY a greater proportion of Black professionals at SUNY campuses; c...
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2024-05-08
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS06959Intro
25%
Provides for the calculation and analysis of certain health center costs.
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2024-05-08
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS04598Engross
50%
Enacts the "school anti-violence education act"; creates a school anti-violence education program; provides that funding will be provided through the omnibus school violence prevention grant program.
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2024-05-08
To Senate Education Committee
NYS07808Intro
25%
Establishes experiential learning opportunities in the state university of New York and the city university of New York.
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2024-05-08
AMENDED ON THIRD READING (T) 7808A
NYS08898Intro
25%
Enacts the tropical rainforest economic & environmental sustainability act requiring that companies contracting with the state do not contribute to tropical forest degradation or deforestation directly or through their supply chains; establishes the ...
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2024-05-08
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NYS08949Intro
25%
Requires the department of labor to provide a document on workplace rights to any minor seeking working papers and to make such document available in other languages and to school officials who issue working papers.
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2024-05-08
2ND REPORT CAL.
NYS03473Engross
50%
Relates to qualifications for certain appointed positions with the board of trustees for the state university and the city university of New York.
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2024-05-08
2ND REPORT CAL.
NYS04973Engross
50%
Amends provisions relating to payment of wages to include compensation that is not payable solely at the employer's discretion; requires certain notices; expands enforcement provisions.
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2024-05-08
2ND REPORT CAL.
NYS08768Intro
25%
Includes nasal sprays in topical therapeutic pharmaceutical agents optometrists are authorized to use.
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2024-05-08
2ND REPORT CAL.
NYS04447Intro
25%
Relates to the substitution of brand name epinephrine auto-injectors with alternate epinephrine auto-injectors in certain cases.
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2024-05-08
2ND REPORT CAL.
NYS00399Intro
25%
Enacts the safer consumption services pilot program act which provides for the establishment of a pilot program to provide overdose prevention center pilot programs.
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2024-05-07
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS01609Intro
25%
Prohibits the use of biometric surveillance technology by law enforcement; establishes the biometric surveillance regulation task force; provides for the expiration and repeal of certain provisions.
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2024-05-07
To Senate Codes Committee
NYS04746Intro
25%
Requires fashion sellers to be accountable to standardized environmental due diligence policies; establishes the fashion environmental accountability act compact to create an interstate fashion environmental accountability commission; establishes a f...
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2024-05-07
To Senate Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYS04578Intro
25%
Establishes the mothers and infants lasting change ("MILC") allowance to provide income to eligible participants for the last three months of pregnancy and the first 18 months of the child's life; excludes income received from the MILC allowance for ...
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2024-05-07
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS06306Intro
25%
Provides WTC-related benefits to certain employees who worked at the Verrazano Bridge Toll Facility.
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2024-05-07
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS01944Intro
25%
Requires property owners to dedicate certain residential units to rent regulated status following demolition and new construction or substantial renovation.
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2024-05-07
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS03065Intro
25%
Requires training to reduce abusive conduct and bullying in the workplace as part of a written workplace violence prevention program.
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2024-05-07
[Hearing: May 13]
To Senate Labor Committee
NYS04400Intro
25%
Requires each institution within the state university of New York and the city university of New York to have at least one vending machine making emergency contraception available for purchase.
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2024-05-07
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS07152Engross
50%
Enacts the "public university emergency contraception education act" requiring public universities to develop, produce and distribute informational materials related to emergency contraception.
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2024-05-07
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS02966Intro
25%
Requires certain watercraft, aircrafts, and trains to use clean energy, including ensuring such vehicles are zero-emissions; requires NYSERDA to study zero-emission commercial vehicles, the use of renewable energy in publicly funded airports, and the...
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2024-05-07
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS08408Intro
25%
Allows a beneficiary of a member whose death occurs on or after July 1, 2024 and who would have been entitled to a service credit at the time of such member's death to elect to receive a lump sum payment equal to the pension reserve that would have b...
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2024-05-07
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS02689Intro
25%
Enacts the "Renewable Capitol act"; requires the office of general services, in consultation with the power authority of the state of New York, to ensure that all operations that power, heat or cool the empire state plaza complex shall entirely use r...
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2024-05-07
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS07297Intro
25%
Establishes the homeownership protection program; provides that the department of law shall establish the homeownership protection program to ensure the availability of free housing counseling and legal services to homeowners for the purposes of miti...
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2024-05-07
[Hearing: May 14 @ 11:00 am]
To Senate Finance Committee
NYJ02342PassHonoring Dr. Victor G. Alicea, Founder, President, and devoted advocate for higher education, upon the occasion of Boricua College's 50th Anniversary
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2024-05-07
ADOPTED
NYS07684Intro
25%
Establishes an Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) leadership institute within the state university of New York as an initiative for Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) leaders in higher education with a miss...
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2024-05-07
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS05422Engross
50%
Relates to modular construction work; provides that modular construction shall comply with any existing municipal licensing requirements for all electrical, plumbing, and fire suppression work.
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2024-05-07
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS07713Intro
25%
Relates to student refunds; provides that no student shall demand repayment of funds where the error was an inadvertent or administrative error on the part of the corporation or other state agency.
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2024-05-07
To Senate Finance Committee
NYS09053Intro
25%
Exempts certain other than for-profit community gardens from payment for water usage and supply; exempts non-profit community gardens located on property in the city of New York and licensed by or registered with such city's department of parks and r...
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2024-05-07
To Senate Finance Committee
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