Committee

New York Assembly Codes Committee

Bill Bill Name Progress Referral Date
A00053 Allows evidence of a defendant's prior crimes or acts to be admissible in a criminal case for certain purposes including as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, state of mind of the defendant, state of mind of the victim or other party, absence of mistake or accident, identity, modus operandi, or common scheme or plan; requires that the prosecution provide reasonable notice of the general nature of any such evidence it intends to introduce at trial. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00059 Requires the district attorney to notify victims by letter of the final disposition of the case within sixty days of such disposition in cases where such final disposition includes a conviction; provides such letter shall also notify victims of their right to make a victim impact statement; allows them to personally appear at parole hearings and make such a statement. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00073 Requires the display of certain labels and warnings on gas stoves sold, displayed for sale, or offered for sale at retail to a consumer in this state; authorizes the department of state to adopt regulations regarding the placement and format of such labels; provides for penalties; authorizes the attorney general to enforce such provisions. In Committee 03/25/2025
A00077 Prohibits the sale of flavored smokeless tobacco within five hundred feet of a public or private elementary or secondary school; defines "flavored smokeless tobacco"; authorizes the commissioner to impose a civil penalty for violations. In Committee 02/24/2025
A00086 Prohibits the imposition of any surcharge for the installation or use of a tenant-installed appliance where the tenant pays for electric utility service, under rent control, and rent stabilization laws. In Committee 05/28/2025
A00098 Provides that a dental hygienist shall not administer local block anesthesia without a certificate and except under the personal supervision of a dentist and in conjunction with the performance of dental hygiene procedures authorized by law and in accordance with regulations promulgated by the commissioner. In Committee 05/20/2025
A00101 Prohibits the use of intoxication of the victim as a defense in sex crimes where the victim is under the influence of any drug, intoxicant, or other substance to a degree which rendered the victim temporarily incapable of appraising or controlling such person's conduct and such condition was known or reasonably should have been known to a person in the actor's situation. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00104 Removes from admissibility evidence that proves or tends to prove that a victim has been convicted of a prostitution offense within three years prior to the sex offense which is the subject of the prosecution. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00105 Includes within the class A misdemeanor of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, the possession of a firearm, rifle or shotgun, outside the home, while impaired or intoxicated by use of alcohol or drugs; increases maximum fine for such offense to $10,000; provides for chemical testing of certain persons for whom there is reasonable cause to believe are in violation of such provision; provides for revocation of firearms permit upon conviction or refusal of a chemical test. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00123 Establishes an assumption of the inadmissibility of evidence of a defendant's creative or artistic expression against such defendant in a criminal proceeding; requires the proffering party to affirmatively prove that the evidence is admissible by clear and convincing evidence. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00127 Provides for findings of the state board of parole necessary for discretionary release of incarcerated individuals on parole. In Committee 04/02/2025
A00136 Relates to the medical aid in dying act; relates to a terminally ill patient's request for and use of medication for medical aid in dying. Crossed Over 04/28/2025
A00151 Includes all hate crimes as a qualifying offense for the purposes of a court's determination to release the principal pending trial on the principal's own recognizance or under non-monetary conditions, fix bail, or, where the defendant is charged with a qualifying offense which is a felony, the court may commit the principal to the custody of the sheriff. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00169 Removes the $250 amount of damage from cemetery desecration in the second degree; makes cemetery desecration in the second degree a class E felony to apply to any damage or theft regardless of value; adds crime of cemetery desecration in the first degree and makes such crime a class D felony. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00173 Relates to the applicability of open meetings and freedom of information laws to certain not-for-profit corporations. In Committee 02/24/2025
A00174 Prohibits rent minimums in all mortgages regardless of when issued. In Committee 05/13/2025
A00196 Enacts the "dialogue and decorum act" which establishes the crime of disruption or disturbance of a lawful assembly; makes such crime an unclassified misdemeanor. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00198 Relates to establishing a voluntary waiver of the right to purchase firearms, rifles or shotguns; requires the division of state police to maintain statewide records of individuals who have waived the right to purchase firearms, rifles, or shotguns and any revocations of such waivers. In Committee 05/20/2025
A00199 Makes it illegal for certain persons to possess or sell a pistol converter or a converted pistol. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00202 Relates to adding ammunition to the list of prohibited items to purchase or dispose of after certain convictions. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00268 Prohibits the sale of infant walkers; restricts the use of such infant walkers in certain settings. In Committee 04/28/2025
A00270 Establishes the right to legal counsel in immigration court proceedings; provides for the administration thereof. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00280 Provides that a person may be charged with promoting a suicide or manslaughter if such person is convicted of endangering the welfare of a vulnerable elderly person, an incompetent or physically disabled person and the conduct was the proximate cause of the victim's suicide. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00294 Provides that a person is guilty of aggravated assault upon a police officer or peace officer when, with intent to cause physical injury to another person whom such person knows or reasonably should know to be a police officer or a peace officer engaged in the course of performing such police officer or peace officer's official duties and when aided by two or more other persons actually present at an assembly in a public place, as such term is defined in subdivision one of section 240.00 of this In Committee 01/08/2025
A00296 Enacts the "New York State Phoenix Act"; extends the statute of limitations for felony family offenses to ten years and misdemeanor family offenses to five years. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00301 Establishes the crime of fertility fraud as an assisted reproduction procedure using the health care provider's own spermatozoon or ovum or using human reproductive material without the donor's consent. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00317 Prohibits peremptory challenges of prospective jurors based on race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, gender identity or expression, religion, religious practice, age, disability, or sexual orientation. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00318 Prohibits speech-based defenses to actions brought against an individual for the unlawful dissemination of publication of an intimate image. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00320 Relates to interest to be recovered upon a sum awarded in certain circumstances. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00322 Enables appellate review of the fairness and appropriateness of an imposed criminal sentence. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00327 Requires that a defendant must be over twenty-five years old to be guilty of felony murder. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00328 Requires the prosecution to disclose to defense counsel certain information relating to jailhouse informants; requires prosecutors to notify victims of the informant's crimes if the prosecutor has offered the informant a benefit in exchange for testimony or other cooperation. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00331 Authorizes cities and towns, except a city with a population of one million or more, to establish community housing funds; authorizes such cities and towns to impose a real estate transfer tax with revenues to be deposited in such funds; makes related provisions. In Committee 04/30/2025
A00332 Requires the surrender of antique firearms, black powder rifles, black powder shotguns, or muzzle-loading firearms following a conviction for a felony or serious offense or following a report pursuant to section 9.46 of the mental hygiene law. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00346 Establishes the offense of unlawful possession of firearms by persons under twenty-one. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00356 Prohibits the division of criminal justice services from disclosing pending orders of adjournment in contemplation of dismissal on civil records of arrests and prosecutions. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00360 Relates to establishing additional requirements to purchase a firearm, shotgun or rifle; requires a person to apply for a hunting license prior to the purchase of a shotgun or rifle; establishes additional requirements for all firearms, shotguns and rifles including taking a five hour gun safety course and exam, passing a shooting range test with 90% accuracy, providing notarized proof of a passed drug test and mental health evaluation, providing proof of purchase of firearm and ammunition safe In Committee 01/08/2025
A00367 Provides that the court may, in its discretion, dispense with the defendant's personal appearance at an arraignment and conduct an electronic arraignment. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00391 Requires certain disclosures by a developer of virtual tokens in advertisements involving such virtual tokens; provides restrictions concerning advertising. Crossed Over 05/06/2025
A00394 Authorizes bail for certain harassment offenses which are, or are charged as, hate crimes. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00397 Increases offense categories by one for certain larceny and criminal possession of stolen property offenses committed against elderly persons. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00399 Prohibits the manufacture, modification, sale, transfer, equipping, use, or operation of a robotic device or an uncrewed aircraft equipped or mounted with a weapon within the state. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00407 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. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00412 Adds impersonation of a utility employee or delivery person to criminal impersonation in the first degree. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00413 Expands unlawful surveillance in the first degree to include instances where the surveillance is of a person who has an active order of protection against them. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00428 Amends certain provisions relating to online dating services, including the right to cancel such services. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/14/2025
A00434 Amends certain provisions requiring the termination of connected vehicle services upon the request of a domestic violence victim; requires the provider of the connected vehicle services to terminate such services within two days of receiving a request; directs the office for the prevention of domestic violence to make information available on their website; defines terms. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/14/2025
A00436 Includes pistol converters in the definition of a rapid-fire modification device. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00437 Includes rifles and shotguns in required warnings to consumers regarding the risk of death or suicide in homes where such weapons are present. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00441 Increases the notice of cancellation requirements for automobile broker businesses. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/14/2025
A00457 Exempts private investigators from restrictions on possessing a weapon in sensitive and restrictive locations while traveling to and from and during the course of their employment and at any necessary and appropriate location during work hours; clarifies that a security guard may possess a weapon going to and from work. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00458 Requires training on how to identify illegal purchasers of firearms for all retailers, dealers and sellers of firearms in New York state; directs the state police to implement such program; makes related provisions. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00462 Relates to repeated instances of harassment giving rise to a charge of aggravated harassment in the second degree and harassment in the first degree; clarifies that the victim of such separate offenses does not need to be the same individual. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00490 Includes instances of sexual conduct against a child less than seventeen years of age to certain sex offenses; removes the time limit to bring subsequent sexual offenses. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00493 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. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00511 Relates to unconsented removal or tampering with a sexually protective device. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00513 Establishes the crime of doxing a police officer, peace officer, or state officer when a person knowingly makes restricted personal information about a police officer, peace officer, state officer, or a member of the immediate family of such officer, publicly available with the intent to threaten, intimidate, or incite the commission of a crime of violence against the police officer, peace officer, state officer, or a member of the immediate family of such officer; or with the intent and knowled In Committee 01/08/2025
A00514 Relates to parole eligibility for certain incarcerated persons age fifty-five or older if they have served at least fifteen years of their sentence or sentences. In Committee 04/02/2025
A00539 Provides that a pre-sentence investigation and written report thereon shall not be required where a negotiated sentence of imprisonment for a term of three hundred sixty-five days or less has been mutually agreed upon by the parties with consent of the judge, as a result of a conviction or revocation of a sentence of probation; removes the requirement of solely in a city with a population of one million or more. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00544 Requires police officers to take temporary custody of firearms for not less than one hundred twenty hours when responding to reports of family violence. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00552 Includes certain activity in transit and transportation facilities within the crime of criminal trespass in the second degree. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00571 Establishes the bystander protection act which increases the punishment for an offense when a member of the public is harmed, but the intended target is a public official. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00584 Enacts the "trapped at work act"; prohibits the use of employment promissory notes. In Committee 05/28/2025
A00588 Relates to the former crime of loitering for the purpose of engaging in a prostitution offense; expunges criminal records for persons previously convicted of such crime; directs the chief administrator of the courts to provide information regarding such expungement; adds language to identify that the crime of loitering for the purpose of engaging in a prostitution offense is no longer in law. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00589 Relates to port authority organization, appearance and notice; establishes the port authority transportation advisory committee. In Committee 02/24/2025
A00590 Requires persons the ages of 16 or 17 to wear a helmet when riding a class one or class two bicycle with electric assist. In Committee 05/06/2025
A00592 Makes life imprisonment without parole mandatory for defendants convicted of murder in the first degree and the victim is a police officer. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00599 Relates to the definition of serious offense and felony offenses against animals for purposes of possession of a firearm. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00606 Requires advertisements to disclose the use of a synthetic performer; imposes a $1,000 civil penalty for a first violation and a $5,000 penalty for any subsequent violation. In Committee 04/28/2025
A00621 Relates to permitting support to a vulnerable elderly person testifying in grand jury proceedings; allows a social worker or informal caregiver to accompany a vulnerable elderly person testifying in a grand jury proceeding, concerning any type of offense, provided that the district attorney consents. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00632 Includes offenses involving the possession, display or discharge of a firearm, rifle, shotgun, machine-gun, or disguised gun as qualifying offenses for the purpose of allowing a principal to be eligible to be held on bail. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00651 Requires the court to advise a defendant that if such defendant is a noncitizen resident and is convicted of a crime, whether by plea or trial, such conviction may result in such defendant's deportation; allows a withdrawal of a plea of guilty by a noncitizen resident if such noncitizen resident is threatened with deportation and such noncitizen resident is not so advised of such threat of deportation. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00654 Increases penalties for owners of rent-regulated property who overcharge tenants. In Committee 05/19/2025
A00659 Prohibits landlords from including incorrect information relating to rent decontrol in certain leases and renewals thereof; imposes a violation punishable by a fine of $1000 for a violation by a landlord; requires the standardization of certain notices pertaining to units subject to the Affordable New York Housing Program. In Committee 05/13/2025
A00673 Relates to facilitating appellate review of rulings that implicate issues of public concern. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00679 Relates to establishing the crime of coercive control; provides that a person is guilty of coercive control when such person engages in a course of conduct against a member of such person's same family or household, without the victim's consent, which results in limiting or restricting, in full or in part, the victim's behavior, movement, associations or access to or use of such victim's own finances or financial information; provides that coercive control is a class E felony. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00684 Includes intentionally selecting a victim based on certain actual or perceived traits in the crime of murder in the first degree; provides that sentence for commission of certain provisions of murder in the first degree is death or life without parole. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00694 Requires courts, prior to accepting a plea, to provide notice to the defendant that such plea and the acceptance thereof could result in deportation, removal from the United States, exclusion from the United States or denial of citizenship, if the defendant is not a citizen of the United States. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00697 Prohibits the use of the term "excited delirium" as a diagnosis, label, or cause of death on death certificates, autopsy reports, police reports or any report, policy or procedure by a public agency or contractor; defines excited delirium. In Committee 05/19/2025
A00707 Directs the division of criminal justice services to promulgate safety standards and training requirements for the protection of law enforcement staff against biological hazards posed by spitting of persons in custody. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00717 Establishes that a person is guilty of arson when such person damages a building or motor vehicle by fire or explosion in the course of the commission or attempted commission of a felony. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00720 Relates to conferring youthful offender status upon conviction of an eligible youth for a misdemeanor. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00731 Relates to repeat offenders of driving accidents. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00733 Repeals provisions relating to persons knowing themselves to be infected with venereal disease. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00754 Modifies the offense of forcible touching by removing the element of the actor's intent, including the intent to degrade or abuse another person. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00773 Relates to the use of automated lending decision-making tools by banks for the purposes of making lending decisions; allows loan applicants to consent to or opt out of such use. In Committee 05/28/2025
A00796 Prohibits the declawing and descenting of ferrets except when necessary for a therapeutic purpose and performed by a licensed veterinarian. In Committee 05/20/2025
A00804 Enacts the consumer litigation funding act to promote consumer protections related to consumer litigation funding transactions; provides for contract requirements, including that the contract contain a no penalty provision for the prepayment of the funded amount prior to the settlement of their case; makes related provisions. In Committee 05/06/2025
A00813 Directs the superintendent of state police, in consultation with the office of children and family services, shall develop, maintain and disseminate to all members of the state police written policies and procedures, regarding child-sensitive arrest practices. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00814 Directs the commissioner of health to develop and implement a public awareness campaign on the safe storage of firearms, rifles and shotguns and child access and prevention. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/08/2025
A00818 Establishes the class A-I felony of operating as a major firearms trafficker. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00820 Provides that a person who commits a crime during a period of post-release supervision and when such charge culminates in a new sentence, the period of post-release supervision shall be deemed interrupted for any period in which such person was held in pre-trial detention. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00825 Requires police departments and agencies to provide district attorneys' offices access to such departments' and agencies' electronic record systems for discovery purposes. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00836 Relates to utility intervenor reimbursement to a participant for its reasonable costs of participation in any proceeding before the Public Service Commission (PSC). In Committee 05/20/2025
A00848 Requires the consideration of certain domestic violence charges when imposing bail. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00850 Establishes the crimes of cruelty to animals to threaten, intimidate or harass in the second degree and cruelty to animals to threaten, intimidate or harass in the first degree when in the presence of a minor child. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00852 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 a photograph of such bicycles; exempts online marketplaces from placing identifying serial numbers on bicycles. Crossed Over 02/24/2025
A00857 Establishes the crime of assault of a protester in the first, second, and third degrees. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00867 Includes the use of Bluetooth technology in the definition of "following" a person, as it relates to the crime of stalking in the fourth degree. Crossed Over 01/08/2025
A00870 Relates to removing the ten year time period from the crime of persistent sexual abuse. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00894 Authorizes a person to pass their guns to an immediate family member through their estate. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00905 Exempts a person from a money judgment arising from an action in another state for knowingly engaging in conduct that aids or abets the performance or inducement of an abortion. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00913 Relates to when and how notification of a data breach is to be provided to the department of financial services. In Committee 01/14/2025
A00920 Adds medical and health insurance information within the definitions of personal identifying information. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/08/2025
A00921 Clarifies certain provisions relating to protective orders for juries. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/08/2025
A00929 Grants the Attorney General the power to investigate, prosecute and seek injunctive relief for the sale of illegal firearms and ammunition. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00930 Provides for the ability of a court to set bail where the principal stands charged for the third time for the same offense within a period of two years. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00934 Provides that if there is a tie when there is an even number of defendants, a peremptory challenge must be allowed. Crossed Over 01/08/2025
A00935 Authorizes bail for principals charged with certain driving while intoxicated offenses. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00953 Prohibits utility corporations from imposing late fees, interest, or penalties during an investigation by the commission; allows retroactive late fees, interest, or penalties if a determination is made in favor of such utility corporation; prohibits utility services from being terminated during an investigation by the commission; requires utility corporations to notify customers of investigations; requires notice to the general public; requires the public service commission to prepare reports on In Committee 04/29/2025
A00974 Enacts the New York privacy act to require companies to disclose their methods of de-identifying personal information, to place special safeguards around data sharing and to allow consumers to obtain the names of all entities with whom their information is shared. In Committee 05/27/2025
A01007 Prohibits the use of cannabis within thirty feet of a child or within thirty feet of any location in which children reside or attend for any recreational or educational purpose; provides for increased penalties for a second or subsequent violation. In Committee 01/08/2025
A01013 Includes certain violations involving the use of a machine-gun, firearm silencer, firearm, rifle, shotgun, disguised gun, ghost gun or assault weapon as qualifying offenses for the purpose of imposing bail. In Committee 01/08/2025
A01029 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. In Committee 01/08/2025
A01033 Relates to appellate processes for misdemeanor cases where a term of imprisonment is imposed; provides that if appeal is taken from a sentence of imprisonment, the appeal must be taken to the appellate division of the department in which such judgment, sentence or order was entered. In Committee 01/08/2025
A01035 Establishes the crime of making a threat of mass violence; relates to the amount of a fine imposed for the commission of a felony. In Committee 01/08/2025
A01053 Relates to the recall of a class B firefighting foam; prohibits the sale or distribution of firefighting personal protective equipment that contains intentionally added PFAS. Crossed Over 03/18/2025
A01059 Increases penalties for the crimes of criminal diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions in the first, second, third and fourth degrees and criminal sale of a prescription. In Committee 01/08/2025
A01067 Relates to prohibiting the exclusion of coverage for losses or damages caused by exposure to lead-based paint; provides that no insurer licensed or permitted by the superintendent to provide liability coverage to rental property owners shall exclude coverage for losses or damages caused by exposure to lead-based paint. In Committee 05/13/2025
A01070 Designates unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the third degree as a class E felony; designates unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the second degree as a class D violent felony offense; designates unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the first degree as a class B violent felony offense. In Committee 01/08/2025
A01074 Relates to the court's consideration of the existence of extraordinary circumstances and significant physical injury in determining whether to remove adolescent offenders to family court; defines such terms; provides factors for the court's consideration of whether extraordinary circumstances exist. In Committee 01/08/2025
A01075 Exempts adolescent offenders who were illegally in possession of a loaded firearm from those authorized to be removed to family court. In Committee 01/08/2025
A01079 Allows certain judges, justices, and criminal prosecutors who are duly licensed to possess a concealed firearm, to carry such concealed firearm in court, where no magnetometer or security personnel is present. In Committee 01/08/2025
A01083 Prohibits police and other governmental entities from creating fake electronic communication service accounts, or from collecting or using an individual's account information; establishes a private right of action for a violation of such provisions. In Committee 01/08/2025
A01092 Establishes the crimes of aggravated threat of mass harm in the first degree and aggravated threat of mass harm in the second degree; makes such crimes hate crimes. In Committee 01/08/2025
A01093 Adds to the crime of public lewdness the electronic transmission of an image depicting exposed private or intimate parts without the consent of the recipient. In Committee 01/08/2025
A01095 Prohibits motor vehicle manufacturers and dealers from charging a subscription fee for certain functions of a motor vehicle after the vehicle is sold; provides that any manufacturer, dealer, or agent of a manufacturer or dealer that fails to comply with such requirements shall be assessed a civil penalty not to exceed two hundred fifty dollars per point of sale for each violation. In Committee 04/28/2025
A01096 Requires the clear and conspicuous disclosure of pricing changes for online grocery delivery and online pick-up services; imposes a fine of not more than one hundred dollars for the first offense and not more than two hundred fifty dollars for a second and each subsequent offense for violations. Crossed Over 05/06/2025
A01101 Relates to prohibiting the release of certain balloons; prohibits a person from knowingly or intentionally releasing outdoors any balloons constructed of electrically conductive material filled with helium or a gas lighter than air; provides exceptions. In Committee 04/02/2025
A01118 Increases monetary penalties for public health law violations; provides support for the nursing home quality improvement demonstration program. In Committee 02/04/2025
A01140 Adds the definition of consent to the terms of general use; defines it as a freely given, knowledgeable and informed agreement by a person with the capacity to reason. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01159 Designates offenses against law enforcement officers as hate crimes; designates making graffiti as a specified offense. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01183 Prohibits fuel oil, grade number four in any building or facility in the state after July 1, 2030. In Committee 04/30/2025
A01188 Enacts the criminal street gangs enforcement and prevention act; defines offenses; increases penalties; provides for gang prevention programs in schools; establishes the criminal street gang prevention fund; develops a comprehensive approach to protecting public interests from gang related crime and violence. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01191 Enacts the "safer weapons, safer homes act"; requires the division of criminal justice services to certify the technological viability of personalized handguns and to establish requirements related to the sale of personalized handguns; defines personalized handgun; requires the division to establish and maintain a roster of all personalized handguns approved for retail sale to the public; requires the division to report to the legislature on the technological viability of personalized handguns. Crossed Over 01/09/2025
A01209 Enacts a mattress collection program; requires mattress producers to establish a plan for the convenient and cost-effective recycling of used mattresses. In Committee 03/04/2025
A01210 Establishes a ten business day waiting period from contact of the New York State National Instant Background Check System (NYS NICS) before a firearm, shotgun or rifle may be delivered to a person. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01246 Criminalizes defrauding a person 65 years of age or older by stealing or accessing without proper permission money, property or benefits by means of a deceptive tactic or the purposeful feeding of misinformation, regardless of the monetary value of the money, property or benefits. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01248 Prohibits the knowing sale of xylazine above a certain weight to persons under the age of 21 and without proof of the intended use for institutional, veterinary, or scientific purposes. Crossed Over 03/25/2025
A01250 Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls during a declared state of emergency or disaster emergency where the declaration or proclamation of emergency includes a finding that unsolicited telemarketing sales calls would impair actions taken to limit, control, or mitigate the emergency; explains the basis of such finding; provides that such prohibition may not extend for a period of more than two weeks, subject to renewal for additional two-week periods by further findings of necessity made In Committee 05/06/2025
A01275 Removes the $250 economic harm requirement from the felony commercial bribery statutes; expands the crime of larceny to include theft of personal identifying information, computer data, computer programs, and services, to adapt to modern technological realities; provides state jurisdiction and county venue over cases involving larceny of personal identifying information, computer data, and computer programs, where the victim is located in the state or the county. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01280 Establishes the crime of unlawful dissemination or publication of a fabricated photographic, videographic, or audio record as a class E felony. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01283 Authorizes certain persons confined in institutions operated by the department of corrections and community supervision to apply for a sentence reduction. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01291 Authorizes bail for principals charged with aggravated cruelty to animals. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01297 Enacts the "Marvin Mayfield act", eliminating mandatory minimum sentences. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01316 Prohibits the use of consumer credit history in hiring, employment and licensing determinations. In Committee 05/06/2025
A01319 Includes assault of a vehicle license examiner to assault in the second degree. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01326 Requires a 60 day license suspension for any driver convicted of 2 speeding violations within a school zone, committed within an 18 month period of time. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01327 Relates to releasing individuals charged with a crime under non-monetary bail conditions in order to receive mental health screening or be admitted to a hospital as a result of a mental illness which is likely to result in harm to such individual or others. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01338 Sets rules and procedures for the admissibility of evidence created or processed by artificial intelligence. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01345 Includes falsely reporting incidents in an attempt to bring about the dispatch of a large number of police officers to a particular address or location as a felony offense under the crime of falsely reporting an incident in the second degree. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01349 Expands felony sex offenses to include promoting prostitution in the second degree, promoting prostitution in the first degree, compelling prostitution, sex trafficking, and sex trafficking of a child. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01354 Prohibits the idling of any passenger vehicle, with certain exceptions, for more than 3 consecutive minutes; establishes the first violation is a warning and subsequent violations of such section are traffic infractions punishable by a fine of $150. In Committee 04/30/2025
A01377 Makes chapter 689 of the laws of 1993, and thus article 182 of the criminal procedure law titled alternate method of court appearance, permanent. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01378 Relates to presumptive evidence that a person committed a hate crime by evaluating a certain set of facts and circumstances. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01384 Enacts "Jessica Lunsford act" relating to enhancing the class A-II felony of predatory sexual assault against a child by expanding the acts to which such offense applies; establishes a mandatory sentence of 25 years to life term of imprisonment; requires electronic monitoring of incarcerated individuals upon release from prison. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01410 Requires entities that submit records to state agencies that are excepted from disclosure under FOIL to periodically re-apply for the exception. Crossed Over 03/11/2025
A01417 Prohibits a person or entity from knowingly or with reckless disregard facilitate an agreement between or among two or more residential rental property owners or managers to not compete with respect to residential rental dwelling units, including by operating or licensing a software, data analytics service, or algorithmic device that performs a coordinating function on behalf of or between and among such residential rental property owners or managers. In Committee 05/13/2025
A01422 Provides that an accusatory instrument or supporting deposition consisting of factual allegations by a deponent with limited English proficiency is not sufficient unless accompanied by a sworn statement from an interpreter affirming the accuracy of the English interpretation. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01426 Includes a police or peace officers turning off their body camera or deleting a body camera recording in the crime of tampering with physical evidence. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01429 Limits reversals for failure of prompt prosecution where there is no violation of periods of limitations, speedy trial time periods, and no showing of material prejudice resulting from unreasonable delay. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01430 Prohibits the sale of medical adhesives and bandages containing perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances; provides penalties for violations. In Committee 05/20/2025
A01432 Relates to codifying animal cruelty laws under the penal law; makes conforming technical changes. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01437 Enacts the "criminal forfeiture process act" to replace the process for the criminal forfeiture of certain property in certain instances. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01441 Strengthens provisions relating to complaint handling procedures by the public service commission; requires certain response times. Crossed Over 03/25/2025
A01442 Relates to allowing a jury instruction stating biometric evidence shall not be dispositive in the jury's decision. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01450 Restricts insurers from demanding intrusive personal, financial and tax information from insureds as a standard practice in processing ordinary theft claims where no special circumstances warranting a demand for such information exists. Crossed Over 05/13/2025
A01461 Relates to the use of antipsychotic medications in nursing homes; imposes limits as to time and documentation; requires informed consent under certain circumstances. In Committee 04/28/2025
A01463 Abolishes citizens arrests in New York state. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01465 Relates to certain prostitution offenses and fines relating thereto; relates to motions to vacate judgment and motions for new sentencing; relates to investigation into acts alleged to be the unauthorized practice of massage therapy by potential victims of human trafficking; prohibits the possession of reproductive or sexual health devices from being permitted in specified criminal or civil proceedings as evidence of prostitution; relates to services for exploited individuals, services for victi In Committee 01/09/2025
A01471 Allows for written instructions regarding elements to be supplied to a jury. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01474 Relates to the climate change adaptation cost recovery program and requirements for climate change adaptive infrastructure projects; relates to the use of funds from the climate change adaptation fund for certain projects; relates to the disclosure of certain data from returns of petroleum or fossil fuel businesses; relates to expenditure of funds from the climate change adaptation fund; repeals certain provisions; relates to severability and legislative findings. In Committee 01/22/2025
A01478 Relates to criminalizing the act of stalking a police officer or peace officer. In Committee 01/10/2025
A01480 Makes life imprisonment without parole mandatory for defendants convicted of murder in the first degree or second degree and the victim is a police officer, peace officer, first responder or correctional officer. In Committee 01/10/2025
A01489 Elevates assault of a code enforcement official in the second degree to a class D felony. In Committee 01/10/2025
A01500 Provides an exemption of any award from the September eleventh victim compensation fund from application to the satisfaction of money judgements. In Committee 01/10/2025
A01506 Requires that any limited liability company who files a rent registration statement shall include a list of all members of such limited liability company and each member's ownership interest. In Committee 02/25/2025
A01512 Relates to assault in the third degree by a person against an operator, driver or passenger on a bus, taxicab, aerial tramway, subway or other motor vehicle. In Committee 01/10/2025
A01527 Relates to mandatory dispositions and the commission of a felony offense while in possession of a firearm; provides an additional five years imprisonment. In Committee 01/10/2025
A01529 Requires the disclosure of lead-based paint test reports in real estate transactions. In Committee 05/20/2025
A01531 Expands the offense of unlawfully dealing with a child in the second degree to include allowing a child less than eighteen years old to enter or remain in an establishment that serves alcohol and does not have an on-site kitchen. In Committee 01/10/2025
A01550 Prohibits a court from denying class certification for purposes of class action lawsuits solely because the action involves governmental operations. Crossed Over 01/10/2025
A01556 Enacts the "food safety and chemical disclosure act"; prohibits certain food additives and food color additives; provides that in an action to enforce compliance, the recognition by the federal food and drug administration of any of these substances as safe may not be alleged as a defense; establishes requirements for the reporting of GRAS (generally recognized as safe) substances. In Committee 05/20/2025
A01565 Establishes the homeless protection act which designates certain offenses against homeless persons as hate crimes; includes the definition of homelessness. In Committee 01/10/2025
A01578 Provides that a person convicted of murder in the first or second degree, or aggravated murder, in the death of a minor shall be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. In Committee 01/10/2025
A01584 Increases penalties for criminal use of a firearm in the first degree when committing a drug related felony offense. In Committee 01/10/2025
A01586 Authorizes courts to order remand or bail in certain prostitution and labor trafficking cases. In Committee 01/10/2025
A01598 Creates a civil cause of action for the manufacture, sale, or distribution of assault weapons or ghost guns within the state; aiding and abetting such manufacture, sale or distribution; or intending to aid and abet in such manufacture, sale or distribution; provides for a civil remedy of ten thousand dollars per violation. In Committee 01/10/2025
A01609 Designates a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals as a qualified agency for the purpose of allowing access to the division of criminal justice services central data facility which contains criminal records, personal appearance date, fingerprints, photographs, handwriting samples and other information. In Committee 01/10/2025
A01641 Removes statute of limitations for certain civil actions related to child sexual assault offenses. In Committee 01/10/2025
A01646 Extends the answer time when a major capital improvement rent increase has been filed to ninety days. In Committee 05/13/2025
A01647 Decriminalizes the possession of buprenorphine from certain crimes. In Committee 01/10/2025
A01650 Relates to removing the requirement that physical injury be caused under the crimes of aggravated sexual abuse in the third and fourth degrees. In Committee 01/10/2025
A01651 Relates to the ability of a fare-paying passenger in a transportation network company vehicle and the driver of such vehicle to consent to sexual activity inside such vehicle. In Committee 01/10/2025
A01658 Requires a sentence of life imprisonment without parole for murder in the first degree, aggravated murder, and murder in the second degree. In Committee 01/10/2025
A01659 Relates to expungement of records for certain juveniles convicted of a nonviolent offense after seven years and satisfactory completion of such person's probation, parole, supervised release and payment of any fines imposed or restitution ordered, whichever is later. In Committee 01/10/2025
A01672 Prohibits contracts for the purchase or financing of a dog or cat from online websites from including provisions allowing repossession of the animal. Crossed Over 02/11/2025
A01673 Establishes that if financial loss has been made and a registrant or unregistered repair shop fails to comply with an order to pay restitution, the commissioner shall, by order, increase the amount of the penalty assessed. In Committee 03/11/2025
A01678 Updates requirements for retail worker employers when developing and implementing programs to prevent workplace violence; clarifies certain provisions of the retail worker safety act. In Committee 01/28/2025
A01681 Relates to an increase in punishment for certain actions against on-duty auxiliary police officers such as criminally negligent homicide, assault or menacing of such officer. In Committee 01/14/2025
A01684 Establishes a special prosecutor to investigate and prosecute matters involving the death of an unarmed civilian caused by a law enforcement officer. In Committee 01/14/2025
A01698 Requires state or municipal officials to attempt to identify and notify the owners of a deceased dog or cat recovered on public roads. In Committee 05/20/2025
A01703 Provides for the admission of evidence of proof of similar offenses in criminal and civil proceedings involving the commission of a sex offense; provides for procedures therefor. In Committee 01/14/2025
A01730 Provides for the seizure and forfeiture of vehicles, vessels and aircraft used in counterfeit goods; establishes this shall not apply to vehicles, vessels, or aircrafts that are used by any person as a common carrier in the transaction of business as such common carrier. In Committee 01/14/2025
A01742 Establishes the crime of forcible touching of a correction officer; increases criminal penalties for certain sexual offenses committed against correction officers when such correction officer is acting in the course of such correction officer's employment. In Committee 01/14/2025
A01746 Categorizes members of an auxiliary police program organized and maintained by a state or local police department with police officers and peace officers for purposes of certain felony classifications. In Committee 01/14/2025
A01749 Enacts the "packaging reduction and recycling infrastructure act" to require companies selling, offering for sale, or distributing packaging materials and products to register with a packaging reduction organization to develop a packaging reduction and recycling plan. In Committee 03/04/2025
A01774 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. In Committee 01/14/2025
A01777 Relates to the regulation of three-dimensional printed firearms; provides that a person who intentionally sells, distributes, or disposes of a three-dimensional printed firearm is guilty of a class A misdemeanor. In Committee 01/14/2025
A01797 Requires that hair relaxer products display labels when they contain certain dangerous chemicals. Crossed Over 02/24/2025
A01801 Permits those licensed to carry or possess a pistol or revolver or to purchase or take possession of a semi-automatic rifle or licensed to hunt wildlife to purchase or take possession of ammunition without requiring contacting the statewide license and record database. In Committee 01/14/2025
A01802 Requires contractors in cities having a population of one million or more to recycle 50% of the waste generated on construction and demolition sites. In Committee 02/11/2025
A01809 Requires law enforcement agencies to store physical or other evidence it maintains within fireproof containers or within a fireproof storage area; requires law enforcement agencies to document and photograph evidence before it is stored in a fireproof container or storage area; requires that such documents and photographs be stored in a different location. In Committee 01/14/2025
A01816 Includes animal fighting as a criminal act for purposes of enterprise corruption crimes. In Committee 01/14/2025
A01824 Includes certain charges of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree as a qualifying offense for consideration of an order of recognizance, release under non-monetary conditions or bail. In Committee 01/14/2025
A01836 Relates to the prosecution of certain juveniles between the ages of 16 and 18 charged with certain felony offenses, including possession of a firearm; relates to the transfer of such cases to family court. In Committee 01/14/2025
A01838 Relates to the sale and possession of self-defense spray devices in the state; removes the requirement that only authorized dealers and pharmacists could sell such devices; permits shipping of such devices within the state; repeals certain provisions of law relating thereto. In Committee 01/14/2025
A01840 Relates to expanding the geographical area of employment of university police officers; extends the jurisdiction of New York state university police officers from state university of New York property and abutting roadways to all areas of the state. In Committee 01/14/2025
A01872 Categorizes the assault of certain employees of the New York city department of buildings or the New York city department of housing preservation and development as a class D felony. In Committee 01/14/2025
A01886 Provides that no landlord shall deny access to a licensed professional engineer or licensed registered architect hired by any tenant or tenant association representing tenants of a multiple dwelling of six units or more for the purpose of conducting an inspection of a major capital improvement for which an application for a maximum rent adjustment has been filed by the landlord; provides that such inspection shall be conducted after notice to the landlord and during normal business hours; provid In Committee 05/13/2025
A01902 Relates to the definition of assault weapons; removes certain characteristics from the definition of assault weapons. In Committee 01/14/2025
A01905 Allows access to juvenile delinquency records for the purposes of a firearm background check; authorizes the denial of a firearm license for an applicant who is under the age of thirty and who as a juvenile was adjudicated delinquent for an offense which, if committed by an adult, would constitute a felony or serious offense. In Committee 01/14/2025
A01916 Relates to licensing laser hair removal technicians; establishes laser hair removal rules, regulations and standards. In Committee 05/20/2025
A01919 Establishes the crimes of sex trafficking of a vulnerable person and predatory sex trafficking when a person intentionally advances or profits from prostitution of a vulnerable person. In Committee 01/14/2025
A01953 Restricts the locations of gunsmiths and dealers in firearms in relation to child day care or educational facilities, and places of worship. In Committee 01/14/2025
A01957 Relates to establishing the offense of false pretense. In Committee 01/14/2025
A01962 Enacts "Francesco's law" which establishes violations for the failure to safely store rifles, shotguns, and firearms in the presence of a minor or a prohibited person; repeals certain provisions relating thereto. In Committee 01/14/2025
A01966 Includes wildlife animals as those subject to the animal cruelty provisions of the agriculture and markets law. In Committee 03/11/2025
A01970 Requires the collection and reporting of sexual offense evidence on the statewide electronic tracking system within seven days of permission to release the evidence by the alleged sexual offense victim; relates to additional rules and guidelines. Crossed Over 04/08/2025
A01985 Establishes a state frontotemporal degeneration registry; defines terms; requires every physician, nurse practitioner, nurse physician assistant and general hospital that diagnoses or is treating a patient diagnosed with an FTD disorder to give notice to the department; requires certain information to be confidential; sets forth the duties of the commissioner of health; requires the department of health to create and maintain a webpage. In Committee 03/18/2025
A01994 Allows certain defenses to parking violations despite entering of a default judgment. Crossed Over 04/02/2025
A02013 Provides that a person convicted of murder in the first or second degree, or aggravated murder, in the death of a child who is less than thirteen years old shall be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. In Committee 01/14/2025
A02019 Eliminates the requirement that injury be serious with respect to aggravated cruelty to animals. In Committee 04/02/2025
A02020 Grants peace officer status to employees of the town court of the town of Montgomery serving as uniformed court officers at such town court. In Committee 01/14/2025
A02021 Establishes the crime of criminal sale of a controlled substance resulting in death, a class A-1 felony. In Committee 01/14/2025
A02038 Relates to providing for a mandatory ten-year minimum sentence of imprisonment for certain felony convictions of public servants. In Committee 01/14/2025
A02054 Enacts the "beauty justice act"; provides for the regulation of ingredients in personal care products and cosmetics; prohibits the sale of personal care products and cosmetic products containing certain restricted products. In Committee 03/04/2025
A02060 Relates to the manufacturing of firearms; requires any firearm manufactured by a three-dimensional printer to contain a unique identifying number and to be registered with the state police. In Committee 01/15/2025
A02065 Provides that it is a class E felony to operate a model or unmanned aircraft over a critical infrastructure facility including an electrical power generating facility, petroleum or natural gas refinery or stage facility, or an aboveground oil, gas or chemical pipeline. In Committee 01/15/2025
A02083 Relates to sentencing and larceny of property of the elderly or disabled. In Committee 01/15/2025
A02084 Establishes the office of gun violence prevention and the gun violence advisory council. In Committee 01/15/2025
A02093 Enacts the consumer protection and automotive transparency act mandating transparency in automotive labeling relating to materials used in motor vehicles. In Committee 05/06/2025
A02096 Permits civil forfeiture action to recover property used in or proceeds derived from criminal activity relating to sexual performances by a child; directs proceeds be used by local social services offices for the prevention and treatment of sexual abuses against children. In Committee 01/15/2025
A02097 Relates to the money deposited as bail by charitable bail organizations; removes maximum authorized amount of money allowed to be deposited by such organizations. In Committee 01/15/2025
A02105 Provides for the confidentiality of applications for licenses for the possession of firearms. In Committee 01/15/2025
A02110 Expands the definition of mental health care provider to include licensed psychoanalysts, creative arts therapists and behavior analysts for purposes of certain sex offenses committed during a treatment session, consultation, interview, or examination. In Committee 01/15/2025
A02113 Relates to qualifying offenses for pre-trial detention; adds class B felonies under article two hundred twenty of the penal law as qualifying offenses. In Committee 01/15/2025
A02116 Makes the theft of a package intentionally taken from a porch, driveway, doorway or other area adjacent to the residence of another following delivery of the package to such residence by the postal service or a commercial carrier a felony. In Committee 01/15/2025
A02136 Establishes the crime of assault on a food delivery person as a class E felony; defines a food delivery person to mean a person employed by a restaurant, or put into service by a restaurant, retail food store licensed by the department of agriculture and markets, or a third party vendor, to deliver food or other goods pursuant to an order placed by a customer. In Committee 01/15/2025
A02138 Provides for victim statements at the sentencing of a defendant for certain misdemeanors. In Committee 01/15/2025
A02141 Provides for the protection of health information; establishes requirements for communications to individuals about their health information; requires either written consent or a designated necessary purpose for the processing of an individual's health information. In Committee 01/22/2025
A02158 Requires all agencies of the city of New York which issue summons to document violations with photographic evidence when feasible. In Committee 01/15/2025
A02159 Increases the sentencing classification of misdemeanor hate crime offenses or of an attempt or conspiracy to commit a specified offense that is a misdemeanor to a class E felony. In Committee 01/15/2025
A02165 Permits owners of private property to post such property to prevent trespass by painting purple markings on trees or markers. In Committee 01/15/2025
A02166 Authorizes amendments to a license to carry or possess a firearm to be made by the filing officers or county clerk of each county, unless otherwise specified through resolution of the county's legislative body. In Committee 01/15/2025
A02193 Provides technical corrections to provisions concerning the adjudication of certain traffic violations. In Committee 03/11/2025
A02198 Establishes the crimes of assault on a pregnant person in the second degree as a class D felony and assault on a pregnant person in the first degree as a class C felony. In Committee 01/15/2025
A02210 Prohibits issuance of certain search warrants relating to out-of-state investigations of abortion services provided in NYS; prohibits corporations domiciled in NYS from complying with certain out-of-state search warrants regarding abortion services provided in NYS. In Committee 01/15/2025
A02226 Establishes that when an actor threatens to disseminate or publish a still or video image depicting such other person with one or more intimate parts exposed or engaging in sexual conduct with another person, including a still or video image created or altered by digitization, where such person may reasonably be identified from the still or video image itself or from information displayed in connection with the still or video image within the provisions of unlawful dissemination or publication o In Committee 01/15/2025
A02228 Requires a criminal history background check for the purchase of a three-dimensional printer capable of creating firearms; prohibits sale to a person who would be disqualified on the basis of criminal history from being granted a license to possess a firearm. In Committee 01/15/2025
A02233 Provides for the temporary surrender of firearms to the police by any person who is taken into custody by the police for the purpose of a mental examination and prior to an examination ordered pursuant to article seven hundred thirty of the criminal procedure law; requires a "cooling off period" following the discharge from psychiatric care during which time firearms, which came into police custody during the person's pre-hospitalization intervention or during hospitalization, may be kept in pol In Committee 01/15/2025
A02239 Includes contacts via text, email, private message, direct message or other electronic communication in the definition of the offense of aggravated harassment in the second degree. In Committee 01/15/2025
A02249 Defines "model management group"; provides for the registration process for model management groups; provides for exemption from registration requirements for model management companies and groups. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/28/2025
A02254 Relates to the sentencing requirements for the offenses of hindering prosecution and conspiracy. In Committee 01/16/2025
A02259 Requires town attorneys to institute proceedings to collect fines, restitution or reparation in towns contained within Nassau county. In Committee 01/16/2025
A02262 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". In Committee 01/16/2025
A02269 Relates to aggravated harassment of an employee by an incarcerated individual; eliminates the requirement that an incarcerated individual causes or attempts to cause an employee to come into contact with blood, seminal fluid, urine, feces, saliva, or the contents of a toilet bowl by throwing, tossing or expelling such fluid or material. In Committee 01/16/2025
A02287 Relates to including the illegal conversions of dwelling units in the definition of harassment. In Committee 02/11/2025
A02290 Protects the identity of witnesses of hate crimes in discovery proceedings by requiring identifying information to be redacted, unless the court rules otherwise for good cause shown. In Committee 01/16/2025
A02305 Requires a certificate of merit in actions for damages, contribution or indemnity arising out of alleged negligence of a professional licensed pursuant to the education law; establishes a party in an action for medical, dental or podiatric malpractice may not omit the name of certain experts in responding to a request; limits judgments for past and future damages in an action to recover damages for dental, medical or podiatric malpractice; limits compensation for noneconomic damages suffered by In Committee 01/16/2025
A02313 Requires the court to make an individualized determination whether a defendant poses a current physical threat to any person or to public safety when making a bail determination. In Committee 01/16/2025
A02316 Limits the application of the "safe act" to the counties of Kings, Queens, Richmond, New York and Bronx. In Committee 01/16/2025
A02322 Establishes a program enabling counties to opt-in to allow county jails to operate jail-based competency restoration services for incarcerated individuals deemed unfit for trial due to mental incapacity. In Committee 01/16/2025
A02324 Allows certain reusable beverage containers in sports venues. In Committee 04/28/2025
A02340 Prohibits the sale of kratom to individuals under the age of twenty-one; imposes a civil penalty of not more than five hundred dollars for the sale or provision of kratom to any person under the age of twenty-one. In Committee 05/19/2025
A02346 Includes aggravated cemetery desecration in the second degree and aggravated cemetery desecration in the first degree as specified offenses for purposes of hate crimes. In Committee 01/16/2025
A02357 Authorizes the court the discretion to release persons charged with certain crimes involving possession of a firearm on their own recognizance or under non-monetary conditions, fix bail, or commit the person to the custody of the sheriff. In Committee 01/16/2025
A02380 Increases by one degree the severity of rape in the second degree, sexual abuse in the second degree and course of sexual conduct against a child in the second degree. In Committee 01/16/2025
A02391 Relates to protecting witnesses in criminal prosecutions from intimidation and threats by permitting the court to withhold disclosure of names and other information if the court finds on the record that such witness is subject to potential intimidation, violence or threats. In Committee 01/16/2025
A02402 Requires that no applications, or the literature given therewith, shall be approved, distributed or used in any capacity if they contain an explicit written warning regarding ownership or use of a firearm. In Committee 01/16/2025
A02409 Mandates the disclosure of discrimination, sexual harassment and sexual assault settlements to the civil rights bureau of the attorney general's office. In Committee 01/16/2025
A02414 Repeals provisions dealing with discovery and the ability for a defendant to request access to a crime scene or other relevant premises. In Committee 01/16/2025
A02415 Creates the crime of tampering with electronic monitoring equipment; makes such crime a class E felony. In Committee 01/16/2025
A02432 Amends the warehouse worker injury reduction program to focus on work related musculoskeletal disorders. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/28/2025
A02440 Requires each appropriate institution housing a defendant due to mental disease or defect to assign a critical time intervention care management team to the defendant and make a single point of access referral for the defendant prior to such defendant's discharge. In Committee 01/16/2025
A02441 Relates to the confidentiality and expungement of records in juvenile delinquency cases in the family court; requires certain records to be expunged automatically. In Committee 05/20/2025
A02445 Authorizes courts to reduce or modify sentences upon a motion for certain individuals convicted of a felony in which the sentence is greater than necessary to achieve the purpose of sentencing. In Committee 01/17/2025
A02448 Requires the use of risk and needs assessments in parole decisions; provides a process permitting incarcerated individuals to correct verifiable factual mistakes or errors in their risk and needs assessments or other non-confidential documents given the board prior to their appearances. In Committee 01/17/2025
A02458 Changes the designation of incest in the third degree from a class E to a class B felony, and incest in the second degree from a class D to a class B felony. In Committee 01/17/2025
A02468 Creates the state office of the utility consumer advocate to represent interests of residential utility customers including a proposed change of rates, charges, terms and conditions of service, the adoption of rules, regulations, guidelines, orders, standards or final policy decisions. In Committee 03/25/2025
A02473 Designates the definition of person for the purposes of homicide as Mya's law. In Committee 01/17/2025
A02481 Establishes the crime of aggravated offering of a false accusation against a peace officer or police officer for knowingly reporting false or baseless information relating to wrongdoing by a police or peace officer to a law enforcement agency; creates a private right of action for damages. In Committee 01/17/2025
A02495 Prohibits the imposition of a charge or deduction from a payment due to a health care provider because such payment is made through electronic or paper means. In Committee 05/13/2025
A02526 Enacts provisions relating to collective negotiations by health care providers with certain health care plans in certain counties; applies to health benefit plans that provide benefits for medical or surgical expenses incurred as a result of a health condition, accident or sickness, including an individual, group, blanket or franchise insurance policy or insurance agreement offered by certain enumerated entities. In Committee 03/18/2025
A02539 Requires mandatory arbitration clauses in certain consumer contracts to be printed in large font type. Crossed Over 02/24/2025
A02547 Relates to suspension and revocation of firearms licenses; relates to private sale or disposal of firearms, rifles or shotguns; establishes a minimum age to possess a firearm relating to gun control. In Committee 01/17/2025
A02548 Exempts certain large capacity ammunition feeding devices from certain requirements of the penal law. In Committee 01/17/2025
A02557 Creates the crime of stolen valor; makes such crime a class A misdemeanor. In Committee 01/17/2025
A02559 Relates to murder in the first degree. In Committee 01/17/2025
A02565 Creates the New York electronic communications privacy act; requires government agents and agencies to obtain a search warrant for physical or electronic access to electronic device information. Crossed Over 01/17/2025
A02570 Provides that a person is guilty of criminal impersonation in the second degree when a person pretends to be a servicemember or former servicemember, or a first responder, or as having received a decoration or medal; establishes a stolen valor fee. In Committee 01/17/2025
A02575 Extends the statute of limitations of actions related to certain sex trafficking offenses, reviving such actions otherwise barred by the existing statute of limitations; grants trial preference to such actions; exempts such actions from certain provisions requiring notice of claims. In Committee 01/17/2025
A02600 Relates to allowing the possession and sale of electronic dart guns and electronic stun guns for self-defense; adds such weapons in the definition of obstructing governmental administration by means of a self-defense spray device. In Committee 01/21/2025
A02601 Relates to the expungement of syringe convictions of criminally possessing a hypodermic instrument. In Committee 01/21/2025
A02612 Designates the animal control officer in the town of Sand Lake as a peace officer. In Committee 01/21/2025
A02620 Amends procedures required for the custodial interrogation of children to provide additional protections and for taking juveniles and sixteen and seventeen year olds into custody. Crossed Over 03/25/2025
A02629 Requires the reporting of convictions and sentences of certain medical professionals to the office of professional medical conduct within twenty-four hours; requires the department of health to disseminate a criminal conviction and sentence of a physician within forty-eight hours of receipt. In Committee 01/21/2025
A02630 Provides that the results of urine tests conducted pursuant to a judicial diversion program shall be private and confidential. In Committee 01/21/2025
A02654 Clarifies that only persons eighteen years of age and older may be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. In Committee 01/21/2025
A02677 Provides that in instances involving alleged criminal offense or offenses committed by a person, whether or not formally on duty, who is a peace officer as defined in section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law and employed or contracted by a corrections agency, or is a peace officer as defined in subdivision twenty-five of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law, concerning any incident in which the death of a person, whether in custody or not, is caused by an act or omission of such peace of In Committee 01/22/2025
A02712 Enacts the "child sex crime victims protection act"; establishes alternative sentencing procedures for victims of child sex crimes who commit crimes against their abusers. In Committee 01/22/2025
A02722 Requires the municipal police training council establish standards for the destruction of controlled substances; requires such destruction of controlled substances policies be publicly available. In Committee 01/22/2025
A02723 Repeals the sunset on certain provisions related to arrests in situations involving certain family offenses. In Committee 01/22/2025
A02749 Establishes the "New York state lead-safe renovation, repair and painting act"; establishes standards for lead-safe renovation, repair and painting of residential properties; requires documentation of compliance with such standards. In Committee 01/28/2025
A03038 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; establishes a right of action by the debtor for relief against creditors for violations; makes related provisions. In Committee 03/25/2025
A03042 Provides for the expungement of certain records following the termination of criminal actions and proceedings against certain minors. In Committee 01/23/2025
A03049 Establishes the crime of endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree; makes technical corrections. In Committee 01/23/2025
A03058 Promotes consumer choice by requiring manufacturers of digital electronic equipment to provide retail sellers with a one through ten repair score that will be displayed to consumers at point of sale. In Committee 05/27/2025
A03073 Enhances criminal penalties for criminal mischief and larceny offenses committed at a place of religious worship and for cemetery desecration. In Committee 01/23/2025
A03093 Extends the period given to certain applicants for public assistance benefits to request a fair hearing on a determination of their ability to participate in work activities from ten days to sixty days or within sixty days of receipt of a work activity assignment. In Committee 02/25/2025
A03099 Relates to an order upon termination of criminal action in favor of the accused. In Committee 01/23/2025
A03117 Provides additional protections at reproductive health clinics; prohibits interference with phone lines, the release of offensive odors, and noises intended to jeopardize the health of persons receiving reproductive health services or to interfere with the safe and effective delivery of such services. In Committee 01/23/2025
A03118 Prohibits handcuffing or forcibly restraining children age twelve and under unless such child presents a danger to such child, the officer or others; limits warrantless arrests of persons under age eighteen except where the arrest is necessary for public safety; establishes a twenty-four hour hotline for police officers to consult with youth social services personnel and attorneys regarding interactions with children and adolescents. In Committee 01/23/2025
A03125 Relates to the use of automated decision tools by landlords for making housing decisions; sets conditions and rules for use of such tools. In Committee 04/02/2025
A03126 Requires that when a complaint is made to local code enforcement of a violation of the uniform fire prevention and building code or a local code which results in the issuance of a compliance order, the complainant shall also be provided a copy of such order. In Committee 05/20/2025
A03132 Increases the designation of certain offenses relating to unlawfully fleeing a police officer and makes such offenses eligible for bail. In Committee 01/23/2025
A03133 Establishes masked harassment when a person wears a mask or other face covering that intentionally hides or conceals their face for the primary purpose of menacing or threatening another person or placing another person or group of persons in reasonable fear for their physical safety. In Committee 01/23/2025
A03134 Enables prosecutors to access orders of protection issued in association with sealed prior domestic violence cases if the offender commits a new domestic violence offense. In Committee 01/23/2025
A03162 Provides access to live scan fingerprinting to society for the prevention of cruelty to animals officers. In Committee 01/23/2025
A03172 Relates to reckless driving; relates to culpability regarding criminal homicide involving the use of a motor vehicle. In Committee 01/23/2025
A03182 Relates to the justification for the use of force in a homicide by a peace officer or police officer. In Committee 01/23/2025
A03191 Allows physically disabled individuals who are not able to stand up to complete the two-hour live-fire range training course requirement for a concealed carry license while sitting. In Committee 01/23/2025
A03206 Establishes domestic violence crimes when an individual commits or intends to commit a specified offense against a member of the same family or household; defines specified offenses; defines members of the same family; sets forth criteria for the authorized disposition of individuals convicted of a domestic violence crime. In Committee 01/23/2025
A03219 Authorizes electronic court appearances for criminal matters, excluding jury trials, in all counties in the state; authorizes electronic appearances for criminal matters where the court determines a personal appearance would be impractical, unsafe or excessively burdensome; authorizes sentencing to a period of incarceration to be conducted via electronic appearance for defendants who are already incarcerated. In Committee 01/23/2025
A03228 Provides for notice of intention to sell and notice of surplus to be made by e-mail or text message. In Committee 05/19/2025
A03230 Establishes a deaf and hard of hearing outreach program to facilitate communication between deaf and hard of hearing individuals and law enforcement personnel. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03233 Establishes a 10 day waiting period for the purchase of any firearm; establishes violations of such provisions shall constitute a class A misdemeanor. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03241 Relates to the justified use of physical force; removes requirement that a person facing an imminent physical threat must retreat; provides immunity from civil and criminal liability. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03247 Establishes the crime of criminal possession of a flamethrower as a class E felony. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03251 Enacts "Cecilia's act for rights in the sex trades"; decriminalizes certain prostitution offenses; amends provisions relating to prosecution of such offenses and vacating judgments. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03261 Establishes the crime of criminal sale of a controlled substance upon the grounds of a drug or alcohol treatment center, or alcoholics anonymous or narcotics anonymous meeting; designates such crime as a class E felony. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03269 Precludes inadmissible statements made by defendants because of false facts about evidence or because of a statement that undermines the reliability of the defendant's statement; requires data collection and analysis by the division of criminal justice services of recorded interrogations. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03274 Expands the crime of aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer by removing the requirement that such injury be caused by a dangerous or deadly instrument. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03282 Establishes a person is guilty of assault in the second degree when such person intends to cause physical injury to an employee of New York state or any of its political subdivisions or of a public authority or a public benefit corporation while such employee is performing such employee's duties. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03292 Relates to pistol permit applications for military personnel; requires the licensing officer to act on an application for any member of the active or reserve component of the armed forces within 90 days of presentment. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03295 Authorizes the removal of police officer candidates from an eligible list when such candidate does not meet psychological fitness requirements or lacks good moral character standards. In Committee 05/28/2025
A03299 Includes exposing a first responder or correction officer to fentanyl, a fentanyl derivative or an opiate containing fentanyl or a fentanyl derivative in the definition of the offense of assault in the first degree. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03300 Designates sheriffs, under-sheriffs and deputy sheriffs of the city of New York as police officers. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03311 Relates to expenses borne by counties outside of the city of New York for the issuance and maintenance of record books utilized by authorized gunsmiths in the sale and disposition of firearms in the state. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03316 Makes it unlawful to wear a body vest while committing any crime while possessing a deadly weapon. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03318 Relates to arbitration organizations; requires private arbitration organizations involved in fifty or more consumer arbitrations per year to collect, publish at least quarterly, and make available to the public in a computer-searchable database certain information relating to such arbitrations; prohibits financial conflicts of interest. In Committee 05/27/2025
A03324 Creates the presumption of intent to sell when a person is in possession of forty or more individual packages containing heroin with an aggregate weight of 4.0 grams. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03329 Establishes the offense of obstructing a police officer. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03334 Includes injury to an on-duty auxiliary police officer within the elements of assault in the second degree. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03343 Relates to fines for false alarms by an alarm system; allows a municipality to enact, adopt or enforce any ordinance, resolution or regulation requiring any alarm system company to pay for or be responsible for any fines, fees or other penalties relative to false alarms only when the false alarm is attributed to a deficiency in the alarm system or an error of the alarm system company or central station. Crossed Over 05/13/2025
A03353 Authorizes the sale of consumer fireworks in the state; allows fireworks to be sold between May and December; requires compliance with certain requirements regarding registration and facilities; imposes a tax on the sale of fireworks. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03359 Adds that a person is guilty of computer tampering in the third degree when they intentionally enter or alter in any manner or destroy computer material indicating that a person did or did not receive a vaccination that is reported to the New York state immunization information system or the New York city immunization registry. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03382 Establishes the crime of misappropriation of payroll funds when a person knows that funds are designated for use as employee payroll funds or as payment of payroll taxes, and intentionally prevents the funds from being used for their designated purpose. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03384 Relates to extreme risk protection orders; defines "exception"; authorizes a police officer or district attorney to file an application for an extreme risk protection order if found that a person meets the requirements of an exception pursuant to section 6340 of the civil practice law and rules; makes related provisions. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03401 Modifies the crime of criminal solicitation in the third degree; provides that a person is guilty of criminal solicitation in the third degree when such person, being over eighteen years of age, with the intent that another person under eighteen years of age engage in conduct that would constitute certain crimes, intentionally provides a loaded firearm to such other person. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03403 Enacts "Ildefonso Romero's law" to establish the felony offense of aggravated assault for the causation of serious physical injury to or death of, as the case may be, any person, with intent to cause physical injury to such person or a third person. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03405 Establishes the crime of package theft in the fourth, third, second and first degrees; designates such crimes as a class A misdemeanor, class E felony, class D felony, and class B felony, respectively; provides instances that are not a defense to such crimes; provides for certain defenses to such crimes. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03415 Requires public-facing websites operated by political committees to contain "paid for by" language; adds such public-facing websites to the list of political communications that qualify as independent expenditures. In Committee 03/25/2025
A03419 Allows victim impact statements in New York state be video recorded; requires that the members of the parole board and all presiding commissioners for such hearing review all relevant victim impact statements prior to the conduct of a parole hearing and to sign a written attestation confirming that they have done so. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03422 Establishes the crime of assault on sports officials and harassment of a sports official; makes harassment of a sports official a violation; requires the state education department to establish an information campaign to be distributed to all youth and school sports programs requiring such programs to disseminate information to parents and other spectators of such programs on the protections afforded sports officials. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03423 Grants court reporters and senior court reporters of the unified court system peace officer status. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03452 Requires a written determination to be made, on each application for issuance or renewal of a license to carry or possess a pistol or revolver, within 180 days of receipt; requires refund of all fees submitted with such application if a determination is not made in a timely manner. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03453 Requires the state to enter into an agreement with the Rand Corporation to conduct a study of the impact of the 2020 Discovery Reform legislation enacted by Part HHH of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020 has had on the handling and disposition of criminal cases; makes an appropriation therefor. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03459 Relates to civil penalties for certain fraud or misrepresentation of a material fact with respect to a financial product or service. In Committee 05/19/2025
A03465 Establishes the crime of domestic violence punishable as a class A misdemeanor. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03467 Allows police officers to request, and police departments to be reimbursed for, ballistic armor vests classified as level III or higher; prohibits the commissioner from denying an application for reimbursement because a vest classified as level III or higher was requested by a police officer. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03470 Requires notice to be provided ninety days prior to commencement of a foreclosure action by a homeowners' association or condominium board to enforce a lien for unpaid common charges, assessments, fines or fees. Crossed Over 05/13/2025
A03475 Prohibits police officers from using bias-based profiling; requires that a procedure be established for the taking and review of complaints against police officers for bias-based profiling; allows an action for injunctive relief and/or damages to be brought against a law enforcement agency, any agent of a law enforcement agency and the supervisor of an agent. In Committee 01/28/2025
A03478 Provides for the establishment and implementation on an ongoing basis of a mental health first aid training program for all current and new police officers and peace officers. In Committee 01/28/2025
A03497 Adds a person having been previously convicted of petit larceny two times within any three month period or three times within any twelve month period to the definition of grand larceny in the fourth degree. In Committee 01/28/2025
A03506 Prohibits and regulates the discovery and disclosure of immigration status; prohibits police officers, peace officers, school resource officers, probation agencies, state entities, state employees, and municipal corporations from questioning individuals regarding their citizenship or immigration status; regulates the disclosure of information relating to immigration status. In Committee 01/28/2025
A03512 Relates to crimes against a child; makes endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree a crime. In Committee 01/28/2025
A03524 Preserves the ability to appeal a violation of a defendant's right to make a statement personally at sentencing notwithstanding a defendant signed an otherwise valid waiver of appeal. In Committee 01/28/2025
A03528 Defines "aggravated cruelty"; makes any person who commits the conduct which falls under that definition guilty of a class E felony, punishable by up to two years imprisonment; defines "in the presence of a child" and makes any person who commits the conduct which falls under that definition, guilty of a class D felony. In Committee 01/28/2025
A03558 Enacts the "child survivor privacy act"; provides protections for child victims and child witnesses; restricts information to the public regarding a child witness or child victim's identity or proceeding; defines child witness; provides that whenever practical, the same prosecutor, advocate, and/or social worker shall handle all aspects of a case involving an alleged child victim. In Committee 01/28/2025
A03562 Enacts the Justice for Rachael Act; creates dangerousness hearings. In Committee 01/28/2025
A03573 Designates crimes of manslaughter as class A-1 felonies when a defendant recklessly or with the intent to cause physical injury causes the death of a child. In Committee 01/28/2025
A03577 Creates a new class D violent felony offense of endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree; converts the current offense of endangering the welfare of a child to a second degree crime. In Committee 01/28/2025
A03592 Provides that upon motion and after an opportunity to be heard, a court may order the defendant in a family offense proceeding to turn control of a connected device over to a family or household member or, if that is not possible, to have such connected device disabled by the manufacturer. In Committee 01/28/2025
A03621 Adds falsely reporting the use of a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument as part of the crimes of falsely reporting an incident in the first and second degrees. In Committee 01/29/2025
A03635 Relates to supporting depositions that are served at the time of issuance of a simplified information. In Committee 01/29/2025
A03656 Creates the crime of unlawful possession of a radio frequency jamming device. In Committee 01/29/2025
A03657 Relates to the unlawful discharge of a loaded firearm toward any police officer, firefighter, corrections officer, peace officer, or emergency medical services personnel. In Committee 01/29/2025
A03659 Classifies criminal possession of a firearm from a class E felony to a class D felony. In Committee 01/29/2025
A03664 Relates to the issuance of arrest warrants upon a youth who is still in high school; provides for the police officer to make a reasonable effort to notify the parent or other person legally responsible for the care of such youth or with whom the youth is domiciled that the youth has been arrested; provides that the police officer need not notify the parent or other person legally responsible when such youth is not also a juvenile offender and the notification would endanger the health and safety In Committee 01/29/2025
A03700 Permits electronic arraignment in counties not wholly included within a city. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03743 Provides that each electric corporation shall establish a unique priority phone number that shall remain in operation every day of the year for customers who have documented their need for essential electricity for medical needs; makes related provisions. In Committee 05/06/2025
A03779 Restricts the use by an employer or an employment agency of electronic monitoring or an automated employment decision tool to screen a candidate or employee for an employment decision unless such tool has been the subject of an impact assessment within the last year; requires notice to employment candidates of the use of such tools; provides remedies for violations. In Committee 05/28/2025
A03783 Includes bias-related graffiti in hate crimes. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03787 Relates to intentional physical injuries to a police officer due to a belief or perception regarding such police officer's involvement in a previous arrest of such person constituting assault in the first and second degree. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03800 Establishes the crime of staging a construction site accident which is a class E felony. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03813 Directs the division of criminal justice services to study, evaluate, and make recommendations concerning instances of police brutality in the city of Rochester. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03814 Provides that no police officer shall arrest, restrain, or otherwise subdue a child who is thirteen years of age or less while effecting the arrest of the parent or guardian of such child; provides that all police officers present at the scene of arrest shall have an affirmative duty to keep such child safe, and shall permit the person being arrested to communicate with such child up until such person is removed from the scene. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03825 Establishes the ammunition purchase certification act which requires purchasers of ammunition to have an ammunition purchase permit number. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03826 Establishes the crimes of deceptive wearing of a mask and aggravated deceptive wearing of a mask; makes such crimes a class B misdemeanor and a class A misdemeanor, respectively. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03829 Relates to adding St. Lawrence county sheriff as an additional firearms licensing officer as well as judges or justices of a court of record having an office in the county of St. Lawrence. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03838 Requires that all procedures and other matters related to the receipt or discontinuation of benefits available under section two hundred seven-c of the general municipal law shall be subject, upon request of the affected employee, to a de novo evidentiary hearing. In Committee 05/28/2025
A03840 Repeals certain provisions establishing a fee for background checks on certain firearm and ammunition purchases; removes such fees as a source of funds for the background check fund. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03844 Relates to the imposition of securing orders for offenses committed on a peace officer, police officer, firefighter, emergency medical services professional or uniformed worker by individuals without permanent residency status; provides such individuals shall be remanded to the custody of the sheriff for the entirety of the judicial proceedings related thereto. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03851 Provides that anyone who directs, hires, requests, encourages, orchestrates or invites another individual to cause a collision involving a motor vehicle shall be guilty of staging a motor vehicle accident in the second degree. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03858 Increases the fines imposed on a corporation for an offense defined within the penal law. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03863 Relates to the recertification process for firearms. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03873 Requires that firearms surrendered under a municipal gun buyback program shall be rendered inoperable, and all components unable to be reused; prohibits the acceptance of firearms which were manufactured for the purpose of surrender for remuneration. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03875 Requires that a billing statement delivered to the customer by an energy services company include a side-by-side comparison showing both the price charged by the energy service company for commodity and delivery service during the prior billing period, and the price the customer would have paid had they taken commodity and delivery service from their local utility corporation or municipality; requires an energy service company to provide each of its customers with an annual statement comparing t In Committee 03/11/2025
A03891 Establishes the crime of unlawful tampering of the milk supply in the first degree. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03905 Relates to licensing requirements for bail bond agents; requires additional course instruction and other prerequisites to licensure. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03926 Enacts the medical civil rights act, in relation to the provision of emergency medical services to persons in contact with or in the custody or under the control of a police officer. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03928 Requires businesses that allow automatic renewals, continuous service offers, and automatic subscription renewals to provide notice regarding cancelling such renewals, services, or subscriptions. Crossed Over 03/25/2025
A03951 Enacts the New York state antisemitism vandalism act which establishes the crime of vandalism of pro-Israel print, which provides a class A misdemeanor for any individual who intentionally destroys, damages, removes, or causes to be destroyed, damaged or removed any banner, poster, flyer or billboard which is located in a public space, where the intent or purpose of such banner, poster, flyer or billboard is to bring awareness for Israeli individuals who have been victims of a crime, or to posit In Committee 01/30/2025
A03982 Establishes the crime of failure to report a school safety threat as a class A misdemeanor. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03987 Designates security officers for the village court of the village of Pleasantville as peace officers. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03988 Grants court officers in the Village of Ardsley in Westchester county peace officer status. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03990 Includes community centers with a religious affiliation in the definition of public place for purposes of offenses against public order; includes falsely reporting an incident and placing a false bomb or hazardous substance in the definition of specified offense for the purposes of hate crimes. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03992 Relates to criminal liability of corporations whose negligence, recklessness, or intentional or knowing acts cause the death or physical injury of a person on an unmarked worksite; defines term; authorizes court-ordered restitution in excess of certain statutory amounts; makes related provisions. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03994 Moves from the Office of Court Administration (OCA) to the Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) responsibility for certifying, establishing and implementing standards for pretrial services agencies of the state. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03997 Excludes certain actions or omissions from qualifying as unlawful dissemination or publication of an intimate image when such actions or omissions are in connection with the reporting of or investigation into potentially unlawful conduct. In Committee 01/30/2025
A04003 Requires one caregiver for every two children under eighteen months of age in group family day care homes and family day care homes. Crossed Over 03/25/2025
A04009 Increases the penalty of sex trafficking and sex trafficking of a child from a class B felony to a class A-II felony. In Committee 01/30/2025
A04015 Increases penalties for certain speed violations. In Committee 05/06/2025
A04016 Imposes fines for failure to exercise due care and move over when approaching parked, stopped or standing motor vehicles on the shoulder of a highway. In Committee 04/02/2025
A04040 Codifies the disparate impact standard in the human rights law; provides that in cases of alleged housing discrimination, an unlawful discriminatory practice may be established by a practice's discriminatory effect. In Committee 04/02/2025
A04045 Relates to findings in child abuse or neglect proceedings. In Committee 02/25/2025
A04056 Authorizes bail for class A misdemeanors and felonies committed during a riot. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04071 Requires the division of state police to send renewal notices to holders of a license to carry or possess a pistol or revolver at least 90 days before expiration of such license. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04085 Requires persons possessing any firearm to hold a firearms safety certificate; establishes application and training process therefor; makes technical corrections. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04092 Makes it a class A-1 felony to sell or transport an opiate controlled substance which causes the death of another person. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04109 Provides that an assault on a senior citizen on public transportation shall be a class D violent felony punishable by up to 7 years in prison. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04124 Establishes the crime of aggravated grand larceny as grand larceny in the fourth degree involving a motor vehicle. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04130 Provides that when property, regardless of its nature and value, is taken from the person of another and the victim is 65 years of age or older or such property is obtained by extortion and the victim is 65 years of age or older, such crimes shall be grand larceny in the third degree and subject to a class D felony. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04139 Relates to unlawful dealing in real property, when a person uses material governmental information, which such person knows or has reason to know is non-public, to purchase or sell real property; makes such offense a class A misdemeanor. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04140 Requires certain evidence or samples for DNA analysis to be accepted by the New York state police forensic investigation center from any firearm, rifle, shotgun, ammunition or magazine loading device when the sole charge is criminal possession of a weapon in the first degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree and criminal possession of a firearm. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04141 Provides that a person who has previously been subjected to two or more petit larceny convictions within 18 months immediately preceding the charge and the aggregate value of the property exceeds one thousand dollars, the person is guilty of grand larceny in the fourth degree. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04144 Prohibits state chartered banking institutions from investing in and providing financing for private prisons. In Committee 05/19/2025
A04145 Establishes legislation to protect children under the age of eighteen from inappropriate communication which creates the foreseeable risk of endangering the child's emotional, mental or physical welfare. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04146 Establishes the crime of theft of an impounded vehicle; establishes that such crime is a class A misdemeanor. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04151 Mandates pre-trial detention of a principal who stands charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fourth degree, or criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04153 Enhances the penalties for crimes committed during a riot. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04155 Permits judicial discretion based on dangerousness when issuing a securing order; allows for limited pre-trial detention upon such a determination; extends the time period for discovery from twenty to forty-five days; permits the immediate issuance of a bench warrant for failure to appear for certain principals charged with hate crimes; places restrictions on when appearance tickets may be issued. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04157 Requires police officer training programs on interacting with individuals with a disability with special emphasis on the techniques needed to improve interactions with individuals that are blind or deaf or hard of hearing; provides such training shall be created in consultation with the justice center for the protection of people with special needs. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04161 Prohibits removal of an adolescent offender to family court where the defendant possessed a loaded firearm during the commission of the offense. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04163 Expands the firearm license to have and carry concealed, without regard to employment or place of possession, to include open carry. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04176 Enacts the Lieutenant Alison Russo-Elling crimes against public protection professionals act; designates certain crimes against public protection professionals; enhances penalties. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04192 Increases the penalties for assault on police officers, peace officers, firefighters and emergency medical technicians causing physical injury or serious physical injury. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04200 Directs the state energy conservation construction code to set standards for electric vehicle charging stations and electric vehicle ready parking spaces in certain new buildings. In Committee 02/25/2025
A04201 Establishes the crime of stalking a police officer, peace officer, correction officer or firefighter to include intent to harass, annoy or alarm a police officer, peace officer, correction officer, firefighter or an immediate family member of a police officer, peace officer, correction officer or firefighter, intentionally engaging in a course of conduct directed at such person which is likely to cause such person to reasonably fear physical injury or serious physical injury, the commission of a In Committee 01/31/2025
A04206 Requires courts to consider whether an individual poses a risk or threat of physical danger to the safety of any person or the community when imposing a securing order; makes stalking in the second and third degree a qualifying offense; makes related provisions. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04209 Establishes the crime of aggravated resisting arrest as where a person intentionally prevents or attempts to prevent a police officer or peace officer from effecting an authorized arrest of such person or another person through the use of physical force, where such authorized arrest is for a crime which is a felony. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04215 Authorizes the court to order sexual offenders on probation, where such probation has been revoked, to terms of imprisonment which run consecutively to sentences already being served. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04231 Allows members of the Nassau County auxiliary police force to possess a police baton when authorized by the police commissioner of such county. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04235 Reclassifies court officers and court clerks of the unified court system under the definition of police officer. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04244 Allows for principals to be remanded into custody for drug treatment where there is a risk of continued substance abuse or the use of an opioid antagonist was required. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04246 Provides for the return of fines, restitution and reparation payments and any interest thereon where a defendant is subsequently pardoned upon the ground of innocence or the conviction is reversed or vacated. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04267 Provides certain relief for persons who are victims of identity theft; provides for destruction or sealing of certain police and court records and for issuance of an identity theft passport. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04279 Prohibits mobile sports wagering operators and platforms from sending push notifications or text message notifications. In Committee 02/11/2025
A04282 Establishes the climate corporate data accountability act requiring certain business entities within the state to annually disclose scope 1, scope 2 and scope 3 emissions; establishes the climate accountability and emissions disclosure fund. In Committee 05/13/2025
A04310 Establishes the offense of aggravated rape; provides criminal sentencing mandates for defendants convicted of certain sexual offenses. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04322 Relates to aggravated harassment in the first degree; includes the display of a swastika in public view in aggravated harassment in the first degree. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04324 Allows for the conditional examination of victims who are at least 75 years of age; amends the definition of larceny to ensure that alleged consent by a victim who is mentally disabled is a not a defense to larceny; permits a caregiver to accompany a vulnerable victim into the grand jury. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04326 Establishes the crime of failure to retreat when a person who is within twenty-five feet of a police officer or peace officer engaged in the performance of their duties and the police officer or peace officer orders such person to halt or retreat and the person fails to do so immediately; requires the posting of bail. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04327 Prohibits the inclusion of a confession of judgment in a contract or agreement for a financial product or service. In Committee 02/25/2025
A04330 Includes exposing another person to fentanyl, a fentanyl derivative or an opiate containing fentanyl or a fentanyl derivative by any means including throwing or tossing at or injecting such other person with any such substance in the definition of the offense of assault in the first degree. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04337 Establishes the crime of aggravated offering of a false accusation against a police officer or peace officer for knowing the information reported to be false or baseless, such person reports, by word or action, to a law enforcement officer or agency, the wrongdoing by a police officer or peace officer in the performance of such officer's duties; requires the posting of bail. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04342 Enhances criminal investigations and prosecutions in relation to the integrity of statements of those accused of crimes and to promote confidence in the criminal justice system. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04366 Authorizes the possession and use of a single shot .22 caliber rifle by a person eleven years of age while supervised at an indoor or outdoor shooting range. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04385 Designates the uniformed court officers of the town of Busti, in the county of Chautauqua, as peace officers. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04406 Establishes the crimes of carjacking in first, second and third degrees, as the stealing of a motor vehicle from a person or presence of another person through the use or threatened use of force; increases penalties for causing injury to such victim, displaying a real or fake gun or using such a weapon; provides that all carjackings are violent felony offenses. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04415 Authorizes, in the county of Chautauqua, the possession of a pistol or revolver while attending a firearms familiarity, safety, loading and firing course conducted by a law enforcement agency. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04422 Requires the office of the Manhattan district attorney to continue to annually remit forty million dollars of future state sanctioned deferred prosecution agreement funds. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04429 Establishes law enforcement officer grant funds and firefighter grant funds to cover expenses related to hiring law enforcement officers and firefighters and equipment and resources for such officers and firefighters. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04460 Designates fire marshals employed in the Long Island Rail Road Company Office of the Fire Marshals as peace officers. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04463 Makes it a class B violent felony to fire a gun into a crowded space with the intent to harm or absent the intent to harm when such an act creates a great risk of death to one or more people within the crowded space; establishes the crime of criminal use of weapons; firing into a crowded space. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04476 Relates to making it unlawful for a caretaker to post a vulnerable elderly person on social media without their consent. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04487 Increases the penalties for sexual performances by a child; increases age from 16 to 18 for application of existing sexual performance crimes; creates crimes of use of a child in a sexual performance in the first degree, promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child in the first degree, and promoting a sexual performance by a child in the first degree; provides for consecutive sentencing upon certain multiple convictions. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04491 Authorizes a court to order the division of criminal justice services to compare fingerprints of the defendant against the statewide database. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04497 Relates to enhancing penalties and protecting victims of crimes of domestic violence. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04499 Provides that persons arrested for domestic violence forfeit bail when violating an order of protection. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04513 Provides that eligible youth who were not given youthful offender status by the court be eligible for conviction sealing. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04518 Relates to adding additional objects which a person would be guilty of criminally using drug paraphernalia in the second degree if such person knowingly possesses or sells such objects. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04525 Prohibits the sale and distribution of anti-fogging sprays or wipes containing perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances; provides penalties for violations. In Committee 05/20/2025
A04527 Creates the crimes of child abuse, vulnerable elderly person or incompetent or physically disabled person abuse, and torture. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04546 Relates to the crime of resisting arrest; provides that a second violation within 5 years shall be a class E felony. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04575 Provides that a false representation of affiliation or approval, or false implication of such affiliation or approval, of any official, state or local agencies or other official source, shall be false advertising. In Committee 05/27/2025
A04585 Makes the crime of preventing an elected official from performing a lawful duty or essential service a class D felony of assault in the second degree. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04594 Imposes increased fines on certain individuals who commit riot in the first degree during a state disaster emergency. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04606 Relates to sealing of dismissals and violations that are more than twenty years old. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04609 Establishes the crime of doxing a police officer or a peace officer when a person knowingly makes restricted personal information about a police officer or peace officer, or a member of the immediate family of such officer, publicly available with the intent to threaten, intimidate, or incite the commission of a crime of violence against the police officer or peace officer, or a member of the immediate family of such officer; or with the intent and knowledge that the restricted personal informat In Committee 02/04/2025
A04628 Requires a motion picture theater that offers more than ten motion picture showings per week to provide scheduled showings of motion pictures with open motion picture captioning such that at least one quarter of all showings of a motion picture with four or more showings during a one-week time period shall have open motion picture captioning; provides exceptions and penalties for violations. In Committee 05/06/2025
A04636 Expands the definition of aggravated harassment in the second degree to include the disclosure of certain private information identifying a police officer for no legitimate purpose. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04641 Relates to rechargeable battery recycling; adds a battery used as the principal electric power source for an electric scooter or bicycle with electric assist to the definition of "rechargeable battery"; provides that a battery manufacturer may not sell, offer for sale, or distribute rechargeable batteries in the state unless the battery manufacturer is implementing or participating under an approved plan; allows a city with a population of one million or more to enforce through its own agencies. In Committee 03/04/2025
A04644 Includes premises used as a farm operation within the crime of burglary in the second degree. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04646 Designates, as peace officers, public safety officers of the Chautauqua Institution within the grounds of and properties owned by the Chautauqua Institution. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04652 Provides that the commission of certain specified crimes which are committed against a member of the same family or household shall be punishable as domestic violence crimes and carry enhanced penalties. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04655 Designates officers and members of a fire investigation unit as peace officers in Franklin county. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04662 Adds impersonation of board of elections members or other election officers, or an employee thereof, to the crime of criminal impersonation in the first degree. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04670 Provides that in grand jury proceedings when following submission to a grand jury of a criminal charge or charges, the grand jury dismisses all charges presented or directs the district attorney to dismiss all charges or directs the DA to file in a local criminal court an application for disclosure of certain materials; authorizes the court to limit disclosure of certain items where there is a reasonable likelihood that such disclosure may lead to the identity of a witness who is not a public se In Committee 02/04/2025
A04678 Prohibits recording of the entrance or exit of a school ground or the entrance or exit to a property that contains school grounds within its boundaries. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04688 Increases the maximum sentence of imprisonment for certain misdemeanors to one year. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04699 Relates to the crime of aggravated harassment of an employee by an incarcerated individual; requires any imprisonment imposed by such conviction run consecutively to any undischarged term of imprisonment to which the defendant is subject. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04705 Relates to the use of records and information in the family court. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04713 Requires utility companies maintain a toll free number for consumers to call to report service outages which shall be made available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In Committee 05/28/2025
A04716 Requires washing machines sold after a certain date to contain a microfiber filtration system that meets certain specifications. In Committee 05/27/2025
A04725 Prohibits the use of drilling fluids, brine and flowback water from wells, pools or fields on any highway for any purpose including but not limited to de-icing or dust suppression. In Committee 04/02/2025
A04735 Enacts "Cariol's Law"; provides for a duty to intervene when a police officer or peace officer observes another police officer or peace officer using physical force that such officer reasonably believes to be clearly excessive or beyond that which is objectively reasonable under the circumstances. In Committee 02/06/2025
A04740 Relates to the issuance of appearance tickets for certain violations of the agriculture and markets law when the person is charged with a crime for which the court may order the posting of a security. In Committee 02/06/2025
A04742 Provides that either party to a workers compensation claim can request a hearing; requires a record of all hearings held. In Committee 05/20/2025
A04754 Provides judges more discretion regarding securing orders and limiting the lengths of certain orders; increases the lengths of certain prison sentences; repeals certain provisions relating to use of force by law enforcement; repeals certain provisions relating to access to premises for discovery by the defendant and motions to vacate judgments. In Committee 02/06/2025
A04755 Provides that people arrested in connection with certain felonies must submit a DNA sample. In Committee 02/06/2025
A04759 Relates to the medical use of cannabis; repeals controlled substances therapeutic research act. In Committee 05/27/2025
A04760 Defines the term "mass shooting" for purposes of emergency response measures and access to emergency funding as a shooting incident in which at least four people are murdered or injured with a firearm, rifle, or shotgun. In Committee 02/06/2025
A04766 Requires an arrest where a police officer has reasonable cause to believe a hate crime has been committed. In Committee 02/06/2025
A04770 Implements licensure and eligibility limitations for the cannabis control board's social and economic equity plan regarding persons convicted of certain felonies. In Committee 02/06/2025
A04773 Makes it a violation to loiter while masked or disguised by unusual or unnatural attire or facial alteration while in a group of six or more persons so masked or disguised. In Committee 02/06/2025
A04775 Establishes the class B felony of criminal sale of a controlled substance upon the grounds of a drug or alcohol treatment center. In Committee 02/06/2025
A04810 Relates to the application of certain provisions relating to commercial financing; provides that liability shall not be imposed on a provider if the actual annual percentage rate charged by the provider differs from the estimated annual percentage rate disclosed by the provider acting in good faith. Crossed Over 02/25/2025
A04817 Establishes the crime of making a terroristic threat against a police officer; makes such crime a class C felony. In Committee 02/06/2025
A04853 Authorizes imposition of life imprisonment without parole sentence for persistent violent felony offenders upon conviction of a violent felony offense when such person has previously been subjected to two or more predicate violent felony convictions. In Committee 02/06/2025
A04855 Provides that the theft of benefits contained on an electronic benefit transfer card shall be a class D felony punishable by a fine of ten thousand dollars. In Committee 02/06/2025
A04856 Elevates the offense of killing a police work dog or police work horse from being a class E felony to a class D felony; establishes the class E felony of injuring a police work dog or police work horse for intentionally causing serious physical injury to a police work dog or police work horse while such dog or horse is performing its duties under the supervision of a police officer. In Committee 02/06/2025
A04863 Provides that criminal possession of fentanyl is a class E felony. In Committee 02/06/2025
A04869 Relates to judicial diversion programs; establishes a diversion part in each county; repeals certain provisions of law relating thereto. In Committee 02/06/2025
A04872 Requires each institution of higher education to make publicly available its policy on notifying the parent, guardian, or emergency contact of a student under twenty-one of certain controlled substance and alcohol violations, including rule infractions, and controlled substance or alcohol related hospitalizations or overdoses; requires such colleges and institutions to conduct regular training on the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. In Committee 05/20/2025
A04890 Requires forfeiture of vehicles for six months for a second DWI offense and permanent forfeiture and registration denial for the third DWI offense; prohibits the issuance of a new license where there are two DWI convictions where physical injury has resulted from each offense. In Committee 02/10/2025
A04896 Designates ordinance officers of the city of Mount Vernon police department as peace officers; authorizes such officers to carry a firearm while performing duties as a peace officer if appropriate license has been issued therefor. In Committee 02/10/2025
A04922 Enacts protections for private education loan borrowers and cosigners; requires certain notifications from creditors and debt collectors; prohibits acceleration; enacts provisions for cosigner release. In Committee 04/28/2025
A04928 Includes within the class D felony of assault in the second degree, the intentional causing of physical injury to an election officer while such person is performing their assigned duties; amends aggravated harassment and obstruction of governmental administration to include election officers. In Committee 02/10/2025
A04929 Eliminates criminal and civil penalties for possession of controlled substances; establishes the drug decriminalization task force to develop recommendations for reforming state laws, regulations and practices so that they align with the stated goal of treating substance use disorder as a disease, rather than a criminal behavior. In Committee 02/10/2025
A04933 Makes desecration of property commemorating a historical figure a class C felony. In Committee 02/10/2025
A04941 Makes possession and sale of armor piercing ammunition a class B felony; includes exchanging and disposing of armor piercing ammunition. In Committee 02/10/2025
A04944 Prohibits the operation of uncrewed aircraft, including drones, over school grounds or critical infrastructure; provides penalties for violations. Crossed Over 02/10/2025
A04962 Relates to establishing an automatic expunction system for certain records including unconstitutional stops that occurred between January two thousand four and June two thousand twelve by the New York city police department that either resulted in the completion of a UF-250 form or a Form 61 complaint in which the SQF section was completed and led to arrests for either resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, criminal possession of a weapon, and offenses involving marihuana. In Committee 02/10/2025
A04976 Adds drug and domestic violence offenses and crimes that result in death or serious physical injury as qualifying offenses for bail. In Committee 02/10/2025
A04988 Relates to the definition of an assault weapon. In Committee 02/10/2025
A04997 Extends DEC's authority to regulate management of crabs to 12/31/2027; prohibits the taking of horseshoe crabs for commercial and biomedical purposes. In Committee 05/20/2025
A05032 Establishes procedures to disassemble and dispose of guns, rifles and firearms purchased by local municipalities and law enforcement agencies through a gun buyback program, including the creation of a log and video recordings. In Committee 02/11/2025
A05041 Prohibits fraudulent absentee ballot drop-off boxes or receptacles by making it a felony for anyone other than the board of elections to erect, display or maintain an absentee ballot drop-off box or receptacle. In Committee 02/11/2025
A05046 Creates a private right of action for fertility fraud; adds a health care practitioner using human reproductive material from the practitioner or from a donor knowing or who reasonably should have known that such patient had not expressly consented to such use, to the crime of aggravated sexual abuse in the fourth degree; relates to the time in which to commence actions relating to fertility fraud; includes fertility fraud in the definition of professional misconduct for physicians, physician's In Committee 02/11/2025
A05069 Enacts "Chelsey's law"; provides that a person commits the crime of manslaughter or aggravated manslaughter when such person knows or has reasonable grounds to know that a controlled substance is likely to cause the death of another person and sells, administers, delivers, or causes the delivery of a controlled substance to another person and such substance causes, contributes to, or aids in the death of such other person. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05092 Requires the department of criminal justice services to monitor desk appearance tickets and report on the rate which principals appear in court on such tickets. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05105 Relates to the criminal possession of a ghost gun; makes such possession a class C felony unless you are a licensed gunsmith or dealer in firearms with intent to manufacture and/or distribute such firearms; requires educational materials shall be provided for no less than 2 years after the effective date of such provisions. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05110 Authorizes the imposition of bail for certain felony offenses involving the manufacture, sale, distribution, or possession with intent to sell synthetic opioids. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05116 Prohibits the release, on parole or otherwise, of persons convicted of first degree murder. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05119 Requires any waste hauler providing waste removal services to provide to customers certain estimated costs and invoices; includes penalties for initial and subsequent violations; requires moneys collected from penalties and fines to be deposited into the environmental protection fund. In Committee 05/13/2025
A05146 Establishes the offenses of menacing a police officer or peace officer in the first degree and menacing a police officer or peace officer in the second degree; relates to circumstances under which an officer is not required to issue an appearance ticket; makes conforming changes. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05165 Provides that sentence for commission of certain provisions of murder in the first degree is death or life without parole. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05170 Establishes the crime of sexual abuse against a patient or client by a health care provider in the first and second degree; designates such crimes as being class B and E felonies, respectively. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05186 Relates to the unlawful wearing of a body vest; provides that a person is guilty of the unlawful wearing of a body vest when such person commits a certain misdemeanor or felony and in the course of and in furtherance of such crime such person wears a body vest. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05187 Designates offenses against law enforcement officers, firefighters and emergency medical services personnel as hate crimes. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05195 Creates a crime data clearinghouse within the department of criminal justice services; requires such department produces a report on such data. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05198 Requires individuals arrested in connection with a felony to submit a DNA sample; makes related provisions and technical corrections. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05205 Establishes the crime of coordinated petit larceny; permits a principal to be eligible to be held on bail for coordinated petit larceny; directs the division of criminal justice services to conduct a public awareness campaign on larceny. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05206 Requires police officers to receive training instruction for crimes involving sexual assaults; requires training for child protective services workers in certain instances. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05207 Requires chain restaurants to place an icon on menus next to food items that have a high content of sodium. In Committee 05/27/2025
A05212 Allows judges more options for when to impose bail or commit the principal to the custody of the sheriff for burglary in the second degree, robbery in the second degree and crimes which resulted in death or serious physical injury. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05218 Relates to concealment and/or mutilation of a human corpse by any person; exempts practice of funeral direction and organ donation. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05222 Allows lifetime orders of protection when the respondent is convicted of certain felonies or an attempt to commit such felonies. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05224 Designates certain offenses against emergency medical services personnel, firefighters, and law enforcement officers as hate crimes; includes the definition of emergency medical services personnel, firefighters, and law enforcement officers. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05228 Enacts the criminal street gang abatement act which provides enhanced penalties for persons involved with criminal street gangs; establishes the crime of gang solicitation of minors on school grounds; allows for roving interceptions by police after adequate cause is shown; establishes the witness protection fund. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05236 Relates to the period of limitation for the prosecution of sex offenses committed against children; such actions may be commenced within 15 years after such child has reached the age of 18. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05241 Includes peace officers in offenses of unlawful fleeing in a motor vehicle. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05249 Prohibits members of the state police, police officers, and peace officers from intentionally covering their badges. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05251 Provides that defendants who are subject to electronic location monitoring are not considered confined or in the custody of the sheriff In Committee 02/12/2025
A05265 Provides that consent to sexual contact is a knowing, voluntary, and mutual decision among all participants; makes related provisions. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05266 Adds to the penalties for the underage use of cannabis the office of cannabis management contacting the person's parents and/or guardians and such person and their parents and/or guardians attending a cannabis diversion program. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05293 Relates to granting certain individuals youthful offender status; adds a new category of individuals eligible for young adult offender status; provides for process and sentencing requirements related to such statuses. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05315 Provides that certain communications between a claimant's attorney or representative and an injured employee's treating provider or a claimant's medical consultant are not improper influence or an attempt to improperly influence. In Committee 05/28/2025
A05317 Requires the safe removal of icicles from buildings abutting paved sidewalks and creates civil and criminal penalties appertaining thereto. In Committee 02/13/2025
A05324 Makes it a felony to give or receive unlawful benefits in excess of $3000. In Committee 02/13/2025
A05326 Enacts the criminal street gang related crimes act; provides for enhanced criminal sanctions where crimes are related to criminal street gangs. In Committee 02/13/2025
A05327 Removes certain restrictions on peace officers appointed by The Sea Gate Association. In Committee 02/13/2025
A05336 Establishes the class A misdemeanor of unlawful dissemination of a security body scan. In Committee 02/13/2025
A05341 Restricts cannabis storefronts and premises from being located within 500 feet from a school and two hundred feet of a house of worship. In Committee 05/20/2025
A05345 Enacts the uniform special deposits act to provide for special deposits in the state of New York in a manner uniform to other jurisdictions. In Committee 05/19/2025
A05346 Requires warning labels on social media platforms which provide an addictive feed, autoplay, infinite scroll, like counts, and/or push notifications; directs the commissioner of mental health to design the warning label. In Committee 05/27/2025
A05352 Directs the office of children and family services to establish an outdoor, nature-based child care program to allow for the operation of licensed outdoor, nature-based child care classrooms which provide early learning services for preschool or school-age children in an outdoor space and that employ a curriculum with nature to teach enrolled children. In Committee 05/20/2025
A05359 Prohibits any police officer, peace officer or employee of a correctional facility from interfering with the provision of medical assistance to an incarcerated individual. In Committee 02/13/2025
A05366 Restructures the crimes of schemes to defraud; establishes the crime of harassment of a legal services client. In Committee 02/13/2025
A05369 Creates the crime of harassment of a first responder as a class A misdemeanor. In Committee 02/13/2025
A05379 Relates to the determination of damages in a civil action arising from personal injury or wrongful death; provides that damages shall not be reduced because of age, race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military status, sex, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, familial status, marital status, or status as a victim of domestic violence; provides that damages shall not be based on statistical tables In Committee 02/13/2025
A05386 Requires every sheriff, county or city commissioner of correction and head of every state, county, or local police department to report instances and occurrences of hate crimes; requires the division to promulgate rules and regulations for such reporting. In Committee 02/13/2025
A05399 Establishes incapacity to consent when a person is a witness to or subject of an investigation under certain circumstances. In Committee 02/13/2025
A05452 Prohibits imposing imprisonment or other penalties or fines for sleeping or camping in public spaces. In Committee 02/14/2025
A05467 Relates to granting local law enforcement agencies the authority to enforce federal immigration law under the 287(g) program in order to enhance the enforcement of federal immigration laws regarding individuals engaged in criminal activity. In Committee 02/14/2025
A05475 Includes aggravated harassment in the first degree under a specified offense. In Committee 02/14/2025
A05480 Protects individuals who provide or receive legally protected health activity, including reproductive health care and gender-affirming care, from criminal or civil liability or professional sanctions imposed by jurisdictions outside the state. In Committee 05/20/2025
A05481 Amends the penal law to change an incorrect reference. In Committee 02/14/2025
A05492 Relates to establishing a judicial diversion program for young defendants. In Committee 02/14/2025
A05498 Establishes the class E felony of criminal use of public records for the intentional use of any public record in the course of or in furtherance of the commission of a crime. In Committee 02/14/2025
A05500 Creates the crime of stalking a police officer or peace officer when a person intentionally, and for no legitimate purpose, engages in a course of conduct directed at a specific police officer, peace officer or a person who they know or reasonably should know is a member of such officer's immediate family, and knows or reasonably should know that such conduct is likely to cause reasonable fear of material harm to the physical health, safety or property of such officer or member of such officer's In Committee 02/14/2025
A05508 Removes the requirement that willful failure to appear after notice of scheduled appearances be persistent in order to revoke an order granting an order of recognizance, release under non-monetary conditions or bail to a defendant and to fix bail in such action or proceeding. In Committee 02/14/2025
A05521 Provides that when the division of criminal justice services conducts a search of its criminal history records and returns a report thereon, all references to undisposed cases shall be excluded. In Committee 02/14/2025
A05522 Provides that the sentence for committing murder in the first degree when the victim is a police officer, peace officer or correction officer shall be either death or life imprisonment without parole. In Committee 02/14/2025
A05545 Directs the office of mental health to establish programs for the training and development of persons capable of providing coaching and support to individuals under treatment plans developed by licensed mental health practitioners, including but not limited to a process of issuing, either directly or through contract, credentials for qualified mental health associates. In Committee 05/20/2025
A05550 Requires police officers and peace officers to issue appearance tickets to individuals charged with certain offenses instead of arresting such individuals. In Committee 02/14/2025
A05564 Authorizes the attorney general to investigate and prosecute the alleged commission of any criminal offense or offenses committed by police officers in connection with the performance of their regular duties. In Committee 02/14/2025
A05565 Relates to the execution of a warrant of arrest; authorizes the commissioner of the division of criminal justice services to establish a system to record and monitor the issuance and execution of search warrants; authorizes the chief administrator of the court system to establish educational programs for judicial personnel on the law of searches, arrests and seizures. In Committee 02/14/2025
A05567 Provides for the use of restoration services when determining the capacity of a defendant to stand trial. In Committee 02/14/2025
A05579 Creates an automatic class E felony on the first offense for committing an act of domestic violence in the presence of children. In Committee 02/18/2025
A05584 Removes ammunition and ammunition sales from the requirements of background checks; repeals certain provisions of law relating thereto; repeals the background check fund. In Committee 02/18/2025
A05597 Allows persons participating in certain formal ceremonies to possess a firearm, rifle or shotgun, provided that such person has received prior approval from the municipality or other appropriate entity. In Committee 02/18/2025
A05599 Permits certain judges, justices and support magistrates to carry a firearm, rifle, or shotgun in a sensitive location. In Committee 02/18/2025
A05604 Creates crimes of reckless endangerment of public health with respect to HIV/AIDS transmission; creates crime of filing false instrument with respect to HIV/AIDS; provides for HIV/AIDS testing for alleged sex offenders and public health offenders; provides for contagious disease testing for persons in the custody of the department of corrections; provides that if an incarcerated individual tests positive notice shall be given to all employees that will have contact with such incarcerated individ In Committee 02/18/2025
A05613 Establishes an "operation SNUG" program within the division of criminal justice services which provides grant awards to reduce, prevent or respond to gun violence. In Committee 02/18/2025
A05616 Authorizes the court where there is criminal possession of stolen property to, in its discretion release the principal pending trial on the principal's own recognizance or under non-monetary conditions, fix bail, or order non-monetary conditions in conjunction with fixing bail, or, where the defendant is charged with a qualifying offense which is a felony, the court may commit the principal to the custody of the sheriff; makes related provisions. In Committee 02/18/2025
A05628 Increases the fine on individuals who commit the crime of criminal contempt in the first degree to up to $150,000 if such crime was wilfully committed persistently and/or egregiously as determined by the court. In Committee 02/18/2025
A05630 Allows family and criminal courts to extend orders of protection for up to two years beyond the expiration date of an issued order of protection if the court finds reason for an extension and places such reasoning on the record. In Committee 02/18/2025
A05637 Expands juvenile offender status to include rape in the first degree, criminal sexual act in the first degree, aggravated sexual abuse in the first degree, aggravated sexual abuse in the second degree and aggravated sexual abuse in the third degree if committed by persons thirteen, fourteen or fifteen years of age. In Committee 02/18/2025
A05682 Relates to the determination of the status of an interim multiple dwelling unit as a protected occupant's primary residence by the loft board or a court of competent jurisdiction, or by registration of with the loft board; provides factors for consideration for such findings; restores certain landlord-tenant relationships severed prior to the effective date. In Committee 05/28/2025
A05690 Requires the office of special investigation to conclude investigations into alleged criminal offenses committed by police officers resulting in a death and issue a report within sixty days. In Committee 02/20/2025
A05699 Amends provisions involving the arrest, prosecution, sentencing and penalties for offenses involving vehicular assault, manslaughter and homicide; removes certain barriers to prosecution for operating a vehicle under the influence of drugs or alcohol. In Committee 02/20/2025
A05711 Relates to extreme risk protection orders for law enforcement officers; requires certain law enforcement officers to receive legal representation for matters relating to an extreme risk protection order; authorizes law enforcement officers or district attorneys to use discretion in determining when to apply for an extreme risk protection order in certain situations. In Committee 02/20/2025
A05732 Deems assault on certain employees assigned to an airport, while in performance of their assigned duties, or in direct relation thereto, to be assault in the second degree. In Committee 02/20/2025
A05734 Relates to licenses to carry and possess firearms for police officers; authorizes police officers to apply for a firearms license that is valid throughout the state. In Committee 02/20/2025
A05748 Adds a defendant's identifiable ties to the community, state, and/or county to judges' considerations of whether to fix a securing order, including residence, employment, enrollment with an educational institution, and immediate family. In Committee 02/20/2025
A05751 Relates to increasing the class for certain vehicular crimes and enacting Kane's law; increases the class of vehicular manslaughter in the first and second degrees, aggravated vehicular homicide, and aggravated unlicensed operation in the first degree. In Committee 02/20/2025
A05756 Relates to first responders, including correction officers, coming into contact with saliva by spitting, throwing, tossing, or expelling from or by an individual. In Committee 02/20/2025
A05762 Provides that criminal sale of a controlled substance by an adult to a person less than fourteen years of age is a class A-II felony. In Committee 02/20/2025
A05775 Requires applicants for a license to cultivate, process, distribute, deliver, or dispense cannabis within the state to pay a prevailing wage or have entered into a project labor agreement for the construction of buildings or transportation of items relating to the activity described in the application. In Committee 02/20/2025
A05781 Requires the notice to crime victims of case disposition to inform the victim of the right to attend interviews between the board of parole and the incarcerated individual in cases where the final disposition includes a felony defined in article one hundred twenty-five of the penal law that results in the commitment of the defendant to the custody of the department of corrections and community supervision for an indeterminate sentence; requires the board of parole to review victim impact stateme In Committee 02/20/2025
A05783 Provides that being eighteen years old or more, while in the course of committing rape in the first, second or third degree, criminal sexual act in the first, second or third degree, sexual abuse in the first degree, aggravated sexual abuse in the first, second, third or fourth degree, or incest in the first, second or third degree, against a person less than eighteen years old, such defendant intentionally causes the death of such person. In Committee 02/20/2025
A05789 Relates to the penalty for the offense of predatory sexual assault against a child; provides for lifetime parole for such felons. In Committee 02/20/2025
A05800 Prohibits persons convicted of murder or sentenced to life without parole or where the defendant acting either alone or with one or more other persons, commits or attempts to commit robbery, burglary, kidnapping, arson, rape in the first degree, criminal sexual act in the first degree, sexual abuse in the first degree, aggravated sexual abuse, escape in the first degree, or escape in the second degree, and, in the course of and in furtherance of such crime or of immediate flight therefrom, such In Committee 02/20/2025
A05817 Enhances sentences for certain offenses involving weapons on or near school grounds; relates to the availability of certain records of juvenile delinquents or youthful offenders; relates to annual earnings limitations for certain retired police officers employed by a school district or a board of cooperative educational services; adds a defendant's identifiable ties to the community and state to consideration for whether to fix a securing order, including residence, employment, enrollment with a In Committee 02/20/2025
A05839 Establishes the crime of aggravated obstructing emergency medical services for conduct which obstructs the efforts of certain emergency services, personnel or systems while obstructing traffic or posing a risk of serious physical injury; permits forfeiture. In Committee 02/24/2025
A05850 Prohibits the participation of certain animals in traveling animal acts; prohibits the department of environmental conservation from issuing permits or licenses allowing participation of certain animals in traveling animal acts; excludes certain permanent performing institutions; imposes a civil penalty not to exceed $1000 for a violation. In Committee 04/02/2025
A05852 Requires manufacturers of kratom products within the state to have a warning label that the product has not been approved by the federal food and drug administration and the products' side effects; prohibits labeling of kratom products as all natural. In Committee 05/19/2025
A05876 Enacts "Barreto's law" which establishes the crime of vehicular manslaughter in the third degree. In Committee 02/24/2025
A05886 Prohibits unfair residential real estate service agreements which are certain service agreements which are not to be performed within two years following the time such agreement is entered into. In Committee 05/19/2025
A05895 Provides for orders of protection for harassment. In Committee 02/24/2025
A05906 Relates to mandatory employer disclosures regarding employee compensation and benefits, including any non-salary or non-wage compensation and benefits. In Committee 05/28/2025
A05917 Relates to the assault of physicians providing direct patient care; provides that assault of physicians shall be assault in the second degree, a class D felony. In Committee 02/24/2025
A05952 Establishes the crime of falsely filing an extreme risk protection order to be punishable as a class E felony. In Committee 02/25/2025
A05953 Includes in the class E felony of vehicular assault in the second degree, the causing of serious physical injury while operating a vehicle with suspended, revoked or no license; creates the crime of vehicular homicide. In Committee 02/25/2025
A06005 Establishes the crimes of spoofing a police agency telephone number in the first and second degrees as a class E felony and a class A misdemeanor. In Committee 02/25/2025
A06050 Establishes the crimes of criminal trespass on a school bus, school grounds or children's camp; requires the commissioner of motor vehicles, in consultation with the commissioner of transportation, to promulgate rules and regulations for certain signage on school buses; relates to professional development school bus driver safety training seminars statewide. In Committee 02/26/2025
A06051 Relates to assaults on medical providers and employees and volunteers of hospitals. In Committee 02/26/2025
A06055 Provides for certain victim statements to be taken at their workplace instead of the police department where such workplace was the scene of the crime and is a hospital, emergency medical facility, nursing home or residential health care facility. In Committee 02/26/2025
A06074 Authorizes bail and pre-trial detention for all arson felonies. In Committee 02/26/2025
A06097 Authorizes the town of Orangetown to establish community preservation funds; establishes a real estate transfer tax with revenues therefrom to be deposited in said community preservation fund; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof. In Committee 04/30/2025
A06113 Prohibits the provision of licenses for firearms to persons on the federal no-fly list or terrorist screening database; authorizes firearms licenses of persons on the federal no-fly list or terrorist screening database to be suspended or revoked; requires the superintendent of state police to search the federal no-fly list or terrorist screening database each year and report findings to appropriate enforcement agencies in order to suspend or revoke appropriate licenses. In Committee 02/26/2025
A06159 Increases the penalty for rape in the first degree from a class B felony to an class A-II felony. In Committee 02/26/2025
A06169 Criminalizes the act of engaging in any scheme, plan or pattern to transport an undocumented immigrant from any location outside of New York state to a location within New York state with the intent of dropping such person off in any municipality or federal property located wholly within New York state boundaries or to transport an undocumented immigrant from any location within New York state to another location within New York state with the intent of dropping such person off in any municipali In Committee 02/26/2025
A06178 Enacts Caylee's law; establishes the crime of failure to report a child's disappearance or death, a class D felony; makes exception where child dies while under the medical care of a licensed physician. In Committee 02/26/2025
A06203 Permits admission into evidence of similar crimes in sexual offense cases. In Committee 02/27/2025
A06212 Excludes certain judgments, orders or decrees issued in a matrimonial action from a stay of enforcement without a court order. In Committee 02/27/2025
A06214 Enacts "Kimberly's Law" establishing certain sex offenses, including sex offenses against children; relates to criminal sentencing for defendants convicted of certain sex offenses. In Committee 02/27/2025
A06224 Relates to the use of injurious physical force by public servants; directs the commissioner of criminal justice services and the commissioner of health to prescribe standards for the use of physical force and for devices and substances used in the exercise of physical force. In Committee 02/27/2025
A06230 Makes the commission of rape, a criminal sexual act, aggravated sexual abuse or course of sexual conduct against a child less than 12 years of age or against a child less than 14 years of age by a person 21 years old or more a class A-I felony; eliminates references to such offenses in less severe crimes; includes such offenses within murder in the second degree for purposes of sentencing to life imprisonment without parole for murder committed in the course of committing such sex offenses again In Committee 02/27/2025
A06253 Ends the imposition of a sentence of life without parole and the death penalty. In Committee 02/27/2025
A06257 Requires that all felony offenders shall be eligible for parole after serving no more than twenty-five years of their sentence; eliminates the possibility of serving consecutive terms of imprisonment which exceed a twenty-five year sentence. In Committee 02/27/2025
A06277 Allows a person with a federal basic permit to apply to the liquor authority for a brand owner's license; establishes a fee therefor. In Committee 05/20/2025
A06281 Includes filing certain building permit applications containing false statements regarding tenant occupancy in the offense of offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree. In Committee 03/03/2025
A06316 Codifies as an exception to the hearsay rule of evidence statements made under the belief of impending death. In Committee 03/04/2025
A06325 Relates to proceedings involving adolescent offenders and the possession or use of weapons; provides for the access of applicable records; expands the meaning of extraordinary circumstances to include when the defendant is accused of an offense involving the use, possession, or display of a firearm, shotgun, rifle or other deadly weapon. In Committee 03/04/2025
A06332 Requires that following the acquittal after trial or the sentencing of any defendant for a felony, the district attorney, or their designee, shall mail a written summary of the disposition of such felony to any victim who was not present at the time that the defendant was sentenced or acquitted after trial. In Committee 03/04/2025
A06335 Relates to asset forfeiture. In Committee 03/04/2025
A06338 Adds to the definition of a victim of a sexual offense by including a victim of unlawful dissemination or publication of an intimate image. In Committee 03/04/2025
A06343 Allows courts to consider whether a principal poses a current physical danger to the safety of any crime victim, person or the community when determining bail. In Committee 03/04/2025
A06346 Authorizes the institution of a suit in any court of competent jurisdiction alleging a violation of the human rights law for a period of three years after the dismissal of a complaint for administrative convenience by the division of human rights. In Committee 04/02/2025
A06353 Allows a person to petition the court for grand jury proceeding materials on the basis of enduring historical importance. In Committee 03/04/2025
A06358 Restores judicial discretion relating to bail reform; provides that when the defendant is charged with a felony, the court shall request of the applicable county pre-trial services agency a risk and needs assessment be conducted on the eligible defendant for the purpose of determining whether such defendant should be released on the defendant's own recognizance, released under non-monetary conditions or, where authorized, bail or commit the defendant to the custody of the sheriff; defines risks In Committee 03/04/2025
A06376 Relates to discovery restrictions for photographs of minors depicting sexual or other intimate parts; provides such photographs shall be subject to in camera review and certain other restrictions. In Committee 03/04/2025
A06377 Relates to establishing mandatory continuing law enforcement education for peace officers; requires peace officers to biannually complete a minimum of 32 credit hours of training including de-escalation techniques, implicit biases and mental health training. In Committee 03/04/2025
A06382 Relates to the use in evidence of the fact of possession or presence on the premises of condoms and other sexual and reproductive health devices. In Committee 03/04/2025
A06390 Increases the value of homesteads which are exempt from civil judgments from one hundred fifty thousand to two hundred fifty thousand dollars. In Committee 03/04/2025
A06399 Replaces the word rape with the term sexual battery. In Committee 03/04/2025
A06405 Grants peace officer status to animal control officers of the county of Schuyler; defines "animal control officer". In Committee 03/04/2025
A06417 Includes fires caused by the manufacture of a controlled substance within the crime of arson in the first degree. In Committee 03/04/2025
A06423 Requires that the entire amount of a rental deposit or advance be refundable to the tenant upon the tenant's vacating of the premises except for an amount lawfully retained for non-payment of rent or utilities, damage caused by the tenant, or storage costs; requires landlord to provide an itemized statement of damages and to return the balance of the deposit within 14 days; requires that tenant be given the opportunity to inspect the rental premises prior to signing a lease; allows a grantee or In Committee 04/15/2025
A06429 Relates to second felony drug offenders. In Committee 03/04/2025
A06445 Prohibits the use of a victim's DNA collected from sexual offense evidence kits from being added to the state DNA identification index or other databases or being used in certain actions. In Committee 03/05/2025
A06455 Authorizes courts to hold evidentiary hearings for a temporary order of protection in certain circumstances; grants superior court judges the authority to issue a temporary order of protection when an action is pending in a local criminal court in certain circumstances. In Committee 03/05/2025
A06466 Expands the options for shell color and roof color of petroleum bulk storage tanks to either white or beige/cream or which limits volatile emissions to the same or to a greater extent as a shell color and roof color of white or beige/cream as determined by the department of environmental conservation. In Committee 05/20/2025
A06477 Establishes the recidivism reduction act, which creates the office of reentry services within the division of criminal justice services. In Committee 03/05/2025
A06480 Establishes the "no severance ultimatums act", which prevents employers from giving coercive ultimatums to employees or former employees relating to such employee's severance from employment. In Committee 04/30/2025
A06497 Relates to the crime of luring a child; adds additional elements; includes use of electronic communication. In Committee 03/05/2025
A06499 Relates to the timeframe for filing pre-trial motions in criminal cases. In Committee 03/05/2025
A06515 Establishes the offenses of virtual token fraud, illegal rug pulls, and private key fraud. In Committee 03/05/2025
A06517 Directs the division of criminal justice services to include in the crimes against revenue program each county within the state and provide funding to each such county. In Committee 03/05/2025
A06525 Requires a sentence of life imprisonment without parole for murder in the first degree involving the killing of a first responder. In Committee 03/05/2025
A06526 Changes the timing of certain discovery requirements to sixty days prior to trial. In Committee 03/05/2025
A06540 Requires generative artificial intelligence providers to include provenance data on synthetic content produced or modified by a generative artificial intelligence system that the generative artificial intelligence provider makes available; provides for the repeal of certain provisions relating thereto. In Committee 05/06/2025
A06543 Relates to returnable bottles; adds noncarbonated soft drinks, certain noncarbonated fruit or vegetable juices, coffee and tea beverages, carbonated fruit beverages and cider to the definition of "beverage"; provides that beginning April 1, 2027, the handling fee will be six cents for each beverage container accepted by a deposit initiator from a dealer or operator of a redemption center; directs the multi-agency bottle bill fraud investigation team to submit a report on findings of pervasive bo In Committee 05/28/2025
A06549 Establishes the New York children's online safety act; requires operators of covered platforms to conduct age verification to determine whether a user is a covered minor; requires operators of covered platforms to utilize certain default privacy settings for covered minors; requires operators of covered platforms to require parental approval of certain activity related to a covered minor's covered platform account. In Committee 05/27/2025
A06551 Excepts crimes related to sex offenses, crimes against elderly or disabled persons and crimes related to sexual performance by a child from the three-year time limit to bring charges for such crimes against school educators employed by schools which are located in cities with 125,000 or more people. In Committee 03/06/2025
A06556 Includes consideration of evidence of recent acts of aggravated cruelty to animals as a factor to be considered when determining whether grounds for a temporary extreme risk protection order exist. Crossed Over 03/06/2025
A06558 Requires every food establishment to label all prepackaged food with a written notification on the package or on a label attached to the package identifying any ingredient with which a product is made that constitutes a major food allergen. In Committee 05/19/2025
A06575 Requires investigation and autopsy of suspicious deaths where the deceased individual had an identifiable history of being victimized by domestic violence. In Committee 03/06/2025
A06588 Designates all agents employed by the city of New York police department in the titles of traffic enforcement agent I and traffic enforcement agent II as peace officers. In Committee 03/06/2025
A06597 Authorizes the imposition of bail for certain offenses involving threats of mass harm against a school district, school, school staff or a student. In Committee 03/06/2025
A06622 Designates promoting prostitution in the fourth degree and patronizing a person for prostitution in the third degree, where such person is less than 17 years of age, as qualifying offenses with regard to bail eligibility. In Committee 03/06/2025
A06627 Expands the definition of mental health care provider for the purposes of the penal law; expands the conditions under which a person is deemed incapable of consent. In Committee 03/06/2025
A06677 Enacts "Officer Randolph Holder's law"; modifies how eligibility is determined for the judicial diversion program for certain felony offenders; requires consent of the prosecutor. In Committee 03/06/2025
A06684 Permits at the discretion of the court certain members of the deceased victim's family to read statements in court during the sentencing of a defendant, rather than allowing only a single member of the victim's family to read a statement in court, upon consultation with counsel for the defendant and the people. In Committee 03/07/2025
A06704 Adds damaging property of another person when that property is an American flag to the definition of criminal mischief in the third degree. In Committee 03/07/2025
A06706 Establishes the crimes of harassment of a law enforcement officer or a member of the officer's family in the first degree and second degree. In Committee 03/07/2025
A06722 Authorizes bail for principals charged with aggravated cruelty to animals. In Committee 03/11/2025
A06725 Increases the penalties for larceny and fraudulent accosting when the victim is 65 years of age or older. In Committee 03/11/2025
A06736 Establishes certain offenses based on homicide due to criminal sale of a controlled substance; establishes the offense of criminal sale of a controlled substance to a child in the first degree; expands the definition of controlled substances with respect to certain offenses; increases the felony classification of certain controlled substance offenses; includes electronic prescriptions and blank prescription forms in the definition of certain controlled substance offenses. In Committee 03/11/2025
A06745 Prohibits online sweepstakes games and revenue from illegal markets; sets penalties; provides for enforcement of provisions. In Committee 04/30/2025
A06765 Enacts the preventing algorithmic pricing discrimination act; requires the disclosure of algorithmically set prices. In Committee 03/25/2025
A06766 Prohibits predatory automated teller machine fees at casinos and colleges. In Committee 03/18/2025
A06767 Prohibits the provision of an artificial intelligence companion to a user unless such artificial intelligence companion contains a protocol for addressing possible suicidal ideation or self-harm expressed by a user, possible physical harm to others expressed by a user, and possible financial harm to others expressed by a user; requires certain notifications to certain users regarding crisis service providers and the non-human nature of such companion models. Crossed Over 03/25/2025
A06794 Relates to establishing the crime of larceny by cyber extortion which occurs when a person intends to obtain property from another person or entity located in the state of New York through the use of certain malicious software. In Committee 03/14/2025
A06832 Enumerates sanctions; imposes increasingly higher jail terms and civil penalties against persons who sell alcoholic beverages to minors. In Committee 03/14/2025
A06843 Makes penalties for the possession and/or sale of methamphetamine similar to that of the penalties for possession and/or sale of heroin and cocaine. In Committee 03/14/2025
A06844 Includes certain acts and subsequent penalties in the criminal sale of cannabis. In Committee 03/14/2025
A06851 Relates to penalties for the crimes relating to methamphetamine laboratory operations, including criminal possession of methamphetamine manufacturing materials and unlawful manufacture of methamphetamines. In Committee 03/14/2025
A06855 Provides that the intentional murder of a child under the age of twelve shall be a first degree murder offense. In Committee 03/14/2025
A06859 Precludes a local criminal court from issuing a warrant of arrest based on any simplified information when the defendant has not been arraigned and has not come under the control of the court with respect to the charges in the simplified information; provides that this formerly applied only to simplified traffic information. In Committee 03/14/2025
A06862 Requires that consumer reporting agencies contact consumers when a request is made for their consumer reports; requires consumer reporting agencies to provide the consumer with information pertaining to the entity that requested the consumer report. In Committee 05/06/2025
A06863 Establishes an alternative resolution program for service members and veterans accused of certain felonies. In Committee 03/14/2025
A06867 Provides for prevailing wage and overtime for covered airport workers. In Committee 03/18/2025
A06868 Increases the civil penalties for violations of child labor laws. Crossed Over 03/18/2025
A06869 Prohibits discriminatory practices by real estate appraisers; furthers fair housing compliance. Crossed Over 03/18/2025
A06873 Provides for the automatic expungement of records of arrest in certain situations. In Committee 03/18/2025
A06885 Relates to the establishment of a single computerized state DNA identification index; requires municipalities to expunge any DNA record stored in a municipal DNA identification index. In Committee 03/18/2025
A06898 Requires that a claimant alleging that the contents of a website or mobile application that describes goods and services provided at a place of public accommodation constitutes an unlawful discriminatory practice against visually and hearing impaired individuals serve written notice on the owner and provide 60 days to cure the alleged violation prior to commencing an action. In Committee 03/18/2025
A06906 Creates the office of expungement within the division of criminal justice services to oversee the sealing and expungement of certain convictions. In Committee 03/18/2025
A06918 Authorizes the town of Copake to establish community preservation funds and to impose a real estate transfer tax with revenues to be deposited into the community preservation fund; provides for the repeal of certain provisions upon expiration thereof. In Committee 04/30/2025
A06926 Includes nonconsensual use of bodily fluids and matter in harassment in the first degree and aggravated harassment in the first degree; includes strikes, shoves and kicks in aggravated harassment in the first degree. In Committee 03/18/2025
A06930 Prohibits the application of pesticides to certain local freshwater wetlands for local governments that have implemented a freshwater wetlands protection law; provides that any local law or ordinance adopted pursuant to this section shall take effect on the first day of January after it shall have been adopted. In Committee 05/20/2025
A06943 Establishes standards for glass repair and calibration of advanced driver assistance systems for motor vehicle glass repair facilities. In Committee 05/19/2025
A06946 Relates to making the crimes of sex trafficking and sex trafficking of a child violent felonies. In Committee 03/18/2025
A06949 Prohibits public food service establishments operating in the state from providing excess food service items including utensils, condiments, napkins and extra containers, to any customer except upon, and in accordance with, the express request of that customer. In Committee 05/28/2025
A06957 Provides judges with more discretion to impose bail on principals charged with a felony, principals charged with a misdemeanor when awaiting trial for another crime, principals who are a threat to the safety and security of the community, principals charged with a felony serving a sentence of probation or while released to post release supervision; requires principals who have been charged with an offense related to three separate alleged instances of criminal activity are committed to the custo In Committee 03/18/2025
A06971 Establishes the minimum period of time that forensic samples should be retained by investigating authorities; creates the state commission for the integrity of the criminal justice system, as an independent agency, and provides for such commission's powers and duties; relates to special fictitious name indictments; relates to requests for certain DNA test comparisons; relates to forensic DNA testing; relates to claims for unjust conviction and imprisonment; relates to DNA testing, data collectio In Committee 03/18/2025
A06997 Designates uniformed marine patrol officers appointed by the sheriff of Seneca county as peace officers in the county of Seneca. In Committee 03/18/2025
A07003 Expands the statute of limitations for certain sex offenses to include sex trafficking and sex trafficking of a child. In Committee 03/18/2025
A07006 Authorizes the imposition of bail for certain offenses involving the sale or possession with intent to sell of a controlled substance or a synthetic opioid. In Committee 03/18/2025
A07009 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 i In Committee 03/18/2025
A07018 Allows statements by police officers to be evidence of sex trafficking. In Committee 03/18/2025
A07022 Requires the chief administrator of the courts and the office of information technology services to develop a portal for the exchange of discovery in criminal cases. In Committee 03/18/2025
A07024 Exempts retired judges from the crime of criminal possession of a firearm, rifle or shotgun in a sensitive location. In Committee 03/18/2025
A07027 Establishes the crime of aggravated forcible touching by an incarcerated individual as a class E felony. In Committee 03/18/2025
A07040 Authorizes private membership establishments to have certain licenses for sale of alcohol for consumption on premises. In Committee 05/20/2025
A07049 Enacts "Jeremiah's law"; establishes the offense of filing a false report concerning a minor. In Committee 03/20/2025
A07064 Includes offenses involving situations where a person physically harms another or engages in conduct that results in an unacceptable level of danger as qualifying offenses for the purpose of allowing a principal to be eligible to be held on bail; requires the Office of Court Administration, in conjunction with the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services, to manage an electronic tracking system maintaining a record of all bail decisions and to deliver a report to the legislature. In Committee 03/20/2025
A07071 Relates to special provisions for the operation of bicycles when approaching stop signs and traffic-control signals including steady circular red signals and red arrow signals. In Committee 05/28/2025
A07094 Enacts the reproductive health care facilities and religious worship access act; provides that the crime of criminal interference with health care services or religious worship shall be established by the mens rea of knowingly injuring, intimidating or interfering with a person obtaining or providing or assisting in obtaining or providing reproductive health services or a place of religious worship; includes in the definition of such crime engaging in a course of conduct or repeatedly committing In Committee 03/20/2025
A07099 Enacts the "Michael K. Williams law" to establish a grant program to incentivize counties and municipalities to reduce prison populations; makes an appropriation therefor. In Committee 03/20/2025
A07131 Requires expunction of records resulting from identity theft or mistaken identity. In Committee 03/20/2025
A07158 Relates to the issuance of arrest warrants and appearance tickets upon a youth; provides for the police officer to immediately notify the parent or other person legally responsible for the care of such youth with whom the youth is domiciled that the youth has been arrested; provides further that the police officer need not notify the parent or other person legally responsible when such youth is not also a juvenile offender and the notification would endanger the health and safety of such youth. In Committee 03/21/2025
A07172 Requires the division of criminal justice services to formulate a protocol for the regulation of the use of artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology in criminal investigations; restricts the use of artificial intelligence-generated outputs in court. In Committee 03/21/2025
A07179 Requires law enforcement agencies and political subdivisions to make publicly available any law enforcement collective bargaining agreement such agency or subdivision is subject to. In Committee 03/21/2025
A07180 Prohibits the use of weaponized robots, non-weaponized robots which may potentially cause injury, or robots being used for surveillance purposes by police agencies. In Committee 03/21/2025
A07186 Requires the submission of proof of personal liability insurance prior to the issuance or renewal of a license to carry a firearm. In Committee 03/21/2025
A07190 Directs the attorney general to review incidents where a civilian is killed by a police officer. In Committee 03/21/2025
A07193 Limits the circumstances which justify the use of deadly force by a police officer or peace officer to instances when the person committed a felony that threatened or resulted in death or serious bodily injury and the officer reasonably believes that the person will cause death or serious bodily injury to another person unless immediately apprehended. In Committee 03/21/2025
A07194 Prohibits the use of student loan payment credit history checks to ascertain the payment status of a student loan of an applicant for employment. In Committee 05/28/2025
A07198 Relates to the unauthorized release of sealed records. In Committee 03/21/2025
A07201 Relates to sentencing for youthful offenders. In Committee 03/21/2025
A07202 Requires that each police officer and peace officer involved in the execution of a search warrant wear a functioning and unobstructed body camera that shall be active prior to and throughout the execution of the search and during any related action following the execution of the search warrant. In Committee 03/21/2025
A07215 Establishes the universal stop false police reporting act which establishes the crimes of aggravated falsely reporting an incident in the first, second, and third degrees when a person commits the crime of falsely reporting an incident in the first, second, or third degree and such person intended to harass, annoy, threaten, or alarm another person because of a believe or perception regarding a person's race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gen In Committee 03/21/2025
A07219 Requires the division of criminal justice services to establish a policy prohibiting police agencies from using chemical weapons and kinetic energy munitions on civilian populations and from acquiring and stockpiling such weapons or munitions. In Committee 03/21/2025
A07236 Establishes the offenses of political coercion in the second degree, political coercion in the first degree and accomplice to political coercion relating to the transportation of a person into the state for political or publicity reasons or personal gain. In Committee 03/21/2025
A07258 Enacts the Child Sexual Abuse Reform Act; provides for the elimination and extension of certain statutes of limitations related to sexual offenses against children, the expansion of reporting requirements in cases of such offenses, and the expansion of the central child abuse and maltreatment register. In Committee 03/21/2025
A07265 Authorizes a court issuing a non-family offense temporary order of protection or an order of protection to direct that such order be filed with the computerized registry for orders of protection and warrants, if it is necessary to fulfill the purposes of such order; directs the superintendent of state police to include such orders on computerized registry. In Committee 03/21/2025
A07268 Prohibits injecting a person with any substance, including, but not limited to, ketamine, by emergency medical personnel, law enforcement or any entity without the specific consent of the person or their guardian who is authorized to make medical decisions on their behalf except as a life saving measure. In Committee 03/21/2025
A07271 Provides that the period of immunity from prosecution for a criminal or civil action that a defendant is entitled to by virtue of holding the office of president of the United States shall not apply to the calculation of the time limitation applicable to commencement of such actions. In Committee 03/21/2025
A07324 Authorizes the possession of certain antique rifles and their modern day replicas. In Committee 03/25/2025
A07327 Makes the crimes of menacing and stalking bail eligible. In Committee 03/25/2025
A07337 Grants peace officer status to certain employees of the department of public safety of the Syracuse city school district. In Committee 03/25/2025
A07345 Grants peace officer status to certain security officers employed by Highland Hospital; provides such peace officers are not authorized to carry, possess, repair or dispose of a firearm. In Committee 03/25/2025
A07347 Provides that a person is guilty of criminal trespass in the third degree if such person is in any portion of this state after entering the state at any location other than a lawful port of entry or border crossing. In Committee 03/25/2025
A07352 Enacts the "fair court of appeals access act" to require applications for leave to appeal to the court of appeals to be made to the full court. In Committee 03/25/2025
A07392 Criminalizes acting as a runner or soliciting or employing a runner to procure patients or clients. In Committee 03/25/2025
A07393 Expands upon conditions which may be included in an order of protection issued for victims of domestic violence; makes other related alterations relative to the jurisdictions of supreme and family court in such situations; provides for payment of housing costs, compensation for incidental losses, possession of specified personal property, and prohibition of alienation of commonly held specified property. In Committee 03/25/2025
A07396 Increases the penalties for sexual performances by a child; increases age from 16 to 18 for application of existing sexual performance crimes; creates crimes of use of a child in a sexual performance in the first degree, promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child in the first degree, and promoting a sexual performance by a child in the first degree; provides for consecutive sentencing upon certain multiple convictions. In Committee 03/25/2025
A07422 Relates to motions to vacate judgment; authorizes filing motions to vacate judgment due to a change in law; authorizes motions to vacate judgment to be filed at any time after entry of a judgment obtained at trial or by plea; relates to the requirements of discovery. In Committee 03/25/2025
A07434 Establishes the crimes of vehicular assault and vehicular manslaughter in an active work zone and intrusion into an active work zone. In Committee 03/27/2025
A07436 Provides that a person is guilty of harassment in the first degree, a class B misdemeanor, when such person strikes, shoves, kicks or otherwise subjects a school employee to physical contact or attempts or threatens to do the same while such school employee is engaged in the performance of such person's duties as a school employee. In Committee 03/27/2025
A07449 Provides that if a prosecutor withholds information proving the innocence of an individual convicted of or charged with a crime, such prosecutor shall be guilty of a felony with the term of imprisonment being twice that of the term of imprisonment the individual charged with the crime is faced with or twice that which the individual has been sentenced to. In Committee 03/28/2025
A07456 Requires registration and the disclosure of information relating to lobbying for the nomination or confirmation of persons to state office. In Committee 05/27/2025
A07458 Creates the crime of related use of a lethal or explosive device; provides for additional 10 years imprisonment for certain crimes where a lethal or explosive device is used; permits exemption from such additional sentence when the defendant provides court with the source of such lethal or explosive device. In Committee 03/28/2025
A07460 Permits courts to remand a principal to the custody of the sheriff for felony offenses involving the possession of firearms and weapons. In Committee 03/28/2025
A07475 Relates to authorizing and regulating the use of electronic bell jar vending machines. In Committee 05/20/2025
A07493 Establishes crime of aggravated criminal conduct to provide more severe penalties for persons who have committed 3 or more qualifying misdemeanors or felonies within ten years of the present class A misdemeanor offense. In Committee 03/28/2025
A07529 Grants certain park rangers and building security of Erie county peace officer status to issue appearance tickets, simplified traffic informations, simplified parks informations and simplified environmental conservation informations; provides that such shall not be deemed to authorize such officer to carry, possess, repair or dispose of a firearm unless the appropriate license has been issued therefor. In Committee 04/01/2025
A07544 Relates to enforcement of pole attachment safety and quality and utility pole and attachment identification. In Committee 05/28/2025
A07547 Designates uniformed officers of the fire marshal's office of the town of Huntington as peace officers. In Committee 04/01/2025
A07563 Allows the removal of criminal actions to a mental health court in an adjoining county. In Committee 04/01/2025
A07565 Makes all offenses qualifying offenses for bail where the principal is a non-citizen; requires courts remand without bail when any principal charged with an offense has an outstanding United States immigration and customs enforcement detainer; includes federal laws, rules, and regulations in the definition of offense; allows police officers to detain certain non-citizens; reinstates the maximum sentence for misdemeanors as three hundred sixty-five days. In Committee 04/01/2025
A07566 Requires the preparation and dissemination of written materials regarding child access prevention and the safe storage of firearms; establishes such information shall be provided to students and/or persons in a parental relationship to such students at the beginning of each semester or quarter of the regular school year beginning on and after July 1, 2026. In Committee 04/01/2025
A07622 Requires certain sentences for aggravated criminal contempt to be served consecutively. In Committee 04/01/2025
A07623 Relates to criminal contempt for violating certain orders; permits bail or remand; provides that absconding while under electronic monitoring constitutes escape. In Committee 04/01/2025
A07632 Expands the offense of aggravated harassment in the first degree to include etching, painting, drawing upon or otherwise placing or displaying emblems, logos, flags or other symbols of designated terrorist organizations on any building or other real property without express permission of the owner or operator of such building or real property. In Committee 04/01/2025
A07661 Direct the chief administrator of the courts to retain indefinitely all court records pertaining to violent felony convictions. In Committee 04/04/2025
A07676 Relates to criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree; increases penalties for possession of a weapon on subways and mass transit trains. In Committee 04/04/2025
A07677 Provides that a person is guilty of loitering when such person remains in a transportation facility, within twenty-five feet of the token booth or similar location, for more than twenty-five minutes unless authorized to do so or unless the facility's design would make it impossible to maintain a greater distance. In Committee 04/04/2025
A07707 Designates as peace officers certain employees of the Monroe county sheriff's office serving as court security deputies at Monroe county court facilities. In Committee 04/08/2025
A07715 Establishes the crime of criminally negligent use of real property; establishes that the commission of such crime shall constitute a class A misdemeanor. In Committee 04/08/2025
A07720 Makes the possession of certain amounts of a controlled substance a violation and no longer a class A misdemeanor. In Committee 04/08/2025
A07723 Expands qualifying offenses eligible for pretrial detention and bail. In Committee 04/08/2025
A07725 Provides that instructions to the jury shall include certain defenses; provides that such instructions shall include, but not be limited to, "Do not let bias, sympathy, prejudice, or public opinion influence your decision"; defines the term "bias". In Committee 04/08/2025
A07726 Relates to the issuance of securing orders; relates to release under non-monetary conditions; relates to electronic monitoring; requires a rehearing after five days in custody for certain principals. In Committee 04/08/2025
A07738 Prohibits the sale of certain products that contain regulated perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances; requires manufacturers of products containing PFAS to provide notice of such fact to persons that offer the products for sale or distribution; provides penalties for violations. In Committee 04/30/2025
A07763 Relates to criminal penalties for persons who knowingly advance or profit from prohibited combative sports that result in the injury of any individual. In Committee 04/08/2025
A07776 Establishes conviction integrity units; describes conviction integrity units; creates definitions; provides that a prosecution agency may create a conviction integrity unit to review convictions; provides that a conviction integrity unit may make recommendations for changes in convictions and sentences obtained by the prosecution agency; grants the prosecution agency discretion regarding the conviction integrity unit's recommendations; requires notice to the victim if a petition is filed by the In Committee 04/10/2025
A07779 Directs the division of criminal justice services to establish a program for the care of retired law enforcement dogs which shall cover the cost of veterinary care for retired law enforcement dogs for the remainder of the lifetime of such dogs. In Committee 04/10/2025
A07791 Adds to the definition of trespassing in the third degree, not having entered a lease or license for such building or real property with the rightful owner, enters or remains in such building or upon such real property or otherwise occupies such building or real property without title, right, permission of the rightful owner, or payment of rent accepted by the rightful owner. In Committee 04/10/2025
A07807 Authorizes fiat-collateralized stablecoins as a form of bail; directs the commissioner of taxation and finance, in conjunction with the chief justice of the unified court system and the director of the office of information technology services, to promulgate rules and regulations identifying forms of fiat-collateralized stablecoin acceptable for posting bail to establish a system for the administration of the acceptance, recording and processing of stablecoins as a means of securing bail. In Committee 04/11/2025
A07814 Prohibits gifts, rewards, or other incentives for the purchase of oral nicotine pouches. In Committee 05/19/2025
A07831 Establishes the crimes of assault on a child protective services worker, aggravated assault on a child protective services worker and menacing a child protective services worker. In Committee 04/11/2025
A07836 Relates to computer-related crimes; creates the crimes unlawful disruption of computer services in the first and second degree, unlawful computer access assistance in the first and second degree, unauthorized use of internet domain name or profile, and unlawful introduction of a computer contaminant; allows for a civil action for compensatory damages for victims of such crimes. In Committee 04/11/2025
A07845 Requires the department of health to establish a registry for the collection of information on the incidence and prevalence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and motor neuron disease (MND) in the state; requires that every physician, nurse practitioner, physician assistant and general hospital that diagnoses or treats a patient diagnosed with ALS or MND give notice to the department of cases of ALS or MND coming under their care; requires that patients diagnosed with ALS or MND be provided In Committee 05/19/2025
A07855 Establishes the crimes of unlawful dissemination or publication of intimate images in the first, second, and third degree; defines terms and clarifies application of provisions relating to such crimes; extends the statute of limitations for such crimes; repeals provisions relating thereto. In Committee 04/11/2025
A07859 Prohibits civil arrest in hospital, shelter, food bank, and crisis center settings; except to address an imminent safety situation or if they have an appropriate judicial warrant or judicial order. In Committee 04/11/2025
A07863 Provides that the New York labor law shall be construed liberally for the accomplishment of its remedial purposes. In Committee 05/28/2025
A07865 Provides that a person is guilty of criminal mischief in the third degree when such person intentionally damages property of another person to promote or suppress a political ideology, or otherwise as an expression of political ideology. In Committee 04/11/2025
A07870 Enacts "the bodega act"; requires the division of criminal justice services to establish a program to provide grants to bodegas, convenience stores and food marts for the purpose of preventing crimes against such businesses including for the installation of panic buttons and surveillance equipment. In Committee 04/11/2025
A07896 Clarifies the definition of business records and the use of such records in grand jury proceedings. In Committee 04/11/2025
A07911 Relates to enacting the central air conditioner and heat pump rights act; provides that a homeowners' association may not adopt or enforce any rules or regulations that would effectively prohibit, or impose unreasonable limitations on, the installation or use of a central air conditioner or heat pump. In Committee 05/19/2025
A07912 Prohibits the sale of children's products, mattresses and upholstered furniture containing fiberglass unless they contain a prominent label; defines children's product; prohibits custom upholsterers from repairing or restoring any children's product, mattress or furniture with parts that contain fiberglass; provides remedies for violations. In Committee 05/06/2025
A07929 Prohibits food stores and retail establishments from refusing to accept payment in cash; provides a civil penalty will be assessed for such actions. In Committee 05/19/2025
A07936 Requires a court to evaluate whether the prosecution has established that the certificate of compliance or supplemental certificate of compliance was filed in good faith after exercising due diligence and making reasonable inquiries to learn of the discovery. In Committee 04/16/2025
A07940 Relates to the calculation of the homestead exemption amount; relates to the indexing of the homestead exemption for housing value changes; increases the amount of the motor vehicle exemption; limits the homestead exemption available to bankruptcy debtors to one exemption per household; increases the motor vehicle exemption available in bankruptcy proceedings. In Committee 04/16/2025
A07983 Prohibits the purchase of ammunition if such purchaser failed a background check, is prohibited by federal law or is subject to a temporary or extreme risk protection order issued pursuant to article sixty-three-A of the civil practice law and rules. In Committee 04/16/2025
A07984 Tolls the statute of limitations for endangering the welfare of a child until such child reaches the age of twenty-three. In Committee 04/16/2025
A08014 Enacts into law components of legislation relating to certain criminal justice reform in the state of New York; establishes law enforcement officer grant funds (Part A); provides judges more discretion regarding securing orders and limiting the lengths of certain orders (Part B); requires affirmative consent for the disclosure of contact information of witnesses to a defendant; provides that denial of such consent shall only be for good cause as determined by the court (Part C); relates to consi In Committee 04/21/2025
A08016 Provides for securities fraud whistleblower incentives and protections; defines terms; grants whistleblower awards for one or more whistleblowers who voluntarily provide original information to the attorney general that was the basis for a successful covered enforcement action; protects whistleblowers from retaliation; authorizes the attorney general to adopt any necessary rules and regulations; makes related provisions. In Committee 05/28/2025
A08022 Requires an operator of a covered platform with at least one million users to ensure that its covered platform provides a process to allow law enforcement agencies to contact such covered platform, which shall include making available a staffed hotline for the purposes of receiving and responding to questions about search warrants, acknowledging receipt of search warrants, and providing status updates on warrant compliance, and which shall provide continuous availability of such process; provide In Committee 04/22/2025
A08032 Relates to certain provisions on elevator licensing and temporary elevator mechanics; relates to civil penalties for unlicensed mechanics; clarifies inspection provisions. In Committee 05/28/2025
A08038 Imposes a fee for certain convictions to benefit animal shelters; establishes the animal offenses assistance fund. In Committee 04/22/2025
A08039 Relates to persons designated as peace officers; designates members of the security force employed by Catholic Health Network and Kaleida Health as peace officers. In Committee 04/22/2025
A08051 Increases penalties for certain theft and fraud crimes against elderly persons; makes such crimes a class B felony. In Committee 04/22/2025
A08052 Clarifies provisions regarding health care professional applications and terminations. In Committee 05/19/2025
A08054 Requires police officer training programs on interacting with individuals who are a part of a sexual orientation and/or gender minority. In Committee 04/22/2025
A08076 Redefines the term "following" for a crime of stalking in the fourth degree to include the use of certain devices or computers to gain access to, record, track or report the movement or location of a person or their property without the person's permission or authority to do so. In Committee 04/24/2025
A08131 Provides that municipal broadband service companies are authorized to provide broadband service to tenants in multi-family housing; provides that landlords shall not interfere with the installation of such service, demand or accept payment for allowing the service on the property, or discriminate in rental charges between tenants who receive broadband service and those that don't. In Committee 05/28/2025
A08133 Allows defendants to respond to appearance tickets for certain local violations, including a violation of a local zoning ordinance or local zoning law or of a building or sanitation code, by mail; establishes procedures for such plea by mail. In Committee 05/01/2025
A08139 Protects people from civil arrest while within one thousand feet of a sensitive location, unless such civil arrest is supported by a judicial warrant or judicial order authorizing such civil arrest. In Committee 05/01/2025
A08159 Authorizes the use of closed-circuit television for vulnerable sexual assault witnesses; establishes a procedure for determining who qualifies as a vulnerable sexual assault witness. In Committee 05/02/2025
A08174 Relates to the members of the public service commission; prohibits commissioners from having been employed within the last two years by an electric, gas, steam, telecommunications, or water utility that is regulated by the commission; requires that new appointments ensure that commissioners represent certain areas of education and training. In Committee 05/28/2025
A08194 Prohibits law enforcement officers and peace officers from inquiring about the immigration status of a victim of or witness to a criminal offense. In Committee 05/05/2025
A08221 Elevates assault to a felony when committed against a water authority employee in the course of performing their duties. In Committee 05/05/2025
A08223 Expands the scope of duties for public employers to prevent workplace violence including additional training, the creation of incident logs, expanding inspections and providing the commissioner the ability to enforce such provisions to prevent workplace violence. In Committee 05/28/2025
A08235 Designates dog control officers of the village of Holley, named by the village board as constables, as peace officers. In Committee 05/05/2025
A08250 Permits judges and justices to purchase and use body armor. In Committee 05/05/2025
A08254 Relates to training police officers on how to respond to situations involving individuals with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities. In Committee 05/05/2025
A08263 Requires the secretary of state to develop and mandate annual training of police department personnel on the protocols of the address confidentiality program. In Committee 05/05/2025
A08271 Relates to the right to counsel in certain family court proceedings regarding violations of orders of child support and to establish paternity or parentage in the family court. In Committee 05/20/2025
A08292 Provides that it shall be a defense to any prosecution for a violation of a bus lane restriction pursuant to a bus rapid transit program when an employee of the metropolitan transportation authority is performing authorized duties on behalf of such authority and is operating an authorized employer motor vehicle in the bus lane at the time of the violation and conducting lawful business or providing service to an official metropolitan transportation authority vehicle or personnel while in a bus l In Committee 05/28/2025
A08304 Relates to adjournments in contemplation of dismissal and suspended judgments in child protective proceedings in the family court. In Committee 05/20/2025
A08330 Clarifies provisions regarding the use of crossbows for hunting, allowing the department of environmental conservation to allow the use of crossbows for the taking of big game in any area long bows are permitted. In Committee 05/20/2025
A08343 Establishes the offense of aggravated murder of a child, aggravated abuse of a child, aggravated manslaughter of a child, and aggravated endangering the welfare of a child; requires the recording of calls to the statewide register of child abuse made by mandated reporters; defines "neglected child". In Committee 05/13/2025
A08381 Includes impersonation of a firefighter in the definition of criminal impersonation in the first degree. In Committee 05/13/2025
A08384 Requires that Miranda rights statements be more specific with respect to the right to counsel; requires inquiry into whether such rights are understood. In Committee 05/13/2025
A08406 Relates to issuance of warrants for seizures of firearms in supreme court and family court. In Committee 05/13/2025
A08419 Relates to retail food store, food service establishment and food warehouse licensing; defines terms; provides for licensure; authorizes the commissioner of agriculture and markets to grant, suspend or revoke licenses; authorizes civil practice law and rules article 78 proceedings to challenge the actions of such commissioner; authorizes such commissioner or such commissioner's duly authorized representatives to investigate and inspect such retail food stores or warehouses; requires the departme In Committee 05/20/2025
A08427 Enacts the "fostering affordability and integrity through reasonable (FAIR) business practices act", to expand the attorney general's ability to protect New Yorkers from unfair, deceptive and abusive business practices. In Committee 05/27/2025
A08449 Prohibits accessing or distributing certain sexually explicit depictions of children; prohibits consent to such depictions by anyone under eighteen years of age; makes such crimes eligible for bail; includes certain crimes as sex offenses. In Committee 05/16/2025
A08451 Requires training for police officers on discharging a firearm at a moving vehicle; requires the municipal police training council to develop and disseminate written policies and procedures regarding such force. In Committee 05/16/2025
A08476 Protects veterans from fraud and unaccredited representatives; institutes a civil penalty of up to $10,000 for violation; establishes the class A misdemeanor crime of unaccredited representation of a veteran; establishes a veterans' services fund. In Committee 05/19/2025
A08480 Includes the unaccrued portion of a non-schedule award in the amounts to be payable to and for the benefit of certain persons where a claimant was entitled to death benefits at the time of death. In Committee 05/20/2025
A08492 Requires state law enforcement agencies to adopt tattoo policies that prohibit certain tattoos that are indecent, sexist, racist, gang affiliated, or that are affiliated with or inspired by extremist organizations or ideologies. In Committee 05/20/2025
A08572 Relates to orders of protection in child abuse and neglect proceedings in family court. In Committee 05/28/2025
A08590 Provides for the applicability of the New York labor relations act; provides procedures for impasse resolution where parties fail to achieve agreement for a first contract by the end of a 45 day period from the date of certification or recognition of an employee organization. In Committee 05/28/2025
A08592 Establishes the offenses of reckless endangerment of an emergency service person in the first and second degrees. In Committee 05/21/2025
A08594 Updates and amends provisions of the lemon law relating to mileage and fines. In Committee 05/27/2025
A08603 Enacts the "forensic rehabilitation act" relating to the custody of individuals following a verdict or plea of not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect. In Committee 05/22/2025
A08607 Includes assault upon a school bus operator, monitor, or attendant as assault in the second degree. In Committee 05/22/2025
A08618 Prohibits a person from defacing or damaging a fine art or historical monument; makes such crime bail eligible. In Committee 05/22/2025
A08672 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 In Committee 05/27/2025
S00054 Prohibits the use of intoxication of the victim as a defense in sex crimes where the victim is under the influence of any drug, intoxicant, or other substance to a degree which rendered the victim temporarily incapable of appraising or controlling such person's conduct and such condition was known or reasonably should have been known to a person in the actor's situation. Crossed Over 05/13/2025
S00073 Relates to rechargeable battery recycling; adds a battery used as the principal electric power source for an electric scooter or bicycle with electric assist to the definition of "rechargeable battery"; provides that a battery manufacturer may not sell, offer for sale, or distribute rechargeable batteries in the state unless the battery manufacturer is implementing or participating under an approved plan; allows a city with a population of one million or more to enforce through its own agencies. Crossed Over 03/05/2025
S00083 Relates to establishing the crime of larceny by cyber extortion which occurs when a person intends to obtain property from another person or entity located in the state of New York through the use of certain malicious software. Crossed Over 03/03/2025
S00114 Prohibits state chartered banking institutions from investing in and providing financing for private prisons. Crossed Over 05/22/2025
S00116 Extends the statute of limitations of actions related to certain sex trafficking offenses, reviving such actions otherwise barred by the existing statute of limitations; grants trial preference to such actions; exempts such actions from certain provisions requiring notice of claims. Crossed Over 05/14/2025
S00119 Requires that any limited liability company who files a rent registration statement shall include a list of all members of such limited liability company and each member's ownership interest. Crossed Over 05/28/2025
S00187 Prohibits the sale of certain products that contain regulated perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances; requires manufacturers of products containing PFAS to provide notice of such fact to persons that offer the products for sale or distribution; provides penalties for violations. Crossed Over 05/22/2025
S00205 Establishes that when an actor threatens to disseminate or publish a still or video image depicting such other person with one or more intimate parts exposed or engaging in sexual conduct with another person, including a still or video image created or altered by digitization, where such person may reasonably be identified from the still or video image itself or from information displayed in connection with the still or video image within the provisions of unlawful dissemination or publication o Crossed Over 04/24/2025
S00450 Prohibits landlords from including incorrect information relating to rent decontrol in certain leases and renewals thereof; imposes a violation punishable by a fine of $1000 for a violation by a landlord; requires the standardization of certain notices pertaining to units subject to the Affordable New York Housing Program. Crossed Over 05/13/2025
S00464 Establishes an assumption of the inadmissibility of evidence of a defendant's creative or artistic expression against such defendant in a criminal proceeding; requires the proffering party to affirmatively prove that the evidence is admissible by clear and convincing evidence. Crossed Over 03/03/2025
S00490 Includes instances of sexual conduct against a child less than seventeen years of age to certain sex offenses; removes the time limit to bring subsequent sexual offenses. Crossed Over 04/09/2025
S00524 Establishes the crime of voyeurism in the first and second degree which is defined as when someone for their own amusement, entertainment, profit, sexual arousal or sexual gratification trespasses for the purpose of viewing a person dressing or undressing or the sexual or other intimate parts of such person at a place and time when such person has a reasonable expectation of privacy, without such person's knowledge or consent. Crossed Over 02/26/2025
S00630 Requires the district attorney to notify victims by letter of the final disposition of the case within sixty days of such disposition in cases where such final disposition includes a conviction; provides such letter shall also notify victims of their right to make a victim impact statement; allows them to personally appear at parole hearings and make such a statement. Crossed Over 04/08/2025
S00660 Relates to detaining persons for longer than twenty-four hours. Crossed Over 05/20/2025
S00703 Eliminates the requirement that injury be serious with respect to aggravated cruelty to animals. Crossed Over 04/08/2025
S00740 Updates requirements for retail worker employers when developing and implementing programs to prevent workplace violence; clarifies certain provisions of the retail worker safety act. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 02/03/2025
S00743 Includes rifles and shotguns in required warnings to consumers regarding the risk of death or suicide in homes where such weapons are present. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 02/03/2025
S00744 Includes pistol converters in the definition of a rapid-fire modification device. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 02/03/2025
S00804 Relates to when and how notification of a data breach is to be provided to the department of financial services. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/28/2025
S00805 Directs the superintendent of state police, in consultation with the office of children and family services, shall develop, maintain and disseminate to all members of the state police written policies and procedures, regarding child-sensitive arrest practices. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 02/10/2025
S00824 Relates to the climate change adaptation cost recovery program and requirements for climate change adaptive infrastructure projects; relates to the use of funds from the climate change adaptation fund for certain projects; relates to the disclosure of certain data from returns of petroleum or fossil fuel businesses; relates to expenditure of funds from the climate change adaptation fund; repeals certain provisions; relates to severability and legislative findings. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/22/2025
S00866 Relates to re-defining the term physically helpless to mean an individual who is physically unable to communicate affirmative consent through words or clear actions that offer permission and a willingness to engage in sexual activity. Crossed Over 03/27/2025
S00952 Requires that the entire amount of a rental deposit or advance be refundable to the tenant upon the tenant's vacating of the premises except for an amount lawfully retained for non-payment of rent or utilities, damage caused by the tenant, or storage costs; requires landlord to provide an itemized statement of damages and to return the balance of the deposit within 14 days; requires that tenant be given the opportunity to inspect the rental premises prior to signing a lease; allows a grantee or Crossed Over 04/29/2025
S01055 Prohibits the division of criminal justice services from disclosing pending orders of adjournment in contemplation of dismissal on civil records of arrests and prosecutions. Crossed Over 05/19/2025
S01192 Establishes an alternative resolution program for service members and veterans accused of certain felonies. Crossed Over 05/20/2025
S01285 Allows for written instructions regarding elements to be supplied to a jury. Crossed Over 04/08/2025
S01353 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; establishes a right of action by the debtor for relief against creditors for violations; makes related provisions. Crossed Over 05/13/2025
S01463 Enacts a mattress collection program; requires mattress producers to establish a plan for the convenient and cost-effective recycling of used mattresses. Crossed Over 04/28/2025
S01641 Relates to permitting support to a vulnerable elderly person testifying in grand jury proceedings; allows a social worker or informal caregiver to accompany a vulnerable elderly person testifying in a grand jury proceeding, concerning any type of offense, provided that the district attorney consents. Crossed Over 04/28/2025
S01652 Authorizes a court issuing a non-family offense temporary order of protection or an order of protection to direct that such order be filed with the computerized registry for orders of protection and warrants, if it is necessary to fulfill the purposes of such order; directs the superintendent of state police to include such orders on computerized registry. Crossed Over 04/08/2025
S01664 Provides access to live scan fingerprinting to society for the prevention of cruelty to animals officers. Crossed Over 05/05/2025
S01985 Requires police officers to take temporary custody of firearms for not less than one hundred twenty hours when responding to reports of family violence. Crossed Over 05/13/2025
S02273 Includes contacts via text, email, private message, direct message or other electronic communication in the definition of the offense of aggravated harassment in the second degree. Crossed Over 04/08/2025
S02295 Requires police officers to receive training instruction for crimes involving sexual assaults; requires training for child protective services workers in certain instances. Crossed Over 04/29/2025
S02453 Provides that the period of immunity from prosecution for a criminal or civil action that a defendant is entitled to by virtue of holding the office of president of the United States shall not apply to the calculation of the time limitation applicable to commencement of such actions. Crossed Over 05/22/2025
S02491 Prohibits peremptory challenges of prospective jurors based on race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, gender identity or expression, religion, religious practice, age, disability, or sexual orientation. Crossed Over 05/12/2025
S02551 Increases the fines imposed on a corporation for an offense defined within the penal law. Crossed Over 03/25/2025
S02706 Prohibits the use of drilling fluids, brine and flowback water from wells, pools or fields on any highway for any purpose including but not limited to de-icing or dust suppression. Crossed Over 04/22/2025
S03158 Includes animal fighting as a criminal act for purposes of enterprise corruption crimes. Crossed Over 04/08/2025
S03204 Creates the offense of defrauding the government in the first degree; expands the definition of conspiracy in the fourth degree; relates to expanding the definition of tax fraud acts. Crossed Over 05/06/2025
S03519 Redefines the term "following" for a crime of stalking in the fourth degree to include the use of certain devices or computers to gain access to, record, track or report the movement or location of a person or their property without the person's permission or authority to do so. Crossed Over 05/13/2025
S03629 Prohibits the participation of certain animals in traveling animal acts; prohibits the department of environmental conservation from issuing permits or licenses allowing participation of certain animals in traveling animal acts; excludes certain permanent performing institutions; imposes a civil penalty not to exceed $1000 for a violation. Crossed Over 04/08/2025
S03693 Relates to computer-related crimes; creates the crimes unlawful disruption of computer services in the first and second degree, unlawful computer access assistance in the first and second degree, unauthorized use of internet domain name or profile, and unlawful introduction of a computer contaminant; allows for a civil action for compensatory damages for victims of such crimes. Crossed Over 03/03/2025
S03695 Prohibits the inclusion of a confession of judgment in a contract or agreement for a financial product or service. Crossed Over 04/03/2025
S03831 Relates to removing the ten year time period from the crime of persistent sexual abuse. Crossed Over 04/24/2025
S03909 Enacts the "New York State Phoenix Act"; extends the statute of limitations for felony family offenses to ten years and misdemeanor family offenses to five years. Crossed Over 05/22/2025
S04188 Establishes the crime of misappropriation of payroll funds when a person knows that funds are designated for use as employee payroll funds or as payment of payroll taxes, and intentionally prevents the funds from being used for their designated purpose. Crossed Over 03/05/2025
S04757 Establishes an "operation SNUG" program within the division of criminal justice services which provides grant awards to reduce, prevent or respond to gun violence. Crossed Over 05/19/2025
S04767 Relates to training police officers on how to respond to situations involving individuals with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities. Crossed Over 04/28/2025
S04906 Provides for certain victim statements to be taken at their workplace instead of the police department where such workplace was the scene of the crime and is a hospital, emergency medical facility, nursing home or residential health care facility. Crossed Over 05/22/2025
S04914 Protects individuals who provide or receive legally protected health activity, including reproductive health care and gender-affirming care, from criminal or civil liability or professional sanctions imposed by jurisdictions outside the state. Crossed Over 05/22/2025
S05041 Adds to the definition of a victim of a sexual offense by including a victim of unlawful dissemination or publication of an intimate image. Crossed Over 04/03/2025
S06442 Directs the commissioner of the division of criminal justice services to study gender disparity in sentencing outcomes and make a report to the governor and the legislature of their findings, conclusions and recommendations. Crossed Over 05/12/2025