1,146 bills · signed into law. Ordered by the date of each bill’s latest official action: referral, amendment, floor vote, passage or signature.
Impact is how much a bill would change if enacted, from 1 (minimal) to 10 (transformational). Passage is our estimate of the chance it becomes law this session. How we score
This bill allows local governments and school districts in New York to temporarily defer or create installment plans for property tax payments during the COVID-19 emergency, with specific limits and…
Impact 6 · Moderate·Signed into law
This bill creates a demonstration program to provide insulin and other life-sustaining drugs for uninsured New Yorkers and allows emergency prescription refills.
Impact 7 · Significant·Signed into law
This bill expands property tax exemptions to include facilities that formerly generated electricity using nuclear power, not just current ones.
Impact 4 · Low·Signed into law
The bill adds spent nuclear fuel storage facilities to the definition of taxable real property in New York.
Impact 6 · Moderate·Signed into law
This bill requires that employees at the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant receive prevailing wages and job protections during transfers, sales, leases, and decommissioning activities.
Impact 6 · Moderate·Signed into law
This bill, known as the "healthy terminals act," requires covered airport employers in New York to pay airport workers a prevailing wage and certain benefits.
Impact 7 · Significant·Signed into law
This bill requires a public hearing in the local community before any new adult homeless shelter (not short-term) is sited in New York City.
Impact 3 · Low·Signed into law
This bill ends license suspensions for failure to pay or appear for most traffic violations, requires installment payment plans, and mandates notification reforms.
Impact 8 · Significant·Signed into law
This bill temporarily halts most COVID-19-related residential evictions, foreclosures, and tax lien sales in New York until May 1, 2021.
Impact 8 · Significant·Signed into law
This bill allows Jolie Louise Baynes to file a retirement application for her deceased father, Johnny Baynes, retroactively.
Impact 3 · Low·Signed into law
This bill allows Rickly Dear, widow of Noach Dear, to retroactively file her husband's retirement application and receive related benefits.
Impact 3 · Low·Signed into law
This bill requires judges in New York to state their reason for recusal, unless it would cause embarrassment or involves personal matters.
Impact 3 · Low·Signed into law
This bill requires New York to create and maintain a public registry tracking all construction industry workplace fatalities with detailed reporting requirements.
Impact 4 · Low·Signed into law
This bill requires insurers to offer group fleet insurance policies for for-hire vehicles seating eight or more passengers, with premium reductions for multiple vehicles.
Impact 6 · Moderate·Signed into law
This bill establishes strict confidentiality protections for COVID-19 contact tracing information, limiting disclosure and prohibiting its use by law enforcement or immigration authorities.
Impact 4 · Low·Signed into law
This bill expands annual reviews of infectious disease policies in correctional facilities to include emerging infectious diseases, not just HIV, AIDS, and hepatitis C.
Impact 4 · Low·Signed into law
This bill authorizes the city of Ithaca to impose a hotel and motel occupancy tax of up to 5%, with proceeds supporting a local conference center.
Impact 4 · Low·Signed into law
This bill ensures certain New York schools serving students with disabilities won't face financial penalties for reduced enrollment or days of operation due to COVID-19 in the 2019-2020 school year.
Impact 6 · Moderate·Signed into law
This bill authorizes the Town of Wallkill to impose a hotel or motel occupancy tax of up to 5% for up to three years.
Impact 3 · Low·Signed into law
This bill increases the maximum hotel and motel tax rate in Otsego County from 4% to 6%.
Impact 4 · Low·Signed into law
This bill authorizes the city of Cortland to impose a hotel occupancy tax of up to 3% for tourism and infrastructure.
Impact 4 · Low·Signed into law
This bill authorizes the town of Mount Pleasant, NY to impose a hotel/motel occupancy tax for up to three years.
Impact 4 · Low·Signed into law
The bill increases the hotel and motel occupancy tax in Onondaga County from five percent to seven percent.
Impact 4 · Low·Signed into law
This bill allows cemetery corporations in New York to merge with fewer restrictions on location and acreage, subject to cemetery board approval.
Impact 4 · Low·Signed into law
This bill authorizes the town of Newburgh to impose a hotel and motel tax of up to 5% for three years.
Impact 3 · Low·Signed into law
This bill allows the Public Service Commission to enforce recommendations and impose penalties or revoke authority if management audits find fraud, abuse, or mismanagement by public authority…
Impact 5 · Moderate·Signed into law
This bill bans the use of trichloroethylene in manufacturing, industrial cleaning, and related processes in New York State.
Impact 6 · Moderate·Signed into law
This bill prohibits the use of glyphosate on New York state property by state agencies and their contractors.
Impact 4 · Low·Signed into law
This bill revises New York's residential-commercial urban property tax exemption program, adding stricter eligibility, use, and reporting requirements for mixed-use developments.
Impact 5 · Moderate·Signed into law
This bill requires commercial financing providers in New York to disclose specific terms and costs to recipients, enhancing transparency and consumer protections.
Impact 7 · Significant·Signed into law
This bill requires the New York Department of Health to study racial and ethnic disparities in infant mortality and report recommendations to address them.
Impact 2 · Minimal·Signed into law
This bill allows Port Jervis to impose a local occupancy tax of up to 3% on hotel and motel stays for up to three years.
Impact 3 · Low·Signed into law
This bill requires beer-related licenses in New York to display the certificate of authority number on the license.
Impact 3 · Low·Signed into law
This bill requires incarcerated parents in New York to be placed in correctional facilities closest to their children's residence whenever possible.
Impact 6 · Moderate·Signed into law
This bill updates the definition of "tenant" in mortgage foreclosures to include certain oral or implied rental agreements.
Impact 3 · Low·Signed into law
This bill allows assessment insurance corporations to offer standalone liability and umbrella liability insurance, not just in conjunction with fire insurance.
Impact 5 · Moderate·Signed into law
This bill requires all single-occupancy bathrooms in public places and schools in New York to be designated as gender neutral.
Impact 6 · Moderate·Signed into law
This bill requires supermarkets to make excess edible food available to nonprofits that feed the needy, aiming to reduce food waste and hunger.
Impact 4 · Low·Signed into law
Directs the department of financial services to study, evaluate and make recommendations concerning lending practices by financial institutions to landlords acquiring property that includes small…
Signed into law
This bill establishes an automatic voter registration process in New York, integrating voter registration with designated state and local agency applications.
Impact 8 · Significant·Signed into law
This bill prohibits New York schools from using biometric identifying technology, including facial recognition, until a state review and recommendations are completed.
Impact 6 · Moderate·Signed into law
This bill requires hospitals to provide information and care to expectant mothers about pre-term labor and its risks.
Impact 5 · Moderate·Signed into law
This bill allows former foster youth under 21 to return to foster care during the COVID-19 state of emergency without court motions or educational requirements.
Impact 6 · Moderate·Signed into law
The bill amends procedures and funding requirements for establishing New York state veterans' cemeteries and mandates public access to related fund information.
Impact 4 · Low·Signed into law
This bill requires the most populous municipality in each New York county to have at least one early voting polling place, ideally on public transit routes.
Impact 6 · Moderate·Signed into law
This bill strengthens regulations and penalties for illegal disposal of construction and demolition waste, including new tracking requirements and criminal charges for fraudulent dumping.
Impact 7 · Significant·Signed into law
This bill requires state agencies to collect and publicly report data on sheltered and unsheltered homeless populations during the COVID-19 emergency.
Impact 3 · Low·Signed into law
This bill changes one Watertown city court judgeship from full-time to part-time and updates related appointment and salary provisions.
Impact 3 · Low·Signed into law
This bill requires the Office of Children and Family Services to collect and annually report detailed data on child welfare preventive services in each local social services district.
Impact 3 · Low·Signed into law
This bill prohibits New York State from selling or displaying symbols of hate, except for educational or historical purposes.
Impact 4 · Low·Signed into law
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