STATE LEGISLATION

New York bills.

Active bills in New York's current legislative session, mirrored from public legislative records.

ACTIVE BILLS

Current legislation.

Lists include only active bills from the current session. Latest reported stage, body, and action come from mirrored public records and may not reflect real-time changes.

Active bill stages

20,485 active bills in the current session, grouped by latest reported stage.

18,547Introduced: Filed and awaiting committee or floor action.
156In committee: Assigned to a committee for review.
1,782Floor or other chamber: On a chamber floor or moving between chambers.
0Enrolled or executive: Enrolled for signature or awaiting executive action.
0Terminal outcomes: Became law, vetoed, or failed. Active directories list only open bills.
0Unspecified stage: Latest action could not be mapped to a precise stage. These bills are still active, not closed.

A04491
Authorizes a court to order the division of criminal justice services to compare fingerprints of the defendant against the statewide database.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
referred to codes
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
A04492
Requires new teachers applying for certification or a license including childhood education teachers, early education teachers, special education teachers, or reading specialists to have completed training for evidence-based reading instruction.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
referred to education
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
A04493
Establishes the disaster-related latent damage recovery grant program to repair latent damage to public infrastructure, including publicly-owned roads, bridges, drainage and flood mitigation systems, electrical and mechanical systems and communication systems, and any ancillary infrastructure necessary for the safe operation of the components thereof, where such damage was the result of a natural disaster.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
referred to governmental operations
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
A04494
Enacts the "employment first choice act" to ensure that an individual with developmental disabilities in a nonintegrated setting shall have the right to remain in such a setting under certain circumstances.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
referred to people with disabilities
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
A04495
Authorizes a distinctive "guardians for schools" license plate; establishes the guardians for schools fund.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
referred to transportation
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
A04497
Relates to enhancing penalties and protecting victims of crimes of domestic violence.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
referred to codes
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
A04498
Provides that the New York state health care quality and cost containment commission shall: evaluate each mandated benefit; investigate current practices of health plans with regard to the mandated benefit; investigate the potential premium impact of repealing and/or modifying the mandated benefits on all segments of the insurance market; hold at least two public hearings; submit a report to the legislature; makes related provisions.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
referred to insurance
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
A04500
Creates a contraband and drug information hotline for state correctional facilities; defines terms.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
referred to correction
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
A04501
Permits students of SUNY, CUNY, or state-funded institutions of higher education to observe certain holidays without facing academic repercussions, provided they submit written notice of their intention to observe such holidays.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
referred to higher education
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
A04503
Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to study gender disparity in resources provided to incarcerated individuals and make a report to the governor and the legislature of the findings, conclusions and recommendations.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
referred to ways and means
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
A04505
Establishes an office of the transit riders advocate to receive and resolve complaints affecting mass transit users of facilities of the metropolitan transportation authority.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
referred to corporations, authorities and commissions
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
A04506
Limits the time a legislator may serve as a legislative leader to four consecutive two year terms.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
referred to governmental operations
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
A04507
Enacts the "fairness in cooperative homeownership act"; regulates the submission and determinations of applications for ownership of cooperative apartments.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
referred to housing
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
A04508
Relates to allowing for municipal enforcement of the New York state uniform fire prevention and building code and to the disbursement of intervenor funds under the major renewable energy development program; adds compliance filings as a basis for receiving intervenor funds; provides reimbursement for pre-application activities.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
referred to governmental operations
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
A04509
Includes active duty military and certain veterans going to college under the new GI bill in the definition of resident as it relates to community colleges and state-aided four-year colleges.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
referred to higher education
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
A04510
Establishes tuition awards for members of the reserved armed forces of the United States; provides eligibility for such tuition benefit shall be determined by the education services offices of the division of military and naval affairs; restricts such tuition benefit to legal residents of the state; establishes a tuition award account.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
referred to higher education
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
A04511
Relates to enacting the "New York wine & distilled spirits development act"; allows individuals to hold more than one seven day license to sell liquor at retail for off-premises consumption; establishes the New York distilled spirits and wine industry marketing and promotion fund.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
referred to economic development
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
A04512
Grants school districts the ability to implement telehealth school-based mental health clinics; establishes the student mental telehealth reimbursement fund; relates to funding the student mental telehealth reimbursement fund.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
referred to education
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
A04513
Provides that eligible youth who were not given youthful offender status by the court be eligible for conviction sealing.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
referred to codes
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
A04514
Establishes the nutrient inactivant application permit to allow for the use of products used for controlling phosphorus levels in lakes or ponds to prevent and inhibit harmful algal blooms.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
referred to environmental conservation
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source

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New York bills.

Current legislation.

Active bill stages

Authorizes a court to order the division of criminal justice services to compare fingerprints of the defendant against the statewide database.

Requires new teachers applying for certification or a license including childhood education teachers, early education teachers, special education teachers, or reading specialists to have completed training for evidence-based reading instruction.

Enacts the "employment first choice act" to ensure that an individual with developmental disabilities in a nonintegrated setting shall have the right to remain in such a setting under certain circumstances.

Authorizes a distinctive "guardians for schools" license plate; establishes the guardians for schools fund.

Relates to enhancing penalties and protecting victims of crimes of domestic violence.

Creates a contraband and drug information hotline for state correctional facilities; defines terms.

Permits students of SUNY, CUNY, or state-funded institutions of higher education to observe certain holidays without facing academic repercussions, provided they submit written notice of their intention to observe such holidays.

Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to study gender disparity in resources provided to incarcerated individuals and make a report to the governor and the legislature of the findings, conclusions and recommendations.

Establishes an office of the transit riders advocate to receive and resolve complaints affecting mass transit users of facilities of the metropolitan transportation authority.

Limits the time a legislator may serve as a legislative leader to four consecutive two year terms.

Enacts the "fairness in cooperative homeownership act"; regulates the submission and determinations of applications for ownership of cooperative apartments.

Includes active duty military and certain veterans going to college under the new GI bill in the definition of resident as it relates to community colleges and state-aided four-year colleges.

Relates to enacting the "New York wine & distilled spirits development act"; allows individuals to hold more than one seven day license to sell liquor at retail for off-premises consumption; establishes the New York distilled spirits and wine industry marketing and promotion fund.

Grants school districts the ability to implement telehealth school-based mental health clinics; establishes the student mental telehealth reimbursement fund; relates to funding the student mental telehealth reimbursement fund.

Provides that eligible youth who were not given youthful offender status by the court be eligible for conviction sealing.

Establishes the nutrient inactivant application permit to allow for the use of products used for controlling phosphorus levels in lakes or ponds to prevent and inhibit harmful algal blooms.