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.

S01028
Enacts the "safe havens for all-day enjoyment (SHADE) act" directing the empire development corporation to develop a competitive grant program designed to assist municipalities in the state with establishing shaded public gathering spaces and public transportation areas to enhance the enjoyment and use of such spaces where there is no existing or insufficient sun protection.
- 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
S01029
Directs the commissioner of health to conduct a study to identify, analyze, report, and medically combat new or previously unseen opiate/opioid compounds found in overdose patients in New York state for the purpose of establishing more efficient overdose medical treatment protocols.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S01031
Relates to costs and expenses of the department of public service and the public service commission; directs the public service commission to develop a formula to determine the average cost, on a per ratepayer basis, to comply with the provisions set forth in article seventy-five of the environmental conservation law; provides for a ratepayer protection tax credit; repeals certain provisions of the public service law relating to the assessment of costs and expenses of the department of public service and the public service commission.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S01032
Establishes the reckless driving prevention grant program which provides funds to local law enforcement agencies and prosecuting offices to combat reckless driving.
- 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
S01037
Relates to the unlawful discharge of a loaded firearm toward any police officer, firefighter, corrections officer, peace officer, or emergency medical services personnel.
- 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
S01038
Allows for department of motor vehicles employees to employ an attorney-at-law to defend against certain civil actions; limits the basis for removal of such employees.
- 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
S01039
Creates the crime of unlawful possession of a radio frequency jamming device.
- 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
S01041
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.
- 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
S01042
Relates to certain assault crimes wherein a person is aided or encouraged to strike the victim in the head and cause unconsciousness.
- 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
S01043
Enacts the "prison privilege limitation act"; restricts prison privileges, including the wearing of civilian clothing, for certain incarcerated individuals.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S01044
Prohibits a person convicted of "Buster's Law" from owning or possessing a companion animal unless authorized by court order, after appropriate psychiatric or psychological testing.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S01045
Makes the failure to provide food, water or appropriate shelter to a companion animal (dogs and cats) left outside a felony punishable by a fine of not more than $5,000, or imprisonment for not more than 2 years, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S01047
Directs the New York state energy research and development authority to establish a ride clean rebate program for electric assist bicycles and electric scooters; defines terms; provides a fifty percent rebate for eligible purchases.
- StageOther chamber
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S01049
Enacts the "gender identity respect, dignity and safety act"; relates to the treatment and placement of incarcerated individuals based upon gender identity; requires that incarcerated individuals in state and local correctional facilities who have a gender identity different from their assigned sex at birth be addressed and have access to commissary items, clothing and other materials that are consistent with the person's gender identity; establishes that incarcerated individuals shall be placed in a correctional facility with persons of the gender that most closely aligns with such person's self-attested gender identity unless the person opts out of such placement.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S01051
Allows tenants to appeal judgments or orders issued against them without first being required to pay any portion of such judgment or order; postpones such payment until the end of the stay triggered by service upon the landlord of the notice of appeal or affidavit of intention to move for permission to appeal such judgment or order or pay an undertaking.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S01053
Repeals the tax exempt status of private universities that received real property tax exemptions of one hundred million dollars or more during the prior fiscal year.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S01054
Prohibits the use of head-mounted portable electronic devices while driving.
- 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
S01060
Limits certain charging practices by companies that provide prepaid telephone calling cards and increases fines for violations of limitation requirements.
- StageOther chamber
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S01061
Provides that all passengers of school buses must wear seat belts; exempts school bus attendants and others acting in a supervisory capacity from such requirement; requires that drivers announce "Everybody fasten your seat belts" before a school bus is placed in motion; empowers the commissioner of education to enforce such provisions; assigns a school bus attendant to each special needs student unable to comply with the seat belt requirement.
- 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
S01064
Prohibits the purchase of glyphosate by any state department, agency, public benefit corporation or any pesticide applicator employed thereby as a contractor or subcontractor and the application of glyphosate on property owned, operated or leased by the state.
- 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

14,201–14,220 of 20,485

New York bills.

Current legislation.

Active bill stages

Directs the commissioner of health to conduct a study to identify, analyze, report, and medically combat new or previously unseen opiate/opioid compounds found in overdose patients in New York state for the purpose of establishing more efficient overdose medical treatment protocols.

Establishes the reckless driving prevention grant program which provides funds to local law enforcement agencies and prosecuting offices to combat reckless driving.

Relates to the unlawful discharge of a loaded firearm toward any police officer, firefighter, corrections officer, peace officer, or emergency medical services personnel.

Allows for department of motor vehicles employees to employ an attorney-at-law to defend against certain civil actions; limits the basis for removal of such employees.

Creates the crime of unlawful possession of a radio frequency jamming device.

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.

Relates to certain assault crimes wherein a person is aided or encouraged to strike the victim in the head and cause unconsciousness.

Enacts the "prison privilege limitation act"; restricts prison privileges, including the wearing of civilian clothing, for certain incarcerated individuals.

Prohibits a person convicted of "Buster's Law" from owning or possessing a companion animal unless authorized by court order, after appropriate psychiatric or psychological testing.

Makes the failure to provide food, water or appropriate shelter to a companion animal (dogs and cats) left outside a felony punishable by a fine of not more than $5,000, or imprisonment for not more than 2 years, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Directs the New York state energy research and development authority to establish a ride clean rebate program for electric assist bicycles and electric scooters; defines terms; provides a fifty percent rebate for eligible purchases.

Repeals the tax exempt status of private universities that received real property tax exemptions of one hundred million dollars or more during the prior fiscal year.

Prohibits the use of head-mounted portable electronic devices while driving.

Limits certain charging practices by companies that provide prepaid telephone calling cards and increases fines for violations of limitation requirements.

Prohibits the purchase of glyphosate by any state department, agency, public benefit corporation or any pesticide applicator employed thereby as a contractor or subcontractor and the application of glyphosate on property owned, operated or leased by the state.