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

20,484 active bills in the current session, grouped by latest reported stage.

18,546Introduced: 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.

S03472
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 MENTAL HEALTH
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S03473
Requires the state apprenticeship and training council to meet a certain number of times per year and provide a report.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
REFERRED TO LABOR
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S03474
Enhances the assisted outpatient treatment program; eliminates the expiration and repeal of Kendra's Law.
- 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
S03475
Authorizes certain municipal legislative bodies, including towns and villages, to enact local laws and ordinances providing for non-binding mediation of land use decisions.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
REFERRED TO CITIES 2
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S03476
Enacts the bucks for boilers act, which creates a program to aid in transition of housing units to electric heat pumps and other high energy efficiency upgrades.
- 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
S03477
Authorizes the use of benthic barriers, between July 1 and October 31, to control invasive aquatic plants around docks.
- 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
S03478
Includes within the definition of "wine product", a beverage containing wine which has undergone an alcohol reduction process including but not limited to nanofiltration, reverse osmosis, osmotic distillation, vacuum distillation, spinning cone column, or through a multi-stage membrane-based system.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S03479
Allows municipalities to regulate public places where cannabis can be consumed.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S03480
Authorizes and directs the commissioner of transportation to conduct a study on the feasibility of removing all existing 3-cable guide rails on New York roadways and replacing such guide rails with safer alternatives; requires a report to be submitted to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the senate, and the minority leader of the assembly containing the findings and recommendations for legislative or other actions.
- 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
S03481
Removes ammunition and ammunition sales from the requirements of background checks; repeals certain provisions of law relating thereto; repeals the background check fund.
- 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
S03482
Establishes requirements for granting licensure and provisional endorsement licensure for the practice of mental health counseling.
- 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
S03483
Authorizes justice courts to exercise jurisdiction over commercial claims arising out of a transaction between a claimant and a natural person, wherein the money, property or service which is the subject of the transaction is primarily for personal, family or household purposes.
- 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
S03485
Relates to prescription drug formulary coverage for interchangeable biologics and biosimilars.
- 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
S03487
Relates to the employee status of an individual; establishes criteria for determining whether labor or services performed for remuneration qualify as employment.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
REFERRED TO LABOR
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S03489
Repeals the driver's license access and privacy act.
- 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
S03490
Increases the penalties for owners of dangerous dogs and subjects certain dangerous dog owners to further investigation.
- 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
S03491
Relates to aggravated cruelty to animals in the presence of a child; increases the potential term of imprisonment from two to four years when such crime is committed in the presence of a child; defines presence of a child.
- 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
S03502
Imposes liability on the state for damages to persons caused by defects in state highways year round.
- 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
S03504
Provides real property tax relief to veterans who have at least ten years of service in the U.S. armed forces or in the organized militia of the state of New York.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S03505
Establishes the "Defund Municipalities that Defund the Police Act" which provides for a withholding of a certain amount of state funding for a defunding municipality.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
REFERRED TO FINANCE
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source

15,621–15,640 of 20,484

New York bills.

Current legislation.

Active bill stages

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.

Requires the state apprenticeship and training council to meet a certain number of times per year and provide a report.

Enhances the assisted outpatient treatment program; eliminates the expiration and repeal of Kendra's Law.

Authorizes certain municipal legislative bodies, including towns and villages, to enact local laws and ordinances providing for non-binding mediation of land use decisions.

Enacts the bucks for boilers act, which creates a program to aid in transition of housing units to electric heat pumps and other high energy efficiency upgrades.

Authorizes the use of benthic barriers, between July 1 and October 31, to control invasive aquatic plants around docks.

Allows municipalities to regulate public places where cannabis can be consumed.

Removes ammunition and ammunition sales from the requirements of background checks; repeals certain provisions of law relating thereto; repeals the background check fund.

Establishes requirements for granting licensure and provisional endorsement licensure for the practice of mental health counseling.

Authorizes justice courts to exercise jurisdiction over commercial claims arising out of a transaction between a claimant and a natural person, wherein the money, property or service which is the subject of the transaction is primarily for personal, family or household purposes.

Relates to prescription drug formulary coverage for interchangeable biologics and biosimilars.

Relates to the employee status of an individual; establishes criteria for determining whether labor or services performed for remuneration qualify as employment.

Repeals the driver's license access and privacy act.

Increases the penalties for owners of dangerous dogs and subjects certain dangerous dog owners to further investigation.

Relates to aggravated cruelty to animals in the presence of a child; increases the potential term of imprisonment from two to four years when such crime is committed in the presence of a child; defines presence of a child.

Imposes liability on the state for damages to persons caused by defects in state highways year round.

Provides real property tax relief to veterans who have at least ten years of service in the U.S. armed forces or in the organized militia of the state of New York.

Establishes the "Defund Municipalities that Defund the Police Act" which provides for a withholding of a certain amount of state funding for a defunding municipality.