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.

S04277
Relates to prohibiting the possession of certain 50 caliber firearms; directs the division of state police to embark on a program whereby persons currently in lawful possession of such weapons may be reimbursed for the fair market value thereof upon turning in such weapons to a designated officer.
- 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
S04278
Enacts the HIRE NY act to provide zero interest loans through the urban development corporation for hiring by micro-businesses with fewer than five employees.
- 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
S04279
Allows a person with a master's of social work degree who meets certain requirements to file to be licensed within one year after the effective date of this act.
- 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
S04280
Relates to providing Haitian Creole language voting materials.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
REFERRED TO ELECTIONS
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S04281
Requires the creation of a database to track the issuance of contracts by public authorities and state agencies with minority and women-owned businesses.
- 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
S04282
Creates the anti-SLAPP act; provides that discovery shall be suspended pending a decision on the motion.
- 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
S04283
Requires the commissioner of health to establish means of educating proprietors and employees of public eating establishments about food allergens.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
REFERRED TO HEALTH
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S04284
Establishes a demonstration program extending the J-51 tax exemption to the conversion and rehabilitation of commercial and manufacturing space to co-located work space and residential units in certain high density areas in Kings county.
- 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
S04285
Increases the types of firearms that are to be included in the firearm ballistic identification databank.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S04286
Authorizes the commissioner of education to contract with three public or independent institutions of higher education for the support of special summer programs established in order to increase the number of economically and educationally disadvantaged undergraduate students who are prepared for admission to graduate educational programs; establishes eligibility requirements in order to attend such special summer programs; appropriates $711,200 therefor.
- 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
S04287
Enacts the "Unemployment Insurance Liability Act"; requires that employers that have relocated out of New York State continue to contribute to the unemployment insurance fund when former employees of the employer are receiving benefits for two quarters; mandates that employers shall identify all employees being terminated as a result of the relocation and include the amount of weekly wages paid to such individuals as part of the final quarterly payroll report submitted to the department of insurance.
- 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
S04288
Withdraws Orange county from the metropolitan commuter transportation district.
- 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
S04290
Prohibits the operation of a vending machine which dispenses tobacco products unless the machine is located more than three hundred fifty feet from a building occupied exclusively as a school, church, synagogue or other place of worship.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
REFERRED TO HEALTH
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S04291
Relates to the discharge of residents of a community residence; provides that nothing shall be deemed construed as creating a relationship of landlord and tenant between an operator of a community residence and a resident; defines community residence.
- 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
S04292
Enacts the "NY Cares Act", providing course credit for service members and tuition awards for spouses and children of deceased service members.
- 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
S04293
Provides for notice of illegal restrictive covenant language in documents to be recorded and the recordation of restrictive covenant modification documents where conveyance instruments include language violative of civil rights laws; requires any title insurance company, title abstract company or escrow company to include such notice in title abstract reports and to inform purchaser/title insurance applicants of the availability from the county recorder of restrictive covenant modification documents.
- 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
S04294
Directs the commissioner of education to establish an incentive program for school districts wishing to implement programs of foreign language in the elementary schools; directs the commissioner of education to establish an incentive program for college students wishing to become foreign language teachers; makes an appropriation therefor.
- 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
S04295
Directs the state department of education to place a moratorium on the use of Test Assessing Secondary Completion (TASC) until certain requirements are met; relates to the high school equivalency account.
- 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
S04297
Relates to qualifications of superintendents.
- 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
S04298
Relates to a minority and women-owned business enterprise participation goal requirement in order to receive exemption of new multiple dwellings from local taxation.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source

16,201–16,220 of 20,484

New York bills.

Current legislation.

Active bill stages

Relates to prohibiting the possession of certain 50 caliber firearms; directs the division of state police to embark on a program whereby persons currently in lawful possession of such weapons may be reimbursed for the fair market value thereof upon turning in such weapons to a designated officer.

Enacts the HIRE NY act to provide zero interest loans through the urban development corporation for hiring by micro-businesses with fewer than five employees.

Allows a person with a master's of social work degree who meets certain requirements to file to be licensed within one year after the effective date of this act.

Relates to providing Haitian Creole language voting materials.

Requires the creation of a database to track the issuance of contracts by public authorities and state agencies with minority and women-owned businesses.

Creates the anti-SLAPP act; provides that discovery shall be suspended pending a decision on the motion.

Requires the commissioner of health to establish means of educating proprietors and employees of public eating establishments about food allergens.

Establishes a demonstration program extending the J-51 tax exemption to the conversion and rehabilitation of commercial and manufacturing space to co-located work space and residential units in certain high density areas in Kings county.

Increases the types of firearms that are to be included in the firearm ballistic identification databank.

Withdraws Orange county from the metropolitan commuter transportation district.

Prohibits the operation of a vending machine which dispenses tobacco products unless the machine is located more than three hundred fifty feet from a building occupied exclusively as a school, church, synagogue or other place of worship.

Relates to the discharge of residents of a community residence; provides that nothing shall be deemed construed as creating a relationship of landlord and tenant between an operator of a community residence and a resident; defines community residence.

Enacts the "NY Cares Act", providing course credit for service members and tuition awards for spouses and children of deceased service members.

Directs the state department of education to place a moratorium on the use of Test Assessing Secondary Completion (TASC) until certain requirements are met; relates to the high school equivalency account.

Relates to qualifications of superintendents.

Relates to a minority and women-owned business enterprise participation goal requirement in order to receive exemption of new multiple dwellings from local taxation.