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

20,483 active bills in the current session, grouped by latest reported stage.

18,538Introduced: Filed and awaiting committee or floor action.
157In committee: Assigned to a committee for review.
1,787Floor or other chamber: On a chamber floor or moving between chambers.
1Enrolled 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.

S08286
Includes physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, respiratory therapists, respiratory therapy technicians, and recreational therapists within the existing statutory staffing standards for nursing homes.
- 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
S08287
Enacts "Alexandra's law" to require school districts and charter schools to include in the curriculum or instruction teaching students how to recognize and react to rip currents, rip tides and undertows.
- 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
S08289
Authorizes the department of health to designate a level one or level two trauma center in Far Rockaway, county of Queens.
- 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
S08290
Relates to establishing an early intervention loan repayment program; provides funding is to be awarded regionally with 50% percent awarded to providers with a principal residence within NYC and the remaining fifty percent awarded to providers outside of NYC; provides that awards shall be given to providers who work in underserved areas for 3 consecutive years; provides loans shall be paid over a 3 year period; provides that a working group shall be established within 90 days to develop plans for the streamlined loan repayment program application process.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
REFERRED TO DISABILITIES
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S08293
Enacts "Penny's law" to create the offenses of negligent handling of a dog and reckless handling of a dog; codifies the requirement that dogs be restrained in New York city; requires signage in parks that all dogs must be restrained.
- 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
S08295
Requires all letters granted to personal representatives contain restrictions on compromising any cause of action arising from the death of the decedent.
- 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
S08300
Directs the commissioner of the office of general services to erect a monument to be known as the "New York state African slavery and freedom memorial" in the Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza to memorialize victims of the African Holocaust, the Holocaust of Enslavement, the Black Holocaust, or the enslavement of Black people and to celebrate the universal values of freedom, democracy and human rights for all people.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
REFERRED TO PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTS
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S08301
Establishes the office of nonprofit development within the empire state development corporation to assist nonprofit organizations with business development, capacity building, technical support and education.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
REFERRED TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S08303
Increases the small purchase threshold for purchase contracts for supplies, materials or equipment involving an estimated expenditure in excess of the New York city school construction authority from ten thousand dollars to one hundred thousand dollars.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
REFERRED TO PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTS
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S08304
Directs the commissioner of DEC to remove peregrine falcons from the endangered species list and to promulgate regulations for their use in falconry.
- 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
S08305
Reestablishes the office of coroner in the county of Oswego; removes the powers and duties of coroners from the district attorney in such county; allows Oswego County to appoint a coroner.
- 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
S08307
Authorizes municipalities to adopt local laws requiring the use of in vessel composting for the disposal of organic waste that is generated from a residence.
- 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
S08310
Enacts the "forensic rehabilitation act" relating to the custody of individuals following a verdict or plea of not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect.
- 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
S08317
Extends the effectiveness of the estate tax treatment of dispositions to surviving spouses who are not United States citizens to July 1, 2028.
- StageOther chamber
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
REFERRED TO BUDGET AND REVENUE
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S08319
Enacts the "New York city small business rent stabilization act" instituting a commercial rent control system in the city of New York; creates the commercial rent guidelines board.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
REFERRED TO CITIES 1
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S08323
Expands the small business mentoring program to include contracts for construction or related services.
- 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
S08326
Expands coverage for developmentally disabled persons past twenty-six years of age; prohibits insurance companies from wrongfully terminating contracts of developmentally disabled persons; requires recertification of such developmentally disabled person's condition once every five years.
- 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
S08327
Permits land formerly used as an armory which was conveyed to the town of Riverhead, county of Suffolk by the state in 2011, to be sold or leased to the YMCA of Long Island.
- 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
S08329
Authorizes the town of Ramapo to establish a school speed zone demonstration program; authorizes installation in no more than twenty school speed zones in such town.
- 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
S08331
Enacts the "New York artificial intelligence transparency for journalism act"; requires developers of generative artificial intelligence systems or services to post certain information on the developer's website regarding video, audio, text and data from a covered publication used to train the generative artificial intelligence system or service; allows journalism providers to bring an action for damages or injunctive relief against developers.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2025-2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
REFERRED TO INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY
Jan 7, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source

18,661–18,680 of 20,483

New York bills.

Current legislation.

Active bill stages

Includes physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, respiratory therapists, respiratory therapy technicians, and recreational therapists within the existing statutory staffing standards for nursing homes.

Enacts "Alexandra's law" to require school districts and charter schools to include in the curriculum or instruction teaching students how to recognize and react to rip currents, rip tides and undertows.

Authorizes the department of health to designate a level one or level two trauma center in Far Rockaway, county of Queens.

Enacts "Penny's law" to create the offenses of negligent handling of a dog and reckless handling of a dog; codifies the requirement that dogs be restrained in New York city; requires signage in parks that all dogs must be restrained.

Requires all letters granted to personal representatives contain restrictions on compromising any cause of action arising from the death of the decedent.

Establishes the office of nonprofit development within the empire state development corporation to assist nonprofit organizations with business development, capacity building, technical support and education.

Increases the small purchase threshold for purchase contracts for supplies, materials or equipment involving an estimated expenditure in excess of the New York city school construction authority from ten thousand dollars to one hundred thousand dollars.

Directs the commissioner of DEC to remove peregrine falcons from the endangered species list and to promulgate regulations for their use in falconry.

Reestablishes the office of coroner in the county of Oswego; removes the powers and duties of coroners from the district attorney in such county; allows Oswego County to appoint a coroner.

Authorizes municipalities to adopt local laws requiring the use of in vessel composting for the disposal of organic waste that is generated from a residence.

Enacts the "forensic rehabilitation act" relating to the custody of individuals following a verdict or plea of not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect.

Extends the effectiveness of the estate tax treatment of dispositions to surviving spouses who are not United States citizens to July 1, 2028.

Enacts the "New York city small business rent stabilization act" instituting a commercial rent control system in the city of New York; creates the commercial rent guidelines board.

Expands the small business mentoring program to include contracts for construction or related services.

Expands coverage for developmentally disabled persons past twenty-six years of age; prohibits insurance companies from wrongfully terminating contracts of developmentally disabled persons; requires recertification of such developmentally disabled person's condition once every five years.

Permits land formerly used as an armory which was conveyed to the town of Riverhead, county of Suffolk by the state in 2011, to be sold or leased to the YMCA of Long Island.

Authorizes the town of Ramapo to establish a school speed zone demonstration program; authorizes installation in no more than twenty school speed zones in such town.