New York State Senator

Robert Rolison 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 18)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S07777

Introduced
5/6/25  
Refer
5/6/25  
Relates to school potable water testing, and standards and requirements to install filtered water stations and faucets.
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New York Senate Bill S07638

Introduced
4/24/25  
Refer
4/24/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Provides that certain purchase contracts to purchase food can be awarded to a qualified bidder who fulfills certain values based procurement standards when such bid is not more than 10% higher than the lowest responsible bidder and when the bidder makes publicly available data on where such bidder sources their food items; sets forth the criteria for values based procurement standards to include local economies, environmental resilience, racial equity, valued workforce, valued agricultural sector, animal welfare, and nutrition.
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New York Senate Bill S06842

Introduced
3/25/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Provides protections against anti-Semitism in the human rights law and the hate crimes statute.
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New York Senate Bill S06786

Introduced
3/24/25  
Refer
3/24/25  
Establishes law enforcement officer grant funds and firefighter grant funds to cover expenses related to hiring law enforcement officers and firefighters and equipment and resources for such officers and firefighters.
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New York Senate Bill S08072

Introduced
5/15/25  
Refer
5/15/25  
Establishes an elder financial exploitation public awareness campaign to educate older adults and persons providing care to older adults on the prevention and detection of financial exploitation.
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New York Senate Bill S04379

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Requires that curricula and educational programs provide incarcerated individuals the opportunity to earn educational or vocational credits which shall be transferable to an educational institution upon the release of the incarcerated individual.
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New York Senate Bill S04422

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Relates to the use of body scanners in correctional facilities by both visitors and incarcerated individuals.
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New York Senate Bill S05755

Introduced
2/28/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Engrossed
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Directs the commissioner of health to establish a cannabis awareness program for youths age eighteen and younger designed to educate about the effects and risks associated with cannabis use, including that it is illegal for persons under the age of twenty-one.
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New York Senate Bill S05726

Introduced
2/28/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Provides for certain death benefits to correction officers, correction officer-sergeants, correction officer-captains, assistant wardens, associate wardens or wardens employed by Orange county.
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New York Senate Bill J00439

Introduced
3/3/25  
Refer
3/3/25  
Report Pass
3/4/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim March 2025, as Women's History Month in the State of New York, recognizing the invaluable contributions of women in all aspects of society
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New York Senate Bill S05809

Introduced
3/3/25  
Refer
3/3/25  
Provides that a retailer licensed by the office of cannabis management shall be permitted to sell any and all forms of cannabinoid hemp.
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New York Senate Bill S06210

Introduced
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Directs the department of health to establish a right to preventative maintenance of wheelchairs program, after consultation with certain other offices, under which owners of manual and powered wheelchairs shall be entitled to reimbursement of certain preventative maintenance costs for such wheelchairs.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill J01131

Introduced
5/29/25  
Refer
5/29/25  
Report Pass
6/5/25  
Posthumously honoring the life and service of United States Army Air Forces Staff Sergeant Eugene J. Darrigan who was laid to rest in his hometown of Wappingers Falls, New York, on May 24, 2025
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New York Senate Bill S06926

Introduced
3/27/25  
Refer
3/27/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Refer
6/10/25  
Engrossed
6/17/25  
Enrolled
9/5/25  
Chaptered
9/10/25  
Relates to the membership and purposes of the Volunteer and Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association of Coldenham Inc.; changes the name of the association to the "Volunteer and Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association of Coldenham, Inc"; updates the purposes of such association and the use of taxes received by such association.
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New York Senate Bill S06927

Introduced
3/27/25  
Refer
3/27/25  
Engrossed
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Engrossed
6/9/25  
Enrolled
6/26/25  
Chaptered
6/26/25  
Makes a technical change to the tax law; authorizes the imposition of an occupancy tax in the city of Newburgh, in relation of the effectiveness thereof.