New York State Senator

Robert Rolison 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 6)

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Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04955

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Refer
6/10/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
3/17/26  
Engrossed
6/1/26  
Requires the Medicaid inspector general to comply with standards relating to the audit and review of medical assistance program funds.
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New York Senate Bill S04929

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Requires one caregiver for every two children under eighteen months of age in group family day care homes and family day care homes.
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New York Senate Bill S05465

Introduced
2/21/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Report Pass
3/17/25  
Authorizes municipalities to adopt a local law, ordinance or resolution providing for a sales tax exemption for clothing and footwear after March 1, 2025 and no later than August 1, 2025; provides for the repeal of such provisions on January 1, 2026.
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New York Senate Bill S05432

Introduced
2/21/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Increases benefits for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers.
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New York Senate Bill S05499

Introduced
2/21/25  
Relates to updating school concussion management and response protocols; requires that the injured student have returned to a full class schedule without academic accommodations prior to resuming athletic activity.
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New York Senate Bill S05468

Introduced
2/21/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Allows a tax exemption for taxpayers in the amount of the purchase price of a fire extinguisher, fire alarm, heat alarm or carbon monoxide alarm purchased for residential use during the month of October.
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New York Senate Bill S05457

Introduced
2/21/25  
Alters the definition of "drug" in the vehicle and traffic law to include any substance or combination of substances that impair, to any extent, physical or mental abilities; defines impairment and intoxication; provides that refusal to submit to a breath test and/or oral/bodily fluid test shall be a traffic infraction; makes related provisions.
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New York Senate Bill S05729

Introduced
2/28/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Adds hazardous air quality to the state definition of a disaster; requires explicit inclusion of air quality emergency preparedness in local comprehensive emergency management plans with an action plan and annual inventory of air quality emergency resources.
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New York Senate Bill S05718

Introduced
2/28/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Exempts private investigators from restrictions on possessing a weapon in sensitive and restrictive locations while traveling to and from and during the course of their employment and at any necessary and appropriate location during work hours; clarifies that a security guard may possess a weapon going to and from work.
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New York Senate Bill S05770

Introduced
2/28/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Enacts "Brendon's law" to prohibit participation, including spectators within two hundred feet, of any motor vehicle speed contest, sideshow and street takeovers; authorizes seizure and forfeiture.
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New York Senate Bill J00433

Introduced
2/28/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Report Pass
3/4/25  
Commemorating the 38th Annual SOMOS Spring Conference to be held March 7-9, 2025, and paying tribute to its host, SOMOS, Inc.
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New York Senate Bill J00250

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Commemorating the observance of the 40th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the State of New York, on January 20, 2025
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New York Senate Bill S02482

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Engrossed
3/24/25  
Refer
3/24/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
3/23/26  
Enacts the "go green schools act" to assist school districts in converting to renewable energy sources as a primary source of energy; directs NYSERDA to conduct a study and make recommendations for such purpose.
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New York Senate Bill S02582

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Provides that the state shall cover the cost of maintenance and operation of local veterans' service agencies up to certain set limits.
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New York Senate Bill S02571

Introduced
1/21/25  
Increases the tax exemption for pensions and annuities for persons age fifty-nine and one-half or greater from $20,000 to $25,000 in 2027, $30,000 in 2028, $35,000 in 2029 and $40,000 for each subsequent year.