Legislation Passed
In her first 3 years in office, Democratic Assemblymember Sarahana has introduced or co-sponsored 115 bills that passed in the Assembly.
2025
| Bill No. | Description |
| A7686A | The public renewables transparency act to add transparency measures to the New York Power Authority’s mandate to build publicly-owned renewable energy |
| A128A | Requires insurance coverage for one rescue and one maintenance inhaler at no cost |
| A136 | Medical Aid in Dying Act |
| A836 | Provide a mechanism to allow residential and small business utility customers to access financial resources to become active participants in PSC proceedings. |
| A8888 | Remove the “100-foot rule” that requires existing ratepayers to subsidize the cost of connecting new ratepayers to the gas system |
| A02620B | Clarifies and protects the rights of children in the custody of law enforcement |
| A3319 | Require insurers to reimburse creative arts therapists licensed under article 163 of the education law. Vetoed. |
| A3790 | Requires reporting of statewide training hours allocated to each firefighter. Vetoed. |
| A4938 | Provides protections for telecommunications tower technicians |
| A5234 | Eliminates the ability of judicial candidates for office who are enrolled in a particular party to automatically be allowed to run as a candidate in another party’s primary election |
| A6223 | Extends the authority of the county of Ulster to impose an additional 1 percent sales and compensating use tax |
| A7363C | Provides that each person with a disability has the right to communicate in their preferred manner |
| A8146 | Authorizes the town of Hurley to alienate certain lands used as parklands and to dedicate certain other lands as parklands |
| A8273 | Authorizes the town of Gardiner to impose a hotel and motel tax |
| A893 | Prohibits insurance bias based on owning of a specific dog breed. Vetoed. |
| A1029B | Provides immunity from prosecution for certain individuals engaged in prostitution who are victims of or witnesses to a crime and who report such crime or assist in the investigation or prosecution |
| A1502 | Prohibits the use of certain chemicals, such as talc, mercury, and lead, in menstrual products |
| A2747A | Ensures that construction and fabrication done off of a public work site for specific use only in a public work project be compensated at the prevailing wage rate |
| A3649B | Permits the state board of elections to join certain multi-state voter list maintenance organizations and provide such organizations with certain voter information |
| A4641A | Makes changes to maximize the removal of unwanted rechargeable batteries from the solid waste stream |
| A4914 | Imposes certain brownfield remediation site work requirements to be eligible for the tangible property tax credit associated with brownfield redevelopment. Vetoed. |
| A7491B | Relates to prevailing wage requirements applicable to brownfield remediation work performed under private contract. |
| A5457 | Codifies financial relief provided to graduate students serving in certain graduate teaching or graduate assisting capacities at SUNY and CUNY by prohibiting the systems from charging mandatory fees. Vetoed. |
| A5480C | Builds on laws New York enacted in 2022 and 2023 to protect access to abortion and gender-affirming care in the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. |
| A5969A | Mitigates excessive fluctuations in utility bills by requiring utility bills to reflect actual month-to-month meter readings. Vetoed. |
| A6004 | Improves public notice and public engagement when hospital and certain unit closures are threatened, and to strengthen state review of such closings. Vetoed. |
| A6063 | Permits surviving close family members of wrongful death victims to recover compensation for grief and anguish caused by the decedent’s death. Vetoed. |
| A6326A | Requires gas and electric corporations to provide forty-five days’ notice to customers whenever there is a service rate or charge increase. Vetoed. |
| A6917A | Requires certain health insurance policies include coverage for services provided by pharmacists related to contraceptives. Vetoed. |
| A7544A | Enforces unsafe make-ready work and violations of regulations surrounding pole attachment standards on the use of one touch make ready |
| A7777 | The Freedom to Read Act ensures school libraries and libraries are able to offer a wide array of age-appropriate materials to students. Vetoed. |
| A7862A | Permits political parties to designate or nominate candidates for positions to be filled by all the voters, and perform other functions without forming county committees |
| A8295D | Requires that automated decision-making systems used by state agencies and other state and local government entities follow disclosure of automated employment decision-making tools and maintain an artificial intelligence inventory similar to the rules already required for state agency employment decision-making tools |
| A8332 | Implements of a reliable appraisal model will fill in the current gaps and further New York’s progress towards its affordability and clean energy goals. |
| A8427A | Fosters affordability and integrity through reasonable (FAIR) business practices act to expand the attorney general’s ability to protect New Yorkers from unfair, deceptive and abusive business practices |
| A8727A | Directs the commissioner of education to conduct a study of recess held in elementary schools in kindergarten through grade six. Vetoed. |
2024
| Bill No. | Description |
| A6583A | Establishes November twenty-sixth of each year as a day of commemoration known as Sojourner Truth Day |
| A9359A | Establishes a school speed zone camera demonstration program in the city of Kingston |
| A4141A | Prohibits cost sharing for insulin. Passed through the FY2025 budget. |
| A4454 | Good Cause Eviction. Protects tenants against price-gouging and unjust evictions. Passed through the FY2025-2026 budget. |
| A1889 | Increases the income eligibility threshold for the tuition assistance program. Passed through the FY2025 budget. |
| A9369A | Automatically data match the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) with the Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Coverage Program (EPIC). |
| A888C | Allows estimated bill from a utility corporation or municipality only under certain circumstances |
| A1633B | Address gaps in the state’s review of proposed hospital and hospital unit closures by ensuring adequate advance notice to the public. |
| A6173 | Requires insurers to reimburse creative arts therapists licensed under article 163 of the education law in addition to psychiatrists and psychologists |
| A6832A | Improves injured worker’s access to timely and quality treatment under the Workers’ Compensation Law, including not requiring pre-approval for treatments costing less than $1500 |
| A2958 | Local Journalism Sustainability Act. Passed through the FY2025 budget. |
| A4243B | New York Wildlife Crossing Act. Directs the department of transportation and the New York state thruway authority to identify sites along all highways, thruways and parkways in the state for wildlife crossings. |
| A7264A | Allows certain purchase contracts to be awarded to a qualified bidder who fulfills values of local economies, environmental sustainability, racial equity, valued workforce, farmers first, animal welfare, and nutrition when such bid is not more than 10% higher than the lowest responsible bidder |
| A1432C | Jury Of Our Peers Act. Ends the permanent ban on jury service by people with conviction histories |
| A4066B | Requires motor vehicle dealer franchisors to fully compensate franchised motor vehicle dealers for warranty service agreements |
| A4871B | Requires certain state owned and operated parking facilities to install and maintain charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles |
| A4917D | Provides funding for school anti-violence education programs through the omnibus school violence prevention grant program |
| A6219B | Requires that the state disaggregate the Middle Eastern or North African group from the White group when collecting demographic data regarding the ancestry or ethnic origin of New York residents |
| A4130C | Creates a registration system for short term rentals in New York State and allow for the collection of sales tax & applicable occupancy tax generated from such rentals to the state and localities |
| A7491B | Relates to prevailing wage requirements applicable to brownfield remediation work performed under private contract |
| A7636C | Permanently establishes the homeownership protection program instead of leaving it to the whim of an annual budget |
| A8148A | Establishes the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids act prohibiting the provision of addictive feeds to minors |
| A8149A | Establishes the New York child data protection act |
| A8274A | Requires the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation to establish standards for the closing of trails on the Empire state trail |
| A8611 | Provides a mechanism to allow residential and small business utility customers to access financial resources to become active participants in PSC proceedings |
| A8866 | Prohibits well permits from being issued to an applicant that uses carbon dioxide to complete or recomplete natural gas or oil resources |
| A8875 | Relates to rates and applicability of certain hotel and motel taxes in Ulster county |
| A8907A | Establishes the warehouse worker injury reduction program |
| A8939B | Prevents the displacement of call center workers who provide call center services for the government in certain circumstances |
| A8947C | Establishes the retail worker safety act requiring retail worker employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence |
| A8998B | Relates to enacting the SIGH act to prohibit the construction of new schools near a major roadway, with exceptions |
| A9011A | Establishes a maximum temperature in school buildings and indoor facilities |
| A9018 | Authorizes licensed creative arts therapists to bill Medicaid directly for their services |
| A9099 | Establishes a captive insurance program for commuter vans, black cars, ambulettes and paratransit vehicles, and small school buses pre-arranged for-hire vehicles, and accessible vehicles |
| A9102C | Relates to medicaid reimbursement for treatment in place and transportation to alternative health care settings by ambulance services |
| A9232B | The Grieving Families Act. Provides for the types of damages that may be awarded to the persons for whose benefit an action for wrongful death is brought |
| A9265A | Requires contractors and subcontractors working on covered projects submit their payrolls or transcripts to the fiscal officer |
| A9321B | Relates to enacting the safe landings for youth leaving foster care act or safe landings act |
| A9711 | Enacts the tropical rainforest economic & environmental sustainability act and establishes the supply chain transparency assistance program |
| A9862A | Requires payment card networks to use certain merchant category-codes for firearm dealers |
| A3132A | Supports New York’s other alcoholic beverage manufacturers by allowing the direct intrastate and interstate shipment of liquor, cider, mead, and braggot and relates to direct shipments of wine |
| A7266 | Sammy’s Law. Expands the conversation on local control over speed limits by giving New York City more authority to lower speed limit. Passed through the FY2025 budget. |
2023
| Bill No. | Description |
| A279 | Build Public Renewables Act. Authorizes and instructs NYPA to build renewables to meet our goals and to fund auomatic discounts for low and moderate income households in disadvantaged communities. Passed through the FY2024 budget. |
| A920A | The All-Electric Buildings Act. Decreases greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution arising from new construction projects. Passed through the FY2024 budget. |
| A1941 | Universal school meal programs. Passed through the FY2024 budget. |
| A1029C | Clean Slate. Address some of the collateral consequences that follow a criminal conviction by requiring the automatic sealing of records pertaining to certain offenses |
| A1283 | Equal Rights Amendment. Amend Section 11 of Article 1 of the New York State Constitution to expand the constitutional prohibition against discrimination in civil rights to include additional protected classes |
| A1633B | To allow for improved public notice and public engagement when hospital and certain unit closures are threatened, and to strengthen state review of such closings |
| A1709B | To ensure telehealth services are explicitly included in existing safeguards and protections for reproductive health care services. |
| A1722B | Requires statewide proposed ballot amendments and other questions to be written in plain, easily understood language |
| A2105A | Expands eligibility for victims and survivors of crime to access victim compensation funds |
| A2878A | Wrongful Convictions Act. Increases protections for people who are actually innocent |
| A3226 | The Bird and the Bees Act. Prohibits the sale, distribution or purchase of certain neonicotinoid-treated corn, soybean or wheat seeds starting January 1, 2025 |
| A3484A | LLC Transparency Act. End the practice of anonymous ownership of limited liability companies in New York by defining beneficial ownership, and requiring the disclosure of the identities of beneficial owners upon company formation or registration. |
| A3770 | Enhances notification requirements when the commissioner of health makes changes to the terms, conditions, or time frames contained in the State’s managed care model contract |
| A3946 | Ensures that all pipeline activity being conducted on wetlands is properly insured |
| A3986 | The Idaho Stop Act. First enacted by the State of Idaho in 1982, allows more flexibility for cyclists by conserving their momentum and helping to keep them out of the way of heavy automotive traffic. |
| A4055A | Restrict the ability of utilities to backbill after failing to bill more than two months |
| A4066B | Rquires auto manufacturers to pay a dealer reasonable compensation for warranty work based off the amount a retail customer pays the dealer for the same services |
| A4672 | Changes the classification of the town of Ulster in the county of Ulster |
| A4876 | For the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA) to coordinate with utility companies on automated file matching to identify eligible affordability program participants |
| A4942B | Require SUNY and CUNY to establish a policy authorizing each system’s institutions to grant posthumous degrees to enrolled matriculated students whose death occurs prior to graduation |
| A5119 | Establishes a task force to study aging in place in mental health housing |
| A5682A | The New York Tropical Deforestation-free Procurement Act. Ensures companies contracting with the state are not contributing to tropical primary forest degradation |
| A5718B | Allows risk retention groups that meet a minimum surplus requirement and which are registered in NYS to offer automobile insurance coverage to nonprofit organizations in this state |
| A5786 | Requires regular and public disclosure of lobbying on Senate nominations and confirmations |
| A5949 | Prohibits the application of pesticides to certain local freshwater wetlands |
| A6046B | Ensures that kids cannot be separated from their parent or guardian for their help in getting their kid gender affirming care, prohibits law enforcement from cooperating with other states’ investigations regarding gender affirming care that took place legally, protects the health information of people who come to New York to receive gender affirming care, and protects physicians who provide gender affirming care in New York |
| A6688 | Extends the authority of the county of Ulster to impose an additional 1 percent sales and compensating use tax |
| A6698 | Grieving Families Act. Allow the families of wrongful death victims to recover compensation for their emotional anguish |
| A6843A | Requires owners of property to complete in a timely manner a survey distributed by a municipality to determine the vacancy rate in said municipality |
| A7165 | Provides a mechanism to allow residential and small business utility customers to access financial resources to become active participants in PSC proceedings |
| A7200 | Authorizes Ulster County to impose by local law, a tax on hotel and motel occupancy of up to four percent of the charge |
| A7208 | Protect the communities along the Hudson River from the adverse economic impacts resulting from the discharge of nuclear waste into the River by decommissioning nuclear power plants |
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