New York State Legislation: City Bar Positions & Status | 2025–26 Session
This chart tracks every New York State bill on which a City Bar committee has taken a position during the 2025–26 legislative session, including bills the City Bar opposed. Click a bill description to open the related committee report.
Outcomes to date: 13 bills enacted and 4 vetoed in 2025; 5 enacted in 2026, with 9 awaiting the Governor’s action. Bills marked “Pending” remain before the Legislature through the end of the 2025–26 term.
Click any column heading to sort. Use the search box to filter by status — “Enacted,” “Vetoed,” “Awaiting Governor,” “Pending” — or by committee name.
Session recaps: 2025 · 2026 | Committee successes: 2025
Last updated: August 17, 2026
| Assembly Bill | Senate Bill | Position | City Bar Committee(s) | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A10182A (Taylor) | S9760 (Gounardes) | Support | Civil Court; Council on Judicial Administration; Litigation; Housing Court; State Courts of Superior Jurisdiction | Consumer Debt Uniformity Act | Awaiting Governor |
| A65A (Hevesi) | S9498 (Mayer) | Support | Council on Children | Establishes a statewide supervised visitation initiative to support safe and structured parenting time | Awaiting Governor |
| A65A (Hevesi) | S9498 (Mayer) | Support | Domestic Violence; Sex & Law | Support for the Creation of a Statewide Supervised Visitation Program NYS Budget | Awaiting Governor |
| A673A (Cruz) | S329A (Bailey) | Support | Criminal Courts; Criminal Justice Operations; Mass Incarceration Task Force | Facilitates appellate review of police misconduct allegations in criminal cases | Awaiting Governor |
| A2592A (Peoples-Stokes) | S1692A (Ramos) | Support | Civil Rights; Corrections & Community Reentry | Relates to commissaries and canteens at correctional institutions | Awaiting Governor |
| A8043C (Simone) | S7421B (Martinez) | Support | Animal Law | Prohibits octopus farming in New York | Awaiting Governor |
| A1755A (Reyes) | S8026A (Gonzalez) | Support | Social Welfare Law | Ensuring internet access in homeless shelters (wifi4homeless) | Awaiting Governor |
| A1670B (Rosenthal) | S2667C (Salazar) | Support | Sex & Law; Civil Rights | Ending the use of restraints and force on pregnant and postpartum incarcerated individuals | Awaiting Governor |
| A10357 (Rosenthal) | S9269 (Krueger) | Support | Civil Rights | Revised NY Health Information Privacy Act (2026) | Awaiting Governor |
| A3226A (Gonzalez-Rojas) | S3394A (Gounardes) | Recommendations | Children & the Law; Civil Rights; Corrections & Community Reentry; Criminal Courts; Criminal Justice Operations; Family Court & Family Law; Sex Offense Working Group | Ceasing Repeated & Extremely Egregious Predatory Behavior (CREEP) Act | Awaiting Governor |
| A2141 (Rosenthal) | S929 (Krueger) | Support | Civil Rights | New York Health Privacy Act | Vetoed (Memo 135, 2025) |
| A7777 (Simone) | S1099 (May) | Support | LGBTQ+ Rights; Children & the Law; Civil Rights | Freedom to Read Act | Vetoed (Memo 136, 2025) |
| A3862 (Rozic) | S3486 (Hinchey) | Support | LGBTQ+ Rights; Civil Rights; Health Law; Sex & Law | Hospital Transparency Act | Vetoed (Memo 140, 2025) |
| A5898 (Tapia) | S5083 (Sepulveda) | Support | Council on Judicial Administration | Judiciary “Death Gamble” Amendment | Vetoed (Memo 145, 2025) |
| A10005 (2026-27 BUDGET) – Part M | S9005 (2026-27 BUDGET) – Part M | Support | Civil Rights; Immigration & Nationality Law; Council on Judicial Administration; Rule of Law Task Force; State Courts of Superior Jurisdiction | New York State Bivens Act | Enacted (Chp. 55, 2026) |
| A10005A (2026-27 BUDGET) – Part K | S9005A (2026-27 BUDGET) – Part K | Oppose | Civil Rights; LGBTQ+ Rights; Sex & Law | Protest buffer zones | Enacted (Chp. 55, 2026) |
| A10008A (2026-27 BUDGET) - Parts BB, DD and EE | S9008A (2026-27 BUDGET) - Parts BB, DD and EE | Recommendations | Insurance Law | Technical recommendations to Insurance Law provisions in Budget | Enacted (Chp. 58, 2026) |
| A10008A (2026-27 BUDGET) - Part Y | S9008A (2026-27 BUDGET) - Part Y | Oppose | Civil Rights; LGBTQ+ Rights; Sex & Law | Safe by Design Act | Enacted (Chp. 58, 2026) |
| A9076A (Romero) | S8500B (Myrie) | Support | Civil Rights; Immigration & Nationality Law; Council on Judicial Administration; Rule of Law Task Force; State Courts of Superior Jurisdiction | New York State Bivens Act | Enacted (FY 2027 Budget) |
| A3506B (Reyes) | S2235B (Gounardes) | Support | Rule of Law Task Force; Immigration & Nationality Law | New York for All Act | Enacted (FY 2027 Budget) |
| A3005C (2025-26 BUDGET) | S3005C (2025-26 BUDGET) | Oppose | Mass Incarceration Task Force; Sex Offense Working Group | Budget provision changing the definitions of felony sex offenses in the Penal Law | Enacted (Chp. 55, 2025) |
| A3006C (2025-26 BUDGET) | S3006C (2025-26 BUDGET) | Oppose | Mass Incarceration Task Force; Corrections & Community Reentry; Criminal Courts | Rollbacks to criminal discovery reform | Enacted (Chp. 56, 2025) |
| A1944 (Paulin) | S3765 (Hoylman-Sigal) | Support | Council on Children | Allowing all foreign-born NYS adoptees to obtain a NYS birth certificate | Enacted (Chp. 509, 2025; Memo 5) |
| A8408 (Dais) | S8175 (Sepulveda) | Support | Trusts, Estates & Surrogate’s Courts; State Courts of Superior Jurisdiction | Allows certain methods for service of process | Enacted (Chp. 563, 2025) |
| A3307A (Bores) | S1840A (Hoylman-Sigal) | Support | Presidential Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies | New York Emerging Technologies Amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code | Enacted (Chp. 579, 2025) |
| A5345 (Hunter) | S4323 (Krueger) | Support | Commercial Law & Uniform State Laws | Uniform Special Deposits Act | Enacted (Chp. 583, 2025) |
| A4898 (Clark) | S3398 (Gounardes) | Support | Sex & Law | Reasonable Accommodation Anti-Retaliation Act | Enacted (Chp. 600, 2025) |
| A7856A (Lavine) | S7416A (Hoylman-Sigal) | Support | Commercial Law & Uniform State Laws | Relates to enacting provisions for the execution of electronic wills | Enacted (Chp. 637, 2025; Memo 24) |
| A66A (Hevesi) | S550A (Brisport) | Support | Children & the Law; Council on Children | Anti-Harassment in Reporting Bill (relates to the administration of the statewide central register of child abuse and maltreatment) | Enacted (Chp. 668, 2025; Memo 49) |
| A3392A (Lavine) | S1261A (Krueger) | Support | Matrimonial Law | No-Fault Separation | Enacted (Chp. 673, 2025; Memo 54) |
| A5480C (Bronson) | S4914B (Hoylman-Sigal) | Support | Sex & Law; Civil Rights; LGBTQ+ Rights; Health Law | Shield Law 2.0 (protecting access to reproductive and gender-affirming healthcare) | Enacted (Chp. 694, 2025; Memo 71) |
| A3038B (Rosenthal) | S1353B (Cleare) | Support | Domestic Violence; Sex & Law | Establishes a right of action for claims arising out of coerced debts | Enacted (Chp. 710, 2025; Memo 85) |
| A136 (Paulin) | S138 (Hoylman-Sigal) | Support | Bioethical Issues | Medical Aid in Dying Act | Enacted (Chp. 714, 2025; Memo 89) |
| A10189 (Kay) | S3046B (Brisport) | Support | Animal Law | Prohibits the use of adhesive-based rodent traps in state-owned or state-leased buildings | Pending |
| A63A (Hevesi) | S6431 (Brisport) | Support | Council on Children | Establishes the child and family well-being program and fund | Pending |
| A107 (Rosenthal) | Support | Animal Law | Relates to establishing animals as sentient beings | Pending | |
| A123 (Cruz) | S9632 (Bailey) | Support | Criminal Courts; Criminal Justice Operations; Entertainment Law | Rap Music on Trial Bill | Pending |
| A127 (Weprin) | S159 (Salazar) | Support | Mass Incarceration Task Force; Corrections & Community Reentry; Criminal Courts | Fair and Timely Parole Act | Pending |
| A322 (Cruz) | S330 (Bailey) | Support | Mass Incarceration Task Force | Enables appellate review of the fairness and appropriateness of an imposed criminal sentence | Pending |
| A514 (Davila) | S9846 (Cleare) | Support | Mass Incarceration Task Force | Relates to parole eligibility for certain incarcerated persons age 55 or older (Elder Parole) | Pending |
| A733A (Gonzalez-Rojas) | S9822 (Salazar) | Support | Civil Rights; LGBTQ+ Rights; Mass Incarceration Task Force | Repeal STI Discrimination Act | Pending |
| S643 (Cleare) | Support | Council on Children | Establishes the youth justice innovation fund | Pending | |
| A860 (Rosenthal) | S845 (Salazar) | Support | Sex & Law; Civil Rights; Health Law; Bioethical Issues; Council on Children | Maternal Health, Dignity and Consent Act | Pending |
| A1085 (Kelles) | S342 (Cooney) | Support | Mass Incarceration Task Force | Earned Time Act | Pending |
| A1100A (Bores) | Support | Council on Judicial Administration | Uncap Justice Act (removing the cap on NYS Supreme Court Justices) | Pending | |
| A1283 (Walker) | S158 (Salazar) | Support | Mass Incarceration Task Force | Second Look Act | Pending |
| A1297 (Meeks) | S1209 (Myrie) | Support | Mass Incarceration Task Force | Marvin Mayfield Act (eliminates mandatory minimum sentences) | Pending |
| A1379 (Dinowitz) | S9714 (Cleare) | Support | State Courts of Superior Jurisdiction; Council on Judicial Administration; Litigation | Reform and modernize the administration of class actions in New York’s courts | Pending |
| A1402 (Hunter) | S176 (Jackson) | Support | Civil Rights | Reforming qualified immunity | Pending |
| A1602 (Simon) | S161 (Ramos) | Support | Pro Bono & Legal Services | Expands the eligibility period for indigent legal service attorneys to receive certain loan forgiveness and increases loan reimbursement for certain attorneys who work in legal services with indigent clients | Pending |
| A1701 (Braunstein) | S1745 (Stavisky) | Support | Cooperative & Condominium Law | Relates to the treatment of cooperative housing entities | Pending |
| A2019 (Rosenthal) | S703 (Krueger) | Support | Animal Law | Strengthens New York’s felony animal cruelty law | Pending |
| A2121 (Walker) | S440 (Myrie) | Support | Election Law; Corrections & Community Reentry | Democracy During Detention Act | Pending |
| A2682 (Magnarelli) | Support | Council on Children; Criminal Courts; Family Court & Family Law | Provides annual cost of living increases for Assigned Counsel Panel attorneys representing indigent New Yorkers in criminal and family court cases | Pending | |
| A3150 (Rosenthal) | S5709 (Skoufis) | Support | Animal Law | Prohibits the importing, possession, or sale of any part or product of the skin or body of a kangaroo for commercial purposes | Pending |
| A3305 (Bores) | S8192 (Cleare) | Support | Council on Judicial Administration | Ensuring adequate judicial Resources in New York State Courts (Timely Justice Act) | Pending |
| A3596B (Gibbs) | S439B (Myrie) | Support | Civil Rights; Corrections & Community Reentry | Enacts "the Prison Wage Act" relating to payment for labor performed by incarcerated individuals | Pending |
| A3849 (Weprin) | S9793 (Sepulveda) | Support | Legal Referral Service; Small Law Firm | Repealing Judiciary Law 470, allowing nonresident attorneys to practice in New York | Pending |
| A4869 (Forrest) | S4547 (Ramos) | Support | Mass Incarceration Task Force | Treatment Court Expansion Act | Pending |
| A4870A (Simon) | S4158 (Krueger) | Support with modifications | Energy | New York Home Energy Affordable Transition (HEAT) Act | Pending |
| A5293 (Walker) | S4330 (Myrie) | Support | Civil Rights; Corrections & Community Reentry; Council on Children; Criminal Courts; Family Court & Family Law; Juvenile Justice; Mass Incarceration Task Force | Youth Justice and Opportunities Act | Pending |
| A5787 (Rajkumar) | Support | Council on Judicial Administration | Requiring certain town and village justices be admitted to practice law in the state | Pending | |
| A6611A (Bores) | S4657A (Mayer) | Support | Council on Judicial Administration; Commercial Law & Uniform State Laws | Relates to the membership of the law revision commission | Pending |
| A6983 (Bores) | Support | Council on Judicial Administration | Relates to the admissibility into evidence of statements in learned treatises, periodicals, or pamphlets | Pending | |
| A7683 (Lavine) | S9775 (Sepulveda) | Oppose | Commercial Law & Uniform State Laws | Relates to limiting recordkeeping and reporting duties of public notaries | Pending |
| A7873 (Meeks) | S7282 (Myrie) | Support | Civil Rights; Corrections & Community Reentry | Ends involuntary servitude in correctional facilities in New York state | Pending |
| A8930 (Hunter) | S3201 (Krueger) | Support with recommendations | Sex Offense Working Group; Corrections & Community Reentry | Replacing the Risk Assessment Instrument in determining risk levels for people subject to sex offender registration | Pending |
| A9335 (Lasher) | S8599 (Sutton) | Oppose | Civil Rights; LGBTQ+ Rights; Sex & Law | Protest buffer zones - standalone bill | Pending |
| A9377 (Shimsky) | S8603 (Ramos) | Support | LGBTQ+ Rights; Children & the Law; Civil Rights | New York Privacy Amendment | Pending |
| A8327 (Rosenthal) | Support | Animal Law | Prohibits the sale of birds at retail pet shops, with certain exceptions | Pending | |
| A10145B (Lavine) | S9129B (Bynoe) | Support | Professional Discipline | Would institute a random audit program for law firm financial accounts | Pending |
| A2620B (Hevesi) | S878C (Bailey) | Support | Juvenile Justice; Children & the Law | Would protect children during custodial police interrogations | Pending |
| S9870 (Sepulveda) | Support | Social Welfare Law | Shavon's Law (Lien Law amendments) | Pending | |
| A4879B (Kelles) | S4583B (Salazar) | Support | Sex & Law; Civil Rights; Children & the Law; Corrections & Community Reentry | New York State Compassion and Reproductive Equity (CARE) Act | Pending |
| A1607B (Rosenthal) | S2666B (Salazar) | Support | Sex & Law; Civil Rights | Lactation, infant feeding, and postpartum care for incarcerated birth parents | Pending |
| A6455 (Septimo) | S6271A (Ramos) | Support | Civil Rights | Promoting Pre-Trial Stability Act | Pending |
| A3925 (Lavine) | S10600 (Bottcher) | Support | LGBTQ+ Rights; Civil Rights; Sex & Law | Automatic sealing of name and gender change court records | Pending |
Contact: Elizabeth Kocienda | Director of Advocacy | ekocienda@nycbar.org