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Running forState Senate, District 33

J. Gustavo Rivera

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Overview

Gustavo Rivera is an American politician. A Democrat, he has represented New York's 33rd State Senate district in the New York State Senate since first being elected in 2010.

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Source: Open States

Bills they wrote

Bills and joint resolutions where they're the main author, since 2023. Laws first, then the ones that got furthest.

Wrote

353 bills

Became law

25 became law. Another 134 passed the House or Senate but didn't.

  • Introduced Jan 8, 2026S 8755: Relates to foreign adoptions
    Became law
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2026S 8756: Amends the effectiveness of provisions related to permitting a close friend to make an anatomical gift of a decedent's body
    Became law
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2026S 8804: Relates to conditions under which certain residential health care facilities may withdraw equity or assets totaling five percent of reported annual revenue for patient care services without prior notification
    Became law
  • Introduced Feb 21, 2025S 5369: Authorizes increased equity withdrawals by certain non-public residential health care facilities
    Became law
  • Introduced Jan 30, 2025S 3822: Makes conforming changes reflecting the previously authorized scope of practice of nurse practitioners
    Became law
  • Introduced Jan 27, 2025S 3355: Includes digital health care service platforms in the definition of temporary health care services agency
    Became law
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025S 760: Relates to requiring insurance coverage for epinephrine auto-injectors
    Became law
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025S 753: Relates to the definition of medical debt
    Became law
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2024S 8456: Provides for allowing patients to register in the donate life registry through their electronic health records
    Became law
  • Introduced Jan 24, 2024S 8373: Relates to the definition of medical debt
    Became law
  • Introduced Jan 5, 2024S 8057: Relates to the controlling disposition of a decedent's remains
    Became law
  • Introduced May 18, 2023S 7114: Relates to requiring insurance coverage for epinephrine auto-injectors
    Became law
  • Introduced May 8, 2023S 6749: Establishes a community-based paramedicine demonstration program
    Became law
  • Introduced Mar 6, 2023S 5512: Enacts the lead pipe right to know act
    Became law
  • Introduced Feb 17, 2023S 4907: Prohibits medical debt from being collected by a consumer reporting agency or included in a consumer report
    Became law
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2023S 3472: Provides that health care plan participation by physicians shall be reported, for purposes of physician profiles, by the health care plans
    Became law
  • Introduced Jan 26, 2023S 2997: Provides that an affirmation of a health care practitioner may be served or filed in an action in lieu of and with same force and effect as an affidavit
    Became law
  • Introduced Jan 25, 2023S 2867: Provides that services to medical assistance recipients suffering from traumatic brain injuries or qualifying for nursing home diversion and transition services shall be provided outside of managed programs
    Became law
  • Introduced Jan 20, 2023S 2391: Modifies income limits for medical assistance to certain disabled individuals
    Became law
  • Introduced Jan 11, 2023S 1350: Relates to brand-name drugs with and without an AB generic equivalent
    Became law
  • Introduced Jan 11, 2023S 1319: Relates to clinical standards for utilization review of care for medically fragile children; repealer
    Became law
  • Introduced Jan 11, 2023S 1349: Relates to authorizing residents of assisted living programs to receive hospice services
    Became law
  • Introduced Jan 11, 2023S 1348: Relates to notification of changes to the model contract with managed care providers under the medical assistance program
    Became law
  • Introduced Jan 6, 2023S 837: Protects the confidentiality of vaccine information; repealer
    Became law
  • Introduced Jan 6, 2023S 831: Relates to the availability of training for state approved education or training programs required for certification of home health aides, personal care aides, and certified nurse aides
    Became law
  • Introduced Mar 25, 2026S 9573: Relates to a nursing facility transition and diversion Medicaid waiting list
    Passed both chambers
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2026S 8841: Allows individuals to register in the donate life registry through personal income tax filings
    Passed both chambers
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025S 1946: Provides for the expungement of syringe convictions
    Passed both chambers
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025S 428: Requires chain restaurants to label menu items that have a high content of sodium
    Passed both chambers
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025S 1224: Relates to coverage for services provided by school-based health centers for medical assistance recipients
    Vetoed
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025S 1226: Requires public notice and public engagement when a general hospital seeks to close entirely or a unit that provides maternity, mental health or substance use care
    Vetoed
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025S 614: Provides for enrollment in medical assistance programs for incarcerated individuals
    Passed both chambers
  • Introduced Mar 20, 2024S 8843: Requires public notice and public engagement when a general hospital seeks to close entirely or a unit that provides maternity, mental health or substance use care
    Vetoed
  • Introduced Apr 26, 2023S 6542: Relates to newborn screening for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency
    Vetoed
  • Introduced Jan 18, 2023S 2124: Allows physician assistants to serve as primary care practitioners for purposes of Medicaid managed care plans
    Vetoed
  • Introduced Jan 18, 2023S 2161: Establishes a special needs assisted living program to serve persons with neurodegenerative diseases
    Vetoed
  • Introduced Jan 10, 2023S 1198: Relates to a review of reimbursement adequacy for early intervention services
    Vetoed
  • Introduced May 14, 2026S 10339: Authorizes the compensation of Catholic Guardian Services for fair and equitable holding expenses associated with lands transferred to Catholic Home Bureau
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Mar 10, 2026S 9401: Requires the department of health to facilitate the exchange of data between the state prescription drug program and electronic health records
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Mar 6, 2026S 9388: Requires public notice and public engagement when a general hospital seeks to close entirely or a unit that provides maternity, mental health or substance use care
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Feb 23, 2026S 9275: Requires Medicaid to cover gender-affirming care regardless of federal funding; prohibits discriminatory practices by health care entities and insurers; relates to coverage for treatment for gender dysphoria
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 13, 2026S 8878: Enacts the "New York state food rescue tax credit act"
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2026S 8838: Provides parity to durable medical equipment providers by requiring Medicaid managed care organizations to reimburse such providers
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced May 9, 2025S 7859: Relates to the authority of certain existing assisted living programs to expand capacity by nine or fewer beds under an expedited process
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Apr 17, 2025S 7460: Directs the commissioner of health to establish at least 4 maternal-infant care centers in areas of need for infants suffering from drug withdrawal as a result of in utero exposure
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Apr 16, 2025S 7457: Permits the use of cremation or natural organic reduction as the method of disposition for certain decedents
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Mar 26, 2025S 6892: Enacts the lead pipe replacement act
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Mar 12, 2025S 6375: Removes the requirement that consent for the payment of certain medical services must occur after such services are administered
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Mar 6, 2025S 6225: Relates to inspections of child day care homes, programs and facilities, and opioid overdose prevention
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Feb 19, 2025S 5229: Provides for rates for residential health care facilities
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Feb 18, 2025S 5056: Requires the department of health examine heat related deaths in the state of New York
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Feb 10, 2025S 4589: Relates to federal qualified health center rate adequacy
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2025S 3964: Relates to including rescue inhaler prescriptions for asthma and other chronic respiratory diseases for individuals under age nineteen in the statewide immunization information system
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 30, 2025S 3819: Imposes certain penalties related to violations of building and fire code standards within fourteen days and increases certain fine amounts for violations of housing standards
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 30, 2025S 3815: Relates to special accidental death benefits paid to a deceased member's children
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 30, 2025S 3820: Requires health insurance policies include coverage for anesthesia for the duration of a medical procedure
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 30, 2025S 3814: Imposes a tax on out-of-state transfers, dividends, payments, and loans by certain accident and health insurance companies and health maintenance organizations
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 28, 2025S 3596: Warns voters about New York's closed primary system on voter registration forms
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 28, 2025S 3581: Provides lead service line identification for certain water systems
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 27, 2025S 3476: Enacts the "bucks for boilers act"
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 27, 2025S 3363: Relates to the authority of a hospice medical director to sign a death certificate
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 27, 2025S 3366: Provides person/entity with authority to operate a hospital shall be subject to approval by public health and health planning council for establishment of hospital
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 27, 2025S 3364: Establishes an office of the state medical fund ombudsperson and a medical indemnity fund advisory panel
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 27, 2025S 3356: Enacts the lab services accessibility act
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 24, 2025S 3185: Provides outpatient insurance coverage for non-pharmacological treatments and non-opioid drugs for chronic pain
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 23, 2025S 3100: Provides for coverage for the treatment of asthma
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 16, 2025S 2329: Requires review of all motor vehicle repair shop applicants which includes community input
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 16, 2025S 2332: Relates to long term care options for medicaid recipients; repealer
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025S 1911: Relates to notices of non-renewal provided to a health care professional by a health care plan
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025S 1855: Strengthens protections for patients regarding sexual misconduct by medical providers
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025S 1965: Restores medical futility as a basis for DNR
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025S 1858: Expands protections regarding violations of safety conditions in adult care facilities
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025S 1856: Relates to prohibiting county correction officers from dispensing medications to incarcerated individuals on the premises of a local correctional facility
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025S 1917: Establishes an emergency insulin program
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025S 1913: Relates to establishing the "340B prescription drug anti-discrimination act"
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025S 1912: Relates to medical assistance coverage for medically tailored meals
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 13, 2025S 1746: Provides for the review of policies and practices pertaining to emerging infectious disease outbreaks in correctional facilities
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 13, 2025S 1804: Requires insurance coverage for certain inhalers at no cost
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 13, 2025S 1619: Allows a licensed pharmacist to order and administer certain tests
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 13, 2025S 1617: Provides for automatic enrollment and recertification simplification for Medicaid eligible recipients
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 13, 2025S 1618: Enacts the "New York affordable drug manufacturing act"
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 13, 2025S 1634: Provides for primary care investment
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025S 427: Requires chain restaurants to label menu items that have a high content of added sugars
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025S 1223: Expands the scope of the temporary operator program
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025S 1225: Requires periodic reviews of pending applications for material change in the coverage status of certain matters relative to new health technology assessment or medical evidence
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025S 350: Changes the default standard on statutory health proxy forms regarding life-sustaining treatment standards
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025S 353: Relates to the appointment of the state medicaid director
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025S 355: Provides for program eligibility for plans comparable to Medicare part D
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025S 1222: Relates to a review of reimbursement adequacy for early intervention services
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025S 1086: Relates to enacting the empire state licensing act; repealer
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025S 354: Expands the healthcare services provided by telehealth
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025S 360: Relates to expanding the health department's review of correctional health services
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced May 16, 2024S 9599: Authorizes increased equity withdrawals by certain non-public residential health care facilities
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced May 13, 2024S 9353: Repeals section 3372 of the public health law
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced May 13, 2024S 9344: Enacts the lab services accessibility act
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Apr 26, 2024S 9115: Relates to the authority of a hospice medical director to sign a death certificate
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Apr 8, 2024S 8987: Provides person/entity with authority to operate a hospital shall be subject to approval by public health and health planning council for establishment of hospital
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Apr 8, 2024S 8992: Relates to establishing the "340B prescription drug anti-discrimination act"
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Apr 3, 2024S 8966: Relates to certificates of qualification for clinical laboratories and blood banks and work standards for cytotechnologists
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Apr 3, 2024S 8965: Establishes a drug-induced movement disorder screening education program
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Feb 1, 2024S 8470: Relates to the supervision of intravenous administration of contrast media by a radiographer
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 3, 2024S 7872: Extends provisions of law relating to pharmacists
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Dec 13, 2023S 7815: Relates to inspections of child day care homes, programs and facilities, and opioid overdose prevention
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced May 26, 2023S 7449: Relates to the eligibility of hospitals in the state to receive assistance from the power authority of the state of New York
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced May 16, 2023S 6963: Establishes regional minimum hourly base reimbursement rates for home care aides
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced May 16, 2023S 6960: Ensures that the state implements certain federal conflict of interest requirements in a manner that ensures limited disruption of certain services
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced May 16, 2023S 7023: Strengthens protections for patients regarding sexual misconduct by medical providers
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced May 16, 2023S 6959: Relates to federal qualified health center rate adequacy
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced May 15, 2023S 6914: Provides for rates for residential health care facilities
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced May 15, 2023S 6902: Authorizes rate increases for in-person early intervention services
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced May 15, 2023S 6910: Provides for funding associated with the transition of the pharmacy benefit in the medical assistance program
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced May 10, 2023S 6801: Makes conforming changes reflecting the previously authorized scope of practice of nurse practitioners
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced May 8, 2023S 6733: Expands health care services provided by telehealth
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced May 4, 2023S 6668: Provides for presumptive eligibility for medical assistance benefits of individuals leaving incarceration
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced May 3, 2023S 6641: Provides for reimbursements for certain home health services that meet the definition of core public health services
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Apr 18, 2023S 6408: Requires chain restaurants to label menu items that have a high content of added sugars
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Mar 23, 2023S 5936: Requires review of all motor vehicle repair shop applicants which includes community input
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Mar 22, 2023S 5909: Establishes a pilot hospital medical debt relief program
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Mar 16, 2023S 5810: Sets reimbursement rates for essential safety net hospitals
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Mar 8, 2023S 5542: Provides for restructuring unsustainable sovereign and subnational debt
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Mar 6, 2023S 5472: Expands protections regarding violations of safety conditions in adult care facilities
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Feb 23, 2023S 5122: Establishes a uniform ambulance assessment fee
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Feb 16, 2023S 4874: Imposes an excise tax on sugary drinks
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Feb 16, 2023S 4888: Relates to recovery of overpayment of certain assistance; repealer
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Feb 16, 2023S 4889: Provides for coverage for the treatment of asthma
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Feb 16, 2023S 4890: Requires chain restaurants to label menu items that have a high content of sodium
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Feb 16, 2023S 4906: Relates to enrollment in medical assistance programs for incarcerated individuals
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Feb 14, 2023S 4785: Enacts the health care consumer and provider protection act relating to collective negotiations by health care providers with certain health care plans
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Feb 14, 2023S 4787: Requires periodic reviews of pending applications for material change in the coverage status of certain matters relative to new health technology assessment or medical evidence
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Feb 14, 2023S 4791: Increases rates of payment for certified home health agencies
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Feb 14, 2023S 4786: Enacts the "New York affordable drug manufacturing act"
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Feb 14, 2023S 4790: Requires medical assistance coverage for medically tailored meals
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Feb 14, 2023S 4792: Requires a utilization review of a request for nursing home care after an inpatient hospital admission to be completed within 24 hours of the request
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Feb 13, 2023S 4622: Provides for automatic enrollment and recertification simplification for Medicaid eligible recipients
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2023S 3467: Allows a licensed pharmacist to order and administer certain tests
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 30, 2023S 3283: Relates to health care agents and proxies, decisions under the family health care decisions act and nonhospital orders not to resuscitate
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 30, 2023S 3282: Clarifies provisions regarding health care professional applications and terminations
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 25, 2023S 2894: Restores medical futility as a basis for DNR
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 25, 2023S 2933: Relates to assessments of the need for home health services
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 25, 2023S 2928: Provides for payments for personal protective equipment for home and community based long term care services
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 25, 2023S 2931: Relates to home care services and to rates of reimbursement under medicaid for home care services
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 24, 2023S 2776: Expands the healthcare services provided by telehealth
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 20, 2023S 2363: Requires the division of housing and community renewal to publish on its website a database of major capital improvements
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 19, 2023S 2196: Imposes certain penalties related to violations of building and fire code standards within fourteen days and increases certain fine amounts for violations of housing standards
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 19, 2023S 2237: Provides for coverage for certain individuals under the 1332 state innovation program
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 18, 2023S 2125: Relates to the definition of the "look-back period" for the determination of eligibility of an individual for medical assistance benefits
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 13, 2023S 1727: Relates to improper practices relating to staff membership or professional privileges of a physician and such physician's board certification
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 12, 2023S 1573: Relates to the money deposited as bail by charitable bail organizations
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 11, 2023S 1366: Modifies the distribution of funds from the general hospital indigent care pool; repealer
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 10, 2023S 1197: Provides for primary care investment
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 9, 2023S 966: Provides for program eligibility for plans comparable to Medicare part D
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 9, 2023S 985: Relates to the appointment of the state medicaid director
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 6, 2023S 699: Relates to decriminalizing the possession of buprenorphine
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 4, 2023S 327: Expands the definition of safety-net providers
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 4, 2023S 505: Relates to expanding the health department's review of correctional health services
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 4, 2023S 266: Directs the commissioner of health to establish at least 4 maternal-infant care centers in areas of need for infants suffering from drug withdrawal as a result of in utero exposure
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 4, 2023S 504: Prohibits cost sharing for insulin
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 4, 2023S 502: Provides for the expungement of syringe convictions
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced Jan 4, 2023S 399: Relates to the enactment of the safer consumption services pilot program act
    Passed the Senate
  • Introduced May 21, 2026S 10561: Relates to nursing transition and diversion
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 15, 2026S 10494: Enacts the safe access to care act
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 15, 2026S 10512: Authorizes payments to nonparticipating or nonpreferred providers of medical services
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 31, 2026S 9651: Relates to utilization review program standards and pre-authorization for certain health care services
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 26, 2026S 9589: Relates to coverage for New Yorkers losing insurance due to the implementation of HR 1
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 19, 2026S 9512: Enacts the oversight of health programs act
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 12, 2026S 9434: Relates to pharmacy benefits where a physician is authorized to dispense certain medications and practices medicine in the oncology setting
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 18, 2026S 9237: Relates to the definition of family for purposes of services provided by voluntary foster care agency health facilities
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 27, 2026S 9033: Establishes "SNAP for all", a state-funded supplemental nutrition assistance program to provide for the state's immigrant population
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2026S 8902: Relates to coverage for services provided by school-based health centers for medical assistance recipients
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2026S 8835: Relates to requirements for the provision of medication for medical aid in dying
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2026S 8775: Provides guidance to certain children and family services and municipal staff on the identification of circumstances that may indicate the presence of controlled substances and referrals to law enforcement
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 15, 2025S 8039: Prohibits hospitals, health systems, and health care providers from charging facility fees that are not covered by the patient's health insurance carrier
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 15, 2025S 7981: Relates to the performance of medical services by physician assistants
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 14, 2025S 7954: Relates to licensure requirements for fiscal intermediaries; repealer
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 13, 2025S 7913: Relates to improper practices relating to staff membership or professional privileges of a physician and such physician's board certification
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 12, 2025S 7874: Repeals public health law section concerning authorization to enroll and provide medical assistance
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 9, 2025S 7828: Relates to items of appropriation
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 23, 2025S 7617: Relates to the enactment of the Safer Consumption Services Act
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 10, 2025S 7331: Allows individuals to register in the donate life registry through mandatory personal income tax electronic tax filings
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 11, 2025S 6367: Extends the expiration date of free one day admission to the zoological park
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 11, 2025S 6352: Includes nurse practitioners as a provider of services for purposes of collaborative drug therapy management and makes the authorization for pharmacists to perform such management permanent
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 6, 2025S 6226: Provides training to staff members accepting registrations, issuing licenses or conducting inspections of child day care homes, programs or facilities on the recognition of controlled substances
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 5, 2025S 6125: Prohibits payment card networks from assessing penalties against small businesses or financial intermediaries who fail to comply with the credit card surcharge notice requirement
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 25, 2025S 5562: Provides for presumptive eligibility for medical assistance benefits of individuals leaving incarceration
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 21, 2025S 5401: Establishes the clinical trial access and education fund to provide grants for certain services for patients with life-threatening or disabling conditions/diseases
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 20, 2025S 5333: Authorizes collaborative programs for community paramedicine services
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 19, 2025S 5222: Permits midwives and physician assistants to certify the cause of death on a fetal death certificate
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 19, 2025S 5223: Establishes a special needs assisted living program to serve persons with neurodegenerative diseases
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 13, 2025S 4801: Relates to the amount of state aid reimbursement for public health services by a municipality in the city of New York
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 6, 2025S 4503: Expands eligibility for tax abatement for rent-controlled and rent regulated property occupied by persons with disabilities
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 6, 2025S 4502: Repeals the state Medicaid spending cap and related processes; repealer
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 6, 2025S 4501: Relates to the definition of practice of pharmacy
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 30, 2025S 3813: Limits the amount of time to submit supporting documentation for major capital improvements
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 30, 2025S 3812: Provides for tenant responses to applications for a major capital improvement rent increase
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 30, 2025S 3811: Directs the department of labor to post on its internet website and annually update the names of employers who employ 50 or more employees who receive public assistance
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 30, 2025S 3823: Provides for the appointment of foreclosure receivers and managing agents in N.Y. city
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 30, 2025S 3829: Relates to the money deposited as bail by charitable bail organizations
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 30, 2025S 3821: Enacts the "Livable New York act"; approp
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 29, 2025S 3762: Provides for coverage for certain individuals under the 1332 state innovation program
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 28, 2025S 3599: Establishes regional minimum hourly base reimbursement rates for home care aides
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 28, 2025S 3582: Relates to recovery of overpayment of certain assistance; repealer
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 28, 2025S 3593: Relates to requiring contracts for a commercial lease
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 28, 2025S 3595: Requires all school districts to have a licensed physical education teacher
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 28, 2025S 3602: Ensures that temporary protected status beneficiaries continue to receive Medicaid benefits
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 28, 2025S 3600: Decriminalizes possession of controlled substances, establishes the drug decriminalization task force; repealer
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 28, 2025S 3601: Relates to the certification of dietitians and nutritionists
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 28, 2025S 3592: Sets reimbursement rates for essential safety net hospitals
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 28, 2025S 3594: Removes cap on funds for teacher resource and computer training centers for city school district for the city of New York
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 28, 2025S 3597: Prohibits lobbyists who are convicted of or plead guilty to class D felonies or higher level crimes from acting as a lobbyist for a period of three years
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 28, 2025S 3547: Relates to school based health centers
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 27, 2025S 3357: Relates to prohibiting any substituted consent for a sterilization procedure
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 27, 2025S 3358: Relates to the submission of claims for services provided by home care agencies
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 27, 2025S 3361: Requires medical evaluations for assisted living eligibility to be conducted within thirty days prior to the date of admission
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 27, 2025S 3362: Repeals section 3372 of the public health law
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 27, 2025S 3365: Provides for payment of claims submitted by healthcare agencies
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 27, 2025S 3360: Permits a close friend to make an anatomical gift of a decedent's body
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 27, 2025S 3359: Expands health care services provided by telehealth
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 27, 2025S 3425: Provides for establishment of the New York Health plan
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 24, 2025S 3184: Allows certain adult care facilities to arrange for limited nursing services
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 16, 2025S 2333: Provides for restructuring unsustainable sovereign and subnational debt
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 16, 2025S 2330: Imposes an excise tax on sugary drinks
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 16, 2025S 2331: Relates to decriminalizing the possession of buprenorphine
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 16, 2025S 2334: Provides for coverage of screenings for elevated lead levels
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 16, 2025S 2360: Relates to supervision by certain nurse practitioners; makes certain provisions permanent relating to nurse practitioners
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025S 1916: Establishes the category of "qualified group practice" for medical, dental and podiatric practices that comply with certain standards
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025S 1914: Grants medical assistance eligibility for kidney transplant expenses for certain residents of New York
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025S 1910: Requires the filing of additional transferor and contributor identification information in campaign receipt and expenditure statements
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025S 1857: Establishes a pilot hospital medical debt relief program
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025S 1915: Amends certain definitions relating to tobacco products and changes the minimum pack sizes for tobacco products and the tax amount for tobacco products
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025S 1967: Relates to the use of transportation management brokers
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025S 1963: Authorizes retail clinics to provide certain services
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025S 1968: Prohibits the establishment, incorporation, construction, or increase in capacity of for-profit nursing homes
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025S 1964: Conforms and improves the process for determining incapacity
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025S 1918: Establishes a specialized health home program to serve certain individuals with physical disabilities
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 13, 2025S 1616: Provides parity to durable medical equipment providers by requiring Medicaid managed care organizations to reimburse such providers
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 13, 2025S 1747: Provides for eligibility for medical assistance for personal care services for persons with traumatic brain injury, developmental disability, cognitive impairments, blindness or visual impairment
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 9, 2025S 1437: Requires the division of housing and community renewal to publish on its website a database of major capital improvements
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 9, 2025S 1439: Imposes an additional tax on income attributable to long-term capital gain
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025S 352: Relates to the use of fluoroscopy by physician assistants
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025S 351: Adopts the solemn covenant of the states to award prizes for curing diseases interstate compact
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025S 788: Relates to guardians and health care agents
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025S 786: Relates to education and outreach for drug-induced movement disorders by the department of health
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025S 769: Amends the effectiveness of provisions related to the submission of physician profile information
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025S 765: Relates to certificates of qualification for clinical laboratories and blood banks
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025S 814: Relates to organ donation registration through a patient-facing portal
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025S 1189: Relates to licensure requirements for fiscal intermediaries; repealer
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025S 358: Relates to eligibility for home care services under medicaid; repealer
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025S 359: Prohibits state-operated hospitals from suing patients for medical debt
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025S 806: Establishes when services for traumatic brain injuries granted pursuant to a waiver shall begin
    Introduced
  • Introduced Dec 6, 2024S 9957: Requires health insurance policies include coverage for anesthesia for the duration of a medical procedure
    Introduced
  • Introduced Sep 11, 2024S 9906: Requires insurance coverage for inhalers at no cost
    Introduced
  • Introduced Sep 6, 2024S 9901: Relates to licensure requirements for fiscal intermediaries; repealer
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 16, 2024S 9598: Requires medical evaluations for assisted living eligibility to be conducted within thirty days prior to the date of admission
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 16, 2024S 9666: Allows for certain child beneficiaries to receive accidental death benefits for the duration of their lifetime
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 16, 2024S 9574: Imposes a tax on out-of-state transfers, dividends, payments, and loans by certain accident and health insurance companies and health maintenance organizations
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 13, 2024S 9345: Provides lead service line identification for certain water systems
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 10, 2024S 9314: Includes digital health care service platforms in the definition of temporary health care services agency
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 3, 2024S 9192: Provides insurance coverage for chronic pain
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 29, 2024S 9131: Expands the scope of the temporary operator program
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 26, 2024S 9116: Relates to prohibiting any substituted consent for a sterilization procedure
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 22, 2024S 9099: Enacts the "bucks for boilers act"
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 28, 2024S 8928: Relates to the general hospital indigent care pool and funding for safety net and enhanced safety net hospitals
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 26, 2024S 8905: Provides training to staff members accepting registrations, issuing licenses or conducting inspections of child day care homes, programs or facilities on the recognition of controlled substances
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 28, 2024S 8676: Enacts the "Livable New York act"
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 14, 2024S 8561: Expands eligibility for appointment to county boards of health and health services advisory boards
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 5, 2024S 8009: Relates to orders not to resuscitate
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 5, 2024S 8047: Relates to a four-year demonstration project to reduce the use of temporary staffing agencies in residential healthcare facilities
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 5, 2024S 8033: Relates to licensure requirements and reimbursements for certain home health services; repealer
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 5, 2024S 8056: Relates to the effectiveness of a chapter of law relating to municipal limited health care service facilities
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 5, 2024S 8055: Relates to information on service lines to be reported by public water systems
    Introduced
  • Introduced Dec 27, 2023S 7839: Relates to the definition of practice of pharmacy
    Introduced
  • Introduced Dec 27, 2023S 7840: Relates to coverage for services provided by school-based health centers for medical assistance recipients
    Introduced
  • Introduced Dec 11, 2023S 7800: Relates to long term care options for medicaid recipients; repealer
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 29, 2023S 7778: Prohibits state-operated hospitals from suing patients for medical debt
    Introduced
  • Introduced Oct 20, 2023S 7719: Relates to prohibiting county correction officers from dispensing medications to incarcerated individuals on the premises of a local correctional facility
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jul 7, 2023S 7590: Provides for establishment of the New York Health plan
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 30, 2023S 7477: Extends provisions of the public health law related to the redeployment of excess reserves of certain not-for-profit managed care organizations
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 30, 2023S 7479: Extends provisions of the public health law relating to medical reimbursement and welfare reform
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 30, 2023S 7478: Extends certain provisions relating to expanding the child health insurance plan
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 18, 2023S 7221: Allows for Genesis Villella to qualify for and receive certain spousal accidental death benefits
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 16, 2023S 6939: Removes citizenship and permanent lawful resident requirements for professional licensure; repealer
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 15, 2023S 6911: Establishes a temporary 340B covered entity no-interest loan fund
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 15, 2023S 6897: Establishes a four-year demonstration project to reduce the use of temporary staffing agencies in residential healthcare facilities and a joint labor-management nursing home staffing workgroup
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 12, 2023S 6886: Relates to non-patient specific orders a registered professional nurse may perform
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 10, 2023S 6800: Relates to supervision by certain nurse practitioners; makes certain provisions permanent relating to nurse practitioners
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 10, 2023S 6814: Relates to newborn screening for duchenne muscular dystrophy
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 10, 2023S 6815: Relates to death certificates
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 10, 2023S 6795: Provides for coverage of screenings for elevated lead levels
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 5, 2023S 6690: Permits a close friend to make an anatomical gift of a decedent's body
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 4, 2023S 6219: Relates to municipal limited health care service facilities
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 30, 2023S 6123: Relates to the submission of claims for services provided by home care agencies
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 27, 2023S 6046: Provides for payment of claims submitted by healthcare agencies
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 23, 2023S 5958: Establishes an office of the state medical fund ombudsman and a medical indemnity fund advisory panel
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 23, 2023S 5964: Relates to enacting the empire state licensing act; repealer
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 10, 2023S 5645: Relates to the certification of dietitians and nutritionists
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 10, 2023S 5659: Provides for tenant responses to applications for a major capital improvement rent increase
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 10, 2023S 5658: Relates to the health care transformation fund
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 10, 2023S 5644: Relates to the transparency and quality of care of operators of adult care facilities
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 10, 2023S 5657: Creates a distinctive license plate for veterans honoring Borinqueneers
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 7, 2023S 5520: Provides for the performance of medical services by physician assistants
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 6, 2023S 5471: Allows certain adult care facilities to arrange for limited nursing services
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 6, 2023S 5468: Provides for the review of policies and practices pertaining to emerging infectious disease outbreaks in correctional facilities
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 6, 2023S 5469: Requires election for registration for organ, eye and tissue donations to be included upon certain state forms; repealer
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 6, 2023S 5470: Provides for eligibility for medical assistance for personal care services for persons with traumatic brain injury, developmental disability, cognitive impairments, blindness or visual impairment
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 6, 2023S 5473: Provides for payments for home and community based long term care services
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 23, 2023S 5136: Relates to pharmacy services provided by managed care providers; repealer
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 16, 2023S 4861: Repeals the state Medicaid spending cap and related processes; repealer
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 14, 2023S 4783: Relates to including diagnosis of asthma or other respiratory diseases for which rescue inhaler treatment is prescribed in the statewide immunization information system
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 14, 2023S 4793: Establishes the clinical trial access and education fund to provide grants for certain services for patients with life-threatening or disabling conditions/diseases
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 14, 2023S 4782: Modifies the definition of telehealth provider
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 14, 2023S 4784: Authorizes collaborative programs for community paramedicine services
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 14, 2023S 4789: Establishes a specialized health home program to serve certain individuals with physical disabilities
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 14, 2023S 4788: Relates to the use of transportation management brokers
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 2, 2023S 4043: Includes nurse practitioners as a provider of services for purposes of collaborative drug therapy management and makes the authorization for pharmacists to perform such management permanent
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 1, 2023S 3577: Grants medical assistance eligibility for kidney transplant expenses for certain residents of New York
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2023S 3449: Grants immunity from liability to organizations which establish physician committees the purpose of which is to refer to treatment physicians who are thought to be suffering from addiction or mental illness
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2023S 3465: Warns voters about New York's closed primary system on voter registration forms
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2023S 3471: Requires all school districts to have a licensed physical education teacher
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2023S 3452: Prohibits lobbyists who are convicted of or plead guilty to class D felonies or higher level crimes from acting as a lobbyist for a period of three years
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2023S 3453: Removes cap on funds for teacher resource and computer training centers for city school district for the city of New York
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2023S 3451: Permits midwives and physician assistants to certify the cause of death on a fetal death certificate
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2023S 3448: Amends certain definitions relating to tobacco products and changes the minimum pack sizes for tobacco products and the tax amount for tobacco products
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2023S 3450: Establishes the category of "qualified group practice" for medical, dental and podiatric practices that comply with certain standards
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2023S 3469: Expands confidentiality requirements for communicable disease contact tracing
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2023S 3466: Provides for coverage for prescription drugs under Medicaid; repealer
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2023S 3470: Provides for reimbursement rates for certain services
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2023S 3468: Provides parity to durable medical equipment providers by requiring Medicaid managed care organizations to reimburse such providers
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 30, 2023S 3222: Establishes an emergency insulin program
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 27, 2023S 3064: Relates to use of monies from the community health care revolving capital fund
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 26, 2023S 2954: Provides for the appointment of foreclosure receivers and managing agents in cities having a population of one million or more
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 26, 2023S 2951: Places limits on rent adjustments for major capital improvements
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 26, 2023S 2952: Expands eligibility for tax abatement for rent-controlled and rent regulated property occupied by persons with disabilities
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 26, 2023S 2953: Directs the department of labor to post on its internet website and annually update the names of employers who employ 50 or more employees who receive public assistance
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 26, 2023S 2950: Relates to requiring contracts for a commercial lease
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 26, 2023S 2977: Limits the amount of time to submit supporting documentation for major capital improvements
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 25, 2023S 2868: Adopts the solemn covenant of the states to award prizes for curing diseases interstate compact
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 25, 2023S 2932: Conforms and improves the process for determining incapacity
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 25, 2023S 2866: Sets nutrition standards for restaurant meals targeting children
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 25, 2023S 2942: Authorizes retail clinics to provide certain services
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 25, 2023S 2930: Relates to orders not to resuscitate; repealer
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 25, 2023S 2929: Prohibits the establishment, incorporation, construction, or increase in capacity of for-profit nursing homes
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 24, 2023S 2777: Changes the default standard on statutory health proxy forms regarding life-sustaining treatment standards
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 20, 2023S 2340: Decriminalizes possession of controlled substances, establishes the drug decriminalization task force; repealer
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 20, 2023S 2341: Prohibits the use and sale of tobacco at state-operated institutions of the state university of New York
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 20, 2023S 2339: Relates to the provision of services by school-based health centers
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 20, 2023S 2362: Requires the filing of additional transferor and contributor identification information in campaign receipt and expenditure statements
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 19, 2023S 2162: Imposes an additional tax on income attributable to long-term capital gain
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 18, 2023S 2126: Relates to the use of fluoroscopy by physician assistants
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 11, 2023S 1321: Relates to support of living organ donation
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 4, 2023S 329: Relates to eligibility for medical assistance for infants up to age three
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 4, 2023S 503: Provides for coverage for certain prescription drugs in Medicaid managed care programs; repealer
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 4, 2023S 524: Expands hepatitis C screening testing
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 4, 2023S 328: Relates to eligibility for home care services under medicaid; repealer
    Introduced

Source: Open States

How they voted

Final votes on bills that passed either chamber of the New York legislature, since 2023. Votes on amendments, committees, and procedure are left out.

Votes shown

6,933 votes on bills that passed at least one chamber.

Attendance

Didn't vote on 1 of 6,933 votes (less than 1%). They had permission to be away (excused) for all of them.

By topic
Aging74 votes
    Agriculture120 votes
      Alcoholism and Drug Abuse3 votes
        Alcoholism and Substance Use Disorders50 votes
          Banks87 votes
            Budget and Revenue43 votes
              Children and Families88 votes
                Cities35 votes
                  Cities 152 votes
                    Cities 210 votes
                      Civil Service and Pensions173 votes
                        Commerce, Economic Development and Small Business42 votes
                          Consumer Affairs and Protection68 votes
                            Consumer Protection148 votes
                              Corporations, Authorities and Commissions210 votes
                                Correction23 votes
                                  Crime Victims, Crime and Correction106 votes
                                    Criminal Law (Codes)325 votes
                                      Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks and Recreation65 votes
                                        Disabilities43 votes
                                          Economic Development56 votes
                                            Education176 votes
                                              Election Law24 votes
                                                Elections149 votes
                                                  Energy32 votes
                                                    Energy and Telecommunications199 votes
                                                      Environmental Conservation353 votes
                                                        Ethics and Internal Governance23 votes
                                                          Finance164 votes
                                                            Governmental Employees89 votes
                                                              Governmental Operations122 votes
                                                                Health507 votes
                                                                  Higher Education241 votes
                                                                    Housing34 votes
                                                                      Housing, Construction and Community Development183 votes
                                                                        Insurance234 votes
                                                                          Internet and Technology60 votes
                                                                            Investigations and Government Operations339 votes
                                                                              Judiciary323 votes
                                                                                Labor206 votes
                                                                                  Libraries23 votes
                                                                                    Libraries and Education Technology5 votes
                                                                                      Local Government346 votes
                                                                                        Local Governments98 votes
                                                                                          Mental Health41 votes
                                                                                            New York City Education11 votes
                                                                                              People With Disabilities12 votes
                                                                                                Procurement and Contracts60 votes
                                                                                                  Racing and Wagering12 votes
                                                                                                    Racing, Gaming and Wagering31 votes
                                                                                                      Real Property Taxation66 votes
                                                                                                        Rules1 vote
                                                                                                          Science and Technology11 votes
                                                                                                            Small Business6 votes
                                                                                                              Social Services85 votes
                                                                                                                Taxes and Budget (Ways and Means)249 votes
                                                                                                                  Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development20 votes
                                                                                                                    Transportation395 votes
                                                                                                                      Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs88 votes
                                                                                                                        Veterans' Affairs34 votes
                                                                                                                          Women'S Issues60 votes

                                                                                                                            Source: Open States, New York State Senate and Assembly. Topics from the state legislature.