Senator • Democrat
Brian Kavanagh
New York • District SD-027
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Bills Sponsored
24
Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):
100% Positive
Voting Pattern
Nay: 24
Yea: 9126
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Sponsored Bills
NY S00427•Introduced
Requires chain restaurants to display an added sugars warning next to or directly under the name of each food item with high added sugars content wherever such food item is listed on a menu, menu board, or food tag, and by any self-serve dispensing point at which such food item is dispensed.
Co-Sponsor
NY S00335•Introduced
Relates to actions or practices that establish or maintain a monopoly, monopsony or restraint of trade; authorizes a class action lawsuit in the state anti-trust law.
Co-Sponsor
NY S00028•Introduced
Eliminates provisions exempting employees with disabilities from the minimum wage law; provides that laws or minimum wage orders that authorize an employer to pay a wage that is less than the minimum wage are valid provided that under such laws or orders an employee with a disability is paid the same wage as an employee in a comparable position that does not have a disability.
Co-Sponsor
NY S00399•Introduced
Makes it illegal for certain persons to possess or sell a pistol converter or a converted pistol.
Co-Sponsor
NY S00187•Engrossed
Prohibits the sale of certain products that contain regulated perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances; requires manufacturers of products containing PFAS to provide notice of such fact to persons that offer the products for sale or distribution; provides penalties for violations.
Co-Sponsor
NY S08170•Introduced
Extends certain deadlines related to a tax abatement for certain alterations and improvements to multiple dwellings.
Primary Sponsor
NY S08168•Introduced
Relates to the reuse of building construction, deconstruction, and demolition materials, including requiring local deconstruction ordinances and reporting requirements for local political subdivisions awarded grants for construction, deconstruction and demolition projects; establishes a construction, deconstruction, and demolition waste prevention and reduction grant and technical support program; establishes deconstruction contractor certification requirements.
Primary Sponsor
NY S03207•Introduced
Establishes maximum contaminant levels in drinking water for certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS); sets such levels at no higher than 4 parts per trillion (ppt) for perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and no higher than 10 parts per trillion (ppt) for perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA), perfluorohexane sulfonate (PFHxS), and hexafluoropropylene oxide dimer acid (HFPO-DA).
Primary Sponsor
NY S01239•Introduced
Enacts the "food safety and chemical disclosure act"; prohibits certain food additives and food color additives; provides that in an action to enforce compliance, the recognition by the federal food and drug administration of any of these substances as safe may not be alleged as a defense; establishes requirements for the reporting of GRAS (generally recognized as safe) substances.
Primary Sponsor
NY S08108•Introduced
Establishes the New York state Ireland trade commission to advance business and economic relations between New York state and the Island of Ireland.
Primary Sponsor
NY S08118•Introduced
Prohibits utility service terminations in multiple dwellings; authorizes utility companies to seek a lien against such multiple dwelling for the amount of unpaid utility bills.
Primary Sponsor
NY S08042•Introduced
Requires gas pipeline facilities to accelerate the repair, rehabilitation, and replacement of equipment or pipelines that are leaking or at a high risk of leaking and increase safety reporting relating to gas pipeline leaks; requires the public service commission to establish a standard definition and methodology for calculating and reporting unaccounted-for gas; requires the commission to provide a gas safety report to the legislature.
Primary Sponsor
NY S07998•Introduced
Relates to reducing the embodied carbon emissions of buildings and building materials; provides that construction permitted under the state building code shall achieve a 15 percent reduction in embodied carbon emissions by 2030; provides three options for compliance.
Primary Sponsor
NY S06393•Introduced
Expands the public education and outreach program required to be developed by manufacturers of electronics and electronic waste collection sites.
Co-Sponsor
NY S05624•Introduced
Defines enforcement officers in a city with a population of one million or more for the purposes of regulating tobacco products, herbal cigarettes and smoking paraphernalia; provides that an enforcement officer for purposes of section 1399-ee of the public health law shall be the office of administrative trials and hearings.
Primary Sponsor
NY S04275•Engrossed
Relates to the closure of nursing homes.
Primary Sponsor
NY S03689•Engrossed
Prohibits the eviction of tenants for using medical marihuana for a certified medical use.
Co-Sponsor
NY S03486•Introduced
Relates to providing information to patients and the public on hospital rule-based exclusions; requires the commissioner of health to collect from each hospital a list of its hospital rule-based exclusions and publish such information on the department's website.
Co-Sponsor
NY S03106•Introduced
Allows for the donation of personal property of the state to certain not-for-profit organizations that are up to date on annual filings.
Co-Sponsor
NY S02084•Introduced
Requires municipalities to determine whether it is in the public interest to create a comprehensive plan adapted to the special requirements of the municipality and to determine whether it is in the public interest to update such comprehensive plan at least once every ten years to ensure that such plan addresses housing needs.
Primary Sponsor
NY S01026•Introduced
Relates to establishing a voluntary waiver of the right to purchase firearms, rifles or shotguns; requires the division of state police to maintain statewide records of individuals who have waived the right to purchase firearms, rifles, or shotguns and any revocations of such waivers.
Primary Sponsor
NY S07936•Introduced
Authorizes a surcharge for the issuance of permits relating to the obstruction or closure of a street or pedestrian plaza for construction purposes in a city having a population of one million or more and to the imposition of such surcharge.
Primary Sponsor
NY S05402•Introduced
Protects canids by requiring animals which could be coyotes or wolves be submitted for a DNA test to determine genetic makeup.
Co-Sponsor
NY S03849•Introduced
Authorizes the legislature to increase the number of justices of the supreme court in any judicial district.
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