Senator • Democrat

Andrew Gounardes

New York • District SD-026

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Activity Summary

Bills Sponsored

Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

100% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 6

Other: 175

Yea: 8980

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Sponsored Bills

NY S01116•Engrossed

Designates April twentieth as a day of commemoration to be known as New York State Constitution Day.

Primary 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 S07481•Introduced

Establishes the nail salon minimum standards council act; establishes the nail salon minimum standards council which shall investigate wages and standards within the nail salon industry and submit recommendations on minimum wages, regulations and standards for nail salon workers.

Co-Sponsor

NY S07472•Introduced

Requires school districts to conduct mandatory early screening for dyslexia for all children commencing in pre-kindergarten or kindergarten and continuing thereafter on an annual basis until each child successfully completes second grade; requires school districts to designate an individual to maintain complete and accurate records containing early screening reports for each child, and to provide resources and materials to the parent and/or guardian of any child who displays indications of dyslexia.

Co-Sponsor

NY S07453•Introduced

Provides protection to employees and former employees from retaliatory actions by employers for the reporting of illegal or dangerous business activities.

Co-Sponsor

NY S02705•Introduced

Enacts the student suicide prevention act; requires the governing board or body of every local educational agency serving students in grades seven to twelve, to adopt policies, procedures and guidelines on student suicide prevention, intervention and postvention for students in such grades.

Co-Sponsor

NY S02491•Introduced

Prohibits peremptory challenges of prospective jurors based on race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, gender identity or expression, religion, religious practice, age, disability, or sexual orientation.

Primary Sponsor

NY S06158•Introduced

Relates to radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags and the registration of motor vehicles.

Primary Sponsor

NY S07360•Introduced

Provides for orders of protection for harassment.

Primary Sponsor

NY S07336•Introduced

Permits the use of photo speed violation monitoring systems in New York city for the purposes of enforcement of license plate obstruction, concealment, and/or distortion; extends provisions permitting the use of speed cameras in certain school zones.

Primary Sponsor

NY S07318•Introduced

Establishes standards for caseloads for child protective services workers; requires the state to pay for one hundred percent of the costs associated with compliance of such caseload standard; makes related provisions.

Co-Sponsor

NY S07323•Introduced

Enacts the MEGA corporations act mandating worldwide combined reporting for large corporations that have more than one billion dollars in gross receipts.

Co-Sponsor

NY S04559•Introduced

Requires the appointment of a Title VI coordinator at every college and university in the state to ensure compliance with Title VI of the federal civil rights act of 1964; requires the division of human rights to develop training for students and employees; requires the Title VI coordinator to notify annually all students and employees of the institution's policies and procedures for reporting discrimination and harassment.

Co-Sponsor

NY S06718•Introduced

Prohibits the imposition of any surcharge for the installation or use of a tenant-installed appliance where the tenant pays for electric utility service, under rent control, and rent stabilization laws.

Co-Sponsor

NY S05751•Introduced

Amends the constitution to delete the requirement that registration for purposes of voting be completed at least ten days before election day; provides that laws be made to adequately safeguard against deception in the exercise of the right of suffrage.

Co-Sponsor

NY S05381•Introduced

Requires every food establishment to label all prepackaged food with a written notification on the package or on a label attached to the package identifying any ingredient with which a product is made that constitutes a major food allergen.

Co-Sponsor

NY S05225•Introduced

Requires the collection and reporting of sexual offense evidence on the statewide electronic tracking system within seven days of permission to release the evidence by the alleged sexual offense victim; relates to additional rules and guidelines.

Primary Sponsor

NY S02494•Engrossed

Provides that certain allegations made by employees involving employment discrimination shall be protected and matters of public interest in actions involving public petition and participation.

Primary Sponsor

NY S02433•Introduced

Limits the amount of rent increases for residential ground lease cooperative apartment buildings; establishes certain rights upon the expiration of such leases.

Co-Sponsor

NY S07282•Introduced

Ends involuntary servitude in state and local correctional facilities in New York state.

Co-Sponsor

NY S06639•Introduced

Increases the limitation of overtime compensation in final average salary calculations from fifteen percent to thirty percent.

Primary Sponsor

NY S06289•Introduced

Relates to primary social security retirement benefits for certain members; provides that in the computation of the normal service retirement benefit of members of the New York city fire department pension fund, there shall be no reduction for the primary social security retirement benefit.

Primary Sponsor

NY S03951•Introduced

Prohibits cases from being closed without a hearing or written stipulation; requires a stenographic record of all hearings held; requires minutes and decisions to be provided to the injured worker in their native language.

Co-Sponsor

NY S00342•Introduced

Establishes the "earned time act" providing for time allowances against the term or maximum term of sentences imposed by the court to be credited on an annual pro rata basis.

Co-Sponsor

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