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Senate passes a package of bills across health, environment, transportation and elections
Summary
On March 4, 2025, the New York State Senate passed multiple bills on its calendar covering public health, mental hygiene, environmental conservation, vehicle and traffic law, navigation and election law. Senator Fernandez spoke in favor of a public health measure to connect overdose patients to care.
The New York State Senate completed a series of roll-call votes on March 4, 2025, passing a package of bills spanning public health, mental hygiene, environmental conservation, vehicle and traffic law, navigation law and election law.
Senator Fernandez spoke on the public health measure she sponsored, saying the bill “is very straightforward and very essential because still people that might have gone through an overdose are admitted to an emergency room. They're not directed to the the to the care that could help them get on this path to recovery. So this bill would ensure that any person that does enter emergency room on the accounts of an overdose or anything related is connected to that care.” The Senate recorded her vote in the affirmative; the public health bill (calendar item by Senator Fernandez) passed with the ayes recorded as 61.
Votes at a glance (calendar number; senate print; sponsor; short description from the record; outcome and effect as read into the record):
- Calendar 134, Senate Print 1553 (by Senator Parker): passed (ayes reported 58, nays 3). Title read into the record; the measure was enacted as entered.
- Calendar 270, Senate Print 317 (by Senator Salazar): passed (ayes reported 44, nays 17); last section read indicating a delayed effective date (record: "Section 2, this action take effect on the 180th day after it become a law").
- Calendar 279, Senate Print 1376 (by Senator Serrano): passed; record shows the bill took effect immediately where indicated.
- Calendar 299, Senate Print 200 (by Senator Martinez; navigation law): passed; section read that it takes effect immediately.
- Calendar 300, Senate Print 258 (by Senator Martinez; vehicle and traffic law): passed; record states Section 3 takes effect on Nov. 1.
- Calendar 304, Senate Print 3272 (by Senator Cooney; vehicle and traffic law): passed; record indicates immediate effect where noted.
- Calendar 323, Senate Print 122 (environmental conservation law): passed; record states Section 5 takes effect on the 90th day after becoming law.
- Calendar 367, Senate Print 1261A (by Senator Krueger; domestic relations law): passed (ayes 60, nays 1).
- Calendar 392, Senate Print 73 (by Senator Kavanaugh; environmental conservation law): passed; record lists Section 11 takes effect immediately.
- Calendar 413, Senate Print 5183 (by Senator Jackson; election law): passed (recorded ayes 60, nays 1).
- Calendar 414, Senate Print 0.489 (by Senator Fernandez; public health law): passed; record states Section 2 takes effect Jan. 1; Senator Fernandez explained and was recorded in the affirmative (ayes 61).
- Calendar 415, Senate Print 1812 (by Senator Fernandez; mental hygiene law): passed; record states Section 2 takes effect immediately (ayes 61 recorded).
Senate officers read the final sections and called the roll for each measure; the journal records each bill as passed as read. Senator Serrano closed the calendar reading by saying, “this concludes the reading of today's calendar.”
