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Votes at a glance: key bills passed by the New York Senate on March 18, 2025
Summary
The Senate approved a series of bills on March 18, including enactments affecting public service law, labor law, vehicle and traffic law, general business law items, elder law, administrative code changes and judiciary and alcoholic beverage control provisions. Several roll-call results were announced from the floor.
The New York State Senate took up and passed multiple bills on March 18. Below are the headline outcomes recorded on the Senate floor. Where the roll-call tally or detailed vote names were recorded on the transcript, those items are noted.
- Title/Count 190 (Senate print 18 37, sponsor: Senator Hinchey) — Enactment to the Public Service Law. The floor reading stated the act takes effect immediately. The floor announced 59 ayes; the bill was passed.
- Count 253 (Senate print 16 73) — Enactment to the Labor Law. Floor reading indicated the act takes effect on the 180th day. The transcript recorded 41 ayes and 18 nays; the bill was passed.
- Charter/Count 477 (Senate print 20 703, sponsor: Carsella/Spenton in transcript) — Enactment to the Vehicle and Traffic Law. The floor reading set immediate effect; the floor announced 59 ayes and the bill was passed.
- Calendar 513 (Senate print 55 99, sponsor: Senator May) — Enactment to the General Business Law. The bill was read and called; the announcement recorded the bill as passed and indicated a vote with a recorded negative of one senator (floor transcript phrasing: “vote in the negative … walls at eyes 58 and ace 1”); the bill was passed.
- Count 521 (Senate print 1 18, sponsor: Cleer) — Enactment to the Elder Law requiring a centralized database of dementia and Alzheimer's programs. Section 2 provides the act takes effect one year after becoming law. Senator Cleer explained the bill on the floor; the announcement recorded 59 ayes and the bill passed.
- Count 535 (Senate print by Senator Krueger) — Amendment to the Administrative Code of the City of New York. The roll-call announcement listed a set of senators voting in the negative (names read on the floor); the bill was recorded as passed.
- Count 543 (Senate print 55 59 by Senator Hoyman Siegel) — Amendment to the Judiciary Law. The transcript recorded a list of senators voting in the negative and announced a result described as “Eyes 41 is 18; the bill is passed.”
- Count 546 (Senate print 20 51 by Senator Webb) — Amend the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law to allow bed-and-breakfasts to sell New York wine, beer, cider and spirits and remove the overnight-guest-only restriction on B&B sales, expanding opportunities for breweries, wineries and farm producers. Senator Webb explained the bill on the floor and the bill was announced as passed.
Several bills were laid aside or had no final action on the floor during this sequence. The Senate adjourned until Monday, March 24 at 3 p.m., with intervening days being legislative days.
Notes: counts, sponsor names and some roll-call tallies were read from the floor and are recorded here exactly as announced in the transcript. Where roll-call counts were garbled or incomplete in the verbal announcement, the transcript text is quoted in the provenance (below) rather than reconstructed.
