January 2025 Starts a New Legislative Session: Time to contact your legislators about the bad bills and the good bills!

Attention New Yorkers!

January is the time we need to pay attention again. New bills will be introduced, and We the People need to know what bills our legislators want to pass into law. We created a list of bad bills and good bills from the 2023-2024 legislative session (see below).

As soon as new bills get introduced, we will update them here. Therefore, make sure you keep checking this page. In the meantime, read over the bills below. We have highlighted in red bills that are likely to pass if we do not voice our concerns. Contact your legislators regarding these alarming bills threatening our rights and, more specifically, parental rights.

This year we want to stress the importance of getting the good bills passed. Please contact your legislators and ask them to support the good bills listed below. It is time we focus on getting bills passed that protect parental rights and our rights as individuals.

Dangerous bills

Attack on Parental Rights 

• • A276b (Amy Paulin-Democrat) S653 (Liz Krueger-Democrat): Provides treatment for sexually transmitted diseases to minors without a parent’s or guardian’s consent. Allows giving drugs and vaccines for STDs to children without parental knowledge or consent. No statutory lower age limit.
  • A4604 (Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas-Democrat)/NSA: Requires comprehensive sexuality instruction for students in grades K-12 which includes a model curriculum for comprehensive sexuality education and at a minimum conforms to the content and scope of national sexuality education standards. See our attorney’s article about it: HERE.
  •  A6761 (Karenis Reyes-Democrat): Allows minors to make their own medical decisions without parental knowledge or consent! Medical decisions include procedures that are medical, dental, health, and hospital services.  Parents still have to pay for it.  Read our attorney’s article about this horrendous bill HERE.
  • A3325 (Jeffery Dinowitz-Democrat)/ S8113 (James Skoufis-Democrat): Limits exemptions from immunization requirements by local governments and private entities to medical exemptions; repeals religious exemptions for certain post-secondary students.
  • A1811(Jeffery Dinowitz-Democrat)/S3200 (Brad Hoylman-Democrat): Mandatory flu shots for all K-12 students in New York State.
  • S1570 (Liz Kreuger-Democrat)/NSA: Permits any child who is at least fourteen years of age to have administered to himself or herself certain immunizations required or recommended by law.

Prop 1 Bills

• • S449 (Brad Hoylman-Sigal-Democrat)/NSA: Requires the board of education and the trustees or sole trustee of every school district to establish policies and procedures regarding the treatment of transgender or gender non-conforming students
  • S1049 (Julia Salazar-Democrat)/NSA: Enacts the “gender identity respect, dignity and safety act”; relates to the treatment and placement of incarcerated individuals based upon gender identity; requires that incarcerated individuals in state and local correctional facilities who have a gender identity different from their assigned sex at birth be addressed and have access to commissary items, clothing and other materials that are consistent with the person’s gender identity; establishes that incarcerated individuals shall be presumptively placed in a correctional facility with persons of the gender that most closely aligns with such person’s self-attested gender identity unless the person opts out of such placement.
  • A1230 (Rebecca Seawright-Democrat)/NSA: Requires LGBT awareness curriculum or instruction.
  • A3315 (Harry Bronson-Democrat)/NSA: Relates to culturally responsive lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender education standards.

Miscellaneous Bills 

• • A765 (John McDonald -Democrat): 7174 Passed in the Assembly in 2024-Died in Senate)/S453 (Brad Hoylman-Sigal Democrat): Mandatory adult vaccine database 
  • A4454 (Pam Hunter-Democrat)/S305 (Julia Salazar-Democrat): GOOD CAUSE EVICTION BILL- Prohibits eviction without good cause; sets forth grounds for removal of tenants.
  • A920A (Emily Gallagher-Democrat)/S562A (Brian Kavanagh-Democrat): Enacts the “all-electric building act”; provides that the state energy conservation construction code shall prohibit infrastructure, building systems, or equipment used for the combustion of fossil fuels in new construction statewide no later than December 31, 2023 if the building is less than seven stories and July 1, 2027 if the building is seven stories or more.

Encourage your legislators to support these good bills.

Election Related Bills

• • S1447 (George Borrello-Republican): Relates to requiring electors to vote for the presidential and vice-presidential candidates in a manner representing the plurality of votes in each congressional district.
  • S1445 (George Borrello-Republican): Prohibits ballot harvesting; prohibits a person from submitting an application for an absentee ballot on behalf of a voter without notarized consent; permits family members, caregivers and other officials to submit applications.

Bills Prohibiting Covid-19 Related Mandates

• • S1636 (Peter Oberacker-Republican)/A3997 (Edward Flood-Republican): Prohibits a mandatory immunization against the coronavirus for K-12, college and employment.
  • S5045 (Andrew Lanza-Republican)/NSA: Prohibits a mandatory immunization against the novel coronavirus/COVID-19
  • S5051 (Andrew Lanza-Republican)/A6619(David Dipietro-Republican): Relates to prohibiting mandatory immunization against the coronavirus.
  • S285 (James Rhoads-Republican)/NSA: Prohibits administrative agencies from administering or requiring the COVID-19 immunization unless authorized by the legislature.
  • A6454 (David DiPietro-Republican)/NSA: Prohibits mandatory COVID-19 vaccination; limits civil liability of employers; prohibits requiring vaccination for education, employment, travel or other activities; enacts a vaccine bill of rights.

Bills Restoring Religious and Medical Exemptions

• • A6621 (David DiPietro-Republican)/S3020 (Peter Ortt-Republican): Relates to exempting private and parochial schools and day care centers from immunization requirements.
  • A1358 (David DiPietro-Republican)/S266 (Patric Gallivan-Republican): Relates to a religious exemption from vaccination requirements.
  • A1153 (Angelo Santabarbara-D)/NSA: Directs the use of a standardized immunization exemption form.

Supportive of Parental Rights and Miscellaneous 

• • A2045(David DiPietro-Republican)/NSA: Allows persons in parental relation to a child to choose to immunize such child and requires a person to submit a form to such child’s school when such person wishes not to administer an immunization to such child.
  • A3345 (Michael Durso-Republican)/ S3299 (Alexis Weik-Republican): Requires a person in a parental relation to a child be physically present during any immunization.
  • A1908 (David DiPietro-Republican)/NSA: Requires health care providers and practitioners to provide patients with a list of ingredients contained in vaccines.
  • A6451 (David DiPietro-Republican)/S4316 (Andrew Lanza-Republican): Establishes strict liability for injuries caused by required immunizations.
  • A3997 (Edward Flood-Republican)/ S1636 (Peter Oberacker-Republican): Prohibits a mandatory immunization against the coronavirus.
  • A6454 (David DiPietro-Republican)/NSA: Relates to prohibiting mandatory COVID-19 vaccination and enacts a vaccine bill of rights.
  • A6619 (David DiPietro-Republican)/S5051 (Andrew Lanza-Republican): Relates to prohibiting mandatory immunization against the coronavirusS7168
  • S7168 (Monica Martinez-Democrat)/NSA: Directs the use of a standardized immunization exemption form; requires the commissioner of health to develop a standardized medical immunization exemption request form for school use.
  • A10417a (Jamie Williams-Democrat)/ S686 (Monica Martinez-Democrat): Directs that a school in which a student is attending or will attend shall accept a medical immunization exemption.
  • A9196a (Jamie Williams-Democrat)/S7466b (Andrew Lanza-Republican): Relates to the reinstatement of certain officers and employees of the city of New York who were dismissed from employment due to a COVID-19 vaccine requirement

Bad Bills that already became law or were stricken:

• •  S9617/A10730 This bill passed and gave the legislators a 30% pay raise, whereby raising their part-time salary to $142,000 per year and makes them all career politicians dependent on your tax dollars to sustain them.  Read our attorney’s article about this bill HERE.
  • A2143 (Jeffery Dinowitz-Democrat): Requires immunization of certain post-secondary students for COVID-19. CURRENT BILL STATUS – STRICKEN
  • A2178 (Jeffery Dinowitz-Democrat): Mandatory Covid shots for all K-12 students in New York State.  CURRENT BILL STATUS – STRICKEN