Sen. Jose Serrano

Provides grounds for attachment; relates to procedures where employees may hold shareholders of non-publicly traded corporations personally liable for wage theft; relates to rights for victims of wage theft to hold the ten members with the largest ownership interests in a company personally liable for wage theft; relates to penalties for certain wage violations.

Instructs the state board of elections to create and distribute voting guides to voters containing information about the candidates; mandates that voters receive postcards to notify them of upcoming elections and that television and radio stations also notify their audience of upcoming elections.

Precludes inadmissible statements made by defendants because of false facts about evidence or because of a statement that undermines the reliability of the defendant's statement; requires data collection and analysis by the division of criminal justice services of recorded interrogations.

Provides for the regulation of indoor and outdoor worksites with temperature protection standards and education, training and reporting requirements to ensure that employers provide safe conditions for their employees.

Maddy summaryS 876 amends New York's Correction Law to clarify enforcement procedures for certain provisions. It specifies that public agency actions must follow Article 78 of the Civil Practice Law, while private employer actions will be enforced by the Division of Human Rights under Article 15 of the Executive Law, with concurrent authority from the NYC Commission on Human Rights. The bill does not change substantive rights but streamlines enforcement pathways. It remains neutral, focusing only on the procedural shift in how complaints are handled. This procedural change affects how enforcement agencies process cases related to correction law provisions.

Maddy summaryThis bill requires New York State to balance its annual budget (excluding capital projects) starting April 1, 2026, using standard accounting principles. It creates the New York State Governmental Accounting Review Board to help the governor and legislature implement this requirement, handle requests for budget exemptions, and manage transitions if compliance would disrupt essential services. The board, composed of five accounting experts appointed by the governor, will review budget submissions and ensure they align with generally accepted accounting principles. This directly affects how the state government prepares and passes its annual budget, requiring all revenue and expenditure estimates to be reported under standardized accounting rules.

Requires additional disclosures from lobbyists including: campaign contributions to elected officials; existing business relationships or associations with public officials; and the names of family members of a public official to whom the lobbyist, or their employer, paid compensation of over $500 in the preceding calendar year and the amount of compensation paid; provides for the disposition of campaign funds.

Prohibits the search, with or without a warrant, of geolocation and keyword data of a group of people who are under no individual suspicion of having committed a crime, but rather are defined by having been at a given location at a given time or searched particular words, phrases, character strings, or websites.

Relates to motions to vacate judgment; authorizes filing motions to vacate judgment due to a change in law; authorizes motions to vacate judgment to be filed at any time after entry of a judgment obtained at trial or by plea; relates to the requirements of discovery.

Provides that penalties may be levied against a person who intentionally withholds a housing accommodation from the market, including for the purpose of future co-operative conversion.