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R New York Senate · District 5 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Steve Rhoads

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Total votes
8,526
all sessions
Attendance
100%
1 missed
Higher than 84% of chamber peers
With party
93%
of cast votes
Lower than 82% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
4%
crosses aisle rarely
Higher than 86% of chamber peers
Sponsored
1,687
bills & resolutions
Higher than 83% of chamber peers
Committees
6
assignments
1,687 bills and resolutions

Sponsored bills

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1,687
Primary
254
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Primary S 7223
In committee · New York Senate · Lead sponsor
Relates to apprenticeship training

Requires that a minimum of ten percent of the labor hours of the total construction workforce employed by all contractors and subcontractors performing work pursuant to a construction contract shall be performed by a person or persons participating in a certified apprenticeship program; makes technical amendments.

In committee Jan 3, 2024 0 co-sponsors
Primary S 7228
In committee · New York Senate · Lead sponsor
Relates to apprenticeship training

Requires such apprenticeship program is specific to the type and scope of work which is being performed and have a graduation rate of at least thirty percent as determined by the department of labor; makes technical corrections.

In committee Jan 3, 2024 0 co-sponsors
Co-sponsor S 7653
In committee · New York Senate · Co-sponsor
Creates a religious exemption to the ban on fossil fuel equipment and systems

Provides an exemption for the purposes of allowing the installation and use of fossil-fuel equipment and building systems where such are installed and used in a building or part of a building that is owned or occupied by a person who holds genuine and sincere religious beliefs and whose health and safety will be jeopardized due to the prohibition of the installation of fossil-fuel equipment and building systems because of such genuine and sincere religious beliefs.

In committee Jan 3, 2024 1 co-sponsor
Primary S 7671
In committee · New York Senate · Lead sponsor
Relates to the excelsior research and development tax credit

Enacts the "empire innovation act"; provides that a participant in the excelsior jobs program shall be eligible to claim a credit equal to the portion of the full cost of the participant's research and development expenses incurred that relates to the participant's research and development expenditures in New York state during the taxable year; provided however, if the participant receives a federal research and development tax credit calculated on the full cost of the participant's research and development expenses that relates to the participant's research and development expenditures in New York state during the taxable year, then said participant shall only be eligible to claim a credit equal to fifty percent of the portion of the participant's federal research and development tax credit that relates to the participant's research and development expenditures in New York state during the taxable year.

In committee Jan 3, 2024 0 co-sponsors
Co-sponsor S 7752
In committee · New York Senate · Co-sponsor
Prohibits the granting of tuition assistance awards to any student who has knowingly engaged in certain antisemitic activities

Enacts "the combating campus antisemitism act"; prohibits the granting of tuition assistance awards to any student who has knowingly engaged in promoting antisemitism in a manner that is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action, that constitutes "true threats"; makes related provisions.

In committee Jan 3, 2024 1 co-sponsor
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