Liz Krueger

Voted for Senate Bill 3294, which makes medical cannabis easier to get in New York. The registry card is abolished, so a patient shows the doctor's certification and a photo ID at the dispensary. A certification now lasts two years instead of one, and a doctor may extend or reissue it. A doctor no longer has to check the prescription monitoring database before certifying a patient. The age to grow at home, or to act as a caregiver, drops from 21 to 18. Patients from other states may buy at New York dispensaries. A photo ID is checked at every sale, records must follow federal privacy law, and knowingly tampering with patient data becomes a crime. The New York Senate passed it 39-20. It became law.

June 11, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 8417, which ends the cost break for extending a gas line to a building that does not have gas. Under the old rule a utility had to supply gas or electricity, and the state public service commission could make the customer pay only for the part of the line beyond 100 feet. Now a utility must still connect a building that asks for gas, but the commission has to make that customer pay the material and installation costs of the pipe. The old 100 foot cost sharing rule stays in place for electric service. the New York State Senate passed it 34-25, and it became law.

June 12, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Assembly Bill 6558, which makes food shops label allergens on food they pack themselves. The label must name any major food allergen in the item. Those are milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, wheat, peanuts, sesame and soybeans. It covers delis, bakeries, sandwich shops, cafeterias, food trucks and grocery stores. The rule reaches only food prepared and packed on the same premises. Loose food, and food packed after a customer orders it, are left out. The New York Senate passed it 47-12. It became law.

June 11, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 801, which puts electric car charging into New York's building code. Any code the state adopts after December 31, 2026 must make a new building that adds its own parking include charging stations and wiring ready for more. Buildings that already stand are not covered. For a single home or a two-family home, the state board may ask for the wiring alone. The board sets how many spaces and how much charging power, requires signs, and must excuse affordable housing projects and sites where charging will not work. the New York State Senate passed it 44-17, and it became law.

February 10, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Assembly Bill 584, which bans contracts that make a worker pay to quit. Some employers ask staff to sign a promise to repay training costs if they leave before a set date. The bill makes those promises void and unenforceable, and says an employer may not require one. A worker sued over such a promise can recover their legal fees. The labor commissioner must fine an employer between $1,000 and $5,000, counted separately for each worker. Plain repayment of a cash advance, or of property the employer sold the worker, still stands, as do deals agreed with a union. The New York Senate passed it 38-21. It became law.

June 12, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 8311, which makes the New York City Housing Authority put its succession rules in writing. Succession is a household member taking over the lease when the named tenant dies or moves out for good. The authority must keep written policies covering who qualifies, any move that follows, paying for the apartment while a claim is decided, and the right to complain if it says no. It must give 30 days notice and take comments before changing them. The bill gives nobody a succession right and leaves who qualifies to the authority itself. The New York Senate passed it 45-14. It became law.

June 12, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 7882, which bans landlords from setting rents with software that pools private data from rival landlords. It is now against the law to run or sell a service that does all three of these things. The service gathers rents, empty units or lease dates from two or more unrelated landlords, crunches that data, and then suggests prices or lease terms. It is also against the law for a landlord to use those suggestions to set rents or lease terms, knowingly or with reckless disregard. Software that sets rent or income limits under rent regulation or a government affordable housing program is not covered. the New York State Senate passed it 40-22, and it became law.

June 9, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 952-B, which rewrites the rules for security deposits on rent stabilized apartments. These are apartments where state law limits the rent, in New York City and in other covered areas. A deposit may not be more than one month's rent. The whole deposit must come back when the tenant moves out. The landlord may keep money only for listed costs: unpaid rent, unpaid utility bills owed to the landlord, damage worse than normal wear and tear, or moving and storing what the tenant left. The landlord must offer to walk through the apartment with the tenant before move-in and again before move-out. The landlord must send a list of what was kept, plus the rest of the money, within 14 days, or lose the right to keep any of it. If there is a fight over the amount, the landlord has to show it was fair, and a landlord who breaks the rules on purpose can owe twice the deposit. the New York State Senate passed it 38-23, and it became law.

April 29, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 1985-A, which changes what police must do about guns when they answer a family violence call. Before, an officer had to take guns only from a person who was arrested for the offense or suspected of it. Now an officer must also take a gun found in plain sight or in a lawful search in two more cases. The first is when the victim answers yes to the threat or danger questions on the state's domestic incident report form. The second is when a responding officer reasonably believes taking the gun is needed to protect someone or to prevent more violence. The officer also takes the person's gun license, and the wait before a gun can be given back rises from 48 hours to 120 hours. the New York State Senate passed it 43-19, and it became law.

June 9, 2025Supports Gun Control

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Voted for Senate Bill 745, which takes ammunition sellers out of a card-tracking rule. A 2024 law made payment card networks give gun and ammunition sellers their own merchant code, so those purchases can be told apart. The bill removes dealers of ammunition from that rule. The code still applies to licensed firearms dealers. A firearms dealer that also sells ammunition is still covered. Every other state and federal rule on selling ammunition is unchanged. The New York Senate passed it 46-17. It became law.

February 3, 2025Opposes Gun Control

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Voted for Senate Bill 744, which adds pistol converters to the state's legal list of rapid-fire modification devices. A pistol converter is a small part that makes a handgun fire many rounds with one pull of the trigger. The list already covered bump stocks, trigger cranks, binary triggers and burst triggers, so the change brings converters under the same penal law rules. It takes effect together with a 2024 law on pistol converters. the New York State Senate passed it 50-13, and it became law.

February 3, 2025Supports Gun Control

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Voted for Senate Bill 743, which spells out that the warning gun dealers must give buyers covers rifles and shotguns, not only handguns. The warning says a gun in the home raises the risk of suicide. It also names the risk of death during a family fight and of accidental death. Dealers must post it in the store and hand a copy to each buyer, and licensing officers must give one to each new license holder. A dealer who fails to post or hand out the warning commits a violation. The penalty is up to 15 days in jail or a fine of up to $1,000, and each day counts on its own. The law also drops the old line telling local police to enforce the rule. the New York State Senate passed it 43-20, and it became law.

February 3, 2025Supports Gun Control

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Voted for Senate Bill 4914, which shields people who give or get reproductive and gender-affirming care from other states' courts. It gathers scattered protections under one definition and drops the rule that the care had to happen in New York. Anyone asking a New York court to help an out-of-state case must swear it is not about punishing that care, and a false oath costs $15,000. A New York business holding records may not answer an out-of-state demand without that oath, and must tell the Attorney General within 72 hours. Police may not make an arrest over it, doctors and lawyers may not be disciplined for it, and insurers may not retaliate. A family court may not take a child away because a parent allowed this care. The bill does not change who may get care or what a doctor may do. The New York Senate passed it 37-20. It became law.

May 22, 2025Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 36-A, which lets the prescription label for the abortion medications mifepristone and misoprostol name a health care practice instead of a person. At the prescriber's request, the pharmacy label may carry the name of the prescribing practice in place of the prescriber's own name. When a doctor or other clinician hands the drugs directly to their own patient, that label may carry the name of the dispensing practice in place of the clinician's own name. Generic versions of both drugs are covered too. the New York State Senate passed it 39-20, and it became law.

January 21, 2025Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted for Assembly Bill 1820, which clears racist language out of property deeds. Many old deeds still carry covenants barring sale to people of a certain race or religion. Those promises already cannot be enforced, but the words stay in the public record. The bill makes a seller file a form striking that language before or at closing, and the county charges no fee for it. Condo boards, co-op boards and homeowner associations must clean their own recorded documents within a year, without asking owners. Any owner may file the form themselves. The bill does not void the covenants and does not block a sale, and it carries no penalty. The New York Senate passed it 47-12. It became law.

June 11, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for Assembly Bill 4040-A, which changes how someone proves housing discrimination under the state human rights law. A person can now win by showing what a rule or practice does, even with no proof that anyone meant to discriminate. That counts when the practice shuts out a protected group in practice, or keeps neighborhoods segregated. The practice can still be legal if the owner proves it is needed for a real and lawful business reason. Even then, the person who complained can still win by proving that another practice with less harm would serve that same reason. The law spells out who has to prove what at each step. the New York State Senate passed it 39-20, and it became law.

June 11, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 3072, which bars employers from using a person's credit record to decide who gets hired, how much they are paid, or how they are treated at work. Unions and job agencies are covered too, and doing it counts as illegal discrimination. State and city agencies also may not use a credit record to decide on a license or permit. Credit record here means a credit report or score, or details the employer gets from the person about accounts, missed payments, debts in collection, bankruptcies, judgments or liens. The ban has eight exceptions. They cover jobs where another law requires the check, police and law enforcement jobs, bonded jobs, and jobs needing a security clearance. They also cover most jobs with regular access to trade secrets, jobs that can sign for $10,000 or more of other people's money, and jobs that can change computer security systems. Local laws that protect workers more than this one still apply. the New York State Senate passed it 40-20, and it became law.

April 3, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 8416, known as the FAIR Business Practices Act. The old law banned only business acts that deceive people. This law also bans acts that are unfair or abusive. An act is unfair when it does real harm that people cannot easily avoid, and the harm is not worth the benefit. An act is abusive when it blocks someone from understanding a term of a deal, or takes unfair advantage of their confusion, weak position, or trust. The attorney general can sue over these acts even when the target is a business rather than a shopper, and even when the company sits outside New York. People suing on their own can still sue only over acts that deceive. A company that follows federal trade rules has a full defense. the New York State Senate passed it 37-22, and it became law.

June 13, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted for Assembly Bill 584, which bans contracts that make a worker pay to quit. Some employers ask staff to sign a promise to repay training costs if they leave before a set date. The bill makes those promises void and unenforceable, and says an employer may not require one. A worker sued over such a promise can recover their legal fees. The labor commissioner must fine an employer between $1,000 and $5,000, counted separately for each worker. Plain repayment of a cash advance, or of property the employer sold the worker, still stands, as do deals agreed with a union. The New York Senate passed it 38-21. It became law.

June 12, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted for Senate Bill 2551, which raises the fines a court may impose on a company convicted of a crime. The ceiling for a felony goes from $10,000 to $80,000. For the more serious class of misdemeanor it goes from $5,000 to $40,000, and for the lesser class from $2,000 to $15,000. For a violation, the lowest tier, it goes from $500 to $4,000. A judge may instead fine up to three times what the company gained, where the old limit was double. The change reaches companies only, not people, and only where no other law sets its own company fine. The New York Senate passed it 42-20. It became law.

March 25, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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