Kevin S. Parker
Democratic · NY · New York State Senator, District 21
Brooklyn state senator and Energy and Telecommunications Committee chair with government, economic-development, financial-services, civic, and teaching experience, focused on energy, communications, education, health, public safety, and community development.
Where Kevin S. Parker stands, based on their records
Supports
Healthcare Affordability (3 records), Environment and Public Health (8 records), Labor Rights (2 records),
Campaign finance information not available
Track record
Track record — Healthcare Affordability
Healthcare Affordability · 3 support
Enacted legislation requiring the state veterans agency to maintain an online portal for military-sexual-trauma treatment, counseling, and support services.
December 2, 2019Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Enacted legislation expanding senior mental-health services to include substance-use disorders and compulsive gambling.
October 4, 2019Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Co-sponsored and enacted legislation expanding postpartum-depression awareness, screening, treatment, and resources for new mothers.
August 7, 2014Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Track record — Environment and Public Health
Environment and Public Health · 8 support
Sponsored and passed the Just Energy Transition Act in the Senate, directing a plan to replace or redevelop the state's heaviest-polluting fossil-fuel facilities by 2030.
April 21, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Sponsored and passed Senate legislation creating a carbon-farming tax credit for farmers adopting carbon-sequestration practices.
March 7, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Advanced Senate legislation directing a feasibility and cost-savings study for a clean-energy microgrid at Brooklyn College.
February 1, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Advanced Cap-and-Invest, public renewables, community hiring, low-carbon fuel, and offshore-wind measures through the budget or both legislative chambers.
July 25, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Passed bills strengthening critical-energy-infrastructure cybersecurity and authorizing greater New York Power Authority development of public renewable energy.
April 4, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Advanced a two-year moratorium on new or renewed air permits for fossil-fuel plants powering proof-of-work cryptocurrency mining.
May 3, 2022Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Voted for an Earth Day package expanding environmental enforcement, renewable-energy use, electric-vehicle infrastructure, and protection of state lands.
April 27, 2021Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Enacted a law allowing micro-hydroelectric generating equipment to participate in net metering, reducing customer electric costs and supporting renewable energy.
September 30, 2011Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Track record — Labor Rights
Labor Rights · 2 support
Advanced Cap-and-Invest, public renewables, community hiring, low-carbon fuel, and offshore-wind measures through the budget or both legislative chambers.
July 25, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Enacted legislation directing the state to study employment rates and barriers affecting transgender New Yorkers.
August 15, 2022Supports Labor Rights
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Track record — Public Safety and Crime Control
Public Safety and Crime Control · 2 support
Sponsored and passed the Phoenix Act in the Senate, extending civil statutes of limitations for domestic-violence survivors and expanding admissible evidence.
May 18, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Voted to reform the Rockefeller drug laws by restoring judicial discretion and expanding treatment-oriented approaches to drug offenses.
April 2, 2009Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Track record — Housing Affordability
Housing Affordability · 2 support
Voted for an emergency eviction and foreclosure moratorium and urged financially affected tenants to file hardship declarations to use the protections.
February 18, 2021Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Enacted legislation directing a statewide study of homelessness among veterans to guide services and housing responses.
November 11, 2019Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Track record — Social Programs and Welfare
Social Programs and Welfare · 9 support
Sponsored and passed Senate measures setting minimum utility-payment-plan standards and limiting residential fixed charges to direct service costs.
February 4, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Passed Senate legislation requiring utilities to offer 24- or 36-month payment plans for COVID-related arrears and to report statewide arrears totals.
April 4, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Sponsored Senate legislation extending the pandemic utility-shutoff moratorium and barring utilities from charging customers for lobbying costs.
February 23, 2021Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Voted for an emergency eviction and foreclosure moratorium and urged financially affected tenants to file hardship declarations to use the protections.
February 18, 2021Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Enacted a COVID-19 emergency moratorium on residential utility shutoffs and required deferred payment plans without down payments, late fees, or penalties.
June 17, 2020Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Enacted legislation requiring the state veterans agency to maintain an online portal for military-sexual-trauma treatment, counseling, and support services.
December 2, 2019Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Enacted legislation directing a statewide study of homelessness among veterans to guide services and housing responses.
November 11, 2019Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Enacted legislation expanding senior mental-health services to include substance-use disorders and compulsive gambling.
October 4, 2019Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Passed Senate legislation allowing nonprofit veterans organizations to arrange honorable disposition of unclaimed veterans' remains.
June 13, 2012Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Track record — Public Education Quality
Public Education Quality · 2 support
Sponsored and passed Senate legislation establishing emergency-contraception education and awareness at New York public universities.
January 21, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Sponsored and passed Senate legislation creating a recruitment and retention program for bilingual certified teachers in high-need areas.
February 6, 2024Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Track record — Gun Control
Gun Control · 1 support
Sponsored legislation requiring licensing, serial numbers, registration, and metal detectability for privately manufactured ghost guns.
July 30, 2018Supports Gun Control
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Track record — Women's Reproductive Rights
Women's Reproductive Rights · 1 support
Sponsored and passed Senate legislation establishing emergency-contraception education and awareness at New York public universities.
January 21, 2025Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Track record — Election Integrity
Election Integrity · 1 support
Sponsored and passed Senate legislation requiring polling places on qualifying college campuses.
January 10, 2022Supports Election Integrity
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Track record — Data Privacy
Data Privacy · 2 support
Passed Senate legislation barring debt collectors from using social media, while supporting child-data and addictive-algorithm restrictions.
June 12, 2024Supports Data Privacy
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Passed bills strengthening critical-energy-infrastructure cybersecurity and authorizing greater New York Power Authority development of public renewable energy.
April 4, 2023Supports Data Privacy
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Track record — Civil Rights
Civil Rights · 7 support
Sponsored and passed Senate legislation allowing domestic-violence survivors to leave shared contracts without fees or penalties.
May 13, 2025Supports Civil Rights
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Sponsored and passed Senate legislation creating a recruitment and retention program for bilingual certified teachers in high-need areas.
February 6, 2024Supports Civil Rights
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Sponsored and passed the Phoenix Act in the Senate, extending civil statutes of limitations for domestic-violence survivors and expanding admissible evidence.
May 18, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Enacted legislation directing the state to study employment rates and barriers affecting transgender New Yorkers.
August 15, 2022Supports Civil Rights
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Sponsored and passed Senate legislation requiring polling places on qualifying college campuses.
January 10, 2022Supports Civil Rights
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Enacted legislation allowing domestic-violence survivors to cancel contracts without termination penalties or negative credit reporting.
August 29, 2019Supports Civil Rights
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Voted to reform the Rockefeller drug laws by restoring judicial discretion and expanding treatment-oriented approaches to drug offenses.
April 2, 2009Supports Civil Rights
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Track record — Corporate Accountability
Corporate Accountability · 8 support
Sponsored and passed Senate measures setting minimum utility-payment-plan standards and limiting residential fixed charges to direct service costs.
February 4, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Sponsored and passed Senate legislation allowing domestic-violence survivors to leave shared contracts without fees or penalties.
May 13, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Passed Senate legislation barring debt collectors from using social media, while supporting child-data and addictive-algorithm restrictions.
June 12, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Passed Senate legislation requiring utilities to offer 24- or 36-month payment plans for COVID-related arrears and to report statewide arrears totals.
April 4, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Sponsored Senate legislation extending the pandemic utility-shutoff moratorium and barring utilities from charging customers for lobbying costs.
February 23, 2021Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Enacted a COVID-19 emergency moratorium on residential utility shutoffs and required deferred payment plans without down payments, late fees, or penalties.
June 17, 2020Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Enacted legislation allowing domestic-violence survivors to cancel contracts without termination penalties or negative credit reporting.
August 29, 2019Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Enacted a law allowing micro-hydroelectric generating equipment to participate in net metering, reducing customer electric costs and supporting renewable energy.
September 30, 2011Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Track record — Public Infrastructure
Public Infrastructure · 1 support
Advanced Senate legislation directing a feasibility and cost-savings study for a clean-energy microgrid at Brooklyn College.
February 1, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Track record — Candidate Ethics
Candidate Ethics · 2 records
Was convicted by a jury of two misdemeanor criminal-mischief charges for damaging a photographer's camera and vehicle.
December 6, 2010
Source: apnews.com · researched September 12, 2026
Was stripped of his Senate majority-whip and Energy Committee chair positions, and lost the leadership stipend, after criminal charges stemming from an incident with a photographer.
May 9, 2009
Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026
Race Kevin S. Parker is in:
- State Senator, District 21 · November 3, 2026 · State Senate District 21; New York · incumbent
Profile last researched September 12, 2026.