State · New York Senate
Brian Kavanagh
State Senator · Senate District 27 · Party: Democratic
4421 final-passage votes on record.
A member of New York's state Senate, which votes on the state's laws and budget.
- Voted Yes on S 946 (Authorizes the removal of police officer candidates from an eligible list when such candidate does not meet psychological fitness requirements or lacks good moral character standards). It passed. May 28, 2025
- Voted Yes on S 2499 (Relates to employment discrimination relating to family leave). It passed. May 28, 2025
- Voted Yes on S 825 (Establishes protections for minors who are featured in compensated video content). It passed. May 28, 2025
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Office
- Office
- State Senator
- District
- Senate District 27
- Party
- Democratic
- Term
- Since 2023-01-01
- Website
- Official site ↗
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S 946
Authorizes the removal of police officer candidates from an eligible list when such candidate does not meet psychological fitness requirements or lacks good moral character standards
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S 8178
Increases the amount of funds that may be used per dwelling unit to modernize certain authorities used by the housing trust fund corporation
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S 1525
Provides technical assistance to any municipality that has had a college or university close within such municipality
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S 8078
Relates to the standards for openable windows in residential units
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S 2084
Relates to requiring municipalities to determine whether it is in the public interest to create and periodically update a comprehensive plan
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S 17
Allows industrial development agencies to make grants to municipalities for open space preservation, parkland improvements and conservation easements
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S 1462
Relates to establishing ground rent rebates for eligible homeowners and renters in the Battery Park project area
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S 329
Facilitates appellate review of rulings that implicate issues of public concern
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S 401
Establishes the "tenant opportunity to purchase act"
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S 1305
Relates to hospital care for mastectomy, lumpectomy, and lymph node dissection patients
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S 1111
Creates a single, streamlined process whereby combination pre-kindergarten and daycare programs may be certified to operate
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S 6253
Requires state and county boards of elections to post sample ballots online at least twelve days prior to the first day of early voting
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S 5403
Facilitates the marketing of any issue of serial bonds or notes of the city of Buffalo issued on or before a certain date
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S 1418
Relates to the award of reasonable attorney's fees in certain proceedings
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S 8177
Relates to the powers of the New York state housing finance agency
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S 4423
Provides for the types of damages that may be awarded to the persons for whose benefit an action for wrongful death is brought
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S 4274
Requires the board of elections in a city with a population of one million or more to provide certain notices prior to a change of polling place
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S 3261
Authorizes distributors of cannabis products to file annual returns electronically
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S 120
Prohibits termination of electricity or heat service during forecasts of extreme temperatures
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S 699
Relates to the exercise of powers and duties of the board of elections of the city of New York and its executive management
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S 3596
Warns voters about New York's closed primary system on voter registration forms
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A 6223
Extends the authority of the county of Ulster to impose an additional 1 percent sales and compensating use tax
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S 6420
Extends the expiration of the provisions authorizing the county of Allegany to impose an additional one and one-half percent sales and compensating use taxes
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A 3104
Extends the authorization of the county of Onondaga to impose an additional rate of sales and compensating use taxes
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S 7127
Extends the authorization of the county of Hamilton to impose an additional one percent of sales and compensating use taxes
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S 5985
Extends certain provisions authorizing an occupancy tax in the town of Skaneateles
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A 5380
Extends the authorization for the county of Monroe to impose certain sales and compensating use taxes
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S 6264
Extends the authorization granted to the county of Broome to impose an additional one percent of sales and compensating use taxes
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S 7198
Relates to the imposition of sales and compensating use taxes by the county of Albany
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S 7403
Extends the authorization of the county of Oswego to impose an additional rate of sales taxes.
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S 7149
Extends the authorization for Chautauqua county to impose an additional one percent rate of sales and compensating use taxes
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S 6755
Extends the expiration of the provisions authorizing the county of Cattaraugus to impose an additional one percent sales and compensating use taxes
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