We pass many laws in the state Legislature during session; however, some enacted laws have delayed effective dates. Please see below for the new laws that take effect this month.
| Effective Date | Chapter | Summary |
| 1/1/2025 | Ch. 56 of 2022 Part BBB, Sec. 8 (c) §6 | Expands eligibility for the Basic Health Program: increases the federal poverty limit cap from 200 to 250 percent; allows pregnant individuals to be eligible and maintain coverage for one year post pregnancy. |
| 1/1/2025 | Ch. 58 of 2022 Part QQ §§2-10 | Clarifies regulations related to freshwater wetlands. |
| 1/1/2025 | Ch. 57 of 2023 Part N | Authorizes the Commissioner of Health to apply for federal waivers to expand the Medicaid Buy-In program for Working People with Disabilities (MBI-WPD). |
| 1/1/2025 | Ch. 56 of 2023 | Increases the minimum wage to $16.50 per hour in NYC, Long Island, and Westchester County and $15.50 per hour for employers in the rest of the state. |
| 1/1/2025 | Ch. 649 of 2023 | Authorizes insurance companies to make payments to nonparticipating or nonpreferred providers of ambulance services. |
| 1/1/2025 | Ch. 33 of 2022 | Prohibits hotels with more than 50 rooms from providing guests with small plastic bottles containing hospitality personal care products. |
| 1/1/2025 | Ch. 754 of 2023
Ch. 29 of 2024 §§1-4 |
Requires health insurance policies and Medicaid to cover biomarker precision medical testing for diagnosis, treatment, or appropriate management and monitoring of a covered person’s disease or condition when the test has recognized efficacy and appropriateness for such purposes. |
| 1/1/2025 | Ch. 745 of 2023
Ch. 67 of 2024, §1 |
Requires owners of high rise buildings to work in conjunction with advocacy organizations to develop an emergency evacuation for the evacuation of individuals with disabilities. Hospitals, assisted living facilities, and adult care facilities are exempt. |
| 1/1/2025 | Ch. 55 of 2024, PART M | Requires employers to provide 20 hours of paid prenatal personal leave per year. |
| 1/1/2025 | Ch. 56 of 2024 Part CC | Requires the use of project labor agreements for large scale construction projects under the State University Construction Fund. |
| 1/1/2025 | Ch. 56 of 2024 Part UU | Allows the MTA to impose a fine of up to $150 per violation for repeat fare evasion. |
| 1/1/2025 | Ch. 56 of 2024 Part AAA | Establishes the Newspaper And Broadcast Media Jobs Program, which provides a tax credit for newspaper and broadcast media businesses that can be applied until 2028. |
| 1/1/2025 | Ch. 57 of 2024 Part M | Authorizes continuous coverage under medical assistance for Medicaid and Child Health Plus recipients for eligible children up to age six. |
| 1/1/2025 | Ch. 57 of 2024, PART AA | Provides that reimbursement rates for the provision of covered outpatient, intensive outpatient, outpatient rehabilitation and opioid treatment shall be negotiated between the insurer and facility and shall not be less than the Medicaid reimbursement rate. |
| 1/1/2025 | Ch. 58 of 2024 Part EE | Provides that covered prescription insulin drugs shall not be subject to deductible, copayment, coinsurance or other cost sharing requirements. |
| 1/1/2025 | Ch. 217 of 2024 | Modifies the order in which candidates appear on the ballot; requires that offices be listed on the ballot in the following order: electors for president and vice-president of the United States, governor and lieutenant governor, New York state comptroller, New York state attorney general, United States senator, member of the house of representatives, New York state senator, member of the New York state assembly. Additional offices shall be listed in descending order based on the size of the electorate. |
| 1/1/2025 | Ch. 228 of 2024 | Requires insurers to provide coverage for tattooing of the nipple-areolar complex pursuant to or as part of breast reconstruction surgery if such tattooing is performed by a physician or other health care practitioner working within their scope of practice. |
| 1/1/2025 | Ch. 306 of 2024 | Requires that when a judgment is made regarding a person’s inability to perform their employment duties due to a disability, that a copy shall be provided to the employee or their authorized representative. |
| 1/1/2025 | Ch. 420 of 2024 | Clarifies that pregnancy is a qualified life event for the purposes of a special enrollment period and that pregnant women may enroll in the state health insurance exchange at any time without penalty. |
| 1/1/2025 | Ch. 421 of 2024 | Requires health insurers to provide coverage for prescribed prenatal vitamins. |
| 1/1/2025 | Ch. 422 of 2024 | Requires health insurance plans to cover outpatient use of pasteurized donor human milk (PDHM) for infants who are medically or physically unable to receive maternal breast milk, participate in breast feeding, or whose mother is medically or physically unable to produce maternal
breast milk at all or in sufficient quantities or participate in breast feeding despite optimal lactation support. |
| 1/1/2025 | Ch. 538 of 2024 | Prohibits motor vehicle leases from charging the lessee a turn-in fee at the expiration of the term which constitutes solely an additional fee for administrative, handling or clerical charges. |
| 1/1/2025 | Ch. 546 of 2024 | Expands workers’ compensation to all employees who may be experiencing PTSD caused by extraordinary work-related stress. |
| 1/1/2025 | Ch. 548 of 2024
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Requires insurance policies to cover neuropsychological exams for dyslexia. |
| 1/1/2025 | Ch. 581 of 2024 | Establishes legal requirements for contracts involving the creation and use of digital replicas of an individual’s voice or likeness. |
| 1/1/2025 | Ch. 662 of 2024 | Allows patients to register in the donate life registry through their electronic health records. |
| 1/7/2025 | Ch.198 of 2024 | Requires limited use motorcycles (mopeds) to be registered at point of sale. |
| 1/7/2025 | Ch. 201 of 2024 | Requires retailers of micromobility devices, bicycles with electric assist and limited use motorcycles powered with lithium-ion batteries, and lithium-ion batteries intended for use in such devices or bicycles to provide customers with an operating manual. |
| 1/7/2025 | Ch. 202 of 2024 | Requires retailers to affix a notice on any bicycles with electric assist and micromobility devices reminding users to always yield to pedestrians and follow traffic laws that you cannot use such device on sidewalks or on highways, except where allowed by local law. |
| 1/7/2025 | Ch. 428 of 2024 | Requires firearms dealers to post and provide purchasers with a written warning of dangers posed by access to weapons in the home. |
| 1/12/2025 | Ch. 558 of 2024 | Requires scoring, reporting and posting by assisted living facilities including quality measures and information concerning rates, rent, and service fees. |
| 1/12/2025 | Ch. 559 of 2024 | Requires car washes to disclose when promotions expire as well as any costs which will be incurred upon the expiration of such promotion and how often such costs will be incurred upon someone taking part in such promotion. |
| 1/12/2025 | Ch. 560 of 2024 | Includes information on congenital heart defect births in the informational leaflets required to be given to maternity patients by hospitals and birth centers. |
| 1/12/2025 | Ch. 569 of 2024 | Authorizes parametric insurance policies for weather-related events and includes consumer disclosures in the application for such policies. |
| 1/16/2025 | Ch. 598 of 2024 | Adds xylazine to the definition of “drug adulterant testing supplies,” allowing xylazine test strips to be distributed by pharmacists. |
| 1/20/2025 | Ch. 635 of 2024 | Creates an I Love NY Historic Small Business niche brand to highlight small businesses listed on the registry of historic businesses. |
| 1/20/2025 | Ch. 664 of 2024 | Enacts the Safe Landings Act, which provides protections for youth transitioning out of foster care who bring certain legal proceedings. |
| 1/21/2025 | Ch. 211 of 2024 | Allows for limited commercial use of Pier 76, provided at least 50% of its footprint is dedicated to park use. Establishes additional provisions governing any proposals that include a heliport. |
| 1/21/2025 | Ch. 535 of 2024 | Authorizes the Department of Health to conduct an education and outreach campaign for consumers, patients, educators, and health care providers promoting the importance of good oral health, including the impact and causes of oral disease and its prevention, oral health across the lifespan, the total body connection, the value of early detection and the availability of oral health services in the community. |
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