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2025 New York legislative session

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2025 New York legislative session
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General information
Scheduled session start:    January 8, 2025

Scheduled session end:    June 17, 2025

Leadership
Senate President
Antonio Delgado (D)

House Speaker
Carl Heastie (D)
Majority Leader
Senate: Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D)
House: Crystal Peoples-Stokes (D)
Minority Leader
Senate: Robert Ortt (R)
House: William Barclay (R)

Elections
Next Election:    November 3, 2026

Last Election:    November 5, 2024

Previous legislative sessions
2024202320222021202020192018
Other 2025 legislative sessions


In 2025, the New York State Legislature was scheduled to convene on January 8 and adjourn on June 17.

The legislators serving in this session took office following the 2024 elections. Democrats won a 41-22 majority in the Senate and a 103-47 majority in the Assembly. The party also controlled the governorship, creating a Democratic state government trifecta. At the start of the 2025 session, New York was one of 23 state legislatures where neither party had a veto-proof supermajority in both chambers.

At the beginning of the 2025 legislative session:
  • Democrats held a majority in the New York state Assembly and state Senate.
  • New York was one of 15 Democratic state government trifectas.
  • New York's governor was Democrat Kathy Hochul.
  • Leadership in 2025

    See also: Leadership positions in state legislatures

    New York State Senate

    New York State Assembly

    Partisan control in 2025

    See also: State government trifectas

    New York was one of 15 Democratic state government trifectas at the start of 2025 legislative sessions. A state government trifecta occurs when one political party holds the governor's office, a majority in the state Senate, and a majority in the state House. For more information about state government trifectas, click here.

    New York was also one of 23 state legislatures where neither party had a veto-proof supermajority in both chambers. Veto overrides occur when a legislature votes to reverse a veto issued by an executive such as a governor or the president. If one party has a majority in a state legislature that is large enough to override a gubernatorial veto without any votes from members of the minority party, it is called a veto-proof majority or, sometimes, a supermajority. To read more about veto-proof supermajorities in state legislatures, click here.

    The following tables show the partisan breakdown of the New York State Legislature in the 2025 legislative session.

    New York State Senate

    Party As of January 2025
         Democratic Party 41
         Republican Party 22
    Total 63

    New York State Assembly

    Party As of January 2025
         Democratic Party 103
         Republican Party 47
    Total 150

    Regular session

    The list below shows up to 25 pieces of legislation in the 2025 legislative session that most recently passed both chambers of the legislature, were signed by the governor, or were approved by the legislature in a veto override. If no bills are displayed below, no legislation has met these criteria yet in 2025. This information is provided by BillTrack50.

    Legislation trackers

    See also: Legislation Trackers

    Ballotpedia’s legislation trackers are your go-to resource for staying on top of key legislative topics. We capture any bill introduced on the topic across all of the 50 state legislatures, and we track the movement of the bill every step of the way. We provide real-time updates and translate legislative legalese into easily understandable language. As of the 2025 session, Ballotpedia provided tracking on the following topics. Click on the links below to view related bills from the 2025 session:

    Standing legislative committees

    See also: Standing committee and List of committees in New York state government


    A standing committee of a state legislature is a committee that exists on a more-or-less permanent basis, from legislative session to session, that considers and refines legislative bills that fall under the committee's subject matter.

    At the beginning of the 2025 legislative session, there were 79 standing committees in New York's state government, including 40 state Senate committees and 39 state Assembly committees.

    Senate committees

    House committees

    Legislatively referred constitutional amendments

    In every state but Delaware, voter approval is required to enact a constitutional amendment. In each state, the legislature has a process for referring constitutional amendments before voters. In 18 states, initiated constitutional amendments can be put on the ballot through a signature petition drive. There are also many other types of statewide measures.

    The methods by which the New York Constitution can be amended:

    See also: Article XIX of the New York Constitution and Laws governing ballot measures in New York
    New York Constitution
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    Preamble
    Articles
    IIIIIIIVVVIVIIVIIIIXXXIXIIXIIIXIVXVXVIXVIIXVIIIXIXXX

    The New York Constitution can be amended through legislatively referred constitutional amendments or through constitutional conventions.

    Legislature

    See also: Legislatively referred constitutional amendment

    A simple majority vote is required during two successive legislative sessions for the New York State Legislature to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot. That amounts to a minimum of 126 votes in the New York State Assembly and 32 votes in the New York State Senate, assuming no vacancies. Amendments do not require the governor's signature to be referred to the ballot.

    Convention

    See also: Convention-referred constitutional amendment

    According to Section 2 of Article XIX of the New York Constitution, a question about whether to hold a state constitutional convention is to automatically appear on the state's ballot every 20 years starting in 1957. New York is one of 14 states that provides for an automatic constitutional convention question.

    The table below shows the last and next constitutional convention question election years:

    State Interval Last question on the ballot Next question on the ballot
    New York 20 years 2017 2037


    Historical partisan control

    The table below depicts the historical trifecta status of New York.

    New York Party Control: 1992-2025
    Nine years of Democratic trifectas  •  No Republican trifectas
    Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.

    Year 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
    Governor D D D R R R R R R R R R R R R D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D
    Senate R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R D D R R R R R R R R D D D D D D D
    Assembly D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D

    Historical Senate control

    Democrats won control of the New York State Senate in 2018. In 2024, they won a 41-22 majority.

    The table below shows the partisan history of the New York Senate following every general election from 1992 to 2024. All data from 2006 or earlier comes from Michael Dubin's Party Affiliations in the State Legislatures (McFarland Press, 2007). Data after 2006 was compiled by Ballotpedia staff.

    New York State Senate election results: 1992-2024

    Year '92 '94 '96 '98 '00 '02 '04 '06 '08 '10 '12 '14 '16 '18 '20 '22 '24
    Democrats 26 25 26 26 25 25 27 29 32 30 33 31 32 40 43 42 41
    Republicans 35 36 35 35 36 37 35 33 30 32 30* 32 31* 23 20 21 22

    *A coalition between the Independent Democratic Conference and Senate Republicans kept the Senate in Republican control.

    Historical Assembly control

    Democrats won control of the New York State Assembly in 1974. In 2024, they won a 103-47 majority.

    The table below shows the partisan history of the New York State Assembly following every general election from 1992 to 2024. All data from 2006 or earlier comes from Michael Dubin's Party Affiliations in the State Legislatures (McFarland Press, 2007). Data after 2006 was compiled by Ballotpedia staff.

    New York State Assembly election results: 1992-2024

    Year '92 '94 '96 '98 '00 '02 '04 '06 '08 '10 '12 '14 '16 '18 '20 '22 '24
    Democrats 101 94 96 98 99 102 104 108 109 99 105 106 106 106 106 101 103
    Republicans 49 56 54 52 51 48 46 42 41 50 44 44 43 43 43 49 47
    Other 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0

    Analysis

    Adopted legislation, 2011-2024

    See also: The State Legislative Decade - New York

    In 2024, Ballotpedia released analysis of bills enacted in each state in the preceding decade. The charts and table below detail legislation passed each year by party sponsorship.

    See also

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