Robert Ortt
State Senator · New York Senate District 62
Bills introduced (192)
Commending Kyle Stevener upon the occasion of his designation as recipient of a Liberty Medal, the highest honor bestowed upon an individual by the New York State Senate
REFERRED TO FINANCE · September 14, 2026
No recorded vote yet.
See Bill & VotesMourning and acknowledging September 11, 2026, as the 25th Anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States
REFERRED TO FINANCE · September 10, 2026
No recorded vote yet.
See Bill & VotesAuthorizes the town of Niagara to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands and to convey such parklands to David Gaines.
SIGNED CHAP.283 · August 28, 2026
Extends the authorization for hunting big game by rifle in the county of Niagara until 2028.
SIGNED CHAP.284 · August 28, 2026
Provides that all waste containing source, byproduct, or special nuclear material shall be hazardous waste.
REFERRED TO RULES · August 3, 2026
No recorded vote yet.
See Bill & VotesAdds Salmon Creek in Monroe County to the definition of inland waterways for the purposes of waterfront revitalization.
returned to senate · June 5, 2026
Designates the Scajaquada pedestrian bridge as the "9.11 Heroes Bridge".
referred to transportation · June 4, 2026
Designates dog control officers of the village of Holley, named by the village board as constables, as peace officers.
SUBSTITUTED BY A8235 · June 4, 2026
No recorded vote yet.
See Bill & VotesDedicates a portion of the state highway system including the bridge on state route five hundred thirty-one, crossing over route two hundred fifty-nine, otherwise known as, South Union Street, in the town of Ogden, county of Monroe, to Civil War Veteran John B. Nichols.
referred to transportation · June 4, 2026
Relates to appropriations to the Barker central school district following the cessation of operations of an electric generating facility located within such district; permits awards for a period of ten years for the loss of tax revenue.
referred to education · June 4, 2026
Commemorating the 300th Anniversary of Old Fort Niagara
ADOPTED · June 4, 2026
No recorded vote yet.
See Bill & VotesRelates to monies appropriated and received each year by the state as a portion of the negotiated percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices the state receives.
referred to racing and wagering · June 2, 2026
Showing the 12 most recently active.
Recent votes
| Bill | Vote on | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| S10556 Relates to the allocation and use of the revenues raised from the imposition of hotel and motel taxes in Cortland county; provides that a certain percentage of such net annual occupancy receipts be utilized to support and enhance tourism and tourist activity; provides that the remaining portion be used for any lawful county purpose related to economic development. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote June 2, 2026 | Yes |
| S01728 Provides that court records in a proceeding under articles 77, 78 and 81 of the mental hygiene law shall not be perused, examined, disclosed, taken or copied by any other person than a party, the attorney or counsel of a party, the guardian, the court evaluator or the court examiner except by order of the court, or the office of the attorney general. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote June 2, 2026 | Yes |
| S04593 Directs the New York State Department of Labor to establish a voluntary training and certification program for employers entitled the Neurodiversity Training Pledge. | Senate · Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage June 4, 2026 | Yes |
| A11457 Exempts certain property within Manhattan in the city of New York from the prohibition of alcohol sales within a certain distance of a building occupied exclusively as a school or place of worship. | Senate · Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage June 3, 2026 | Yes |
| S08592 Requires health insurance plans to provide coverage for continuous blood glucose monitors for all children; requires coverage for glucose monitoring devices for all sugar disorders. | Senate · Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage June 3, 2026 | Yes |
| A11199 Requires that any law enforcement agency in the state that encrypts any portion of its radio communications shall ensure that all of its radio communications, with the exception of sensitive information, may be monitored in real time by professional journalists, newscasters, and individuals employed by emergency services organizations. | Senate · Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage June 4, 2026 | No |
| S07674 Authorizes the part-time judge of the city court of Lackawanna to reside anywhere in Erie county. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote June 2, 2026 | Yes |
| S09863 Permits the town of Woodbury to establish a demonstration program and install and operate traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring devices; relates to adjudications and owner liability for a violation of traffic-control signal indications in the town of Woodbury. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote June 2, 2026 | No |
| S07835 Dedicates a portion of state highway 284 in the village of Unionville, county of Orange, to the Appalachian Trail. | Senate · Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage June 3, 2026 | Yes |
| A11474 Extends certain provisions authorizing the city of Syracuse to impose a hotel and motel tax to December 31, 2029. | Senate · Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage June 2, 2026 | Yes |
| A10429 Provides a sales tax exemption to any admission charge for a comedy performance including both scripted and unscripted. | Senate · Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage June 4, 2026 | Yes |
| A10455 Relates to adjudications and owner liability for a violation of traffic-control signal indications in the city of Ithaca. | Senate · Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage June 3, 2026 | No |
| S10180 Allows a real property tax exemption for dwelling units constructed for senior citizens or disabled persons receiving social security disability benefits. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote June 2, 2026 | Yes |
| S09576 Relates to elections involving board members, by-law amendments, or dissolution, reconstitution or conversion of mutual housing companies; provides that ballots shall be cast electronically to a neutral third party; provides that by-laws approved by shareholders and the commissioner of housing or supervising agency may limit eligibility for being a candidate for board of directors of a mutual housing company; relates to quorum for purposes of an election of board members in certain mutual housing companies. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote June 2, 2026 | No |
| S04894 Repeals provisions relating to resolutions of disputes in the course of collective negotiations with certain deputy sheriffs to provide such deputy sheriffs with the same interest arbitration scope as municipal police officers. | Senate · Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage June 4, 2026 | Yes |
| S09617 Authorizes funding to local government entities from the urban development corporation through the electric generation facility cessation mitigation fund for an additional five years. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote June 2, 2026 | Yes |
| S10609 Extends certain provisions of law relating to tax rates and the imposition of income taxes in the city of New York. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote June 2, 2026 | No |
| S09481 Dedicates a portion of the state highway system in the village of Dansville, county of Livingston, to Clara H. Barton. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote June 2, 2026 | Yes |
| S06578 Provides that consenting registrants of the adoption information registry may pre-authorize the release of identifying information. | Senate · Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage May 28, 2026 | Yes |
| S05387 Directs the commissioner of transportation to waive the annual security deposit fee specified in Use and Occupancy Permit No. 82771 issued to the Bedford Hills Fire District, Town of Bedford, Westchester County allowing for the use of approximately 4,000 square feet of state land for parking for volunteer firefighter members of the Bedford Hills Fire District. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote June 2, 2026 | Yes |
| S10295 Authorizes the village of New Hyde Park to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for a portion of the 2024-2025 assessment rolls and all of the 2025 general taxes. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote June 2, 2026 | Yes |
| S08082 Directs the commissioner to promulgate regulations for the release of patient records by the office of mental health. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote June 2, 2026 | Yes |
| S07096 Enacts Arielle's Law which requires the placement of warning labels on certain sports and muscle creams. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote June 2, 2026 | Yes |
| S01357 Relates to the amount of St. Lawrence county economic development power that may be used by the New York Power Authority to generate net earnings and authority-TMED contracts. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote June 2, 2026 | Yes |
| S10321 Authorizes the town of Hempstead to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for a certain parcel of land located in the hamlet of West Hempstead. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote June 2, 2026 | Yes |
| S08938 Includes the county of Sullivan within the definition of a designated community for purposes of community preservation funds. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote June 2, 2026 | Yes |
| A08143 Permits funds collected from the Oswego county occupancy tax to be used on making tourism related capital improvements; removes such tax on permanent residents. | Senate · Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage June 4, 2026 | Yes |
| S08410 Relates to notices of violation returnable to a parking violations bureau in a city with a population of one million or more; provides that in a city with a population of one million persons or more, if such notice is served upon the operator of a vehicle that has no such registration plate or if such registration plate is concealed or obscured, the vehicle identification number may be inserted in such notice in place of the plate designation and plate type. | Senate · Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage June 4, 2026 | Yes |
| A11234 Relates to the determination of adjusted base proportions in special assessing units which are cities for fiscal year 2027. | Senate · Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage June 4, 2026 | Yes |
| S10166 Provides for emergency appropriation through May 6, 2026 for the support of government. | Senate · Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage May 4, 2026 | Yes |
| S10166 Provides for emergency appropriation through May 6, 2026 for the support of government. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote May 4, 2026 | Yes |
| S10590 Relates to age and service eligibility requirements for ordinary retirement for members of the unified court system; restores 55/30 for all members; reduces the retirement age from 63 to 62. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote June 2, 2026 | Yes |
| S01443 Authorizes the town justice of the town of Rushford, county of Allegany, to be a nonresident of such town. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote June 2, 2026 | Yes |
| S08637 Expands the purposes of the drug treatment and public education fund to include prevention and recovery programs; requires reporting to be made available on the office of addiction services and supports' website. | Senate · Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage June 3, 2026 | Yes |
| S08637 Expands the purposes of the drug treatment and public education fund to include prevention and recovery programs; requires reporting to be made available on the office of addiction services and supports' website. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote May 28, 2026 | Yes |
| S10264 Permits the Chenango Forks central school district to create an insurance reserve fund. | Senate · Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage June 2, 2026 | Yes |
| S10264 Permits the Chenango Forks central school district to create an insurance reserve fund. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote June 2, 2026 | Yes |
| S10467 Authorizes pharmacists to dispense HIV pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis. | Senate · Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage June 4, 2026 | No |
| S10467 Authorizes pharmacists to dispense HIV pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote May 28, 2026 | Yes |
| A11558 Extends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to tickets to places of entertainment. | Senate · Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage June 4, 2026 | Yes |
| S10319 Authorizes the village of Johnson City to establish hotel and motel taxes within such village. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote June 2, 2026 | No |
| S09971 Authorizes the Congregation Atzei Chaim to receive retroactive real property tax exempt status for the 2023 and 2024 assessment rolls and all of the 2023-2024 school taxes. | Senate · Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage June 2, 2026 | Yes |
| S09971 Authorizes the Congregation Atzei Chaim to receive retroactive real property tax exempt status for the 2023 and 2024 assessment rolls and all of the 2023-2024 school taxes. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote June 2, 2026 | Yes |
| A03602 Requires a report on individuals who are the primary caregiver for an older adult, including the number of individuals who are primary caregivers for an older adult, the average age of a primary caregiver, the cost to an individual to provide care to an older adult, and the economic value and savings to the state of such individual's services. | Senate · Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage June 4, 2026 | Yes |
| S03445 Authorizes the village of Sodus Point, in the town of Sodus, county of Wayne to allow golf carts on certain streets under the exclusive control and jurisdiction of such village. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote June 2, 2026 | Yes |
| S09489 Dedicates a portion of the state highway system in the town of Gorham, county of Ontario, to the Gorham Pageant of Bands. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote June 2, 2026 | Yes |
| S05754 Authorizes an optional twenty-five year retirement plan for fire marshals I and supervisors of such title in Suffolk county. | Senate · Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage June 4, 2026 | Yes |
| S10396 Provides that the Oswego city school district may establish an insurance reserve fund. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote June 2, 2026 | Yes |
| S09128 Authorizes the county of Warren to offer an optional twenty-year retirement plan to Bradley Murphy, a patrol officer employed by such county. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote June 2, 2026 | Yes |
| S09652 Relates to artist preferences in housing; provides that giving occupancy preference to individuals who are involved in artistic activities is not an unlawful discriminatory practice provided that such preference is implemented or authorized by an agency or the state of New York. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote June 2, 2026 | No |
| S10176 Exempts the East Concord Fire Department, Inc. from the requirement that the percentage of non-resident fire department members not exceed forty-five percent of the membership. | Senate · Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage June 3, 2026 | Yes |
| S10564 Establishes a school speed zone camera demonstration program in the city of Yonkers; repeals authorization of program December 31, 2031. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote June 2, 2026 | Yes |
| S10443 Broadens the court's discretion to use extended terms of interim probation on consent of the defendant to avoid incarceratory outcomes. | Senate · Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage June 4, 2026 | Yes |
| A10030 Requires health insurers to provide coverage for speech therapy for stuttering. | Senate · Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage June 4, 2026 | Yes |
| A11006 Extends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to refunding bonds to 2029. | Senate · Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage June 4, 2026 | Yes |
| S09679 Establishes the block by block homeownership program to provide capital subsidies for the purpose of constructing, preserving, and rehabilitating one- to two- family dwellings throughout the state, outside of NYC. | Senate · Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage June 4, 2026 | Yes |
| S09729 Dedicates a portion of the state highway system to Donald Roy McAnn located on state route 941-A in the town of Greece, county of Monroe. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote June 2, 2026 | Yes |
| S06655 Allows students attending agricultural learning events to be counted as in attendance at school; defines "agricultural learning events" as including FFA events and 4-H programs. | Senate · Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage June 4, 2026 | Yes |
| S04490 Authorizes Christine Hasseler to apply for a recalculation of her retirement benefits. | Senate · Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage June 4, 2026 | Yes |
| S07844 Authorizes Bonnie E. Sullivan, the widow of Gerald J. Sullivan, to file an application with the New York state and local police and fire retirement system on behalf of such deceased member and deem such application as timely filed. | Senate · Senate Rules Committee Vote June 2, 2026 | Yes |