S 8585 — Relates to recovery for climate disaster losses
Congress · introduced 2025-11-17
Provides that the attorney general may bring a civil action against a responsible party for recovery of certain costs and assessments arising from a climate disaster; provides that an insurer doing business in this state and the New York property insurance underwriting association who has suffered harm as a result of a climate disaster may bring a civil action against a responsible party.
Latest action: 2026-01-07 — IN_SENATE_COMM
Sponsors
- Brian Kavanagh (—, NY-27) — sponsor · 2025-11-17
- Kristen Gonzalez (—, NY-59) — cosponsor · 2025-11-17
- Pete Harckham (—, NY-40) — cosponsor · 2025-11-17
- Liz Krueger (—, NY-28) — cosponsor · 2025-11-17
- Rachel May (—, NY-48) — cosponsor · 2025-11-17
- Julia Salazar (—, NY-18) — cosponsor · 2025-11-17
Action timeline
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Inbound (6)
| date | from | type | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-17 | Liz Krueger | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-11-17 | Pete Harckham | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-11-17 | Rachel May | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-11-17 | Kristen Gonzalez | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-11-17 | Julia Salazar | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-11-17 | Brian Kavanagh | sponsor_of_bill | — | sponsor | sponsorship |
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brian Kavanagh (—, state_upper NY-27) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Julia Salazar (—, state_upper NY-18) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Kristen Gonzalez (—, state_upper NY-59) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | Liz Krueger (—, state_upper NY-28) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 5 | Pete Harckham (—, state_upper NY-40) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 6 | Rachel May (—, state_upper NY-48) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no
Activity
Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.
- 2025-11-17 · cosponsored by Pete Harckham (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-11-17 · cosponsored by Julia Salazar (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-11-17 · cosponsored by Kristen Gonzalez (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-11-17 · cosponsored by Rachel May (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-11-17 · sponsored by Brian Kavanagh (sponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-11-17 · cosponsored by Liz Krueger (cosponsor) · sponsorship