S 8596 — Relates to protecting people from civil arrest while going to, remaining at, or returning from polling places
Congress · introduced 2025-12-03
Exempts certain people from civil arrest while going to, remaining at, or returning from a polling place.
Latest action: 2026-01-07 — IN_SENATE_COMM
Sponsors
- Pete Harckham (—, NY-40) — sponsor · 2025-12-03
- Nathalia Fernandez (—, NY-34) — cosponsor · 2025-12-03
- Andrew Gounardes (—, NY-26) — cosponsor · 2025-12-03
- Robert Jackson (—, NY-31) — cosponsor · 2025-12-03
- Gustavo Rivera (—, NY-33) — cosponsor · 2025-12-03
- Julia Salazar (—, NY-18) — cosponsor · 2025-12-03
- Luis R. Sepúlveda (—, NY-32) — cosponsor · 2025-12-03
- Lea Webb (—, NY-52) — cosponsor · 2025-12-03
Action timeline
- · senate — REFERRED TO RULES
- · senate — REFERRED TO CODES
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Inbound (8)
| date | from | type | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-03 | Andrew Gounardes | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-12-03 | Nathalia Fernandez | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-12-03 | Robert Jackson | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-12-03 | Gustavo Rivera | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-12-03 | Luis R. Sepúlveda | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-12-03 | Pete Harckham | sponsor_of_bill | — | sponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-12-03 | Julia Salazar | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-12-03 | Lea Webb | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | 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 | Pete Harckham (—, state_upper NY-40) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Andrew Gounardes (—, state_upper NY-26) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Gustavo Rivera (—, state_upper NY-33) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | Julia Salazar (—, state_upper NY-18) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 5 | Lea Webb (—, state_upper NY-52) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 6 | Luis R. Sepúlveda (—, state_upper NY-32) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 7 | Nathalia Fernandez (—, state_upper NY-34) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 8 | Robert Jackson (—, state_upper NY-31) | 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.
- 2025-12-03 · cosponsored by Gustavo Rivera (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-12-03 · sponsored by Pete Harckham (sponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-12-03 · cosponsored by Lea Webb (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-12-03 · cosponsored by Julia Salazar (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-12-03 · cosponsored by Robert Jackson (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-12-03 · cosponsored by Luis R. Sepúlveda (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-12-03 · cosponsored by Nathalia Fernandez (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-12-03 · cosponsored by Andrew Gounardes (cosponsor) · sponsorship