S 8624 — Permits courts to award punitive damages against an estate for sexual abuse
Congress · introduced 2025-12-19
Permits courts to award punitive damages against an estate for sexual abuse.
Latest action: 2026-04-27 — SENATE_FLOOR
Sponsors
- Zellnor Myrie (—, NY-20) — sponsor · 2025-12-19
- Kristen Gonzalez (—, NY-59) — cosponsor · 2025-12-19
- John Liu (—, NY-16) — cosponsor · 2025-12-19
- Shelley Mayer (—, NY-37) — cosponsor · 2025-12-19
- Jessica Ramos (—, NY-13) — cosponsor · 2025-12-19
- Gustavo Rivera (—, NY-33) — cosponsor · 2025-12-19
- Luis R. Sepúlveda (—, NY-32) — cosponsor · 2025-12-19
- Sam Sutton (—, NY-22) — cosponsor · 2025-12-19
Action timeline
- · senate — REFERRED TO RULES
- · senate — REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
- · senate — 1ST REPORT CAL.751
- · senate — 2ND REPORT CAL.
- · senate — ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
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Inbound (8)
| date | from | type | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-19 | John Liu | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-12-19 | Jessica Ramos | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-12-19 | Shelley Mayer | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-12-19 | Zellnor Myrie | sponsor_of_bill | — | sponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-12-19 | Gustavo Rivera | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-12-19 | Sam Sutton | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-12-19 | Luis R. Sepúlveda | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-12-19 | Kristen Gonzalez | 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 | Zellnor Myrie (—, state_upper NY-20) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Gustavo Rivera (—, state_upper NY-33) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Jessica Ramos (—, state_upper NY-13) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | John Liu (—, state_upper NY-16) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 5 | Kristen Gonzalez (—, state_upper NY-59) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 6 | Luis R. Sepúlveda (—, state_upper NY-32) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 7 | Sam Sutton (—, state_upper NY-22) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 8 | Shelley Mayer (—, state_upper NY-37) | 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.
- 2025-12-19 · cosponsored by Gustavo Rivera (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-12-19 · cosponsored by Kristen Gonzalez (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-12-19 · cosponsored by Shelley Mayer (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-12-19 · cosponsored by Sam Sutton (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-12-19 · sponsored by Zellnor Myrie (sponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-12-19 · cosponsored by Jessica Ramos (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-12-19 · cosponsored by Luis R. Sepúlveda (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-12-19 · cosponsored by John Liu (cosponsor) · sponsorship