S 9480 — Establishes a mandatory statewide, classroom-based water safety education program

Congress · introduced 2026-03-17

Establishes a mandatory statewide, classroom-based water safety education program; provides that the commissioner of education shall work with New York State Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance certified educators to develop and promulgate a statewide, age-appropriate, classroom-based water safety education guidance document; provides that within twenty-four months of the effective date of the bill, the department of education shall initiate statewide implementation of water safety education; provides that instruction shall be classroom-based and waterless and shall not require student access to aquatic facilities, swimming instruction, or in-water assessment.

Latest action: 2026-03-17 — IN_SENATE_COMM

Action timeline

2026-03-17 · senate — REFERRED TO EDUCATION

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Introduced · 2026-03-17 — HTML · Text

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Inbound (2)

date	from	type	amount	role	source
2026-03-17	Cordell Cleare	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
2026-03-17	Joseph P. Addabbo Jr.	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	Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. (—, state_upper NY-15)	sponsor	0	—	5
2	Cordell Cleare (—, state_upper NY-30)	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

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2026-03-17 · cosponsored by Cordell Cleare (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2026-03-17 · sponsored by Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. (sponsor) · sponsorship

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