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New York · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

S 4538: Enacts the building up immigrant legal defense or BUILD act

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

S 4538 is a bill introduced in the New York Senate on February 6, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Enacts the building up immigrant legal defense or BUILD act. Primary sponsor: John Liu (Democratic). It lists 11 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (January 7, 2026): REFERRED TO FINANCE.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Enacts the building up immigrant legal defense or BUILD act to provide competitive workforce development and capacity building grants to eligible entities that are seeking to expand access to representation for individuals facing deportation by increasing the workforce and strengthening the legal services infrastructure needed to provide such representation.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 5 · Democratic/Working Families 6

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
John LiuPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate16
Leroy ComrieCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate14
Michael GianarisCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Pete HarckhamCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesSenate40
Michelle HincheyCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesSenate41
Robert JacksonCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesSenate31
Shelley MayerCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesSenate37
Julia SalazarCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesSenate18
Luis SepúlvedaCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate32
Jose SerranoCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesSenate29
Toby StaviskyCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate11
Jeremy ZellnerCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate61

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. REFERRED TO FINANCE
  2. REFERRED TO FINANCE

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source