State Senator - District 24
Andrew J. Lanza
State senator for District 24 on Staten Island since 2007 and the Senate's Deputy Minority Leader.
Where they stand
Taxes, living costs and the state budget
Voted against the bills carrying out major parts of the 2023-24 state budget and the 2024-25 education, labor, housing and family assistance budget, which created the good cause eviction law; both became law. Voted in 2025 against barring agreements among landlords not to compete on rent, including through algorithmic pricing tools. Voted in June 2025 against a bill on gas service to new customers, which became law in December 2025.
Public workers' pensions and benefits
Sponsored two retirement-benefit bills that passed both houses in June 2026: accidental disability retirement benefits for a New York City police detective, and retroactive teachers' retirement system membership for certain Yonkers parks employees employed between 2009 and 2014.
Public safety and criminal law
Sponsors a bill to create a temporary blue ribbon commission to study bail and the bail industry, which was in the Senate Finance Committee as of January 2026. Voted in February 2026 against a bill changing the rules on how close retail cannabis dispensaries may be to schools and houses of worship; it became law.
Issues Andrew is raising
Staten Island cityhood and voting rules
Sponsors a bill to incorporate Staten Island as its own city and enact a city charter; it was reported and committed to the Senate Cities 2 Committee in May 2026. Voted in January 2024 against letting boards of elections set up absentee ballot drop-off locations.
Background
Based in Great Kills, Staten Island
A former New York City Council member, prosecutor, accountant and business owner, with an accounting degree from St. John's University and a law degree from Fordham.
- New York State Senator, District 24; elected Nov. 7, 2006 and in office since 2007
- Deputy Minority Leader of the New York State Senate
- Member of the Senate Rules, Judiciary, Ethics and Internal Governance, and Cities 1 committees, and of the joint Senate and Assembly Legislative Ethics Commission
- Former chair of the Senate Codes Committee
- Re-elected in November 2024 with 98.2% of the vote and in November 2022 with 98.7%, both times on the Republican and Conservative lines
- Advanced without appearing on a primary ballot when the June 23, 2026 Republican primary for Senate District 24 was canceled
- Former New York City Council member
- Former Assistant District Attorney in the office of Robert Morgenthau
- Former accountant and business owner
- B.S. in accounting, St. John's University; J.D., Fordham University School of Law, 1992
- His Senate biography credits him with creating the 13th Judicial District, made up solely of Richmond County, in his first Senate year; making Internet impersonation a crime; authoring I-STOP, a real-time online database for doctors and pharmacists to report and track controlled narcotics; and authoring and passing the Trafficking Victims Protection and Justice Act in 2015
- Lives in Great Kills with his family
Support
Conservative Party of New York State
Also on your ballot on the Conservative Party line
Money
$110K
raised
Top donors: IUOE Local 1515A15B15C &15D PAC, Jy Trans PAC, ATU New York COPE Fund
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