New York Assemblymember Harvey Epstein [D]

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NYA08998Intro
25%
Enacts the "schools impacted by gross highways (SIGH) act"; prohibits the commissioner of education from approving the plans for the erection of any new schoolhouse within five hundred feet of a controlled-access highway unless the commissioner of ed...
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2024-05-18
[Hearing: May 21 @ 2:00 pm]
To Assembly Transportation Committee
NYA07491Intro
25%
Imposes prevailing wage requirements for certain brownfield remediation site work to be eligible to receive the tangible property tax credit associated with brownfield redevelopment.
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2024-05-18
[Hearing: May 21]
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYA03556Intro
25%
Prohibits the sale of certain products that contain regulated perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances; requires manufacturers of products containing PFAS to provide notice of such fact to persons that offer the products for sale or distribution...
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2024-05-18
[Hearing: May 21]
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYA01533Intro
25%
Provides minimum basic training related to handling emergency situations involving individuals with any physical and/or developmental disability to all firefighters.
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2024-05-17
[Hearing: May 21]
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA02033Intro
25%
Provides for the licensure of school psychology practitioners; authorizes the use of the title "licensed school psychology practitioner" to licensed or exempt individuals; defines practice of licensed school psychology practitioners; sets forth requi...
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2024-05-17
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA02246Intro
25%
Requires certain watercraft, aircrafts, and trains to use clean energy, including ensuring such vehicles are zero-emissions; requires NYSERDA to study zero-emission commercial vehicles, the use of renewable energy in publicly funded airports, and the...
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2024-05-17
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYA06059Intro
25%
Prohibits health insurers, health care plans and HMOs from requiring prior authorization for pre-exposure prophylaxis used to prevent HIV infection, provided that the health insurer, health care plan or HMO can confirm that the insured prescribed pre...
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2024-05-17
To Assembly Insurance Committee
NYA07268Intro
25%
Relates to utilization review program standards; requires use of evidence-based and peer reviewed clinical review criteria; relates to prescription drug formulary changes and pre-authorization for certain health care services.
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2024-05-17
[Hearing: May 22 @ 10:00 am]
To Assembly Insurance Committee
NYA08837Intro
25%
Establishes the staff sergeant Alex R. Jimenez New York state military immigrant family legacy program within the department of veterans' services.
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2024-05-17
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA04983Intro
25%
Provides for the protection of health information; establishes requirements for communications to individuals about their health information; requires either written consent or a designated necessary purpose for the processing of an individual's heal...
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2024-05-17
[Hearing: May 21 @ 10:30 am]
To Assembly Science and Technology Committee
NYA09414Intro
25%
Prohibits the use of the term "excited delirium" as a diagnosis, label, or cause of death on death certificates, autopsy reports, police reports or any report, policy or procedure by a public agency or contractor; defines excited delirium.
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2024-05-17
[Hearing: May 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA04917Intro
25%
Provides funding for school anti-violence education programs through the omnibus school violence prevention grant program.
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2024-05-17
[Hearing: May 22 @ 10:00 am]
To Assembly Education Committee
NYA10052Intro
25%
Prohibits openly carrying a rifle or shotgun; establishes exemptions from such prohibition.
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2024-05-17
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA09890Intro
25%
Allows certain reusable beverage containers in sports venues.
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2024-05-17
[Hearing: May 22]
To Assembly Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYA08029Engross
50%
Directs the metropolitan transportation authority and the New York city transit authority to rename the 23rd Street subway station to the 23 St-Baruch College station.
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2024-05-16
To Senate Transportation Committee
NYA09711Engross
50%
Enacts the tropical rainforest economic & environmental sustainability act requiring that companies contracting with the state do not contribute to tropical forest degradation or deforestation directly or through their supply chains; establishes the ...
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2024-05-16
RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
NYA08333Intro
25%
Enacts the "safer weapons, safer homes act"; requires the division of criminal justice services to certify the technological viability of personalized handguns and to establish requirements related to the sale of personalized handguns; defines person...
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2024-05-16
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA00717Intro
25%
Empowers the council on the arts to designate East Harlem as a cultural district.
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2024-05-16
[Hearing: May 21 @ 1:30 pm]
To Assembly Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Committee
NYA09213Intro
25%
Requires the owner or operator of a vessel to establish and maintain with the department evidence of financial responsibility sufficient to meet the amount of liability.
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2024-05-16
To Assembly Rules Committee
NYA00589Intro
25%
Requires the division of housing and community renewal to publish on its website a database of building-wide major capital improvements installed by landlords in every city of more than one million inhabitants.
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2024-05-15
ordered to third reading rules cal.44
NYA05902Engross
50%
Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision, in consultation with the commissioner of health and the commissioner of mental health, to develop a uniform electronic medical records system to be utilized by all correctional facili...
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2024-05-15
To Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee
NYA00901Intro
25%
Requires a utilization review agent to follow certain rules when establishing a step therapy protocol; requires that the protocol accepts any attestation submitted by the insured's health care professional stating that a required drug has failed as p...
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2024-05-15
[Hearing: May 22 @ 10:00 am]
To Assembly Insurance Committee
NYA06042Intro
25%
Requires insurance policies to provide coverage for transvaginal ultrasounds during pregnancy.
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2024-05-15
[Hearing: May 22 @ 10:00 am]
To Assembly Insurance Committee
NYA08611Intro
25%
Relates to utility intervenor reimbursement to a participant for its reasonable costs of participation in any proceeding before the Public Service Commission (PSC).
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2024-05-15
To Assembly Rules Committee
NYA01300Intro
25%
Conforms the definition of an incarcerated individual with a serious mental illness to the definition of "person with a serious mental illness" in the mental hygiene law.
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2024-05-15
substituted by s4621
NYK02186PassMemorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 2024, as Lower East Side History Month in the State of New York
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2024-05-15
adopted
NYA10255Intro
25%
Directs the division of criminal justice services to establish a program for the care of retired law enforcement dogs which shall cover the cost of veterinary care for retired law enforcement dogs for the remainder of the lifetime of such dogs.
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2024-05-15
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYK02195PassCongratulating the State of Israel on the 76th Anniversary of its establishment and reaffirming the bonds of friendship, cooperation, and shared values between the people of the State of New York and Israel
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2024-05-15
adopted
NYK02184PassMemorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 12-18, 2024, as Food Allergy Awareness Week in the State of New York
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2024-05-15
adopted
NYA10249Intro
25%
Includes additional community districts in which pilot programs to address the legalization or conversion of certain basement and cellar dwellings can be established by local law.
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2024-05-15
To Assembly Housing Committee
NYA01128Intro
25%
Establishes the "earned time act" providing for time allowances against the term or maximum term of sentences imposed by the court to be credited on an annual pro rata basis.
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2024-05-14
To Assembly Correction Committee
NYA01388Intro
25%
Relates to criminal mischief in the third degree and criminal mischief in the second degree.
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2024-05-14
To Assembly Rules Committee
NYA01378Intro
25%
Prohibits legacy preference as eligible criteria for admission standards.
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2024-05-14
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA01577Intro
25%
Directs the independent developmental disability ombudsman program to establish a service delivery structure based in New York state that includes a toll-free telephone hotline, an interactive website, and availability of in-person, telephone and ema...
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2024-05-14
To Assembly Rules Committee
NYA03351Intro
25%
Establishes the climate change adaptation cost recovery program to require companies that have contributed significantly to the buildup of climate-warming greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to bear a share of the costs of needed infrastructure invest...
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2024-05-14
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA04904Intro
25%
Directs the state commission of correction to promulgate rules and regulations for strip searches in correctional facilities which at a minimum include a requirement that no fewer than two staff members shall be present for any strip search.
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2024-05-14
To Assembly Rules Committee
NYA00586Intro
25%
Relates to the education and experience of members of the state board of parole; provides that members can have either a degree and at least five years of experience in several fields or at least ten years of experience in such fields.
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2024-05-14
To Assembly Rules Committee
NYA07854Intro
25%
Requires the publication of notice within twenty-four hours of the death of an incarcerated individual or any other individual occurring in the custody of the department of corrections and community supervision by department press release by posting ...
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2024-05-14
To Assembly Rules Committee
NYA05297Intro
25%
Prohibits hospital interference with patient care where the practitioner is acting in good faith and within the scope of their practice.
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2024-05-14
To Assembly Rules Committee
NYA06854Intro
25%
Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to establish a program to purchase fresh produce from farms located in the state and distribute such fresh produce to correctional facilities in the state to be utilized in the provisi...
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2024-05-14
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA02408Intro
25%
Establishes a nonpartisan poll monitoring program.
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2024-05-14
To Assembly Election Law Committee
NYA06563Engross
50%
Requires student identification cards to contain the new national suicide prevention lifeline number, 9-8-8, and the crisis text line.
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2024-05-14
To Senate Higher Education Committee
NYA07628Engross
50%
Requires the reporting of certain accidents involving vehicles, including electric scooters and bicycles with electric assist; requires reports to include information indicating whether certain accidents involved electric scooters and bicycles with e...
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2024-05-14
To Senate Transportation Committee
NYA08168Intro
25%
Provides Medicaid coverage for remote ultrasound scans and remote fetal non-stress tests.
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2024-05-14
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA09102Intro
25%
Provides for medicaid reimbursement for ambulance services when treatment in place is administered and/or when transportation is provided to alternative health care settings instead of a general hospital.
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2024-05-14
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA09232Intro
25%
Provides for the types of damages that may be awarded to the persons for whose benefit an action for wrongful death is brought.
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2024-05-14
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA07495Engross
50%
Permits the court to withhold the names and addresses of jurors in certain proceedings; sets factors for determining good cause to issue protective orders for juries.
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2024-05-14
To Senate Codes Committee
NYA08903Intro
25%
Requires municipalities to include an Affordable Housing Needs Assessment to establish a data-based foundation for the creation and preservation of affordable housing in the municipality, utilizing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development...
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2024-05-14
To Assembly Local Governments Committee
NYA08904Intro
25%
Requires municipalities to determine whether it is in the public interest to create a comprehensive plan adapted to the special requirements of the municipality and to determine whether it is in the public interest to update such comprehensive plan a...
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2024-05-14
To Assembly Local Governments Committee
NYA09321Intro
25%
Relates to enacting the "safe landings for youth leaving foster care act" or "safe landings act", which provides protections for youth transitioning out of foster care who bring certain legal proceedings.
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2024-05-14
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
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