New York Assemblymember Joseph DeStefano [R]

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NYK00115Intro
25%
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim February 2025, as Library Lover's Month in the State of New York
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2025-02-21
referred to calendar
NYA02711Intro
25%
Establishes the historic preservation tax credit transfer program to provide flexibility and incentives for businesses which rehabilitate historic properties to further promote the development of affordable housing.
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2025-02-20
To Assembly Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Committee
NYA05731Intro
25%
Establishes a training wage equal to eighty-five percent of the state minimum wage or one hundred percent of the federal minimum wage, whichever is greater, that may be paid to a youth who has no prior job experience; provides that no youth may be pa...
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2025-02-20
To Assembly Labor Committee
NYA05727Intro
25%
Provides an itemized deduction for expenses for course-mandated supplies for eligible college students paid by taxpayers.
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2025-02-20
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA05728Intro
25%
Places a permanent moratorium on unfunded mandates.
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2025-02-20
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA05697Intro
25%
Establishes the New York state diplomas to homeownership assistance program; provides awards of up to fifteen thousand dollars to eligible applicants for repayment on student loans; makes an appropriation therefor.
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2025-02-20
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA05694Intro
25%
Requires that annual department reports be distributed in electronic format only, unless otherwise requested by a member.
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2025-02-20
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA05734Intro
25%
Relates to licenses to carry and possess firearms for police officers; authorizes police officers to apply for a firearms license that is valid throughout the state.
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2025-02-20
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA05756Intro
25%
Relates to first responders, including correction officers, coming into contact with saliva by spitting, throwing, tossing, or expelling from or by an individual.
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2025-02-20
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA05651Intro
25%
Relates to the environmental assessment of a historic preservation plan; addresses environmental impact statements, dates for filing drafts of such statewide comprehensive historic preservation plan, funds available for historic preservation purposes...
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2025-02-19
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYA05663Intro
25%
Requires the division of criminal justice services to check the wanted felon status and probation or parole violator status of people applying for public assistance.
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2025-02-19
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA05661Intro
25%
Relates to calculation of the earned income credit for taxable years beginning in 2026, provides the applicable percentage shall be 45%.
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2025-02-19
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA05657Intro
25%
Requires the commissioner of environmental conservation to promote education in hunting, fishing and outdoor education in high school physical education courses.
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2025-02-19
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYA05653Intro
25%
Provides that any requirement that undocumented immigrants who are seeking asylum in the United States be sheltered in a certain locality or localities shall only apply to those towns, cities, and counties that opt-in to such requirement through the ...
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2025-02-19
To Assembly Local Governments Committee
NYA02177Intro
25%
Removes expenditures for emergency medical services from the limit on real property tax levies by local governments.
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2025-02-18
To Assembly Local Governments Committee
NYA00839Intro
25%
Permits a school food authority to attribute moneys spent on purchases of food products from New York state farmers, growers, producers or processors made for its school breakfast program to the thirty percent of costs for school breakfast, snack and...
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2025-02-18
To Assembly Education Committee
NYA05623Intro
25%
Enacts the "New York State pedestrian right-of-way protection act" which makes it an unclassified misdemeanor to stop, stand or park a vehicle in a pedestrian right-of-way.
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2025-02-18
To Assembly Transportation Committee
NYA05582Intro
25%
Creates the division of regulatory review and economic growth to review regulatory processes and permit requirements in order to facilitate economic growth; imposes a two-for-one rule reduction requirement.
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2025-02-18
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA05628Intro
25%
Increases the fine on individuals who commit the crime of criminal contempt in the first degree to up to $150,000 if such crime was wilfully committed persistently and/or egregiously as determined by the court.
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2025-02-18
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA05263Intro
25%
Provides for recall of a statewide elective officer; empowers the citizens with the ability to remove elective officers.
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2025-02-14
to attorney-general for opinion
NYA05477Intro
25%
Authorizes the town of Brookhaven, county of Suffolk to alienate certain parklands for use as a recharge basin and to dedicate other lands as replacement parklands.
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2025-02-14
To Assembly Local Governments Committee
NYA00129Intro
25%
Directs the commissioner of education to change the name of the state high school equivalency diploma, formerly known as the general education development (GED) program, to the Excelsior diploma.
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2025-02-13
To Assembly Education Committee
NYA05395Intro
25%
Directs the public service commission to conduct a full cost benefit analysis of the technical and economic feasibility of renewable energy systems in the state of New York and to compare such directly with other methods of electricity generation; ma...
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2025-02-13
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYA05408Intro
25%
Directs the commissioner of the office of mental health to create and operate a law enforcement, first responder, active and non-active-duty service members and veteran informational mobile application.
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2025-02-13
To Assembly Mental Health Committee
NYA05341Intro
25%
Restricts cannabis storefronts and premises from being located within 500 feet from child day care centers, public parks and playgrounds; specifies that schools, child day care centers and houses of worship located in a mixed use building shall be in...
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2025-02-13
To Assembly Economic Development, Job Creation, Commerce and Industry Committee
NYA02138Intro
25%
Provides for victim statements at the sentencing of a defendant for certain misdemeanors.
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYK00107PassMemorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim February 15, 2025, as National School Resource Officer Appreciation Day in the State of New York
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2025-02-12
adopted
NYK00108PassMemorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim February 28, 2025, as Rare Disease Day in the State of New York
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2025-02-12
adopted
NYA05069Intro
25%
Enacts "Chelsey's law"; provides that a person commits the crime of manslaughter or aggravated manslaughter when such person knows or has reasonable grounds to know that a controlled substance is likely to cause the death of another person and sells,...
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA05110Intro
25%
Authorizes the imposition of bail for certain felony offenses involving the manufacture, sale, distribution, or possession with intent to sell synthetic opioids.
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA05122Intro
25%
Allows for individuals to enroll in the national marrow donor program at the time of application for or renewal of a driver's license or non-driver identification card; directs the commissioner of motor vehicles to establish a process by which the de...
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Transportation Committee
NYA05077Intro
25%
Requires municipal corporations to approve any facility intending to house asylum seekers prior to their establishment; establishes a review process that incorporates notice to the public and the opportunity for the public to comment; renders a decis...
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Local Governments Committee
NYA05144Intro
25%
Permits award of crime victim assistance funds to victims of overdoses, where such overdoses cause death and were the result of deception, surreptitious delivery, or third-party administration of a controlled substance.
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA05099Intro
25%
Adds xylazine to the depressants designated as controlled substances with the exception of use in cattle or other nonhuman species if approved by the federal food and drug administration.
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA05171Intro
25%
Prohibits a municipal corporation from prohibiting the issuing of a permit for the construction of any new commercial, residential, or mixed-use building on the basis that such building will be a mixed-fuel building.
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Local Governments Committee
NYA05198Intro
25%
Requires individuals arrested in connection with a felony to submit a DNA sample; makes related provisions and technical corrections.
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA05157Intro
25%
Prohibits insurance companies from imposing a co-pay pursuant to a follow up visit with a physician in order to receive a refill on an opioid drug prescription which was initially written for seven days or less.
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Insurance Committee
NYA05241Intro
25%
Includes peace officers in offenses of unlawful fleeing in a motor vehicle.
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA05212Intro
25%
Allows judges more options for when to impose bail or commit the principal to the custody of the sheriff for burglary in the second degree, robbery in the second degree and crimes which resulted in death or serious physical injury.
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA05168Intro
25%
Relates to the availability and purchase of zero-emission school buses.
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Education Committee
NYA05256Intro
25%
Provides for the chief administrator of the courts to, upon request by a municipality, ensure the assignment and presence of a uniformed court officer during court proceedings or a law enforcement officer where no uniformed court officer is available...
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA05161Intro
25%
Provides pregnant persons with alternative birth choices to preserve the life of a fetus when electing to have an abortion by health care practitioners offering sedated birth and perinatal hospice procedures.
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA05209Intro
25%
Facilitates compliance with the sex offender registry for offenders without a registerable residence; defines "homeless sex offender" and "sex offender registration officer"; makes related provisions.
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Correction Committee
NYA05204Intro
25%
Requires a government photo identification card to be presented when casting a ballot; provides for a method to receive a government photo identification card at no charge; provides that notaries are not permitted to collect a fee for collecting the ...
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Election Law Committee
NYA05246Intro
25%
Excludes volunteer firefighters and emergency medical services employees from the permissive use of marijuana.
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Labor Committee
NYA05268Intro
25%
Increases driver safety training course requirements for D, M, and MJ license applicants; directs the commissioner of the department of motor vehicles to study the operation and safety of motorcycles, e-bikes, and scooters.
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Transportation Committee
NYA05165Intro
25%
Provides that sentence for commission of certain provisions of murder in the first degree is death or life without parole.
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA05187Intro
25%
Designates offenses against law enforcement officers, firefighters and emergency medical services personnel as hate crimes.
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA05240Intro
25%
Authorizes the town of Brookhaven, county of Suffolk to amend an existing conservation easement to allow for rail access and service.
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Local Governments Committee
NYA05145Intro
25%
Provides for the licensing of professional and clinical music therapists encompassing the assessment, evaluation, and the therapeutic intervention and treatment of mental, emotional, developmental and behavioral disorders through the use of music.
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
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