New York Assemblymember Lester Chang [R]

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NYA05522Intro
25%
Provides that the sentence for committing murder in the first degree when the victim is a police officer, peace officer or correction officer shall be either death or life imprisonment without parole.
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2025-02-14
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA05531Intro
25%
Provides that a member of a public retirement system of the state may obtain a total not to exceed three years of service credit for up to three years of military duty if the member has completed a term of state service, under orders from the governo...
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2025-02-14
To Assembly Governmental Employees Committee
NYA05325Intro
25%
Excludes from reporting requirements relating to environmental quality reviews actions to approve the siting or construction of housing in cities with a population of one million or more.
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2025-02-13
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYA05146Intro
25%
Establishes the offenses of menacing a police officer or peace officer in the first degree and menacing a police officer or peace officer in the second degree; relates to circumstances under which an officer is not required to issue an appearance tic...
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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
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
NYA05155Intro
25%
Relates to veterans' health care; creates a veteran health care review to ensure veterans and their families have access to health and mental health treatment, including for post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, military sexual trauma,...
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Veterans' Affairs Committee
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
NYA05141Intro
25%
Prohibits persons affiliated with terror organizations from being appointed to permanent, temporary or provisional positions in the state civil service system.
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Governmental Employees Committee
NYA05214Intro
25%
Establishes the "Not on our dollar!: Ending New York funding of Hamas violence act" to prohibit not-for-profit corporations from engaging in unauthorized support of Hamas and nations known to fund middle-eastern terrorist group activity; allows for r...
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYA05215Intro
25%
Requires state agencies to submit annual reports to the financial committees of the legislature accounting for all fines, fees and surcharges, the purpose of such fine, fee or surcharge, and where such fines, fees, interest and surcharges were deposi...
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA05228Intro
25%
Enacts the criminal street gang abatement act which provides enhanced penalties for persons involved with criminal street gangs; establishes the crime of gang solicitation of minors on school grounds; allows for roving interceptions by police after a...
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA05159Intro
25%
Waives application fees for individuals who certify to the state civil service department that they are unemployed; removes provisions requiring an individual also be primarily responsible for the support of a household or receiving public assistance...
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Governmental Employees Committee
NYA00265Intro
25%
Relates to the availability of opioid reversal agents; requires the department of health to make available any formulation and dosage of opioid reversal agent approved by the federal food and drug administration.
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2025-02-11
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYK00096PassMemorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim February 2025, as Black History Month in the State of New York
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2025-02-10
adopted
NYA04938Intro
25%
Provides protections for telecommunications tower technicians, including requiring certain trainings during work hours without a loss of pay; requires certain reporting by bidders for telecommunication contracts.
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2025-02-10
To Assembly Labor Committee
NYA04934Intro
25%
Establishes the organized militia as public employees working group to examine the potential costs and benefits of designating members of the New York state organized militia as public employees.
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2025-02-10
To Assembly Governmental Employees Committee
NYA04956Intro
25%
Relates to the SUNY Maritime admissions program increasing the number of positions reserved for nomination by the governor and members of the legislature and scholarship under the SUNY Maritime admissions program.
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2025-02-10
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA04968Intro
25%
Relates to being a good samaritan; adds "reasonable intervention" as a reason to be protected from liability; provides that a person may use physical force when and to the extent that such person reasonably believes that reasonable intervention is ne...
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2025-02-10
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA04932Intro
25%
Establishes January 30th of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution".
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2025-02-10
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA04963Intro
25%
Includes New York guard members to the recruitment incentive and retention program for members of the New York state organized militia; permits tuition benefits for post-graduate study.
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2025-02-10
To Assembly Veterans' Affairs Committee
NYA04773Intro
25%
Makes it a violation to loiter while masked or disguised by unusual or unnatural attire or facial alteration while in a group of six or more persons so masked or disguised.
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2025-02-06
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA04753Intro
25%
Establishes Bella's Law which calls for an investigation into possible domestic violence or abuse for persons who have been accused of animal abuse.
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2025-02-06
To Assembly Children and Families Committee
NYA04761Intro
25%
Relates to purchasing restrictions and persons boycotting American allies.
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2025-02-06
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA04772Intro
25%
Enacts "the combating campus antisemitism act"; prohibits the granting of tuition assistance awards to any student who has knowingly engaged in promoting antisemitism in a manner that is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and i...
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2025-02-06
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA04743Intro
25%
Directs the secretary of the senate and the clerk of the assembly to identify the date of Asian Lunar New Year; declares such day as a public holiday each year.
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2025-02-06
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA04802Intro
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Provides free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses for residents who participated in the World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup and who suffered a permanent disability.
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2025-02-06
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYA04797Intro
25%
Enacts the "stop Anti-Semitism on college campuses act" to ensure no state aid is granted to any college or university that authorizes, facilitates, provides funding for, or otherwise supports any event promoting Anti-Semitism on campus; defines "Ant...
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2025-02-06
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA04771Intro
25%
Relates to withholding the governor and lieutenant governor's salaries until the legislative passage of the budget occurs.
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2025-02-06
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA04852Intro
25%
Requires the periodic inspection of commercial buildings where bicycles with electric assist are repaired, sold, rented, or stored for repair, sale, or rental; requires such inspection quarterly; requires the state fire prevention and building code c...
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2025-02-06
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA04845Intro
25%
Directs the New York state department of transportation and the New York city department of transportation to conduct a study on parking availability along the portion of 8th Avenue between 39th street and 73rd street in the borough of Brooklyn in th...
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2025-02-06
To Assembly Transportation Committee
NYA04875Intro
25%
Requires certain documents and forms to be provided in the twelve most common non-English languages spoken by limited English proficient immigrants of five years or less according to the American community survey, as published by the United States ce...
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2025-02-06
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA04865Intro
25%
Requires fire insurance for any building where bicycles with electric assist are repaired, sold, rented, or stored for repair, sale or rental; requires insurance coverage of at least one million dollars and an additional one hundred thousand dollars ...
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2025-02-06
To Assembly Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYA04855Intro
25%
Provides that the theft of benefits contained on an electronic benefit transfer card shall be a class D felony punishable by a fine of ten thousand dollars.
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2025-02-06
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA04861Intro
25%
Increases penalties for public urination or defecation to $500 for any violation.
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2025-02-06
To Assembly Cities Committee
NYA04851Intro
25%
Directs the department of civil service to conduct a study on Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) employment in the public sector workforce including the current levels of employment and how to increase participation in the state and local pub...
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2025-02-06
To Assembly Governmental Employees Committee
NYA04510Intro
25%
Establishes tuition awards for members of the reserved armed forces of the United States; provides eligibility for such tuition benefit shall be determined by the education services offices of the division of military and naval affairs; restricts suc...
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2025-02-04
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA04326Intro
25%
Establishes the crime of failure to retreat when a person who is within twenty-five feet of a police officer or peace officer engaged in the performance of their duties and the police officer or peace officer orders such person to halt or retreat and...
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2025-02-04
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA04337Intro
25%
Establishes the crime of aggravated offering of a false accusation against a police officer or peace officer for knowing the information reported to be false or baseless, such person reports, by word or action, to a law enforcement officer or agency,...
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2025-02-04
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA04560Intro
25%
Establishes the commission for the modernization and revitalization of the state university of New York downstate medical center which directs such commission to conduct a study to examine services that should be offered at SUNY downstate medical cen...
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2025-02-04
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA04567Intro
25%
Grants a real property assessment freeze and property tax freeze to persons sixty-five years of age or older.
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2025-02-04
To Assembly Aging Committee
NYA04539Intro
25%
Increases the amount of income property owners may earn for the purpose of eligibility for the property tax exemption for persons over sixty-five years of age; increases such amount to $75,000.
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2025-02-04
To Assembly Aging Committee
NYA04562Intro
25%
Enacts the "election workers and polling places protection act" to protect poll watchers, election officials, voters and physical property being used as a polling place or by the board of elections.
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2025-02-04
To Assembly Election Law Committee
NYK00066PassMemorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim February 3, 2025, as Four Chaplains Day in the State of New York
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2025-02-03
adopted
NYA03654Intro
25%
Relates to decreasing the length of the suspension period applicable to certain individuals who lose their jobs due to a labor dispute, such as a strike, and who seek to obtain unemployment insurance benefits; decreases the suspension period from two...
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2025-01-29
To Assembly Labor Committee
NYA00841Intro
25%
Authorizes the commissioner of health to adopt policies to exclude certain non-recurring items from income that would artificially inflate the availability of funds to meet current needs relating to eligibility for the program for elderly pharmaceuti...
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2025-01-28
enacting clause stricken
NYK00058PassCommemorating the Asian American community's celebration of the Lunar New Year, the Year of the Snake, on January 29, 2025
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2025-01-28
adopted
NYA03512Intro
25%
Relates to crimes against a child; makes endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree a crime.
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2025-01-28
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYK00013PassMemorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim January 9, 2025, as Law Enforcement Appreciation Day in the State of New York
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2025-01-27
adopted
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