New York Assemblymember Phara Souffrant Forrest [D]

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NYA05902VetoDirects 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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2024-11-22
tabled
NYA06583Enroll
75%
Establishes November twenty-sixth of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Sojourner Truth Day".
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2024-11-15
delivered to governor
NYA08947PassEstablishes the retail worker safety act requiring retail worker employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence; directs the department of labor to produce a model workplace violence prevention training program; requires em...
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2024-09-05
approval memo.6
NYA04022Intro
25%
Provides for a working families tax credit; directs quarterly prepayment of the credit; provides for a sliding reduction in the credit for incomes which exceed a certain threshold.
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2024-09-04
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA04066PassRequires motor vehicle dealer franchisors to fully compensate franchised motor vehicle dealers for warranty service agreements.
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2024-09-04
signed chap.301
NYA04060PassRequires menstrual products in all public college and university buildings.
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2024-08-26
signed chap.227
NYA04183Intro
25%
Eliminates court surcharges and fees and probation and parole surcharges and fees; eliminates the requirement that a parolee or releasee receiving a merit termination of sentence be financially able to comply with an order of restitution; eliminates ...
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2024-07-22
enacting clause stricken
NYA00568Intro
25%
Prohibits employers from using the federal electronic employment verification system to check the employment authorization status of an existing employee or an applicant who has not been offered employment and prohibits municipalities from requiring ...
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2024-07-22
enacting clause stricken
NYA07866Intro
25%
Prohibits public employers from diminishing health insurance benefits provided to retirees and their dependents or the contributions such employer makes for such health insurance coverage below the level of such benefits or contributions made on beha...
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2024-07-15
enacting clause stricken
NYA10595Intro
25%
Requires third-party food delivery services to provide the ability to include a gratuity at the same point in the online order process when the underlying order is placed.
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2024-06-20
To Assembly Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYA00964Intro
25%
Establishes the clean fuel standard of 2024; provides such standard is intended to reduce greenhouse gas intensity from the on-road transportation sector, with further reductions to be implemented based upon advances in technology.
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2024-06-17
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYA02653Engross
50%
Allows commuter vans to accept hails from prospective passengers in the street; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
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2024-06-07
To Senate Rules Committee
NYA01432Intro
25%
Removes the lifetime ban on jury duty for convicted felons; provides that if convicted of a felony, such person has completed all sentencing requirements to such conviction, including any required term of imprisonment, probation, or community supervi...
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2024-06-07
substituted by s206b
NYA02898Engross
50%
Requires insurance policies to cover neuropsychological exams for dyslexia under certain circumstances; caps coverage amount.
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2024-06-07
RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
NYA07954Intro
25%
Creates a wholesale prescription drug importation program which complies with federal standards and regulations for the purpose of generating substantial savings for consumers.
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2024-06-07
substituted by s9838
NYA08149Intro
25%
Establishes the New York child data protection act to protect minors from having their personal data accessed; provides exceptions in certain circumstances.
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2024-06-07
substituted by s7695b
NYA08148Intro
25%
Establishes the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) For Kids Act prohibiting the provision of addictive feeds to minors by addictive social media platforms; establishes remedies and penalties.
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2024-06-07
substituted by s7694a
NYA06455Engross
50%
Prohibits the operation of NYC transit authority subways or trains without at least one conductor on board; requires a conductor on any subway or train operated by such authority whenever the subway or train has more than two cars attached to the eng...
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2024-06-07
To Senate Rules 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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2024-06-07
substituted by s8724b
NYA09141Intro
25%
Authorizes the Church of the Living God Pillar & Ground to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for the 2022-2023 assessment rolls.
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2024-06-07
substituted by s8576
NYA02346Intro
25%
Increases the amount of allowance that trial and grand jurors are entitled to in each court of the unified court system.
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2024-06-06
To Assembly Rules Committee
NYA02367Engross
50%
Requires the advisory council on maternal mortality and morbidity to undertake a review of the cesarean births at hospitals in the state; requires two licensed midwives to be on the advisory council.
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2024-06-06
To Senate Rules Committee
NYA04333Intro
25%
Requires fashion sellers to be accountable to standardized environmental due diligence policies; establishes a fashion remediation fund.
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2024-06-06
To Assembly Rules Committee
NYA01633Engross
50%
Requires public notice and public engagement when a general hospital seeks to close entirely or a unit that provides maternity, mental health or substance use care.
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2024-06-06
substituted by s8843a
NYA05709Intro
25%
Increases the number of members on the state commission of correction; provides for the manner of confirmation of such members.
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2024-06-06
substituted by s5877a
NYA05322Intro
25%
Enacts the "packaging reduction and recycling infrastructure act" to require companies selling, offering for sale, or distributing packaging materials and products to register with a packaging reduction organization to develop a packaging reduction a...
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2024-06-06
ordered to third reading rules cal.482
NYA05366Intro
25%
Authorizes the legislature to increase the number of justices of the supreme court in any judicial district.
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2024-06-06
substituted by s5414
NYA07537Intro
25%
Prohibits utility corporations from imposing late fees, interest, or penalties during an investigation by the commission; allows retroactive late fees, interest, or penalties if a determination is made in favor of such utility corporation; prohibits ...
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2024-06-06
ordered to third reading rules cal.529
NYA07339Intro
25%
Relates to rechargeable battery recycling; adds a battery used as the principal electric power source for an electric scooter or bicycle with electric assist to the definition of "rechargeable battery"; provides that a battery manufacturer may not se...
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2024-06-06
substituted by s643e
NYA08170Intro
25%
Prohibits state-operated hospitals from suing patients for medical debt; defines "medical debt".
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2024-06-06
ordered to third reading rules cal.493
NYA09213Engross
50%
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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2024-06-06
RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
NYA10215Engross
50%
Prohibits third-party restaurant reservation services from arranging unauthorized restaurant reservations with food service establishments; establishes fines for violations of such prohibition.
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2024-06-06
RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
NYK02430PassMemorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim June 20, 2024, as World Refugee Day in the State of New York
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2024-06-06
adopted
NYK02446PassCommemorating the observance of the 4th Annual Juneteenth Day in the State of New York, on June 19, 2024
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2024-06-06
adopted
NYA03750Intro
25%
Authorizes courts to hold evidentiary hearings for a temporary order of protection in certain circumstances; grants superior court judges the authority to issue a temporary order of protection when an action is pending in a local criminal court in ce...
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2024-06-05
To Assembly Rules Committee
NYA05370Engross
50%
Relates to creating the health emergency response data system, which collects information and statistical data relating to public health emergencies in order to assist the department of health, other government entities, health care providers, and th...
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2024-06-05
RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
NYA01980Intro
25%
Requires child protective services to orally and in writing disclose certain information to parents and caretakers who are the subject of a child protective services investigation; requires such oral and written disclosure to contain certain informat...
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2024-06-05
To Assembly Rules Committee
NYA07487Intro
25%
Establishes through the department of health, in conjunction with the office of addiction services and supports, a drug checking services program to allow individuals to bring drugs or controlled substances and have them tested for contaminants, toxi...
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2024-06-05
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA03155Intro
25%
Enacts protections for private education loan borrowers and cosigners; requires certain notifications from creditors and debt collectors; prohibits acceleration; enacts provisions for cosigner release.
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2024-06-04
substituted by s362a
NYA04866Intro
25%
Enacts the "just energy transition act"; creates the just energy transition task force; requires a study of competitive options to facilitate the phase-out, replacement and redevelopment of New York state's oldest and most-polluting fossil-fueled pow...
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2024-06-04
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA08053Intro
25%
Establishes the COVID-19 pandemic response study commission to conduct a study of the state's response to the COVID-19 pandemic; provides for the repeal of such commission upon the completion of the commission's final report.
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2024-06-04
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA09057Engross
50%
Enacts the pro-banking act to mandate acceptance of the New York city identity card as a primary form of identification at all covered entities, including all banking organizations, foreign banking corporations, and interstate branches.
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2024-06-04
To Senate Rules Committee
NYA02882Intro
25%
Requires firearms dealers to post and provide written warnings to purchasers of dangers posed by access to weapons in the home.
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2024-06-03
substituted by s6649
NYA03241Engross
50%
Provides for a premium reduction for physicians and licensed midwives who complete a risk management strategies course in obstetrics or midwifery.
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2024-06-03
To Senate Rules Committee
NYA05990Intro
25%
Restricts certain substances from being used in menstrual products.
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2024-06-03
amended on third reading 5990c
NYA06219Intro
25%
Requires separate collection categories for White, Middle Eastern, and North African groups in NYS.
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2024-06-03
substituted by s6584c
NYA01423Intro
25%
Enacts the "fair college admissions act"; prohibits degree-granting institutions of higher education from giving preference to applicants based on such applicant's familial relationship to an alumni of such institution.
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2024-06-03
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA09572Intro
25%
Requires the display of certain labels and warnings on gas stoves sold, displayed for sale, or offered for sale at retail to a consumer in this state; authorizes the department of state to adopt regulations regarding the placement and format of such ...
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2024-06-03
To Assembly Rules Committee
NYK02356PassMemorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim October 28, 2024, as Chucks-N-Pearls Day in the State of New York
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2024-06-03
adopted
NYA04123Intro
25%
Establishes the climate corporate data accountability act requiring certain business entities within the state to annually disclose scope 1, scope 2 and scope 3 emissions; establishes the climate accountability and emissions disclosure fund.
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2024-06-03
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
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