New York Assemblymember Phara Souffrant Forrest [D] | House

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NYA05452Intro
25%
Prohibits imposing imprisonment or other penalties or fines for sleeping or camping in public spaces.
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2025-02-14
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA05454Intro
25%
Establishes the New York smart work week pilot program to promote, incentivize and support the use of a four-day work week by qualifying employers and to study the benefits and impacts of such work arrangements; defines terms; establishes a tax credi...
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2025-02-14
To Assembly Labor Committee
NYA05423Intro
25%
Establishes a four-day workweek pilot program for state employees; requires the division of the budget and the state department of civil service to identify state agencies or other jobs in the performance of any function of state government for which...
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2025-02-14
To Assembly Governmental Employees Committee
NYA05549Intro
25%
Doubles the empire state child credit for young children.
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2025-02-14
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA05537Intro
25%
Relates to licensing consumer debt collectors; sets minimum standards and regulations; establishes penalties for violations.
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2025-02-14
To Assembly Banks Committee
NYA05553Intro
25%
Establishes the New York state nursing faculty scholarship incentive program for advanced degrees in nursing; provides such incentives shall be awarded annually, on a competitive basis, to registered professional nurses and certified nurse practition...
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2025-02-14
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA05416Intro
25%
Relates to enacting the "books save lives act"; requires public school libraries receiving state aid to maintain a collection of diverse books.
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2025-02-14
To Assembly Libraries and Education Technology Committee
NYA05470Intro
25%
Establishes the rapid employment assistance and counseling hub (REACH) program to dispatch a mobile unit to provide information, assistance and other services concerning unemployment compensation insurance at the request of a legislator or official o...
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2025-02-14
To Assembly Labor Committee
NYA05485Intro
25%
Provides that local state of emergency orders issued by a chief executive of a county, city, town or village shall not violate section 291 of the executive law providing equality of opportunity of a civil right.
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2025-02-14
To Assembly Local Governments Committee
NYA05420Intro
25%
Requires menstrual products to be provided in drop-in centers, intake shelters and emergency congregate housing.
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2025-02-14
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA05512Intro
25%
Relates to the regulation of live restraint cable devices to take wildlife; authorizes regulations by the department of environmental conservation.
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2025-02-14
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYA05478Intro
25%
Enacts the "gender identity respect, dignity and safety act"; relates to the treatment and placement of incarcerated individuals based upon gender identity; requires that incarcerated individuals in state and local correctional facilities who have a ...
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2025-02-14
To Assembly Correction Committee
NYA01118Intro
25%
Increases monetary penalties for public health law violations; provides support for the nursing home quality improvement demonstration program.
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2025-02-13
advanced to third reading cal.13
NYA01656Intro
25%
Prohibits naming dependent children under the age of 18 living in the same household with a parent or guardian in petitions to recover possession of real property and eviction warrants; seals any records pertaining to dependent children under the age...
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2025-02-13
advanced to third reading cal.16
NYA05320Intro
25%
Expands tuition assistance program awards for students experiencing homelessness.
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2025-02-13
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA05361Intro
25%
Relates to access to lactation rooms in public buildings; requires signage for lactation rooms in public buildings.
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2025-02-13
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA05142Intro
25%
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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2025-02-12
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA05255Intro
25%
Relates to coverage for the treatment of asthma.
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Insurance Committee
NYA05279Intro
25%
Expands coverage for pregnant and postpartum individuals and their children; establishes a health expense account program for pregnant and postpartum individuals; requires the creation of informative pamphlets on maternal depression.
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA05194Intro
25%
Relates to including diagnosis of asthma or other respiratory diseases for which rescue inhaler treatment is prescribed in the statewide immunization information system.
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2025-02-12
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA01100Intro
25%
Authorizes the legislature to increase the number of justices of the supreme court in any judicial district.
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2025-02-11
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA01704Intro
25%
Relates to establishing the housing access voucher program; provides that the commissioner of the division of housing and community renewal shall implement a program of rental assistance in the form of housing vouchers for eligible individuals and fa...
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2025-02-11
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA01502Intro
25%
Restricts certain substances from being used in menstrual products.
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2025-02-10
substituted by s1548
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
NYA05006Intro
25%
Creates the district long-term care ombudsperson council program to coordinate volunteer ombudsperson's in each assembly district.
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2025-02-10
To Assembly Aging Committee
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
NYA04958Intro
25%
Provides for the creation and maintenance of digital records for each incarcerated individual which includes all medical records, including but not limited to mental health records and results of drug or alcohol tests, work records and evaluations, c...
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2025-02-10
To Assembly Correction Committee
NYA05018Intro
25%
Requires that all human services contracts between any public entity and a human services provider stipulate that the public entity will pay no less than 150% of the higher of: the otherwise applicable minimum wage in the state or any otherwise appli...
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2025-02-10
To Assembly Labor Committee
NYA04929Intro
25%
Eliminates criminal and civil penalties for possession of controlled substances; establishes the drug decriminalization task force to develop recommendations for reforming state laws, regulations and practices so that they align with the stated goal ...
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2025-02-10
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA04973Intro
25%
Relates to authorizing voting by incarcerated individuals in correctional facilities; requires the department of corrections and community supervision, in collaboration with the state and county boards of election, to establish a program to facilitat...
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2025-02-10
To Assembly Election Law Committee
NYA04916Intro
25%
Enacts the safer consumption services act which provides for the establishment of a program to provide safe injection sites.
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2025-02-10
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA04922Intro
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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2025-02-10
To Assembly Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYA04957Intro
25%
Authorizes the New York city council to oversee the activities of the New York city housing authority.
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2025-02-10
To Assembly Housing Committee
NYA04921Intro
25%
Enacts the college student suicide prevention act to provide for policies, guidelines and training opportunities to effectively and appropriately prevent student suicide, intervene in crisis situations, and support college communities in postvention.
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2025-02-10
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA00911Intro
25%
Clarifies the definition of persons with a disability for purposes of the definition of special populations to include people with a mental health diagnosis, people on the office of mental health caseload, people with an intellectual, developmental o...
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2025-02-07
To Assembly Correction Committee
NYA03715Intro
25%
Relates to the taxation of moneys, credits, securities and other intangible personal property in the state that is not employed in carrying on any business therein.
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2025-02-07
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA04870Intro
25%
Aligns utility regulation with state climate justice and emission reduction targets; provides for a statewide affordable gas transition plan and utility home energy affordable transition programs; repeals provisions relating to continuation of gas se...
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2025-02-07
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYA04879Intro
25%
Relates to the health, safety and human rights of incarcerated pregnant individuals, incarcerated birthing parents and their children.
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2025-02-07
To Assembly Correction 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
NYA04850Intro
25%
Enacts the "New York state teleworking expansion act"; provides that each state agency shall establish a policy and program to allow employees to perform all or a portion of their duties through teleworking to the maximum extent possible without dimi...
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2025-02-06
To Assembly Governmental Employees Committee
NYA04831Intro
25%
Authorizes local water and sewerage authorities to charge fees for surface runoff.
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2025-02-06
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYA04869Intro
25%
Relates to judicial diversion programs; establishes a diversion part in each county; repeals certain provisions of law relating thereto.
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2025-02-06
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA04868Intro
25%
Requires the disclosure of certain information when an agency responds to a request for law enforcement disciplinary records, including information a victim alleges regarding sexual misconduct.
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2025-02-06
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA00700Intro
25%
Requires certain data to be included in reports on the administration of managed long term care plans; changes reporting period to annually.
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2025-02-04
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA01077Intro
25%
Enables safe access to public roads for all users by utilizing complete street design principles.
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2025-02-04
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA01541Intro
25%
Establishes the cesarean births review board; provides such board shall be comprised of multidisciplinary experts to review the rate of cesarean births at hospitals in the state; provides reporting requirements.
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2025-02-04
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA04420Intro
25%
Establishes the nail salon minimum standards council act; establishes the nail salon minimum standards council which shall investigate wages and standards within the nail salon industry and submit recommendations on minimum wages, regulations and sta...
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2025-02-04
To Assembly Labor Committee
NYA04319Intro
25%
Includes correctional facilities and local correctional facilities as publicly-assisted housing accommodations for purposes of the division of human rights; defines correctional facilities and local correctional facilities.
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2025-02-04
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA04525Intro
25%
Prohibits the sale and distribution of anti-fogging sprays or wipes containing perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances; provides penalties for violations.
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2025-02-04
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYA04439Intro
25%
Relates to the purchase of zero-emission buses and the procurement of electric-powered buses, vehicles or other related equipment and infrastructure; requires public utilities to have infrastructure, capacity, facilities, and transmission and distrib...
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2025-02-04
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
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