New York Assemblymember John McDonald [D] | House | Bills

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NYA09333Intro
25%
Requires state employees attend annual implicit bias training and the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, comptroller, and members of the legislature attend annual management training.
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2024-02-29
To Assembly Labor Committee
NYA04970Intro
25%
Authorizes exemptions from school district real property taxes for volunteer firefighters residing in such school district.
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2024-02-27
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA09227Intro
25%
Defines therapeutic agriculture for the purposes of community gardens as the use of agricultural activities as a means of promoting physical, mental and emotional well-being, rehabilitation and therapy for certain individuals.
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2024-02-27
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA07808Intro
25%
Enacts the feathered lives also count act directing the commissioner of general services to incorporate practices and strategies to reduce bird fatality resulting from collisions with certain state-owned or state-leased buildings, and for other purpo...
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2024-02-27
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA09271Intro
25%
Provides that each state and city college or university assign a personal identification number to each application for acceptance to be used during the admissions process in place of any other identifying information including names and addresses.
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2024-02-23
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA03910Intro
25%
Requires public corporations and agencies to provide written notice to each minority- or women-owned business enterprise that unsuccessfully bid on a contract of the reason or reasons why the business enterprise was unsuccessful in obtaining the cont...
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2024-02-21
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYA00870Intro
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 and lunch ...
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2024-02-20
To Assembly Education Committee
NYA09215Intro
25%
Establishes a civil remedy for the protection of animals denied proper care by creating a special proceeding in the supreme court that will hold owners and caretakers liable if such animals under their care are mistreated.
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2024-02-16
To Assembly Agriculture Committee
NYA09206Intro
25%
Relates to the taxation of vapor products; provides for the licensing of vapor products distributors; imposes certain tax return filing requirements on vapor products distributors; provides for enforcement powers.
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2024-02-16
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA07114Intro
25%
Relates to bioheating fuel requirements; allows B100 or B99 biofuel and R100 or R99 renewable fuel to be used to blend with or replace fossil heating oil in order to create bioheating fuel.
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2024-02-16
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYA08311Intro
25%
Permits utility corporations to enter into agreements with municipalities and private landowners for the development of multi-use trails in electric utility corridors that can be used for recreation and transportation.
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2024-02-15
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYA08230Intro
25%
Authorizes a prenatal and postpartum informational mobile application for individuals who are eligible for Medicaid.
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2024-02-13
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA08437Intro
25%
Adds certain human services programs to the designated human services programs eligible for a cost of living adjustment.
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2024-02-09
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA07524Intro
25%
Provides that for taxable years beginning on and after January first, two thousand twenty-four, a resident taxpayer who serves as an active volunteer firefighter or as a volunteer ambulance worker shall be allowed a credit against the tax imposed equ...
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2024-02-09
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA09164Intro
25%
Authorizes and directs the commissioner of environmental conservation to conduct a study on food waste initiatives and to provide recommendations based on the study's findings.
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2024-02-08
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYA09151Intro
25%
Relates to requiring certain civil court documents to be provided to parties in their native language and requiring parties to demonstrate their understanding of the nature and effect of such documents.
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2024-02-08
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA09134Intro
25%
Requires food distributors that accept SNAP benefits to establish a mechanism to apply available coupons or discounts to purchases made by eligible recipients of SNAP benefits without such recipient being required to provide a physical coupon.
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2024-02-08
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA09135Intro
25%
Requires members of a public body to complete a minimum of two hours of training on the state's open meetings law and freedom of information law; requires certain local, city, county, town and village public body members to complete such training as ...
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2024-02-08
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA09155Intro
25%
Adds red cross vehicles to the definition of authorized emergency vehicles.
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2024-02-08
To Assembly Transportation Committee
NYA08501PassRequires written notice of an adverse determination made by a utilization review agent in relation to a step therapy protocol override determination which includes the clinical review criteria relied upon to make such determination and any applicable...
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2024-02-07
signed chap.28
NYA09110Intro
25%
Prohibits the keeping of inventory, storage, warehouse, processing, packaging, shipping or distributing of flavored vapor products near where vapor or tobacco products are sold at retail or wholesale.
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2024-02-07
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA01962Intro
25%
Requires certain health insurance issuers to certify that at least a majority of prescription drug rebates are provided to patients at the point of sale.
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2024-02-06
To Assembly Insurance Committee
NYA09055Intro
25%
Relates to prescription drug formulary coverage for interchangeable biologics and biosimilars.
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2024-02-05
To Assembly Insurance Committee
NYA09059Intro
25%
Requires the empire state plaza art commission to examine the historical significance of major rivers in the state of New York in connection with renaming the agency buildings located at the empire state plaza; requires the governor to choose the new...
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2024-02-05
To Assembly Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Committee
NYA09034Intro
25%
Requires the state Medicaid director to establish a program for specific individuals to become complex care assistants and provide private duty nursing services to certain Medicaid enrollees under increased reimbursement rates.
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2024-02-05
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA06804Intro
25%
Relates to improving student mental health and mental health literacy in institutions of higher education in the state; requires the amendment or adoption of related protocols, policies and programs in SUNY, CUNY and independent institutions of highe...
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2024-02-02
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA08997Intro
25%
Prohibits the use of credit history checks to ascertain the payment status of a student loan of an applicant for employment for the purposes of making hiring decisions except where otherwise mandated by law.
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2024-02-01
To Assembly Labor Committee
NYA08979Intro
25%
Adds courses at a licensed New York state driving school approved by the commissioner of motor vehicles to the list of driver education providers.
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2024-01-31
To Assembly Transportation Committee
NYA06839Intro
25%
Establishes a multi-agency study group to conduct a study and to make recommendations regarding the optimal pension and retirement plan alternatives which could be made available to not-for-profit human services corporations in this state.
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2024-01-31
To Assembly Governmental Employees Committee
NYA05268Intro
25%
Establishes a direct support wage enhancement to employees that provide direct care support or any other form of treatment, to individuals with developmental disabilities and whose income is less than $125,000.
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2024-01-30
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA08363Intro
25%
Authorizes the use of approved programs at foreign dental schools to satisfy the experience requirement for licensure as a dentist.
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2024-01-29
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA06635Intro
25%
Relates to calculating certain pensions; increases pension calculation from thirty-five to forty per centum of final average salary.
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2024-01-29
To Assembly Governmental Employees Committee
NYA08881Intro
25%
Authorizes pharmacists to administer injections for contraceptive use.
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2024-01-26
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA08910Intro
25%
Establishes a highway and depot charging needs evaluation to assist in achieving targets set forth by the climate leadership and community protection act, zero-emissions vehicle sales target and regulations, including the advanced clean truck, advanc...
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2024-01-26
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYA08912Intro
25%
Provides that the tax on premium cigars shall be at the rate of seventy-five percent of the wholesale price or fifty cents, whichever is less, and is intended to be imposed only once upon the sale of any premium cigars; defines "premium cigar"; provi...
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2024-01-26
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA08525Intro
25%
Clarifies provisions relating to dispensing of drug adulterant testing supplies.
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2024-01-23
substituted by s8061
NYA00859Intro
25%
Requires insurers and health plans to grant automatic preauthorization approvals to eligible health care professionals in certain circumstances.
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2024-01-22
To Assembly Insurance Committee
NYA01151Intro
25%
Relates to reimbursement for non-medical transportation for individuals with a substance use disorder to receive peer support services.
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2024-01-18
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA08861Intro
25%
Establishes the New York state museum partnership trust to serve as a focal point for the receipt and administration of private gifts, devises and bequests of real and personal property donated to further historic preservation, advance cultural educa...
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2024-01-18
To Assembly Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Committee
NYA08851Intro
25%
Updates the fee collected by county clerks and clerks for the city of New York for deposit into the cultural education account from $15 to $25; increases the amount retained by the county or city from $0.75 to $1.00.
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2024-01-18
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA01411Engross
50%
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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2024-01-17
To Senate Civil Service and Pensions Committee
NYA08349Intro
25%
Establishes the psilocybin assisted therapy pilot program; provides such program will be offered to ten thousand veterans and first responders from the western region of New York state.
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2024-01-16
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA08596Intro
25%
Provides for the initiation of treatment for COVID-19, influenza, and pharyngitis resulting from a Group A streptococcal infection by a licensed pharmacist in certain circumstances.
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2024-01-12
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA08574Intro
25%
Issues distinctive epilepsy awareness license plates; establishes an epilepsy awareness fund and an epilepsy research and education program.
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2024-01-12
To Assembly Transportation Committee
NYA08592Intro
25%
Requires health care plans and payors to have a minimum of twelve and one-half percent of their total expenditures on physical and mental health annually be for primary care services.
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2024-01-12
To Assembly Insurance Committee
NYA08602Intro
25%
Requires health benefits for state and retired state employees have the option to only cover the employee or retiree and their spouse or domestic partner.
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2024-01-12
To Assembly Governmental Employees Committee
NYA00806Intro
25%
Relates to requiring certain civil court documents to be provided to parties in their native language and requiring parties to demonstrate their understanding of the nature and effect of such documents.
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2024-01-10
enacting clause stricken
NYA00383Intro
25%
Diversifies the investment authority of the New York state insurance fund.
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2024-01-10
enacting clause stricken
NYA00821Intro
25%
Authorizes and directs the commissioner of environmental conservation to conduct a study on food waste initiatives and to provide recommendations based on the study's findings.
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2024-01-10
enacting clause stricken
NYA00788Intro
25%
Prohibits the use of credit history checks to ascertain the payment status of a student loan of an applicant for employment for the purposes of making hiring decisions except where otherwise mandated by law.
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2024-01-10
enacting clause stricken
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