New York Assemblymember Phara Souffrant Forrest [D]

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NYA03992Intro
25%
Relates to construction of voting machines and systems.
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2023-09-13
To Assembly Election Law Committee
NYA04819Intro
25%
Establishes the professional practice of community midwifery; defines as the management in the home, birth center, or community setting, of normal pregnancies, child birth, and postpartum care, including newborn evaluation, resuscitation and referral...
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2023-09-13
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA08021Intro
25%
Enacts the "New York emergency expedited temporary work permit act" to allow asylum seekers to apply for and be granted temporary work permits while their federal immigration status is being determined.
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2023-09-13
To Assembly Labor Committee
NYA04333Intro
25%
Requires fashion sellers to be accountable to standardized environmental and social due diligence policies; establishes a fashion remediation fund for the purpose of implementing one or more environmental benefit projects or labor remediation project...
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2023-09-06
To Assembly Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYA07994Intro
25%
Specifies the persons authorized to visit facilities operated by the department of social services or a social services district.
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2023-09-01
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA08018Intro
25%
Requires domestic violence and sexual assault awareness training for the licensing of nail specialty, natural hair styling, esthetics and cosmetology.
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2023-09-01
To Assembly Economic Development, Job Creation, Commerce and Industry Committee
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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2023-08-18
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA06027Intro
25%
Relates to regulation of the billing by general hospitals and the distribution of funds from the general hospital indigent care pool; requires use of a uniform application form and policy.
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2023-08-16
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA01263Intro
25%
Relates to judicial diversion programs; establishes a diversion part in each county; repeals certain provisions of law relating thereto.
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2023-08-04
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA01283Engross
50%
Provides that no person shall be denied the equal protection of the laws of this state or any subdivision thereof; provides no person shall, because of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, creed, religion, or sex, including sexua...
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2023-08-04
delivered to secretary of state
NYA04517Intro
25%
Relates to promoting inmate voter registration and voting by incarcerated people; requires the department of corrections and community supervision to distribute a voter information guide and hold voter information and registration clinics for incarce...
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2023-07-24
enacting clause stricken
NYA03492Intro
25%
Relates to authorizing certain public officials and members of the clergy to visit sex offender civil confinement facilities.
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2023-07-24
enacting clause stricken
NYA07898Intro
25%
Provides that no law enforcement agency shall use a chemical incapacitant except for pepper spray; defines terms.
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2023-07-19
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA07897Intro
25%
Establishes the New York Health program, a comprehensive system of access to health insurance for New York state residents; provides for administrative structure of the plan; provides for powers and duties of the board of trustees, the scope of benef...
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2023-07-19
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA07863Intro
25%
Relates to the removal of certain policemen.
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2023-07-07
To Assembly Governmental Employees Committee
NYA02878Engross
50%
Relates to motions to vacate judgment; authorizes filing motions to vacate judgment for a conviction that was subsequently decriminalized; authorizes motions to vacate judgment to be filed at any time after entry of a judgment obtained at trial or by...
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2023-06-20
substituted by s7548
NYA01278Intro
25%
Prohibits non-compete agreements and certain restrictive covenants; authorizes covered individuals to bring a civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction against any employer or persons alleged to have violated such prohibition.
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2023-06-20
substituted by s3100a
NYA07334Intro
25%
Increases the city of New York procurement limit for businesses owned by women and minorities from one million dollars to one million, five hundred thousand dollars.
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2023-06-20
substituted by s7563
NYA07786Intro
25%
Repeals the state Medicaid spending cap and related processes.
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2023-06-15
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA02034Intro
25%
Increases compensation schedule in case of disability; provides that compensation after July 1, 2026 shall not be less than one-fifth of the New York state average weekly wage unless the employee's weekly wage is equal to or less than one-fifth the w...
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2023-06-10
substituted by s1161a
NYA06604Intro
25%
Protects employee freedom of speech and conscience by prohibiting employers from coercing employees into attending or participating in meetings sponsored by the employer concerning the employer's views on political or religious matters.
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2023-06-10
substituted by s4982
NYA06275Intro
25%
Prohibits medical debt from being collected by a consumer reporting agency or included in a consumer report and prohibits medical service providers from reporting medical debt directly or indirectly to a consumer reporting agency.
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2023-06-10
substituted by s4907a
NYA05900Intro
25%
Establishes a tax on direct broadcast satellite services and video streaming services; establishes the community media reinvestment fund; imposes an excise tax on direct broadcast satellite services or video streaming services; provides monies from t...
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2023-06-10
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA04871Intro
25%
Requires certain state owned and operated parking facilities to install and maintain charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles.
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2023-06-10
substituted by s1535a
NYA03484Intro
25%
Relates to the disclosure of beneficial owners of limited liability companies and foreign limited liability companies and certain information about such beneficial owners; requires the secretary of state to maintain a public database of all business ...
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2023-06-09
substituted by s995b
NYA01029Engross
50%
Provides for automatic sealing of certain convictions after a certain passage of time from either imposition of sentence, release from parole or probation, and if the defendant does not have a current charge pending; excludes certain offenses; permit...
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2023-06-09
RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
NYA04942Engross
50%
Requires the SUNY and CUNY boards of trustees and boards of trustees of community colleges to establish a policy for the awarding of posthumous degrees; requires such policy to waive any remaining credits for enrolled matriculated students who die an...
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2023-06-09
RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
NYA05294Intro
25%
Establishes a captive insurance program for commuter vans that are engaged in the business of carrying or transporting eight to twenty-four passengers for hire; establishes the commuter van trust fund.
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2023-06-09
substituted by s4862
NYA02893Intro
25%
Makes community violence prevention services available, to the extent permitted by federal law, to any Medicaid beneficiary who has received medical treatment for an injury sustained as a result of an act of community violence and has been referred b...
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2023-06-09
substituted by s580a
NYA01297Engross
50%
Requires hospitals to adopt, implement and periodically update standard protocols for the management of fetal demise.
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2023-06-09
RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
NYA06843Intro
25%
Relates to the information to be included in vacancy rate studies.
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2023-06-09
substituted by s1684a
NYA03827Intro
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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2023-06-09
substituted by s5905
NYA03412Intro
25%
Provides that no incarcerated individual in any state or local prison, penitentiary, jail or reformatory shall be compelled or induced to provide labor against his or her will.
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2023-06-08
substituted by s225b
NYA01722Intro
25%
Requires a proposed amendment to the constitution or other question provided by law to be submitted to a statewide vote be submitted to the people for their approval in plain language which is deemed to be no higher than an eighth grade reading level...
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2023-06-08
substituted by s1381a
NYA00372Intro
25%
Establishes the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and people living with HIV long-term care facility residents' bill of rights; prohibits a long-term care facility or facility staff from discriminating against any resident on the basis of such ...
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2023-06-08
substituted by s1783a
NYA07691Engross
50%
Relates to acknowledging the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery in the city of New York and the state of New York; establishes the New York state community commission on reparations remedies to examine the institution...
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2023-06-08
RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
NYA07407Intro
25%
Establishes new targets for offshore wind electricity generation; includes the requirements that there is at least 9,900 megawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by 2035, 15,800 megawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by 2040, at l...
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2023-06-08
To Assembly Rules Committee
NYA00109Intro
25%
Prohibits drug, cannabis or alcohol testing and screening of pregnant or postpartum individuals and newborns unless the individual consents and it is within the scope of medical care, or the testing or screening is necessary for a medical emergency.
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2023-06-07
To Assembly Rules Committee
NYA05608Intro
25%
Enacts the "roadway excavation quality assurance act"; relates to workers on excavations; provides that utility companies or their contractors shall use competent workers and shall pay the prevailing wage on projects where a permit to use, excavate, ...
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2023-06-07
substituted by s4887
NYA02898Engross
50%
Requires insurance policies to cover neuropsychological exams for dyslexia under certain circumstances; caps coverage amount.
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2023-06-07
To Senate Rules Committee
NYA04243Intro
25%
Enacts the "New York wildlife crossing act"; directs the department of transportation to identify sites along all highways, thruways and parkways in the state where wildlife crossings are most needed to increase public safety and improve habitat conn...
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2023-06-07
substituted by s4198
NYA01926Engross
50%
Requires the commissioner of health to publish certain information relating to home care services usage on the department's website on an annual basis including the number of individuals receiving care, those that have had permanent transfers and agg...
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2023-06-06
RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
NYA01709Intro
25%
Provides certain legal protections for reproductive health service providers who provide legally protected health activities including protection from extradition, arrest and legal proceedings in other states relating to such services; restricts the ...
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2023-06-06
substituted by s1066b
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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2023-06-06
To Senate Rules Committee
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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2023-06-06
To Assembly Rules Committee
NYA01645Engross
50%
Requires all incarcerated individuals who do not have a high-school diploma or its equivalent to receive a reading proficiency level assessment and dyslexia screening upon intake by the department of corrections; requires for such individuals who per...
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2023-06-05
To Senate Rules Committee
NYA02177Intro
25%
Requires degree-granting institutions of higher education to make certain biennial disclosures and to conspicuously publish the report on the website of such institution and submit the website address of such report to the department.
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2023-06-05
amended on third reading 2177a
NYA02880Intro
25%
Provides for paid family leave after a stillbirth.
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2023-06-05
amend by restoring to original print 2880
NYA05588Intro
25%
Requires parity in the mental and physical health treatment of the residents of New York state; provides that both mental and physical health "will be matters of public concern and provision therefor shall be made by the state and by such of its subd...
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2023-06-05
ordered to third reading rules cal.513
NYA05200Intro
25%
Enacts Matthew's law which provides for the dispensing of drug adulterant testing supplies by health care professionals or pharmacists to any person.
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2023-06-05
substituted by s2099c
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