New York Assemblymember Phara Souffrant Forrest [D]

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NYK00045Intro
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Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim January 27, 2025, as Holocaust Remembrance Day in the State of New York
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2025-01-24
referred to calendar
NYA03180Intro
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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2025-01-23
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA03185Intro
25%
Requires a school nurse to be on the premises during school hours in any school having an enrollment of 100 pupils or more.
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2025-01-23
To Assembly Education Committee
NYA03095Intro
25%
Relates to the investment of funds wagered on video lottery gaming for certain horse races.
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2025-01-23
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA03063Intro
25%
Repeals certain provisions relating to use tax exemptions for certain race horses; prevents nonresident race horse owners from avoiding use tax in certain situations.
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2025-01-23
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA02698Intro
25%
Establishes an awareness campaign on the use of hormone replacement therapy in treating the symptoms of perimenopause and menopause.
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2025-01-22
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA02692Intro
25%
Establishes a working group to create a pilot program for an alternative system to a credit score for unbanked persons, undocumented immigrants and any other individuals who would benefit from such alternative system.
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2025-01-22
To Assembly Banks Committee
NYA02606Intro
25%
Relates to construction of voting machines and systems.
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2025-01-21
To Assembly Election Law Committee
NYA02596Intro
25%
Establishes new targets for offshore wind electricity generation; includes the requirements that there is at least 15 gigawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by 2040, at least 18 gigawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by 2045 and...
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2025-01-21
To Assembly Energy Committee
NYA02598Intro
25%
Establishes Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as school holidays, with dates established by religious law and tradition.
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2025-01-21
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA02653Intro
25%
Repeals the requirement that the senate vote to confirm the appointment of certain chief executive officers within a certain time period; amends certain provisions of law relating thereto.
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2025-01-21
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYK00028PassCommemorating the observance of the 40th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the State of New York, on January 20, 2025
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2025-01-21
adopted
NYA02621Intro
25%
Enacts the "education funding census update act"; updates the census numbers used to calculate certain education funding.
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2025-01-21
To Assembly Education Committee
NYK00034PassCommemorating the 221st Anniversary of the Independence of Haiti from France
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2025-01-21
adopted
NYA02582Intro
25%
Provides for supports and services for unaccompanied minors with no lawful immigration status including legal representation.
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2025-01-21
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYK00035PassRemembering the victims of the Haitian Earthquake of January 12, 2010
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2025-01-21
adopted
NYA02608Intro
25%
Creates parity for incarcerated individual telephone services for international calls to family members outside continental United States, Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam or Central Northern Mariana Islands by requiring identical restr...
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2025-01-21
To Assembly Correction Committee
NYA02441Intro
25%
Relates to the confidentiality and expungement of records in juvenile delinquency cases in the family court; requires certain records to be expunged automatically.
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2025-01-17
To Assembly Children and Families Committee
NYA02545Intro
25%
Increases foundation aid for school districts that meet five variables impacting academic success: free or reduced lunch, English language learners, wealth ratio, enrollment, special education, and being located in a high wealth ratio county.
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2025-01-17
To Assembly Education Committee
NYA02572Intro
25%
Exempts income earned by a head of household or any person in the household from certain job training or adult education programs from the determination of need for public assistance programs.
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2025-01-17
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA02454Intro
25%
Requires the commissioner of health to promulgate regulations requiring that the addition of, decertification of, or changes in the method of delivery of perinatal services by a general hospital be subject to an application under article 28 of the pu...
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2025-01-17
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA02264Intro
25%
Provides for the issuance of certificates of registration for entities that manufacture or assemble zero-emissions vehicles and have no franchised motor vehicle dealers in New York if the sale of zero-emission vehicles in the state fail to meet certa...
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2025-01-16
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYA02289Intro
25%
Enacts the manufacturer disclosure and transparency act requiring prescription drug manufacturers to notify the attorney general of arrangements between pharmaceutical manufacturers resulting in the delay of the introduction of generic medications.
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2025-01-16
To Assembly Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYA02292Intro
25%
Relates to the office of addiction services and supports and tobacco-limited and tobacco-free facilities for treatment.
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2025-01-16
To Assembly Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Committee
NYA02354Intro
25%
Expands eligibility for the tuition assistance program by restoring eligibility to graduate students; makes optional semesters, quarters or terms eligible for awards.
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2025-01-16
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA02390Intro
25%
Requires rent concessions to be reported to the division of housing and community renewal; requires the inclusion of a statement of net effective rent for units with concessions; requires certain annual statements filed to include reporting of rent c...
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2025-01-16
To Assembly Housing Committee
NYA02367Intro
25%
Permits other qualifying members of a household to qualify the household for the disability rent increase exemption when they are not the head of household.
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2025-01-16
To Assembly Aging Committee
NYA02266Intro
25%
Relates to providing voice communication services to incarcerated individuals in state correctional facilities at no cost.
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2025-01-16
To Assembly Correction Committee
NYA02315Intro
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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2025-01-16
To Assembly Correction Committee
NYA02417Intro
25%
Requires applicants for major projects located near a disadvantaged community to submit an enhanced public participation plan.
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2025-01-16
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYA02126Intro
25%
Relates to reducing the cost of prescription drugs by establishing maximum wholesale drug prices that are the same as the prices in Canada.
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2025-01-15
To Assembly Insurance Committee
NYA02125Intro
25%
Enacts the "fair college admissions act"; prohibits legacy admissions policies at colleges and universities in New York; declares such policies and practices to be discriminatory and inequitable.
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2025-01-15
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA02100Intro
25%
Grants public access to employer lactation rooms under certain circumstances.
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2025-01-15
To Assembly Labor Committee
NYA02111Intro
25%
Requires suicide prevention hotline centers to meet certain requirements for individuals who are in the perinatal period.
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2025-01-15
To Assembly Mental Health Committee
NYA02108Intro
25%
Exempts baby bottles and bottle nipples from sales and compensating use tax.
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2025-01-15
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA02101Intro
25%
Establishes the green affordable pre-electrification program to assist owners and tenants in residential properties in curing structural and building code defects which render the properties ineligible for climate change adaptation and resiliency pro...
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2025-01-15
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYA02170Intro
25%
Repeals the state Medicaid spending cap and related processes.
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2025-01-15
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA02130Intro
25%
Repeals the tax exempt status of private universities that received real property tax exemptions of one hundred million dollars or more during the prior fiscal year.
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2025-01-15
To Assembly Real Property Taxation Committee
NYA02137Intro
25%
Provides practical support for access to abortion care including, but not limited to, reimbursement for ground and air transportation, lodging, meals, childcare, translation services, and doula support.
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2025-01-15
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA02181Intro
25%
Provides lead service line identification by a public water system that serves certain areas.
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2025-01-15
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA02059Intro
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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2025-01-15
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA02061Intro
25%
Relates to eliminating asset limits in calculating the amount of benefits for any household under any public assistance program.
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2025-01-15
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA02147Intro
25%
Exempts breast pumps and breast pump kits from sales and compensating use taxes; defines terms.
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2025-01-15
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA02148Intro
25%
Exempts infant car seats from sales and compensating use tax.
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2025-01-15
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA02190Intro
25%
Provides for the licensing of vision impairment specialists.
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2025-01-15
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA02184Intro
25%
Relates to establishing the commission on African American history and achievement to develop and recommend school curriculum that incorporates the contributions and achievements made by African Americans.
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2025-01-15
To Assembly Education Committee
NYA02242Intro
25%
Allows for certain disability benefits to continue in the event an individual who is receiving such benefits gets married; provides that the marriage to another individual which would otherwise make an individual ineligible for certain disability ben...
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2025-01-15
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA01724Intro
25%
Provides grants to address food insecurity among students at public institutions for higher education.
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2025-01-14
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA01755Intro
25%
Provides "WiFi service" internet access to all individuals residing in temporary housing; relates to funding for internet service under the ConnectAll digital equity grant program.
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2025-01-14
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA01749Intro
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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2025-01-14
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
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