New York Assemblymember Phara Souffrant Forrest [D] | House

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NYA09213Intro
25%
Requires the owner or operator of a major facility or a vessel to establish and maintain with the department evidence of financial responsibility sufficient to meet the amount of liability.
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2024-04-16
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYK01090PassMemorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim April 11-17, 2024, as Black Maternal Health Week in the State of New York
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2024-04-15
adopted
NYA07467Intro
25%
Relates to the use of psychotropic medications in nursing homes and adult care facilities; imposes limits as to time and documentation; requires informed consent under certain circumstances.
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2024-04-12
advanced to third reading cal.409
NYA05485Intro
25%
Expands protections regarding violations of safety conditions in adult care facilities; provides penalties for safety violations and operating without a valid license; prohibits reductions in fines in certain circumstances where a patient is endanger...
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2024-04-10
To Assembly Health Committee
NYK01080PassMemorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim April 9, 2024, as West Point Day in New York State
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2024-04-09
adopted
NYA09826Intro
25%
Relates to coverage for the treatment of asthma.
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2024-04-09
To Assembly Insurance Committee
NYA00995Intro
25%
Relates to the medical aid in dying act; relates to a terminally ill patient's request for and use of medication for medical aid in dying.
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2024-04-08
To Assembly Health Committee
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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2024-04-08
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA02653Intro
25%
Allows commuter vans to accept hails from prospective passengers in the street.
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2024-04-05
To Assembly Cities Committee
NYA04091Intro
25%
Requires each institution within the state university of New York and the city university of New York to have at least one vending machine making emergency contraception available for purchase.
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2024-04-05
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA04060Engross
50%
Requires menstrual products in all public college and university buildings.
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2024-04-03
To Senate Women's Issues Committee
NYA08923Intro
25%
Amends procedures required for the custodial interrogation of children to provide additional protections and for taking juveniles and sixteen and seventeen year olds into custody.
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2024-04-03
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA04066Engross
50%
Requires motor vehicle dealer franchisors to fully compensate franchised motor vehicle dealers for warranty service agreements.
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2024-04-03
RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
NYA09702Intro
25%
Includes nurse practitioners as a provider of services for purposes of collaborative drug therapy management; makes the authorization for pharmacists to perform such management permanent.
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2024-04-03
To Assembly Higher Education 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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2024-04-02
To Senate Health Committee
NYA02036Intro
25%
Enacts the "Marvin Mayfield act", eliminating mandatory minimum sentences.
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2024-03-28
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA09415Intro
25%
Enacts the "get congestion pricing right act"; directs the MTA to allocate $45 million to the MTA's bus system to increase frequency and reliability; directs the MTA to allocate $45 million to expand the fare-free bus pilot program within NYC; requir...
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2024-03-27
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYA00275Intro
25%
Directs the New York state energy research and development authority to establish a ride clean rebate program for electric assist bicycles and electric scooters; defines terms; provides a fifty percent rebate for eligible purchases.
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2024-03-26
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA01075Intro
25%
Establishes a program to address the legalization of specified basements and cellars and the conversion of other specified basements and cellars in a city with a population of one million or more.
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2024-03-25
To Assembly Local Governments Committee
NYA02164Intro
25%
Relates to providing voice communication services to incarcerated individuals in state correctional facilities at no cost.
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2024-03-25
To Assembly Correction Committee
NYA06583Engross
50%
Establishes November twenty-sixth of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Sojourner Truth Day".
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2024-03-25
RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
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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2024-03-22
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions 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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2024-03-21
advanced to third reading cal.360
NYA03347Intro
25%
Relates to criminal liability for persons living with sexually transmitted infections who engage in sexual activity; repeals provisions relating to persons knowing themselves to be infected with venereal disease.
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2024-03-21
advanced to third reading cal.367
NYA05366Intro
25%
Authorizes the legislature to increase the number of justices of the supreme court in any judicial district.
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2024-03-21
advanced to third reading cal.369
NYA08403Intro
25%
Provides that certain persons who are not residents of the state but who have resided in the state for a certain period of time and meet certain criteria shall be eligible for in-state tuition rates.
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2024-03-21
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA09145Intro
25%
Relates to conferring youthful offender status upon conviction of an eligible youth for a misdemeanor.
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2024-03-21
advanced to third reading cal.377
NYA08947Intro
25%
Establishes the retail worker safety act requiring retail worker employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence; requires employers to provide training on such programs and to conduct an annual review of the program; requir...
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2024-03-21
To Assembly Codes 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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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee
NYA01443Intro
25%
Relates to decreasing the length of the suspension period applicable to certain individuals who lose their jobs due to a labor dispute, such as a strike, and who seek to obtain unemployment insurance benefits; decreases the suspension period from two...
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2024-03-19
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA06506Engross
50%
Prohibits the sale of xylazine to persons under the age of 21 and without proof of the intended use for institutional, veterinary, or scientific purposes.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYA06247Intro
25%
Prohibits the placement in segregated confinement of any person in the first eight weeks of the post-partum recovery period regardless of pregnancy outcome by amending the definition of special populations to include such persons.
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2024-03-18
substituted by s5830
NYA05588Engross
50%
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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2024-03-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee
NYA05100Intro
25%
Relates to reporting requirements on small nonprofits which lobby before the government.
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2024-03-12
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA04019Intro
25%
Enacts the water bill fairness act; authorizes local water and sewerage authorities to charge fees for surface runoff.
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2024-03-11
enacting clause stricken
NYA07994Intro
25%
Specifies the persons authorized to visit facilities operated by the department of social services or a social services district and homeless projects; amends the definition of homeless project.
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2024-03-07
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA02970Intro
25%
Provides for restructuring unsustainable sovereign and subnational debt; provides a voluntary petition for relief may be filed with the state.
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2024-03-06
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYK00906PassMemorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim March 2024, as Women's History Month in the State of New York
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2024-03-05
adopted
NYA04425Intro
25%
Enacts The New Deal for CUNY; increases the ratio of faculty and mental health counselors to full-time students; requires that certain amounts of tuition be replaced by federal, state, and city funds.
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2024-03-04
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA05500Intro
25%
Relates to increasing the standards of monthly need and home energy grant amounts for persons in receipt of public assistance.
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2024-03-01
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA07546Intro
25%
Requires the commissioner of health to develop a sustainability plan for the state university of New York downstate medical center; provides that such sustainability plan shall not limit or alter the rights of employees pursuant to a collective barga...
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2024-02-29
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA07390Engross
50%
Permits midwives and physician assistants to certify the cause of death on a fetal death certificate if they are in attendance at or after a fetal death.
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2024-02-26
To Senate Health Committee
NYA01929Intro
25%
Eliminates from the class A misdemeanor of theft of services, the avoidance of payment for railroad, subway, bus or other public transportation services; allows for community service in lieu of a civil penalty for certain offenders of theft of transi...
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2024-02-22
enacting clause stricken
NYA07266Intro
25%
Relates to establishing speed limits in cities with populations in excess of one million people by easing restrictions so cities can establish speed limits below twenty miles per hour.
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2024-02-22
To Assembly Transportation Committee
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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2024-02-13
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA05363Intro
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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2024-02-13
To Assembly Codes 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
NYA09088Intro
25%
Establishes the New York State social housing development authority as a public benefit corporation to increase the supply of permanently affordable housing in the state through the acquisition of land and renovation or rehabilitation of existing rea...
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2024-02-06
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYK00822PassMemorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim February 2024, as Black History Month in the State of New York
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2024-02-05
adopted
NYA09012Intro
25%
Enacts the "Empowering People in Rights Enforcement (EMPIRE) Worker Protection Act"; relates to the delegation of state enforcement authority to private actors; authorizes an affected employee, whistleblower, representative organization or an organiz...
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2024-02-02
To Assembly Labor Committee
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