New York Assemblymember Phara Souffrant Forrest [D] | Introduced

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NYA04115Intro
25%
Establishes a SNAP and cash assistance fraud victims compensation fund.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA00170Intro
25%
Establishes the right to legal counsel in immigration court proceedings; provides for the administration thereof.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA04142Intro
25%
Requires at least a ratio of one clinical, non-student mental health staff member per one thousand students on all SUNY and CUNY campuses and for state colleges and universities to update such ratio every five years.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA04021Intro
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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2024-01-03
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA04122Intro
25%
Relates to spending by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority; requires the MTA to allocate funds received for tax years 2023-2026 in certain amounts for certain purposes; requires the authority to freeze fares, increase service frequency, and imp...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYA04183Intro
25%
Eliminates court surcharges and fees and probation and parole surcharges and fees; eliminates the requirement that a parolee or releasee receiving a merit termination of sentence be financially able to comply with an order of restitution; eliminates ...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA04346Intro
25%
Relates to operators of a vehicle overtaking a bicycle or pedestrian outside the city of New York.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Transportation Committee
NYA04454Intro
25%
Prohibits eviction without good cause; sets forth grounds for removal of tenants.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Housing Committee
NYA04604Intro
25%
Requires comprehensive sexuality instruction for students in grades K-12 which includes a model curricula for comprehensive sexuality education and at a minimum conforms to the content and scope of national sexuality education standards.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Education 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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2024-01-03
To Assembly Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYA04576Intro
25%
Requires the board of education and the trustees or sole trustee of every school district to establish policies and procedures regarding the treatment of transgender or gender non-conforming students.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Education 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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2024-01-03
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA04781Intro
25%
Prohibits landlords, lessors, sub-lessors and grantors from demanding brokers' fees from a tenant.
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2024-01-03
ordered to third reading cal.134
NYA04815Intro
25%
Establishes the universal child care act to provide for the establishment and funding of universal child care in the state of New York; relates to the effectiveness of the child care availability taskforce; makes an appropriation therefor.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Children and Families Committee
NYA04821Intro
25%
Establishes an unemployment bridge program and an unemployment bridge program fund to provide wage replacement to workers that do not qualify for unemployment insurance or other worker wage assistance programs and who have lost a major source of inco...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Labor Committee
NYA04836Intro
25%
Enacts the "Wandering Officers Act" prohibiting provisional or permanent appointment of a person as a police officer if such person has previously been fired as a police officer from any jurisdiction within or without the state, if such person left a...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA04893Intro
25%
Requires public agencies to establish preliminary license application procedures to determine whether an applicant for a license would be ineligible for such license based on criminal history; establishes time frames for public agencies to respond to...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Correction Committee
NYA01710Intro
25%
Provides for minimum wage requirements for miscellaneous industry workers.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Labor Committee
NYA04920Intro
25%
Prohibits digital advertisers from establishing a virtual "geofence" around a health care facility that enables the advertiser to send targeted advertisements to any cellphones or mobile devices that enter such health care facility; prohibits the del...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYA05018Intro
25%
Updates value capture mechanisms for NYC and the MTA, including transparency requirements; makes such provisions permanent.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYA02418Intro
25%
Relates to assisting persons with medically diagnosed HIV infection.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA03690Intro
25%
Raises the tax rate on corporate income; increases the state conformity to federal taxation of corporate profit shifting; imposes an additional tax on individual business income in response to federal tax benefits for pass-through business income.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA00786Intro
25%
Provides for the return of surplus proceeds from tax lien foreclosures to a former owner; requires 14-day posted notice prior to the public auction of a property.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Real Property Taxation Committee
NYA02576Intro
25%
Imposes an additional tax on income attributable to long-term capital gain.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA01920Intro
25%
Relates to the establishment of a state university-based center for employee ownership that provides education and outreach to business owners regarding employee ownership.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Economic Development, Job Creation, Commerce and Industry Committee
NYA01907Intro
25%
Requires a public housing authority to file in the office of the commissioner of housing and community renewal and with the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly a physical needs assessment every five years; defines "physi...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Housing Committee
NYA03292Intro
25%
Provides that contributions up to the first $250 of any contribution amount shall be matchable contributions under the public campaign financing program.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Election Law Committee
NYA01955Intro
25%
Creates the district long-term care ombudsman council program to coordinate volunteer ombudsmen in each assembly district.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Aging Committee
NYA03115Intro
25%
Imposes a progressive income tax structure for high income taxpayers.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA05191Intro
25%
Provides for the employment of mental health professionals by school districts.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Education Committee
NYA05372Intro
25%
Increases monetary penalties for public health law violations; provides support for the nursing home quality improvement demonstration program.
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2024-01-03
ordered to third reading cal.147
NYA02880Intro
25%
Provides for paid family leave after a stillbirth.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Labor Committee
NYA01699Intro
25%
Relates to releasing individuals charged with a crime under non-monetary bail conditions in order to receive mental health screening or be admitted to a hospital as a result of a mental illness which is likely to result in harm to such individual or ...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA05577Intro
25%
Provides for the advance payment of the earned income tax credit to qualifying employees.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA05691Intro
25%
Relates to school climate and codes of conduct on school property and disciplinary action following violation of such codes of conduct; makes conforming amendments.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Education Committee
NYA05709Intro
25%
Increases the number of members on the state commission of correction and provides for the manner of confirmation of such members.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Correction Committee
NYA04354Intro
25%
Prohibits governmental entities from entering into agreements to house individuals in immigration detention facilities; requires governmental entities to terminate existing contracts for the detention of individuals in immigration detention facilitie...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Correction Committee
NYA05728Intro
25%
Excludes unemployment compensation from being included in the computation of state income tax.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA05686Intro
25%
Prohibits and regulates the discovery and disclosure of immigration status; prohibits police officers, peace officers, school resource officers, probation agencies, state entities, state employees, and municipal corporations from questioning individu...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA05745Intro
25%
Relates to claims for mental injury premised upon extraordinary work-related stress incurred at work; applies to all workers.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Labor Committee
NYA05875Intro
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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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA05911Intro
25%
Relates to pharmacy services provided by managed care providers; requires pharmacy benefit managers and managed care providers to reimburse retail pharmacies for each outpatient drug, at the National Average Drug Acquisition Cost (NADAC); repeals rel...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Health 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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2024-01-03
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA06112Intro
25%
Requires the appointment of an independent fiduciary upon the closing of a charter school to develop and implement the dissolution plan of such charter school, including the distribution of assets.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Education Committee
NYA06257Intro
25%
Authorizes cities and towns, except a city with a population of one million or more, to establish community preservation funds; authorizes such cities and towns to impose a real estate transfer tax with revenues to be deposited in such funds; makes r...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA01980Intro
25%
Requires child protective services to orally and in writing disclose certain information to parents and caretakers who are the subject of a child protective services investigation; requires such oral and written disclosure to contain certain informat...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA02139Intro
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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2024-01-03
To Assembly Education Committee
NYA05664Intro
25%
Removes citizenship as a qualification for holding public office in this state.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA04452Intro
25%
Authorizes the reissuance of emergency assistance to needy families with children, safety net assistance, SNAP benefits, or emergency assistance for aged, blind and disabled persons in instances of fraud or theft of benefits.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA02899Intro
25%
Amends elements of the felony murder rule to require that defendant directly causes death or be an accomplice with the intent to cause death; permits vacating conviction or resentencing of defendants convicted of felony murder; amends maximum sentenc...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Codes Committee
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