New York Assemblymember Phara Souffrant Forrest [D] | Introduced

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NYA02594Intro
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Establishes an interstate compact agreement to phase out corporate giveaways which prohibits member states from offering or providing any company-specific tax incentive or company-specific grant to any entity for a corporate headquarters, manufacturi...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Economic Development, Job Creation, Commerce and Industry Committee
NYA02525Intro
25%
Expands the age range eligibility for the rent subsidy payable to a foster child living independently to age twenty-four.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA00918Intro
25%
Relates to authorizing early parole release for incarcerated individuals where substance abuse was a significant contributing factor in the commission of the offense.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Correction Committee
NYA02341Intro
25%
Relates to allowing for students in certain postsecondary education experience or transition programs to receive awards from the tuition assistance program.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA02560Intro
25%
Prevents the use of funds, financial incentives, subsidies or tax exemptions for projects already in development.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Local Governments Committee
NYA06346Intro
25%
Removes certain restrictions on eligibility for personal and home care services under medicaid.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA01763Intro
25%
Establishes a discount fare rate of no less than 25% for full-time undergraduate students attending an accredited college who utilize the New York city transit system, including railroad, subway and/or omnibus services.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYA06263Intro
25%
Establishes the office of equity for energy and climate to support local and communally developed climate projects to support disadvantaged communities, including by establishing and administering the community solutions fund and the solutions grants...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYA06601Intro
25%
Prohibits state chartered banking institutions from investing in and providing financing for private prisons.
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2024-01-03
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NYA06594Intro
25%
Relates to including diagnosis of asthma or other respiratory diseases for which rescue inhaler treatment is prescribed in the statewide immunization information system.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA01863Intro
25%
Requires the court to advise a defendant that if he or she is a noncitizen resident and he or she is convicted of a crime, whether by plea or trial, such conviction may result in his or her deportation; allows a withdrawal of a plea of guilty by a no...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA06414Intro
25%
Relates to the purchase of zero-emission buses and the procurement of electric-powered buses, vehicles or other related equipment and infrastructure; requires public utilities to have infrastructure, capacity, facilities, and transmission and distrib...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA05317Intro
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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2024-01-03
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA02170Intro
25%
Relates to treatment of gains from qualified opportunity zones in calculating taxable income; removes exclusion of gains on property in qualified opportunity zones in calculation of income.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA04238Intro
25%
Relates to granting certain individuals youthful offender status; adds a new category of individuals eligible for young adult offender status; provides for process and sentencing requirements related to such statuses.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA05677Intro
25%
Sets requirements for the sale, lease, and rental of powered bicycles, powered mobility devices, and storage batteries for such devices; provides for penalties for the violation thereof.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYA02872Intro
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Relates to authorizing the payment of costs, up to eighty dollars, of diapers for an eligible child two years of age or younger for children receiving safety net assistance.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA06666Intro
25%
Prohibits all registered organizations, licensees, or permittees or other entities under the jurisdiction of the cannabis board from selling or delivering any edible cannabis products not in child resistant packaging.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Economic Development, Job Creation, Commerce and Industry Committee
NYA02083Intro
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Prohibits insurance companies from discriminating based on genetic predisposition including refusing to issue or renew, charging any increased rate, or restricting any length of coverage; prohibits insurers from requiring genetic testing.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Insurance Committee
NYA00902Intro
25%
Requires the department of education to report information regarding counselors, social workers and psychologists in schools and to implement a plan to increase the school counselor, school social worker and school psychologist to student ratio to na...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Education Committee
NYA04043Intro
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Requires the metropolitan transportation authority to publish certain information pertaining to capital project data for projects that are committed for construction on the capital program dashboard maintained by the authority on the authority's webs...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYA04093Intro
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Establishes the "winter moratorium on evictions act of 2023" to prohibit eviction of tenants from residential properties during the winter months.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Housing Committee
NYA03984Intro
25%
Prohibits landlords from refusing to deal with certain people solely because those people were involved in prior summary proceedings.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Housing Committee
NYA00160Intro
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Allows for state agencies, municipalities, and authorities to provide state or local public benefits regardless of immigration status.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA00131Intro
25%
Relates to available transportation for correction facility visitation; provides for at a minimum, bi-monthly free transportation from the city of New York, Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo and Albany.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Correction Committee
NYA05513Intro
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Relates to making certain housing programs available regardless of immigration status; provides that local social services districts in a city with a population of five million or more shall be permitted to offer certain housing programs to individua...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA02155Intro
25%
Prohibits the use of restraints on incarcerated individuals during labor, absent extraordinary circumstances, and on pregnant persons during a custodial interrogation.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Correction Committee
NYA02554Intro
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Authorizes the commissioner of the division of housing and community renewal to prescribe for the translation of legal forms and applications in languages other than English, as long as such language is spoken by at least one percent of the populatio...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Housing Committee
NYA05199Intro
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Imposes an excise tax on the sale of ammunition to be deposited into the firearm violence intervention fund to help victims of and witnesses to violence.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA03973Intro
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Relates to providing voting materials and assistance in Haitian Creole.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Election Law Committee
NYA03252Intro
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Establishes a billionaire mark-to-market tax taxing residents with one billion dollars or more in net assets.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA07235Intro
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Requires certain documents and forms to be provided in the twelve most common non-English languages spoken by limited English proficient immigrants of five years or less according to the American community survey, as published by the United States ce...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA06943Intro
25%
Establishes the "Not on our dime!: Ending New York funding of Israeli settler violence act" to prohibit not-for-profit corporations from engaging in unauthorized support of Israeli settlement activity; allows for recovery of a civil penalty by the st...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYA01432Intro
25%
Removes the lifetime ban on jury duty for convicted felons; suspends jury service of any person serving a term of incarceration for a felony conviction during the period of such incarceration.
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2024-01-03
ordered to third reading cal.43
NYA03539Intro
25%
Relates to eliminating asset limits in calculating the amount of benefits for any household under any public assistance program.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA01473Intro
25%
Establishes the abortion access fund; allows for individuals to designate a gift to the fund on their personal income tax returns.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA00476Intro
25%
Relates to prohibiting retail establishments including food-service establishments from refusing to accept payment in cash; provides a civil penalty will be assessed for such actions.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYA07048Intro
25%
Requires that businesses that provide consumers with online accounts to access services permit consumers who have been victims of identity theft to recover such accounts using proper identification if the business has a physical presence in this stat...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYA01563Intro
25%
Provides for a personal income tax deduction for student loan payments.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA07465Intro
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Relates to preserving access to affordable drugs; provides that an agreement resolving or settling, on a final or interim basis, a patent infringement claim, in connection with the sale of a pharmaceutical product, shall be presumed to have anticompe...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA07567Intro
25%
Provides that a person who commits a crime during a period of post-release supervision and when such charge culminates in a new sentence, the period of post-release supervision shall be deemed interrupted for any period in which such person was held ...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA07533Intro
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Clarifies the definition of persons with a disability for purposes of the definition of special populations to include people with a mental health diagnosis, people on the office of mental health caseload, people with an intellectual, developmental o...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Correction Committee
NYA07630Intro
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Relates to the health, safety and human rights of incarcerated pregnant individuals, incarcerated birthing parents of children and their children; repeals provisions relating to births to incarcerated individuals and care of children by incarcerated ...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Correction Committee
NYA07585Intro
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Requires the conditional release of pregnant and postpartum individuals from incarceration; prohibits the incarceration of pregnant and postpartum individuals.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Correction Committee
NYA02210Intro
25%
Creates statewide emergency and crisis response council to work in conjunction with the commissioners of mental health and addiction services to jointly approve emergency and crisis services plans submitted by local governments, and provide supports ...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Mental Health Committee
NYA07786Intro
25%
Repeals the state Medicaid spending cap and related processes.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA01166Intro
25%
Prohibits the use of aversive conditioning which includes any procedure which causes obvious signs of physical pain, including but not limited to hitting, pinching and electric shock; prohibits the use of any procedure or punishment which denies a vu...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Children and Families Committee
NYA00568Intro
25%
Prohibits employers from using the federal electronic employment verification system to check the employment authorization status of an existing employee or an applicant who has not been offered employment and prohibits municipalities from requiring ...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Labor Committee
NYA07163Intro
25%
Provides for including uncles, aunts, nephews, and nieces in the definition of "family member" in relation to regulations pertaining to rights of family members to succeed in certain cases to the rights of certain tenants.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Housing Committee
NYA04965Intro
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Prohibits the use of DNA phenotyping in criminal prosecutions and proceedings.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
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