New York Assemblymember Phara Souffrant Forrest [D]

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NYA03068Intro
25%
Establishes Eid Ul-Fitr and Eid Ul-Adha as public holidays, with dates established by religious law and tradition.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA07471Intro
25%
Provides immunity from prosecution for certain individuals engaged in prostitution who are victims of or witnesses to a crime and who report such crime or assist in the investigation or prosecution.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA01185Intro
25%
Authorizes tuition assistance program awards for students enrolled in short-term credential programs offered by certain public institutions.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA07074Intro
25%
Enacts the "utility penalty adjustment"; adjusts utility penalties to account for inflation; increases such penalties and ties them to inflation after January 1, 2025.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYA07949Intro
25%
Limits the use of fossil fuels in the research or production of energy for purposes of the excelsior jobs program; prohibits businesses engaged in the production, transmission, distribution, transportation or storage of fossil fuels from participatio...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Economic Development, Job Creation, Commerce and Industry Committee
NYA08170Intro
25%
Prohibits state-operated hospitals from suing patients for medical debt; defines "medical debt".
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA01179Intro
25%
Increases the maximum time limits for tuition assistance program awards.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA00946Intro
25%
Expands eligibility for the New York state excelsior scholarship award to certain applicants enrolled on a part-time basis or in a BOCES or other approved vocational program; provides criteria for eligibility, and limits on amounts and durations for ...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA06219Intro
25%
Requires separate collection categories for White, Middle Eastern, and North African groups in NYS.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA05763Intro
25%
Prohibits the city school district from reimbursing charter schools for leasing a privately owned or other publicly owned facility, and prohibits charter school employee contracts from including a non-disclosure agreement.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Education Committee
NYA00846Intro
25%
Repeals provisions granting real property tax exemption to certain entities.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Real Property Taxation Committee
NYA05902Intro
25%
Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision, in consultation with the commissioner of health and the commissioner of mental health, to develop a uniform electronic medical records system to be utilized by all correctional facili...
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2024-01-03
ordered to third reading cal.169
NYA01873Intro
25%
Directs the development of materials to be provided to new employees relating to student loan repayment information.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Banks Committee
NYA01830Intro
25%
Provides a tax credit for qualified caregiving expenses.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA06510Intro
25%
Directs the commissioner of health to authorize additional reimbursement to providers of health and dental care primarily serving individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities for uncompensated time, use of staff, and services that are...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA06353Intro
25%
Relates to returnable bottles; adds wine, liquor, distilled spirit coolers, and cider and wine products to the definition of "beverage"; provides that beginning April 1, 2026, the handling fee will be six cents for each beverage container accepted by...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYA08386Intro
25%
Enacts the "faith-based affordable housing act" for development on residential land; defines terms; provides that each village, town, and city shall allow the construction and occupation of residential buildings on any covered site up to the specifie...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Local Governments Committee
NYA03999Intro
25%
Relates to authorizing voting by incarcerated individuals in correctional facilities; requires the department of corrections and community supervision, in collaboration with the state and county boards of election, to establish a program to facilitat...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Election Law Committee
NYA04042Intro
25%
Provides for the creation and maintenance of digital records for each incarcerated individual which includes all medical records, including but not limited to mental health records and results of drug or alcohol tests, work records and evaluations, c...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Correction Committee
NYA00819Intro
25%
Authorizes the New York city council to oversee the activities of the New York city housing authority.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Housing Committee
NYA01423Intro
25%
Enacts the "fair college admissions act"; prohibits legacy and early admissions policies at colleges and universities in New York; declares such policies and practices to be discriminatory and inequitable.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA01037Intro
25%
Relates to protecting the rights of current and converted Mitchell-Lama residents.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Housing Committee
NYA06785Intro
25%
Sets reimbursement rates for essential safety net hospitals at no less than regional average commercial rates for health care services provided by all hospitals in the same geographic region.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA04993Intro
25%
Provides that in any jurisdiction in which a party is eligible under local law for free legal counsel, if such party has in good faith attempted to secure such counsel and is unable to obtain counsel through no fault of their own, the court shall adj...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA01094Intro
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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2024-01-03
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA07452Intro
25%
Establishes a New York state prison labor board to ensure that all labor programs comply with the requirements of the labor law and are for the purpose of promoting successful rehabilitation, reentry and reintegration into the community and not for t...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Correction Committee
NYA01422Intro
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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2024-01-03
To Assembly Aging Committee
NYA04465Intro
25%
Expands tuition assistance program awards for students experiencing homelessness.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA05649Intro
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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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA05543Intro
25%
Requires shelter allowances be set at up to one hundred percent of the fair market rent for the local social services district.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA05507Intro
25%
Relates to the standards of monthly need for persons in receipt of public assistance; provides for an increased monthly allowance for persons and families residing in shelters.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA03416Intro
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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2024-01-03
To Assembly Housing Committee
NYA08470Intro
25%
Repeals managed long term care provisions for Medicaid recipients; establishes provisions for fully integrated plans for long term care including PACE and MAP plans.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA05501Intro
25%
Relates to determination of public assistance eligibility; reduces time frame for determinations on safety net assistance.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA08022Intro
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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2024-01-03
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYA07138Intro
25%
Enacts the "Consumer and Small business Protection Act"; relates to standing for persons affected by prohibited or unlawful business practices; expands prohibited acts to include unfair, deceptive or abusive acts.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA07794Intro
25%
Relates to establishing the banking bill of rights; includes due process requirements regarding applications for or closure of credit and deposit accounts and penalties for noncompliance.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Banks Committee
NYA08277Intro
25%
Relates to requiring telephones capable of making local and long-distance telephone calls be in every nursing home patient's room, either at such patient's bedside or in the patient's room depending on the patient's mobility.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA02240Intro
25%
Waives certain requirements of the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children during a state of emergency declared as a result of a public health crisis, including: allowing any unused portions of any monthly allowances to...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA08146Intro
25%
Provides public health insurance coverage for children who are eligible for such coverage under the age of six to continue until they reach the age of six.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA06058Intro
25%
Requires mental health services for incarcerated individuals with mental health issues related to the trauma of incarceration upon reentry and reintegration into society upon release.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Correction Committee
NYA01793Intro
25%
Requires district leadership teams to operate under open meetings law requirements.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Cities Committee
NYA01203Intro
25%
Requires district leadership teams and school leadership teams to include student representatives.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Cities Committee
NYA08149Intro
25%
Establishes the New York child data protection act to protect minors from having their personal data accessed; provides exceptions in certain circumstances.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Science and Technology Committee
NYA08148Intro
25%
Establishes the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) For Kids Act prohibiting the provision of addictive feeds to minors by addictive social media platforms; establishes remedies and penalties.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Science and Technology Committee
NYA06455Intro
25%
Prohibits the operation of NYC transit authority subways or trains without at least one conductor on board; requires a conductor on any subway or train operated by such authority whenever the subway or train has more than two cars attached to the eng...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYA06891Intro
25%
Relates to the regulation of live restraint cable devices to take wildlife; authorizes regulations by the department of environmental conservation.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYA06584Intro
25%
Requires applicants for major projects located near a disadvantaged community to submit an enhanced public participation plan.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYA03296Intro
25%
Enacts the "PFAS discharge disclosure act"; requires certain SPDES permit holders to disclose the measurement of PFAS chemicals found in any discharges from outfalls.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYA07691PassRelates 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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2023-12-19
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