New York Assemblymember Phara Souffrant Forrest [D] | Introduced

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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
NYA07175Intro
25%
Decriminalizes certain prostitution offenses; amends provisions relating to prosecution of such offenses and vacating judgments.
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2023-12-15
enacting clause stricken
NYA04517Intro
25%
Relates to promoting inmate voter registration and voting by incarcerated people; requires the department of corrections and community supervision to distribute a voter information guide and hold voter information and registration clinics for incarce...
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2023-07-24
enacting clause stricken
NYA03492Intro
25%
Relates to authorizing certain public officials and members of the clergy to visit sex offender civil confinement facilities.
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2023-07-24
enacting clause stricken
NYA01278Intro
25%
Prohibits non-compete agreements and certain restrictive covenants; authorizes covered individuals to bring a civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction against any employer or persons alleged to have violated such prohibition.
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2023-06-20
substituted by s3100a
NYA07334Intro
25%
Increases the city of New York procurement limit for businesses owned by women and minorities from one million dollars to one million, five hundred thousand dollars.
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2023-06-20
substituted by s7563
NYA02034Intro
25%
Increases compensation schedule in case of disability; provides that compensation after July 1, 2026 shall not be less than one-fifth of the New York state average weekly wage unless the employee's weekly wage is equal to or less than one-fifth the w...
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2023-06-10
substituted by s1161a
NYA06604Intro
25%
Protects employee freedom of speech and conscience by prohibiting employers from coercing employees into attending or participating in meetings sponsored by the employer concerning the employer's views on political or religious matters.
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2023-06-10
substituted by s4982
NYA06275Intro
25%
Prohibits medical debt from being collected by a consumer reporting agency or included in a consumer report and prohibits medical service providers from reporting medical debt directly or indirectly to a consumer reporting agency.
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2023-06-10
substituted by s4907a
NYA04871Intro
25%
Requires certain state owned and operated parking facilities to install and maintain charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles.
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2023-06-10
substituted by s1535a
NYA03484Intro
25%
Relates to the disclosure of beneficial owners of limited liability companies and foreign limited liability companies and certain information about such beneficial owners; requires the secretary of state to maintain a public database of all business ...
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2023-06-09
substituted by s995b
NYA05294Intro
25%
Establishes a captive insurance program for commuter vans that are engaged in the business of carrying or transporting eight to twenty-four passengers for hire; establishes the commuter van trust fund.
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2023-06-09
substituted by s4862
NYA02893Intro
25%
Makes community violence prevention services available, to the extent permitted by federal law, to any Medicaid beneficiary who has received medical treatment for an injury sustained as a result of an act of community violence and has been referred b...
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2023-06-09
substituted by s580a
NYA06843Intro
25%
Relates to the information to be included in vacancy rate studies.
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2023-06-09
substituted by s1684a
NYA03827Intro
25%
Prohibits naming dependent children under the age of 18 living in the same household with a parent or guardian in petitions to recover possession of real property and eviction warrants; seals any records pertaining to dependent children under the age...
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2023-06-09
substituted by s5905
NYA03412Intro
25%
Provides that no incarcerated individual in any state or local prison, penitentiary, jail or reformatory shall be compelled or induced to provide labor against their will.
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2023-06-08
substituted by s225b
NYA01722Intro
25%
Requires a proposed amendment to the constitution or other question provided by law to be submitted to a statewide vote be submitted to the people for their approval in plain language which is deemed to be no higher than an eighth grade reading level...
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2023-06-08
substituted by s1381a
NYA00372Intro
25%
Establishes the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and people living with HIV long-term care facility residents' bill of rights; prohibits a long-term care facility or facility staff from discriminating against any resident on the basis of such ...
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2023-06-08
substituted by s1783a
NYA05608Intro
25%
Enacts the "roadway excavation quality assurance act"; relates to workers on excavations; provides that utility companies or their contractors shall use competent workers and shall pay the prevailing wage on projects where a permit to use, excavate, ...
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2023-06-07
substituted by s4887
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