New York Assemblymember Phara Souffrant Forrest [D] | Introduced

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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2024-02-13
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
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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2024-02-08
To Assembly Children and Families 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
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
NYA00155Intro
25%
Establishes application processing and review requirements for reprieves, commutations and pardons by the governor; requires the governor to provide: a written notification that the application has been received; a receipt number that the applicant c...
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2024-02-01
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA07487Intro
25%
Establishes through the department of health, in conjunction with the office of addiction services and supports, a drug checking services program to allow individuals to bring drugs or controlled substances and have them tested for contaminants, toxi...
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2024-01-30
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA01023Intro
25%
Establishes the end toxic home flipping act; imposes a tax on the transfer of certain residential properties which are sold within two years of the prior conveyance of such property; exempts certain purchases of residential properties from mortgage r...
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2024-01-30
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA06879Intro
25%
Requires state agencies to publish certain information in local, community and ethnic media; defines local, community and ethnic media; requires the office of general services to develop and maintain a list of local, community and ethnic media outlet...
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2024-01-29
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA00412Intro
25%
Relates to authorizing voting by incarcerated people.
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2024-01-26
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA00906Intro
25%
Includes the right to strike as an employee right.
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2024-01-26
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA05470Intro
25%
Relates to the taxation of moneys, credits, securities and other intangible personal property in the state that is not employed in carrying on any business therein.
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2024-01-26
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA08478Intro
25%
Allows the alteration or repeal of real property tax exemptions for private institutions of higher education.
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2024-01-26
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA08906Intro
25%
Establishes a civil cause of action for employees who are subjected to an abusive work environment; provides employers shall be vicariously liable for such work environment.
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2024-01-26
To Assembly Labor Committee
NYA01568Intro
25%
Expands the eligibility period for indigent legal service attorneys to receive certain loan forgiveness; increases loan reimbursement for certain attorneys who work in legal services with indigent clients.
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2024-01-25
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA04141Intro
25%
Prohibits cost sharing for insulin; provides that an insured shall not be subject to a deductible, copayment, coinsurance or any other cost sharing requirement for the purchase of insulin.
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2024-01-25
To Assembly Insurance Committee
NYA08605Intro
25%
Decriminalizes certain prostitution offenses; amends provisions relating to prosecution of such offenses and vacating judgments.
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2024-01-24
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA05990Intro
25%
Restricts certain substances from being used in menstrual products.
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2024-01-18
advanced to third reading cal.228
NYA08833Intro
25%
Establishes the New York dignity in pregnancy and childbirth act to require hospitals and other facilities that provide perinatal care to implement an evidence-based implicit bias program for all health care providers involved in the perinatal care o...
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2024-01-18
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA08821Intro
25%
Enacts the "fair pay for home care act" relating to minimum wages applicable to home care aides; provides for a minimum wage of 150% of the applicable statewide or regional minimum wage.
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2024-01-18
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA03729Intro
25%
Authorizes retail clinics to provide certain services; directs the commissioner of health to enact regulations imposing certain standards and restrictions.
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2024-01-16
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA00742Intro
25%
Relates to conferring youthful offender status upon conviction of an eligible youth for a misdemeanor.
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2024-01-16
enacting clause stricken
NYA04592Intro
25%
Aligns utility regulation with state climate justice and emission reduction targets; repeals provisions relating to continuation of gas service; repeals provisions relating to the sale of indigenous natural gas for generation of electricity.
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2024-01-16
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYA01963Intro
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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2024-01-16
enacting clause stricken
NYA02151Intro
25%
Authorizes the office of special investigation to inspect serious physical injuries that may have resulted in death, or did result in paralysis, comatose, brain damage, or any other life threatening grave bodily injury as determined by the attorney g...
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2024-01-16
amended on third reading 2151a
NYA00964Intro
25%
Establishes the clean fuel standard of 2024; provides such standard is intended to reduce carbon intensity from the on-road transportation sector by 30% by 2032, with further reductions to be implemented based upon advances in technology.
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2024-01-12
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
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