New York State Representative
Jo Simon 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 107)
Legislative Session
Primary Sponsor of Legislation
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
New York Assembly Bill A01469
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Report Pass
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/4/25
Requires electric vehicle charging stations to include at least one space that is large enough to accommodate wheelchair accessible electric vehicles.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
New York Assembly Bill A01590
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
1/7/26
Allows members of a public body who cannot physically attend a meeting due to a disability to be counted as present for quorum purposes at meetings attended remotely.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
New York Assembly Bill A01525
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
1/7/26
Directs the department of agriculture and markets to establish a grading system for retail food stores, food service establishments and food warehouses.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
New York Assembly Bill A01544
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
1/7/26
Decreases the frequency of lock-down drills in schools; directs that such drills shall be implemented with a trauma-informed approach; permits parents to opt their children out of such drills.
Co-Sponsor of Legislation
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
New York Assembly Bill A01626
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
1/7/26
Prohibits health care practitioners from performing a virginity examination or supervising the performance of a virginity examination on a patient; defines "virginity examination".
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
New York Assembly Bill A01597
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
1/7/26
Establishes the baby bucks allowance to provide income to eligible participants for the last three months of pregnancy and the first 18 months of the child's life; excludes income received from the baby bucks allowance for purposes of supplemental nutrition assistance program eligibility.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
New York Assembly Bill A01580
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
1/7/26
Establishes the teachers' fossil fuel divestment act; requires the New York state teachers' retirement system to divest the retirement system of any stocks, securities, equities, assets, or other obligations of corporations or companies included on an exclusion list of coal producers and oil and gas producers.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
New York Assembly Bill A01641
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
1/7/26
Removes statute of limitations for certain civil actions related to child sexual assault offenses.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
New York Assembly Bill A01556
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Report Pass
5/20/25
Refer
5/20/25
Report Pass
6/13/25
Refer
6/13/25
Report Pass
6/17/25
Enacts the "food safety and chemical disclosure act"; prohibits certain food additives and food color additives; provides that in an action to enforce compliance, the recognition by the federal food and drug administration of any of these substances as safe may not be alleged as a defense; establishes requirements for the reporting of GRAS (generally recognized as safe) substances.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
New York Assembly Bill A01565
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
1/7/26
Establishes the homeless protection act which designates certain offenses against homeless persons as hate crimes; includes the definition of homelessness.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
New York Assembly Bill A01494
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
1/7/26
Repeals the rebates for stock transfer tax paid; dedicates funds of the stock transfer tax fund and stock transfer incentive fund to various funds; establishes the safe water and infrastructure action program.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
New York Assembly Bill A01616
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
1/7/26
Enacts the "Big Five African Trophies Act" relating to banning the importation, transportation and possession of certain African wildlife species and products.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
New York Assembly Bill A01557
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
1/7/26
Prohibits certain acts in rodeos; imposes penalties for the violation of such acts.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
New York Assembly Bill A00514
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
4/2/25
Refer
4/2/25
Refer
1/7/26
Relates to parole eligibility for certain incarcerated persons age fifty-five or older if they have served at least fifteen years of their sentence or sentences.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
New York Assembly Bill A00486
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
1/7/26
Provides for equitable disability policies; prohibits any difference, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, marital status, or national origin in the amount or payment of premiums or rate charges, or in the benefits payable, or in any of the other terms or conditions of any policy of disability insurance under the workers' compensation law.