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Jo Simon 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 131)

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04641

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Report Pass
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Report Pass
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Relates to rechargeable battery recycling; adds a battery used as the principal electric power source for an electric scooter or bicycle with electric assist to the definition of "rechargeable battery"; provides that a battery manufacturer may not sell, offer for sale, or distribute rechargeable batteries in the state unless the battery manufacturer is implementing or participating under an approved plan; allows a city with a population of one million or more to enforce through its own agencies.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A06453

Introduced
3/5/25  
Refer
3/5/25  
Report Pass
5/29/25  
Refer
5/29/25  
Report Pass
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Relates to the training and use of artificial intelligence frontier models; defines terms; establishes remedies for violations.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A06452

Introduced
3/5/25  
Refer
3/5/25  
Report Pass
6/5/25  
Refer
6/5/25  
Report Pass
6/13/25  
Refer
6/13/25  
Requires the superintendent of state police to develop, maintain and disseminate to all members of the division of state police a critical incident leave policy requiring critical incident paid leave for any members directly involved in a critical incident; prohibits such superintendent from taking any punitive administrative action against any member of the division of state police granted critical incident leave solely on the basis of the provision of such leave.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04872

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Report Pass
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Requires each institution of higher education to make publicly available its policy on notifying the parent, guardian, or emergency contact of a student under twenty-one of certain controlled substance and alcohol violations, including rule infractions, and controlled substance or alcohol related hospitalizations or overdoses; requires such colleges and institutions to conduct regular training on the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05402

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Authorizes and directs the public service commission to establish rules to limit a utility's ability to recover its direct or indirect costs associated with its attendance in, participation in, preparation for, or appeal of any rate proceeding conducted before the commission.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05894

Introduced
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Report Pass
5/29/25  
Engrossed
5/29/25  
Refer
5/29/25  
Engrossed
2/24/26  
Defines mental health practitioners with diagnostic authority for the purposes of providing services under the workers' compensation law; includes such practitioners as providers.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05882

Introduced
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
5/20/26  
Refer
5/20/26  
Report Pass
6/4/26  
Refer
6/4/26  
Requires a pharmacy benefit manager to pay a participating pharmacy at minimum at the national average drug acquisition cost (NADAC) rate, or at the pharmacy acquisition cost rate if greater or there is not a NADAC rate, plus a professional dispensing fee that is at minimum the professional dispensing fee paid under the state medical assistance program.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A06192

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Establishes a moratorium on the sale and use of biosolids; defines terms.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A06326

Introduced
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Requires gas and electric corporations to provide forty-five days' notice to customers whenever there is a service rate or charge increase.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A06558

Introduced
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
5/19/25  
Refer
5/19/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Report Pass
5/29/25  
Engrossed
6/5/25  
Refer
6/5/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Enrolled
11/3/25  
Chaptered
11/12/25  
Requires every food establishment to label all prepackaged food with a written notification on the package or on a label attached to the package identifying any ingredient with which a product is made that constitutes a major food allergen.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00203

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Report Pass
6/10/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Enrolled
12/8/25  
Chaptered
12/12/25  
Requires hospitals to establish a violence prevention program which includes a workplace safety and security assessment and develop a safety and security plan that addresses identified workplace violence threats or hazards.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00182

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Refer
4/2/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
5/21/25  
Engrossed
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Engrossed
3/17/26  
Requires the department of financial services to fulfill certain requirements to implement homeowner natural disaster preparedness, home safety and loss prevention courses.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00101

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Prohibits the use of intoxication of the victim as a defense in sex crimes where the victim is under the influence of any drug, intoxicant, or other substance to a degree which rendered the victim temporarily incapable of appraising or controlling such person's conduct and such condition was known or reasonably should have been known to a person in the actor's situation.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03264

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
4/28/26  
Refer
4/28/26  
Report Pass
5/12/26  
Refer
5/12/26  
Authorizes shelters for victims of domestic violence to be reimbursed for any payment differential for housing a single individual in a room intended for double occupancy where a single occupancy room is not available.

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A06741

Introduced
3/11/25  
Refer
3/11/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Report Pass
5/29/25  
Engrossed
6/9/25  
Engrossed
5/4/26  
Requires state and county boards of elections to post sample ballots online at least twelve days prior to the first day of early voting; requires such ballots to be posted in a searchable database.