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Jo Simon 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 132)

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03240

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Report Pass
6/16/25  
Refer
6/16/25  
Expands the veterans tuition awards program to allow the transfer of unused benefits to a spouse, survivor or child; defines terms.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01607

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
5/19/26  
Refer
5/19/26  
Report Pass
6/1/26  
Refer
6/1/26  
Relates to the provision of breast pumps and related collection and storage materials to certain incarcerated nursing birth parents who are confined in or committed to an institution or local correctional facility with or without their child subject to specific time limitations; requires institutions and local correctional facilities to provide pumps and related materials to such incarcerated birth parents; requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to issue an annual report on data relating to incarcerated birth parents.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01670

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Prohibits the use of restraints on and the use of force against incarcerated individuals during labor and incarcerated individuals who have experienced different pregnancy outcomes, absent extraordinary circumstances, and on pregnant and post-pregnancy persons during a custodial interrogation; provides for certain exceptions for restraints to be used and in such case limits the use to wrist restraints.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02619

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
5/19/25  
Refer
5/19/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
5/12/26  
Establishes certain rights upon the expiration of ground lease residential cooperative apartment buildings.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03125

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Refer
4/2/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Relates to the use of automated decision tools by landlords for making housing decisions; sets conditions and rules for use of such tools.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01740

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Report Pass
5/6/25  
Refer
5/6/25  
Report Pass
6/13/25  
Refer
6/13/25  
Provides access to menstrual products in toilet facilities in public buildings owned or leased by the state that are determined to be opened to the public; requires reporting.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02657

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
5/6/25  
Refer
5/6/25  
Report Pass
6/4/25  
Refer
6/4/25  
Establishes the electric landscaping equipment rebate program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve air quality, and reduce noise pollution by promoting the adoption of quieter, zero-emission landscaping equipment; provides for rebates at the point of sale for applicants purchasing or leasing certain equipment; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02620

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
3/25/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Report Pass
4/8/25  
Refer
4/8/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
5/21/25  
Engrossed
5/27/25  
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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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01195

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
5/21/25  
Engrossed
5/21/25  
Refer
5/21/25  
Engrossed
5/29/25  
Enrolled
12/1/25  
Chaptered
12/4/25  
Requires that health insurance policies shall provide coverage for follow-up screening or diagnostic services for lung cancer; provides that no patient cost sharing shall be imposed for follow-up screening or diagnostic services for lung cancer.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01191

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Report Pass
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Refer
4/29/25  
Report Pass
4/30/25  
Engrossed
5/14/25  
Refer
5/14/25  
Engrossed
3/26/26  
Enacts the "safer weapons, safer homes act"; requires the division of criminal justice services to study the technological viability of personalized firearms; defines personalized firearms; requires the division to report to the governor and the legislature on the results of the study.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00756

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Report Pass
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Defines the term "construction projects" to mean the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement of any school building where a district receives any apportionment for debt service or building aid and the school building is sited within the Long Island region; provides that each contract involving the award of a construction project shall require the use of a project labor agreement for all contractors and subcontractors on such project.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00675

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Enacts the empire state licensing act to provide all New Yorkers with access to professional, occupational, commercial, or business licenses, permits, certificates, or related registrations regardless of an applicant's citizenship or immigration status.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00707

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Directs the division of criminal justice services to promulgate safety standards and training requirements for the protection of law enforcement staff against biological hazards posed by spitting of persons in custody.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01209

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Report Pass
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Report Pass
5/6/25  
Refer
5/6/25  
Report Pass
6/13/25  
Refer
6/13/25  
Establishes extended producer responsibility for mattresses.

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00349

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
3/11/25  
Refer
3/11/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Establishes the previously owned zero-emission vehicles rebate program to provide an incentive of an amount up to $2,000 for individuals who purchase used or previously owned zero-emission vehicles.