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Jo Simon 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 139)

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Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04849

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Requires a disclaimer to be included in any advertising for delivery services that advertise delivery within thirty minutes or less to say that delivery within such time is not guaranteed; prohibits delivery services from penalizing workers that fail to deliver within thirty minutes; requires disclosure to such workers that they are not required to deliver within thirty minutes.
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New York Assembly Bill A05671

Introduced
2/19/25  
Refer
2/19/25  
Authorizes the vacating of an arbitration award on the basis of arbitrator disregard of the law.
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New York Assembly Bill K00127

Introduced
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim February 24-March 2, 2025, as Eating Disorders Awareness Week in the State of New York
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New York Assembly Bill K00116

Introduced
2/24/25  
Recognizing February 27, 2025, as Student Press Freedom Day
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New York Assembly Bill A06033

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Establishes a tax credit for individuals who serve or are employed as a direct support professional, or direct care worker, up to five thousand dollars for taxpayers who make less than fifty thousand dollars and phased out for individuals who make over one hundred thousand dollars.
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New York Assembly Bill A06015

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Relates to excluding renewable energy pilot projects and certain energy system-related payments in lieu of taxes from tax cap calculations, and to the establishment of a distributed generation energy development program that provides a single forum for state-level appeals for proposed distributed generation energy facilities.
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New York Assembly Bill A06003

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Removes the exemption for restaurants, taverns or similar food service establishments from the New York state bag waste reduction act.
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New York Assembly Bill A06009

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Increases the state code enforcement powers of the secretary of state by establishing a state code enforcement office headed by an ombudsperson.
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New York Assembly Bill A06024

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Imposes an excise tax on the sale of ammunition to be deposited into the firearm violence intervention fund to help victims of and witnesses to violence.
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New York Assembly Bill A06004

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Report Pass
4/28/25  
Refer
4/28/25  
Report Pass
6/6/25  
Refer
6/6/25  
Requires public notice and public engagement when a general hospital seeks to close entirely or a unit that provides maternity, mental health or substance use care.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York Assembly Bill A05986

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Establishes the "public interest legal services loan assistance fund" of the state of New York (to consist of a portion of bar examination fees and other funds appropriated by the legislature therefor and such other monies as may be credited or otherwise transferred from any other fund or source pursuant to law, including voluntary contributions); provides for administration of such fund to assist public service attorneys practicing public interest law in repaying their student loans; defines certain terms and adds other related provisions.
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New York Assembly Bill A05931

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Provides a tax abatement for geothermal well systems in cities of one million or more.
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New York Assembly Bill A05899

Introduced
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Establishes the universal child care act to provide for the establishment and funding of universal child care in the state of New York; establishes a universal child care taskforce to help implement universal child care in the state and repeals certain provisions of the social services law relating thereto; establishes the permanent child care workforce pay equity fund; establishes a universal child care public option pilot program to provide universal child care in at least twenty locations throughout the state; makes an appropriation therefor.
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New York Assembly Bill A05989

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Report Pass
5/6/25  
Refer
5/6/25  
Report Pass
5/22/25  
Refer
5/22/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Provides for automatic issuance of identification cards to incarcerated individuals and assistance with obtaining copies of any documents needed to apply for identification cards, including, but not limited to, an incarcerated individual's social security card and birth certificate.
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New York Assembly Bill A05926

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Provides that the tax levy limit shall be equal to a zero percent increase over the prior year tax levy when the difference between the total amount of taxes levied for the prior year less the tax levy limit results in a negative number.