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Jo Simon 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 26)

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Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05563

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Relates to the development of a public anti-stigma mental health education program targeting the general public and underserved populations.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05569

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
2/25/26  
Establishes a task force to study aging in place in mental health housing; provides for the repeal of such task force upon expiration thereof.
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New York Assembly Bill A05546

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
2/25/25  
Engrossed
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Engrossed
2/24/26  
Directs the commissioner to promulgate regulations for the release of certain patient records by the office of mental health.
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New York Assembly Bill A05528

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Requires the board of elections to establish an electronic system allowing absentee voters to monitor the status of their ballot and to correct an unaccepted ballot.
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New York Assembly Bill A05538

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Enhances the assisted outpatient treatment program; eliminates the expiration and repeal of Kendra's Law.
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New York Assembly Bill A05629

Introduced
2/18/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Establishes who qualifies as an authorized agent of a voter; prohibits an agent of the voter or authorized agent from receiving no more than five absentee ballots for an election; establishes penalties for failing to deliver a ballot and interfering with a voter's marking of a ballot.
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New York Assembly Bill A05625

Introduced
2/18/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Allows an impeachment proceeding to proceed after the resignation of a person from public office; prohibits such person from holding a future public office.
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New York Assembly Bill A05614

Introduced
2/18/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Directs the department of environmental conservation to develop and implement a tree planting pilot program in the ten zip codes in the state with the highest incidence of asthma.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05628

Introduced
2/18/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Increases the fine on individuals who commit the crime of criminal contempt in the first degree to up to $150,000 if such crime was wilfully committed persistently and/or egregiously as determined by the court.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05409

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Requires local social services districts distribute shelter information specifically for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and gender non-conforming persons on the district's website and as pamphlets at intake shelters.
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New York Assembly Bill A05389

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Requires all policies that provide coverage for inpatient hospital care to include benefits for child and family treatment and support services and children's home and community based services.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05553

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Establishes the New York state nursing faculty scholarship incentive program for advanced degrees in nursing; provides such incentives shall be awarded annually, on a competitive basis, to registered professional nurses and certified nurse practitioners who are in a masters or doctoral program and agree to teach nursing for one year for each year such incentive is awarded.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05588

Introduced
2/18/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Report Pass
6/17/25  
Refer
6/17/25  
Adds certain properties located in a city of one million or more to the definition of a qualified historic home for the historic homeownership rehabilitation credit.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05610

Introduced
2/18/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Allocates the Amistad commission to work alongside the department of education and on behalf of students in the state; repeals certain provisions relating to the Amistad commission; requires schools in the state to provide curriculum relating to Black history, slavery, and race.
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New York Assembly Bill A05615

Introduced
2/18/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Report Pass
6/16/25  
Refer
6/16/25  
Relates to authorizing the city of New York to transfer and convey certain city owned property to the Bedford-Stuyvesant volunteer ambulance corps.