New York State Assembly Member

Phara Forrest 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02054

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Report Pass
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Report Pass
3/11/25  
Refer
3/11/25  
Enacts the "beauty justice act"; provides for the regulation of ingredients in personal care products and cosmetics; prohibits the sale of personal care products and cosmetic products containing certain restricted products.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01656

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Prohibits naming dependent children under the age of 18 living in the same household with a parent or guardian in petitions to recover possession of real property and eviction warrants; seals any records pertaining to dependent children under the age of 18 living in the same household with a parent or guardian who were residing on or removed from such property.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02140

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/15/25  
Relates to fair pricing for low-complexity, routine medical care to more closely align payment rates across ambulatory settings for selected services that are safe and appropriate to provide in all settings.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08188

Introduced
5/5/25  
Refer
5/5/25  
Prohibits public entities from contracting with airlines that transport individuals who have been detained by U.S. immigration and customs enforcement without being afforded due process rights; prohibits certain sales and use tax exemptions on fuel sold to an airline that transports individuals who have been detained by U.S. immigration and customs enforcement without being afforded due process rights.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08167

Introduced
5/5/25  
Refer
5/5/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Authorizes up to two percent of mobile sports tax revenue, but not more than twenty-three million dollars, be used for youth team sports funding to be distributed by county youth bureaus, city of New York's department of youth and community development, and an organization which supports and invests in programs that use sports as a vehicle for youth development and social change.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07496

Introduced
3/28/25  
Refer
3/28/25  
Establishes the healthy and safe students act; requires comprehensive sexuality instruction for students in grades K-12 which includes a model curricula for comprehensive sexuality education and at a minimum conforms to the content and scope of national sexuality education standards.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07273

Introduced
3/21/25  
Refer
3/21/25  
Establishes a public awareness campaign related to maternal depression; establishes the maternal depression fund; makes an appropriation therefor.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08222

Introduced
5/5/25  
Refer
5/5/25  
Relates to the statute of limitations for certain deed theft actions; revives such actions otherwise barred by the existing statute of limitations and states who may bring such actions; grants trial preference to such actions; directs the chief administrator of the courts to promulgate rules for the timely adjudication of certain revived actions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08393

Introduced
5/13/25  
Refer
5/13/25  
Provides for disability benefits for pregnancy loss.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09554

Introduced
1/14/26  
Refer
1/14/26  
Report Pass
5/11/26  
Refer
5/11/26  
Report Pass
5/20/26  
Refer
5/20/26  
Report Pass
5/28/26  
Engrossed
5/29/26  
Enacts the "deed protection act" in relation to prohibiting a mortgage banker or mortgage loan servicer from commencing, maintaining, or proceeding with a foreclosure action on a mortgage loan where such mortgage banker or mortgage loan servicer knows or has reason to know that the mortgage securing such loan is dependent on a deed, conveyance, or other instrument affecting title to residential real property that was procured by fraud, forgery, or other unlawful means.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A4850

Relates to enacting the "New York state teleworking expansion act"

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00412

Introduced
5/2/25  
Refer
5/2/25  
Passed
5/5/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 6, 2025, as Police Memorial Day in the State of New York
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07953

Introduced
4/16/25  
Refer
4/16/25  
Provides for coverage of screenings for elevated lead levels exempting them from annual deductibles or coinsurance.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00411

Introduced
5/2/25  
Refer
5/2/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 05, 2025, as Haitian Unity Day in the State of New York, in conjunction with the observance of Haitian Heritage Month
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00405

Introduced
4/29/25  
Honoring the memory of the deceased members of the New York State Assembly, in recognition of their distinguished careers in public service