New York State Representative

Harvey Epstein 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 2)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00738

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to women's health in correctional facilities; establishes a women's health education program; requires HIV and STD testing to be offered to incarcerated individuals; provides pregnant incarcerated individuals with access to prenatal vitamins as well as a specialized diet tailored to pregnancy needs; requires a study and report on women's health in prison.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00514

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Refer
4/2/25  
Relates to parole eligibility for certain incarcerated persons age fifty-five or older if they have served at least fifteen years of their sentence or sentences.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00622

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
6/4/25  
Engrossed
3/31/26  
Requires mandatory health insurance coverage for acupuncture services upon the prescription of a health care provider acting within the provider's scope of practice.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00574

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires accessible buses to be available within a service area measuring three miles from any bus line of the authority or its subsidiaries.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00597

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Includes additional community districts in which pilot programs to address the legalization or conversion of certain basement and cellar dwellings can be established by local law.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00493

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Authorizes a supreme court judge hearing a petition for an "extreme risk protection order" to also hear a petition for a regular order of protection pursuant to the criminal procedure law, the domestic relations law and/or the family court act.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00392

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires employers of retail, food service or cleaning employees to give such employees 7 days' notice of their work schedule and a month's notice of the minimum hours of work; provides a private right of action to employees who are aggrieved by certain violations of such provisions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00676

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Imposes an additional tax on income attributable to long-term capital gain.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00667

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Prohibits the use of leg-gripping traps.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00640

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to the creation of a court appointed advocate for animals.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00720

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Relates to conferring youthful offender status upon conviction of an eligible youth for a misdemeanor.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00719

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Refer
1/29/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Amends the constitution to prevent and mitigate adverse childhood experiences.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00628

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Legalizes adult possession and use of certain natural plant or fungus-based hallucinogens; grants certain protections for individuals lawfully using such hallucinogens; removes such hallucinogens from the list of schedule I controlled substances; makes related provisions.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00431

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Report Pass
1/28/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Engrossed
2/12/25  
Enrolled
2/12/25  
Chaptered
2/14/25  
Provides that each student loan servicer shall submit an annual report containing a list of all private education creditors associated with the private education debts serviced by the student loan servicer that are owed by persons who resided in New York during the prior calendar year and containing additional information for each private education creditor reported.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00438

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Provides that the process for declining designation to a county committee party position does not need to be included in the notice provided by the board of elections of the city of New York of such party position designation.