New York State Representative

Harvey Epstein 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 27)

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Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08163

Introduced
5/2/25  
Refer
5/2/25  
Establishes the public water justice act; prohibits sale of waters of the state unless otherwise specifically authorized; establishes a public water justice fund for royalties and fees collected from persons or entities authorized to sell waters of the state.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08260

Introduced
5/5/25  
Refer
5/5/25  
Bans push notifications from a food service establishment or a third-party delivery platform to minors.
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New York Assembly Bill A08576

Introduced
5/21/25  
Refer
5/21/25  
Relates to preserving access to affordable drugs; provides that an agreement resolving or settling, on a final or interim basis, a patent infringement claim, in connection with the sale of a pharmaceutical product, shall be presumed to have anticompetitive effects if a nonreference drug filer receives anything of value from another company asserting patent infringement and if the nonreference drug filer agrees to limit or forego research, development, manufacturing, marketing, or sales of the nonreference drug filer's product for any period of time.
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New York Assembly Bill A08659

Introduced
5/23/25  
Refer
5/23/25  
Enacts into law components of legislation that relate to live event ticket sales; establishes an annual professional reseller renewal fee; requires professional ticket resellers to provide their New York state ticket reseller license number as a condition of utilizing an online resale marketplace to resell tickets (Part A); provides criteria for when a purchaser may obtain a full refund of the amount paid for a ticket (Part B); relates to resale requirements for tickets; requires that if a licensee or other ticket reseller doesn't have possession of the ticket, then they shall have a written contract to obtain the offered ticket at a certain price from a person or entity in possession of the ticket or from a person or entity who has a contractual right to obtain such ticket, and tickets to the event have been placed on sale by the venue or entity hosting the event or its authorized agent before the licensee or reseller can advertise the sale of the tickets (Part C); relates to unlawful charges in connection with tickets; permits reasonable charges for costs actually rendered or otherwise in connection to customer support, technological and software infrastructure, and actual operational costs for sales away from the box office; defines terms (Part D); relates to the availability of tickets for sale to the general public; defines a term (Part E); relates to the resale of tickets included in a subscription or season ticket package (Part F); extends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to tickets to places of entertainment (Part G).
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New York Assembly Bill A08672

Introduced
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Eliminates certain court surcharges and fees and probation and parole surcharges and fees; eliminates the requirement that a parolee or releasee receiving a merit termination of sentence be financially able to comply with an order of restitution; eliminates the requirement that a person receiving a discharge of sentence be financially able to comply with an order of restitution and the payment of certain surcharges or fees (Part A); mandates that courts engage in an individualized assessment of a person's financial ability to pay a fine prior to imposing a fine (Part B); eliminates the availability of incarceration as a remedy for a failure to pay a fine, surcharge, or fee, lifts and vacates existing warrants issued solely on a person's failure to timely pay a fine, surcharge or fee and ends existing sentences of incarceration based on such failure (Part C); vacates existing unsatisfied civil judgments based on a person's failure to timely pay a surcharge, or fee (Part D); prohibits the collection of a fine, restitution or reparation from the funds of an incarcerated person; prohibits the payment of court fines, mandatory surcharges, certain fees, restitution, reparation or forfeitures from the earnings of prisoners (Part E); vacates existing unpaid surcharges, DNA databank fees, crime victim assistance fees, sexual offender registration fees, supplemental sex offender victim fees, or probation or parole supervision fees; repeals certain provisions of law relating to restrictions on remitting such fees (Part F).

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00435

Introduced
5/5/25  
Refer
5/5/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 5-9, 2025, as Legislative Staff Week in the State of New York
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New York Assembly Bill A08186

Introduced
5/5/25  
Authorizes the New York city council to remove the mayor from office by a three-quarter majority vote.
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New York Assembly Bill A08202

Introduced
5/5/25  
Directs state agencies to adopt an embodied carbon decarbonization program; requires the office of general services to issue operational directives and guidance for common construction materials to reduce the amount of embodied carbon in such materials.
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New York Assembly Bill K00436

Introduced
5/5/25  
Refer
5/5/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 6-12, 2025, as Nurses Week in the State of New York
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00432

Introduced
5/5/25  
Refer
5/5/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 6, 2025, as Teacher Appreciation Day in the State of New York
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New York Assembly Bill K00553

Introduced
5/20/25  
Commemorating the 100th Birthday of Malcolm X, a Revolutionary Leader and Champion for Justice
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New York Assembly Bill K00561

Introduced
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim November 14, 2025, as World Diabetes Day in the State of New York
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New York Assembly Bill K00569

Introduced
5/21/25  
Refer
5/21/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 24, 2025, as Schizophrenia Awareness Day in the State of New York
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New York Assembly Bill K00592

Introduced
5/27/25  
Commemorating the 30th Annual Mohawk Valley Ride for Missing Children on June 6, 2025
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New York Assembly Bill K00596

Introduced
5/27/25  
Recognizing the observance of World AIDS Day, on December 1, 2025