New York State Senator

Jo Simon 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 106)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A10924

Introduced
4/9/26  
Provides targeted inflationary increases for designated programs for the 2026-2027 fiscal year.
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New York Assembly Bill A10852

Introduced
4/8/26  
Prohibits allocation of economic development power to data centers; provides for certain caps on amounts and eligibility for industrial development agency financial assistance; provides for the return of industrial development agency-awarded financial assistance if certain job levels are not maintained within 5 years of project completion; designates the department of environmental conservation as the mandatory lead agency for environmental quality review of any action consuming over 20 megawatts; requires environmental quality review for any action within 10 miles of a federally recognized Indian nation's territory.
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New York Assembly Bill A10875

Introduced
4/8/26  
Directs the metropolitan transportation authority to establish a city university of New York student fare program for trains and buses which provides a full fare reduction for five train and/or bus fares each weekday equal to the standard pay-per-ride fare.
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New York Assembly Bill A07552

Introduced
4/1/25  
Refer
4/1/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
5/27/26  
Refer
5/27/26  
Requires members of a public body to complete a minimum of two hours of training, with one hour on the state's open meetings law and one hour on freedom of information law; requires certain local, city, county, town and village public body members to complete such training as well.
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New York Assembly Bill A07572

Introduced
4/1/25  
Refer
4/1/25  
Requires insurance coverage of sonograms and other diagnostic procedures used to detect breast cancer for covered persons with a prior history of breast cancer or who have a first degree relative with a prior history of breast cancer.
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New York Assembly Bill A07540

Introduced
4/1/25  
Refer
4/1/25  
Directs CHIPS funds to be used for the purpose of constructing or maintaining bicycle paths, Greenway trails, and other multi-use trails.
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New York Assembly Bill A08841

Introduced
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Establishes a gender-affirming care access program to provide support and increase access to gender-affirming care including certain medical and surgical care.
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New York Assembly Bill A08865

Introduced
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Provides earnings limitations for retired police officers employed part-time by municipalities with a population of less than 7,500; permits such officer to work up to five hundred twenty hours in any consecutive six-month period, with no suspension or diminution of retirement allowance; establishes villages or towns shall report such hours and salary earned on a monthly basis and shall contribute a percentage of the officer's excess earnings to the New York state and local police and fire retirement system.
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New York Assembly Bill A08963

Introduced
8/13/25  
Refer
8/13/25  
Establishes the NY digital choice act requiring social media companies to provide covered users with a copy of the covered user's social graph at the request of the covered user; defines terms; provides requirements for the interoperability of covered users' data; grants the attorney general the authority to promulgate rules and regulations and enforce such provisions.
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New York Assembly Bill A08962

Introduced
8/13/25  
Refer
8/13/25  
Enacts the "New York fundamental artificial intelligence requirements in (FAIR) news act"; provides requirements for fairness in disclosures to news media workers, news media consumers, oversight of AI systems, and workplace protections for news media workers.
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New York Assembly Bill A09000

Introduced
8/13/25  
Refer
8/13/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
2/11/26  
Directs the department of health to develop an informational pamphlet concerning perimenopause and menopause, which shall include information concerning the stages of perimenopause and menopause, the signs and side effects, and options for the management and treatment; requires that such informational pamphlet be made available on the department's website and available for order as a printed deliverable; requires practitioners to make such informational pamphlet available to patients.
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New York Assembly Bill A09010

Introduced
8/13/25  
Refer
8/13/25  
Requires practitioners to discuss certain risks with a patient who is being prescribed a schedule II controlled substance or an opioid analgesic; requires the department of health to develop practitioner guidelines.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09002

Introduced
8/13/25  
Refer
8/13/25  
Exempts any covered substance use disorder and mental health treatment services and all FDA approved medications for the treatment of substance use disorder, HIV, hepatitis C and mental health conditions, from all recipient restriction program coverage and payment restrictions.
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New York Assembly Bill A08889

Introduced
6/10/25  
Refer
6/10/25  
Enacts the "Customer Savings and Reliability Act" in relation to regional affordable gas transition plans to guide an orderly, affordable, and equitable right-sizing of the utility gas system in a manner that aligns with climate justice and emissions reduction provisions.
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New York Assembly Bill A08888

Introduced
6/10/25  
Refer
6/10/25  
Report Pass
6/16/25  
Refer
6/16/25  
Provides that in the case of any application for gas service to a building which is not supplied with gas, a utility corporation or municipality shall be obligated to provide gas service to such building.