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Jo Simon 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 109)

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Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09175

Introduced
10/17/25  
Refer
10/17/25  
Requires each institution within the state university of New York and the city university of New York offering in-person student instruction to have at least one vending machine making emergency contraception available for purchase.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09181

Introduced
10/17/25  
Refer
10/17/25  
Directs the commissioner of education to develop and maintain a publicly accessible statewide attendance and absenteeism dashboard to be posted publicly on the state education department's website.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09194

Introduced
11/3/25  
Refer
11/3/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
5/12/26  
Directs the office for people with developmental disabilities to conduct a study on the feasibility of establishing, implementing and expanding additional housing models that support independent living for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities; requires the office to submit a report on such study to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09164

Introduced
10/17/25  
Refer
10/17/25  
Establishes uniform waiting list priorities for domestic violence survivors applying for public housing.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09156

Introduced
10/17/25  
Refer
10/17/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
5/11/26  
Refer
5/11/26  
Report Pass
5/28/26  
Prohibits the sale of products that contain 7-hydroxymitragynine at a level that exceeds 2% of total alkaloids or one milligram per serving; establishes fines for the sale of such products.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09138

Introduced
10/17/25  
Refer
10/17/25  
Imposes an excise tax on any taxpayer engaged in the trade or business of digital asset mining; provides that taxes, interest, and penalties collected or received from such taxes shall be used for prompt assistance to utility customers enrolled in energy affordability programs.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09230

Introduced
11/3/25  
Refer
11/3/25  
Requires school districts to collect and annually report to the department of education certain information regarding manifestation determination reviews (MDRs) conducted during the prior school year; requires certain disaggregated information to be publicly reported regarding MDRs.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09205

Introduced
11/3/25  
Refer
11/3/25  
Establishes a specialized health home program to serve certain individuals with physical disabilities who are Medicaid eligible adults eighteen years of age or older with a diagnosis of a neurological, muscular, or neuromuscular condition, and a mobility impairment; provides that a specialized health home shall be reimbursed on a fee-for-service basis and shall receive enhanced rates of payment; makes related provisions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09201

Introduced
11/3/25  
Refer
11/3/25  
Prohibits sellers of bicycles with electric assist, electric scooters, and motor-driven cycles from selling to persons less than sixteen years of age; requires valid proof of age at the point of purchase; establishes licensing requirements for bicycles with electric assist, electric scooters, and motor-driven cycles that can exceed twenty-eight miles per hour.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09283

Introduced
11/21/25  
Refer
11/21/25  
Establishes the "Supporting Families Together act"; repeals certain provisions of law relating to civil and criminal penalties for mandated reporters.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09268

Introduced
11/21/25  
Refer
11/21/25  
Requires instruction on work zone safety awareness as part of the pre-licensing course; establishes curriculum for the work zone safety component.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09333

Introduced
12/10/25  
Refer
12/10/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
3/17/26  
Refer
3/17/26  
Report Pass
3/26/26  
Engrossed
3/30/26  
Refer
3/30/26  
Authorizes the use of body imaging scanning equipment in certain facilities for youth and adolescent offenders placed with or committed to the office of children and family services.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09295

Introduced
12/10/25  
Refer
12/10/25  
Enacts the New York state good guardianship act to establish the statewide initiative of not-for-profit guardians.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09255

Introduced
11/21/25  
Refer
11/21/25  
Establishes the build up New York pilot program to provide grants to eligible municipalities that construct new accessory dwelling unit housing projects built on top of existing buildings that utilize mass timber and serve certain households; establishes the mass timber for affordable housing program to provide tax credits for eligible taxpayers who use mass timber in certain new construction or major retrofits of existing buildings that primarily serve households up to one hundred fifty percent of the area median income; establishes tax credits for mass timber production.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09298

Introduced
12/10/25  
Refer
12/10/25  
Enacts the "next-gen civics act" to provide education to students in grades nine through twelve on civic education; provides that such instruction shall include, but not be limited to, a hands-on, project-based curriculum where students shall apply what they learn through activities that include, but are not limited to, mock elections, community projects, and policy simulations.