New York State Senator

Jo Simon 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 26)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04917

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Prohibits the use of chemical agents by police officers against minors under the age of eighteen.
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New York Assembly Bill A04905

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Requires a surety bond for contractors and subcontractors where no public fund has been established for the financing of a public improvement.
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New York Assembly Bill A04916

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Enacts the safer consumption services act which provides for the establishment of a program to provide safe injection sites.
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New York Assembly Bill A04992

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Clarifies the standard for intentional discrimination or retaliation claims by requiring a person or persons prove that an unlawful motivation was a motivating factor and not "the sole motivating factor" or a "but-for cause" of the challenged treatment.
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New York Assembly Bill A05001

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Relates to the cost effectiveness of consultant contracts by state agencies; defines "consultant services".
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New York Assembly Bill A05016

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Creates a temporary state commission to study and investigate sexual misconduct in state correctional facilities among incarcerated individuals and employees; devises a reporting system for notification of such misconduct to appropriate authorities; establishes duties and membership of such commission.
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New York Assembly Bill A04921

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Enacts the college student suicide prevention act to provide for policies, guidelines and training opportunities to effectively and appropriately prevent student suicide, intervene in crisis situations, and support college communities in postvention.
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New York Assembly Bill A04913

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Allows taxpayers to contribute to the tuition assistance program fund on personal income tax forms; establishes the gifts to the tuition assistance program fund.
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New York Assembly Bill A05044

Introduced
2/11/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Requires that internet providers who provide service in a municipality provide basic internet service to each residential dwelling or residential dwelling unit in that municipality at no cost.
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New York Assembly Bill A06886

Introduced
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Establishes a program to provide information to consumers concerning household hazardous products; provides such information be available at the point of retail sale by labels and pamphlets; provides such information should disclose hazards and inform people of environmentally safer alternatives; provides for the establishment of a hazardous product list by the department of environmental conservation.
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New York Assembly Bill A06928

Introduced
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Prohibits the department of environmental conservation from issuing or authorizing any permits to new or expanding large concentrated animal feeding operations.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04920

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Establishes Three King's day as a school holiday for all public schools in a city school district of a city having a population of one million or more inhabitants.
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New York Assembly Bill A05005

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Provides that members of a retirement system who retire from such system and later rejoin the retirement system are reinstated with the same rights, benefits and privileges they had prior to retirement.
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New York Assembly Bill K00233

Introduced
3/19/25  
Recognizing March 16, 2025, as Black Press Day
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00237

Introduced
3/19/25  
Refer
3/19/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim March 20, 2025, as International Day of Happiness in the State of New York