New York State Senator

Jo Simon 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 47)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00522

Introduced
5/16/25  
Refer
5/16/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 17 - 23, 2025, as Safe Boating Week in the State of New York
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New York Assembly Bill K00528

Introduced
5/16/25  
Refer
5/16/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 2025, as Be Kind to Animals Month in the State of New York
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New York Assembly Bill K00523

Introduced
5/16/25  
Refer
5/16/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 19, 2025, as Italian American Day in the State of New York
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New York Assembly Bill K00542

Introduced
5/19/25  
Refer
5/19/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 30, 2025, as Heat Awareness Day in the State of New York
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New York Assembly Bill K00544

Introduced
5/19/25  
Refer
5/19/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim October 28, 2025, as First Responders Day in the State of New York
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New York Assembly Bill K00548

Introduced
5/20/25  
Honoring the Lexington School for the Deaf upon the occasion of hosting its 28th Annual Basketball Classic vs. Assembly/Senate All-Stars on May 20, 2025
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New York Assembly Bill A08518

Introduced
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
3/18/26  
Engrossed
3/25/26  
Requires insurance companies to cover outpatient problem gambling services.
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New York Assembly Bill A08055

Introduced
4/22/25  
Refer
4/22/25  
Returns outpatient mental health, substance use disorder, residential and rehabilitation services to Medicaid fee-for-service.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08491

Introduced
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Establishes the youth justice innovation fund to make funds available to community-based organizations for services and programs with the purpose of youth development and preventing youth arrest and incarceration.
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New York Assembly Bill A08519

Introduced
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Requires that in civil claims under the child victims act, adult survivors act, or a civil sex trafficking claim any insurer who may provide liability coverage for a claim shall, upon request from the claimant or claimant's attorney, provide information regarding each known policy of insurance; provides that a person bringing a civil claim in a sex trafficking case need not disclose their immigration status.
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New York Assembly Bill A08499

Introduced
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Relates to the eligibility of New York city transit authority employees for performance of duty disability retirement.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08045

Introduced
4/22/25  
Refer
4/22/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
5/21/25  
Engrossed
5/21/25  
Refer
5/21/25  
Engrossed
6/6/25  
Enrolled
6/18/25  
Chaptered
6/20/25  
Chaptered
6/18/25  
Passed
6/20/25  
Extends certain provisions authorizing certain mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and psychoanalysts to engage in diagnosis and the development of assessment-based treatment plans.
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New York Assembly Bill A08064

Introduced
4/22/25  
Refer
4/22/25  
Enacts the student journalist education act to protect student speech at educational institutions unless such speech is libelous, an invasion of privacy, or incites students to commit an unlawful act, violate school policies, or to materially and substantially disrupt the orderly operation of the school.
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New York Assembly Bill A08031

Introduced
4/22/25  
Refer
4/22/25  
Requires the commissioner of labor, in consultation with the commissioner of agriculture and markets, commissioner of health and the commissioner of environmental conservation, to develop instructional tools and materials for occupations at high-risk of tick exposures; requires such materials to provide information on the identification of ticks and tick removal, and protection from tick bites; requires such materials to be available to high-risk employers and employees at no charge.
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New York Assembly Bill A08043

Introduced
4/22/25  
Refer
4/22/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
3/4/26  
Refer
3/4/26  
Provides that no person shall sell any octopus that was bred, raised, or harvested under controlled conditions for the purpose of human consumption.