New York State Senator

Jo Simon 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 5)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00735

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Report Pass

4/29/25

Refer

4/29/25

Refer

1/7/26

Expands the age range eligibility for the rent subsidy payable to a foster child living independently to age twenty-four.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00771

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Refer

1/7/26

Requires insurance coverage for early egg and peanut allergen introduction dietary supplements for infants at no cost.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00804

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Report Pass

5/6/25

Refer

5/6/25

Report Pass

6/5/25

Refer

6/5/25

Report Pass

6/6/25

Refer

6/6/25

Report Pass

6/9/25

Engrossed

6/9/25

Refer

6/9/25

Engrossed

6/9/25

Enrolled

12/8/25

Chaptered

12/19/25

Passed

12/19/25

Enacts the consumer litigation funding act to promote consumer protections related to consumer litigation funding transactions; provides for contract requirements, including that the contract contain a no penalty provision for the prepayment of the funded amount prior to the settlement of their case; makes related provisions.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00780

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Refer

1/7/26

Enacts the "Supervising Upcoming Professionals for Practice in Official Roles in Therapy (SUPPORT) act"; provides that for licensure as a clinical social worker, an applicant may satisfy the experience requirements under supervision of a mental health practitioner who has been granted the privilege to diagnose and develop assessment-based treatment plans under article one hundred sixty-three of the education law.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00829

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Refer

1/7/26

Excludes unemployment compensation from being included in the computation of state income tax.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00836

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Report Pass

5/20/25

Refer

5/20/25

Report Pass

5/28/25

Refer

5/28/25

Report Pass

5/29/25

Refer

5/29/25

Report Pass

6/9/25

Engrossed

6/10/25

Refer

6/10/25

Relates to utility intervenor reimbursement to a participant for its reasonable costs of participation in any proceeding before the Public Service Commission (PSC).

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00834

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Refer

1/29/25

Refer

1/7/26

Refer

1/30/26

Creates the fundamental right of the people to have access to public information and to be provided notice of and to attend public meetings.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00815

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Refer

1/7/26

Relates to ensuring net metering is a compensation floor for residential producers of energy.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00675

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Refer

1/7/26

Enacts the empire state licensing act to provide all New Yorkers with access to professional, occupational, commercial, or business licenses, permits, certificates, or related registrations regardless of an applicant's citizenship or immigration status.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00598

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Refer

1/7/26

Provides affordable and accessible dependent care options for working families by including qualified in-home and backup care expenditures paid or incurred with respect to the taxpayer's employees working in the state in the employer provided child care credit criteria; makes technical corrections to make such credit independent of the federal employer-provided child care credit.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00688

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Report Pass

3/18/25

Refer

3/18/25

Report Pass

4/1/25

Refer

4/1/25

Report Pass

4/1/25

Engrossed

5/12/25

Refer

5/12/25

Engrossed

4/29/26

Refer

4/29/26

Engrossed

5/6/26

Empowers the office of fire prevention and control to, in coordination with the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities and the chief disability officer, provide minimum basic training related to handling emergency situations involving individuals with any physical and/or developmental disability to all firefighters.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00697

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Report Pass

5/19/25

Refer

5/19/25

Report Pass

5/28/25

Refer

5/28/25

Report Pass

6/6/25

Prohibits the use of the term "excited delirium" as a diagnosis, label, or cause of death on death certificates, autopsy reports, police reports or any report, policy or procedure by a public agency or contractor; defines excited delirium.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00486

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Refer

1/7/26

Provides for equitable disability policies; prohibits any difference, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, marital status, or national origin in the amount or payment of premiums or rate charges, or in the benefits payable, or in any of the other terms or conditions of any policy of disability insurance under the workers' compensation law.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00822

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Refer

1/7/26

Creates the responsible retirement of racehorses fund; establishes a horse registration fee; provides such funds be expended to support responsible retirement of racehorses in this state.

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00668

Introduced

1/8/25

Refer

1/8/25

Refer

1/7/26

Pertains to confinement of animals for food producing purposes; prohibits any person to tether or confine any pig during pregnancy, calf raised for veal, or egg-laying hen who is kept on a farm for all or the majority of any day in a manner that prevents such animal from lying down, standing up and fully extending its limbs and turning around freely; establishes that commission of such crime shall constitute a class A misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for a period not to exceed one year and/or fine not to exceed $1,000.

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