New York State Senator

Jo Simon 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 52)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08613

Introduced
5/22/25  
Refer
5/22/25  
Requires certain licensees to provide or make available drink drug testing devices to protect consumers from drink spiking.
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New York Assembly Bill A08642

Introduced
5/22/25  
Refer
5/22/25  
Enacts the "NYS health care tax reform act"; establishes a public goods and medicaid subsidy surcharge on insurance corporations; establishes a public goods and medicaid subsidy surcharge on business corporations; establishes a public goods and medicaid subsidy surcharge on pass-through entities; relates to filing fee surcharges; relates to revenues to be included in the health care reform act resources fund; establishes a public goods and medicaid surcharge on misclassified workers.
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New York Assembly Bill A08635

Introduced
5/22/25  
Refer
5/22/25  
Provides exceptions from the requirement of specificity in pleadings in certain cases involving sexual offenses.
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New York Assembly Bill A08637

Introduced
5/22/25  
Refer
5/22/25  
Relates to the reuse of building construction, deconstruction, and demolition materials, including requiring local deconstruction ordinances and reporting requirements for local political subdivisions awarded grants for construction, deconstruction and demolition projects; establishes a construction, deconstruction, and demolition waste prevention and reduction grant and technical support program; establishes deconstruction contractor certification requirements.
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New York Assembly Bill A08604

Introduced
5/22/25  
Refer
5/22/25  
Provides additional support to medically fragile children who rely on community-based or home health services.
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New York Assembly Bill A08623

Introduced
5/22/25  
Refer
5/22/25  
Requires each state-operated facility that delivers health care services which is operated and licensed pursuant to the mental hygiene law, the education law, the correction law or section 504 of the executive law and which requires two or more registered nurses or licensed practical nurses to be present within the facility at any given time.
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New York Assembly Bill A08659

Introduced
5/23/25  
Refer
5/23/25  
Enacts into law components of legislation that relate to live event ticket sales; establishes an annual professional reseller renewal fee; requires professional ticket resellers to provide their New York state ticket reseller license number as a condition of utilizing an online resale marketplace to resell tickets (Part A); provides criteria for when a purchaser may obtain a full refund of the amount paid for a ticket (Part B); relates to resale requirements for tickets; requires that if a licensee or other ticket reseller doesn't have possession of the ticket, then they shall have a written contract to obtain the offered ticket at a certain price from a person or entity in possession of the ticket or from a person or entity who has a contractual right to obtain such ticket, and tickets to the event have been placed on sale by the venue or entity hosting the event or its authorized agent before the licensee or reseller can advertise the sale of the tickets (Part C); relates to unlawful charges in connection with tickets; permits reasonable charges for costs actually rendered or otherwise in connection to customer support, technological and software infrastructure, and actual operational costs for sales away from the box office; defines terms (Part D); relates to the availability of tickets for sale to the general public; defines a term (Part E); relates to the resale of tickets included in a subscription or season ticket package (Part F); extends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to tickets to places of entertainment (Part G).
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New York Assembly Bill A08672

Introduced
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Eliminates certain court surcharges and fees and probation and parole surcharges and fees; eliminates the requirement that a parolee or releasee receiving a merit termination of sentence be financially able to comply with an order of restitution; eliminates the requirement that a person receiving a discharge of sentence be financially able to comply with an order of restitution and the payment of certain surcharges or fees (Part A); mandates that courts engage in an individualized assessment of a person's financial ability to pay a fine prior to imposing a fine (Part B); eliminates the availability of incarceration as a remedy for a failure to pay a fine, surcharge, or fee, lifts and vacates existing warrants issued solely on a person's failure to timely pay a fine, surcharge or fee and ends existing sentences of incarceration based on such failure (Part C); vacates existing unsatisfied civil judgments based on a person's failure to timely pay a surcharge, or fee (Part D); prohibits the collection of a fine, restitution or reparation from the funds of an incarcerated person; prohibits the payment of court fines, mandatory surcharges, certain fees, restitution, reparation or forfeitures from the earnings of prisoners (Part E); vacates existing unpaid surcharges, DNA databank fees, crime victim assistance fees, sexual offender registration fees, supplemental sex offender victim fees, or probation or parole supervision fees; repeals certain provisions of law relating to restrictions on remitting such fees (Part F).
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New York Assembly Bill A08670

Introduced
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Refer
6/25/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Relates to items of appropriation.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08603

Introduced
5/22/25  
Refer
5/22/25  
Enacts the "forensic rehabilitation act" relating to the custody of individuals following a verdict or plea of not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect.
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New York Assembly Bill A08600

Introduced
5/22/25  
Refer
5/22/25  
Increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for certain behavioral health services provided to individuals under the age of twenty-one; directs that funds in the healthcare stability fund can be used for the funding of children's behavioral health outpatient rate increases.
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New York Assembly Bill K00586

Introduced
5/23/25  
Refer
5/23/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 2025, as Melanoma Awareness Month in the State of New York
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New York Assembly Bill K00587

Introduced
5/23/25  
Refer
5/23/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim June 2025 as Dairy Month in the State of New York
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New York Assembly Bill K00589

Introduced
5/23/25  
Refer
5/23/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim October 25-31, 2025, as Epidermolysis Bullosa Awareness Week in the State of New York, more commonly known as Butterfly Children Awareness Week
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New York Assembly Bill K00592

Introduced
5/27/25  
Commemorating the 30th Annual Mohawk Valley Ride for Missing Children on June 6, 2025