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Jo Simon 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 75)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01327

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Relates to releasing individuals charged with a crime under non-monetary bail conditions in order to receive mental health screening or be admitted to a hospital as a result of a mental illness which is likely to result in harm to such individual or others.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01469

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Report Pass
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Requires electric vehicle charging stations to include at least one space that is large enough to accommodate wheelchair accessible electric vehicles.
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New York Assembly Bill A01312

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Grants the legislature the authority to direct the attorney-general by concurrent resolution to inquire into matters concerning the public peace, public safety and public justice.
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New York Assembly Bill A01546

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Establishes regulations for bicycles with electric assist.
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New York Assembly Bill A01525

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Directs the department of agriculture and markets to establish a grading system for retail food stores, food service establishments and food warehouses.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01402

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Provides a civil action for deprivation of rights which is caused by any person or public entity.
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New York Assembly Bill A01502

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Restricts certain substances from being used in menstrual products.
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New York Assembly Bill A01507

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Requires shelter allowances be set at up to one hundred percent of the fair market rent for the local social services district.
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New York Assembly Bill A01607

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
5/19/26  
Relates to the provision of breast pumps and related collection and storage materials to certain incarcerated nursing birth parents who are confined in or committed to an institution or local correctional facility with or without their child subject to specific time limitations; requires institutions and local correctional facilities to provide pumps and related materials to such incarcerated birth parents; requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to issue an annual report on data relating to incarcerated birth parents.
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New York Assembly Bill A01529

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Report Pass
5/29/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Refer
6/10/25  
Engrossed
3/11/26  
Requires the disclosure of lead-based paint test reports in real estate transactions.
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New York Assembly Bill A01556

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
6/13/25  
Refer
6/13/25  
Enacts the "food safety and chemical disclosure act"; prohibits certain food additives and food color additives; provides that in an action to enforce compliance, the recognition by the federal food and drug administration of any of these substances as safe may not be alleged as a defense; establishes requirements for the reporting of GRAS (generally recognized as safe) substances.
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New York Assembly Bill A01670

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Prohibits the use of restraints on and the use of force against incarcerated individuals during labor and incarcerated individuals who have experienced different pregnancy outcomes, absent extraordinary circumstances, and on pregnant and post-pregnancy persons during a custodial interrogation; provides for certain exceptions for restraints to be used and in such case limits the use to wrist restraints.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01597

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Establishes the baby bucks allowance to provide income to eligible participants for the last three months of pregnancy and the first 18 months of the child's life; excludes income received from the baby bucks allowance for purposes of supplemental nutrition assistance program eligibility.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01626

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Prohibits health care practitioners from performing a virginity examination or supervising the performance of a virginity examination on a patient; defines "virginity examination".
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New York Assembly Bill A01616

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Enacts the "Big Five African Trophies Act" relating to banning the importation, transportation and possession of certain African wildlife species and products.