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Jo Simon 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 79)

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Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02374

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Directs the department of social services to establish a refugee resettlement program with the goals of achieving economic and social self-sufficiency, assisting victims of human trafficking, and assuring proper foster care for unaccompanied refugees.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01143

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Establishes an electronic military ballot application and military ballot transmittal system through which applicants may apply for a military ballot and return a marked military ballot, online.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01224

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Establishes a carbon dioxide emissions price for electric generation from carbon-based fuel; creates a carbon dioxide emissions fund.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01167

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Relates to providing hazard payments to essential workers during a state disaster emergency; provides that certain employers shall make hazard payments to essential workers during a state disaster emergency provided no hazard payment shall exceed twenty-five thousand dollars in any year for any essential worker earning less than two hundred thousand dollars per year or five thousand dollars for any essential worker earning more than two hundred thousand dollars.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01225

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Prohibits a person convicted of rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof under 18 U.S.C. Section 2383 from holding an elected office, a judgeship, or an appointed position in the state.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01261

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Protects the rights of people in prisons, jails and forensic facilities; limits the use of cell or segregated confinement; grants access to tablets, visitation, and certain items.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01280

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Establishes the crime of unlawful dissemination or publication of a fabricated photographic, videographic, or audio record as a class E felony.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01161

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Establishes that combined heat and power generating equipment shall be exempt from taxation.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01255

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Requires applicants to the department of environmental conservation for permits to disclose information concerning other permits held and/or revoked, enforcement actions, criminal convictions, fees or fines owed, and other information relating to compliance by the applicant or any corporation of which they are an officer, director, or large stockholder with state, federal, or foreign environmental laws or regulations and certain other laws.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01253

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Requires employers to annually report to the division of human rights the number of settlements with employees and other individuals performing services in the workplace regarding claims of discrimination on the basis of sex, including verbal and physical sexual harassment; requires the division of human rights to provide an annual report to the governor and the legislature; makes conforming technical changes.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01119

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Relates to the transparency and quality of care of operators of adult care facilities; requires certain applicants for adult care facilities to provide an opportunity for public comment on the application.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01241

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Report Pass
3/25/25  
Engrossed
5/15/25  
Refer
5/15/25  
Engrossed
6/9/25  
Enrolled
6/20/25  
Chaptered
6/23/25  
Repeals provisions criminalizing the furnishing of items with a nominal value to induce attendance at polls.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01180

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Requires bomb or blast resistant garbage receptacles in facilities of common carriers; provides minimum specifications for such receptacles shall be set by the NYS division of homeland security and emergency services.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01106

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Requires instruction in civic education for grades 5 through 12 including instruction on the NYS constitution; federal, state and local government; civic literacy; methods of public participation; and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01245

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Provides for a personal income tax deduction for student loan payments not in excess of five thousand dollars; excludes any payment not in excess of five thousand dollars made by an employer, employee, or on behalf of an employee that is directly deducted from the employee's wages through payroll and administered by a third-party platform that facilitates direct payments to educational institutions or related loan servicers on behalf of students such amount from an employee's New York state gross income; further excludes any contribution not to exceed five thousand dollars to a tuition program under section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code made through payroll deduction and facilitated by an employer or a third-party platform that facilitates direct payments to such programs on behalf of employees from the employee's New York state gross income.