New York State Representative

Joseph Destefano 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 2)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00655

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Directs the department of environmental conservation, in conjunction with the department of health and the department of labor, to establish the municipal asbestos abatement grant program to provide financial assistance to municipalities for the abatement of asbestos in vacant and/or abandoned commercial properties; makes a $15,000,000 appropriation therefor.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00601

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes the home care jobs innovation program and the home care jobs innovation fund to identify, develop and support projects throughout the state designed to increase the number of individuals who become home care workers and to increase the employment retention of individuals who are employed as home care workers; provides for the granting of awards to such projects; makes an appropriation therefor.
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New York Assembly Bill A00635

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Provides a tax credit for qualified caregiving expenses.
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New York Assembly Bill A00573

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Allows the petitioner to have counsel assigned by the court in certain custody proceedings.
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New York Assembly Bill A00464

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes a program for specific individuals to become complex care assistants and provide private duty nursing services to certain Medicaid enrollees.
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New York Assembly Bill A00756

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Report Pass
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Defines the term "construction projects" to mean the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement of any school building where a district receives any apportionment for debt service or building aid and the school building is sited within the Long Island region; provides that each contract involving the award of a construction project shall require the use of a project labor agreement for all contractors and subcontractors on such project.
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New York Assembly Bill A00785

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Report Pass
6/6/25  
Refer
6/6/25  
Report Pass
6/11/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Enrolled
7/23/25  
Chaptered
7/24/25  
Requires schools safety plans to include a cardiac emergency response plan that addresses the use of appropriate personnel and measures to respond to incidents involving any individual experiencing sudden cardiac arrest or similar life-threatening emergency on any school site owned or operated by a school or at a location of a school sponsored event.
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New York Assembly Bill A00819

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Eliminates the photo image fee for veterans who have their license or identification cards amended with a veteran notation.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00839

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Permits a school food authority to attribute moneys spent on purchases of food products from New York state farmers, growers, producers or processors made for its school breakfast program to the thirty percent of costs for school breakfast, snack and lunch service programs.
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New York Assembly Bill A00838

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Relates to the organization of industrial development agencies and the definition of labor organization.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00815

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to ensuring net metering is a compensation floor for residential producers of energy.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00842

Introduced
1/8/25  
Enacts the "independent senior housing resident freedom of choice act" to authorize persons in independent housing, shelters and residences to receive services they could otherwise receive if they resided in a private residence.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00537

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to requiring bills with a threshold level of co-sponsorship to be brought to the floor for a vote to be taken thereon.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00499

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse or maltreatment at summer day camps; includes college coaches, athletic directors, professors, graduate assistants and college presidents among those required to report such suspected abuse or maltreatment.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00550

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires that for hire vehicles with a chassis which was manufactured and then altered for the purpose of transporting ten or more occupants, including the driver, be equipped with an operable carbon monoxide detector.