New York State Representative

Joseph Destefano 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 25)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05694

Introduced
2/20/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Requires that annual department reports be distributed in electronic format only, unless otherwise requested by a member.
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New York Assembly Bill A05772

Introduced
2/20/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Eliminates the real property tax exemption for fire districts, fire protection districts and ambulance districts developed through industrial development agencies in certain counties.
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New York Assembly Bill A05756

Introduced
2/20/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Relates to first responders, including correction officers, coming into contact with saliva by spitting, throwing, tossing, or expelling from or by an individual.
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New York Assembly Bill A05734

Introduced
2/20/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Relates to licenses to carry and possess firearms for police officers; authorizes police officers to apply for a firearms license that is valid throughout the state.
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New York Assembly Bill A05403

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Prohibits discrimination against and harassment or bullying of students by other students on school property or at a school function; requires schools to investigate reports of bullying; requires schools to adopt a written, plain-language anti-bullying and harassment policy; requires school employees to report incidents of bullying or harassment.
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New York Assembly Bill A05341

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Report Pass
6/4/25  
Refer
6/4/25  
Report Pass
6/6/25  
Engrossed
6/6/25  
Restricts cannabis storefronts and premises from being located within 500 feet from a school and two hundred feet of a house of worship.
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New York Assembly Bill A05369

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Creates the crime of harassment of a first responder as a class A misdemeanor.
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New York Assembly Bill A05395

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Directs the public service commission to conduct a full cost benefit analysis of the technical and economic feasibility of renewable energy systems in the state of New York and to compare such directly with other methods of electricity generation; makes certain changes relating to greenhouse gas emissions limits.
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New York Assembly Bill A05408

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Directs the commissioner of the office of mental health to create and operate a law enforcement, first responder, active and non-active-duty service members and veteran informational mobile application.
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New York Assembly Bill A05410

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Authorizes the New York city department of transportation to adopt a rule permitting the use of the Korean war veterans parkway in Richmond county by single unit commercial vehicles having no more than three axles and ten tires.
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New York Assembly Bill A05423

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Establishes a four-day workweek pilot program for state employees; requires the division of the budget and the state department of civil service to identify state agencies or other jobs in the performance of any function of state government for which a four-day workweek is feasible and beneficial for at least sixty percent of state employees employed in such agency or job in the performance of such function of state government, and to implement a four-day workweek for such state employees.
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New York Assembly Bill A05487

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Exempts from the mortgage recording tax mortgages executed by a veteran first time homebuyer.
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New York Assembly Bill A05509

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Permits certain schools to provide hemostatic agents for use during emergencies.
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New York Assembly Bill A05493

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
6/4/25  
Refer
6/4/25  
Report Pass
6/6/25  
Refer
6/6/25  
Report Pass
6/11/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Enrolled
9/5/25  
Chaptered
9/10/25  
Dedicates a portion of the state highway system to Charlie Bunger Sr. in the village of Babylon, county of Suffolk.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York Assembly Bill A05477

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
6/5/25  
Refer
6/5/25  
Report Pass
6/6/25  
Refer
6/6/25  
Authorizes the town of Brookhaven, county of Suffolk to alienate certain parklands for use as a recharge basin and to dedicate other lands as replacement parklands.