New York State Representative

Joseph Destefano 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 30)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05912

Introduced
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Report Pass
4/30/25  
Refer
4/30/25  
Report Pass
6/6/25  
Refer
6/6/25  
Report Pass
6/9/25  
Engrossed
6/9/25  
Requires each agency to conduct exit surveys for employees resigning from state civil service; directs the state civil service commission to create an annual report on such surveys; exempts individual responses to exit surveys from the freedom of information law.
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New York Assembly Bill A05888

Introduced
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Relates to the use of body scanners in correctional facilities by both visitors and incarcerated individuals.
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New York Assembly Bill A05991

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Requires the office of mental health, office of addiction services and supports and the department of education to create a behavioral health website which shall provide information on various behavioral health issues such as depression, eating disorders, anxiety, schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar disorder.
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New York Assembly Bill A05978

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Requires affordable housing funded by the state be used for veterans and people with disabilities, with each group receiving five percent of such affordable housing.
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New York Assembly Bill A05928

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Requires individuals who practice the profession of dental therapy or advanced dental therapy to be licensed and registered in the state; provides Medicaid reimbursement for dental therapy services.
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New York Assembly Bill A05974

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Classifies operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of drugs by an individual under the age of twenty-one as a per se offense; includes any substance or combination of substances that impair, to any extent, physical or mental abilities in the definition of drugs; allows the odor of cannabis to be the basis for evidence for a violation of section 1192-a of the vehicle and traffic law.
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New York Assembly Bill A05952

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Establishes the crime of falsely filing an extreme risk protection order to be punishable as a class E felony.
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New York Assembly Bill A06028

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Increases the personal needs allowance for residents of certain residential health care facilities from fifty-five dollars to one hundred dollars per month.
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New York Assembly Bill A05992

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Requires the city of New York to establish the New York city school safety fund, which transfers fines collected from the city's photo speed violation monitoring program and fines from the overpassing of stopped school buses to the fund to be used for school initiatives relating to the safe travel of students.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00124

Introduced
2/24/25  
Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of The Adirondack Council
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00127

Introduced
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim February 24-March 2, 2025, as Eating Disorders Awareness Week in the State of New York
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00128

Introduced
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim February 17, 2025, as Random Acts of Kindness Day in the State of New York
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New York Assembly Bill K00129

Introduced
2/25/25  
Commemorating the Centennial Anniversary of the New York State Association of Counties
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05968

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Expands the provisions of the urban development action area act by amending the definition of municipality and eligible area to include any city instead of specifically applying to a city with one million or more.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05926

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Provides that the tax levy limit shall be equal to a zero percent increase over the prior year tax levy when the difference between the total amount of taxes levied for the prior year less the tax levy limit results in a negative number.