New York State Representative

Joseph Destefano 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 47)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03433

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Requires daycare facilities to maintain evacuation and lockdown plans for children with disabilities during an emergency situation.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03442

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Excuses prospective jurors from jury service if they are a full-time caregiver responsible for the care of a person with a mental or physical condition that causes such person to be incapable of caring for themself.
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New York Assembly Bill A03439

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Requires a certified copy or certified transcript of a birth record, death record, certificate of marriage, or certificate of dissolution of marriage to be issued to the child, grandchild, or great-grandchild of a deceased person upon request; removes requirement for such individuals to obtain a court order for issuance of such records.
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New York Assembly Bill A03447

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Includes attempting to register as an elector knowing that they are not qualified due to lack of U.S. citizenship.
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New York Assembly Bill A03576

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Relates to using a portion of the public safety communications surcharge to support volunteer fire department initiatives; establishes the New York state volunteer fire department auxiliary fund.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03539

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Establishes the savings bank, savings and loan association or credit union municipal deposit program; defines terms; provides that a credit union accepting deposits of public money is subject to certain limitations and shall pledge assets or furnish other security satisfactory in form and amount to the depositor, for the repayment of monies held in the name of such depositor, when required to be secured by applicable law, decree, or regulation.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03543

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Makes it unlawful to provide valuable consideration for the donation of human eggs for scientific research.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03572

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Report Pass
3/25/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Relates to adding spina bifida to the definition of developmental disability in the mental hygiene law.
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New York Assembly Bill A03556

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
5/12/26  
Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities to issue a residential request list and placement report to the governor, the senate and the assembly.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03500

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Restores the authorized reimbursement rate paid to governmental entities for enforcement of navigation laws to 75% of authorized expenditures.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03512

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Relates to crimes against a child; makes endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree a crime.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03549

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Report Pass
5/29/25  
Refer
5/29/25  
Report Pass
6/4/25  
Engrossed
6/4/25  
Refer
6/4/25  
Engrossed
1/28/26  
Requires the same benefits and services for post-traumatic stress disorder for emergency dispatchers and correction officers as are afforded police and firefighters.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03563

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Relates to the definition of autism for purposes of the mental hygiene law.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00057

Introduced
1/27/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim January 27-31, 2025, as Data Privacy Week in the State of New York
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00058

Introduced
1/28/25  
Commemorating the Asian American community's celebration of the Lunar New Year, the Year of the Snake, on January 29, 2025