New York State Representative

Joseph Destefano 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 54)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09659

Introduced
1/21/26  
Requires health insurance policies to cover costs for pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome rehabilitation treatment.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09645

Introduced
1/21/26  
Refer
1/21/26  
Report Pass
4/28/26  
Establishes a 13 member veteran suicide mortality review board to serve as the statewide entity responsible for the multidisciplinary review of suicide deaths among veterans by identifying trends and systemic factors contributing to veteran suicide; assessing gaps in services, access to care, and institutional practices; developing evidence-based recommendations for prevention and policy improvement; and promoting collaboration among relevant state, local, and federal agencies.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A09585

Introduced
1/21/26  
Establishes the small business child and dependent care savings program; provides the basic framework therefor.
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New York Assembly Bill A09665

Introduced
1/21/26  
Refer
1/21/26  
Report Pass
2/4/26  
Refer
2/4/26  
Report Pass
5/19/26  
Refer
5/19/26  
Report Pass
5/20/26  
Engrossed
5/28/26  
Repeals provisions relating to resolutions of disputes in the course of collective negotiations with certain deputy sheriffs to provide such deputy sheriffs with the same interest arbitration scope as municipal police officers.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02262

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Requires law enforcement and courts to notify the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) when an arrested person or defendant is not a United States citizen; adjusts certain maximum sentences for class A misdemeanors and unclassified misdemeanors; requires notification to be made to the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency prior to the release of certain noncitizens; repeals provisions of the "protect our courts act".
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New York Assembly Bill A02307

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Relates to creating a school resource officer program to permit the employment of retired law enforcement officers and provide grants to school districts and non-public schools for such purpose.
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New York Assembly Bill A02260

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Allows bars and restaurants to organize and manage sports squares pools, provided that they do not take any profit from such pools.
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New York Assembly Bill A02338

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Creates a veteran's home and land ownership loan program to provide loans to veterans to purchase homes or unimproved land suitable for building; requires such loans to be secured by a second mortgage.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02284

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Provides for recall; empowers the electors with the ability to remove elective officers.
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New York Assembly Bill A02281

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Relates to exempting cranes from the petroleum business tax.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02336

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Requires certain meetings between the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly relating to the state budget to be open to the general public; to provide an opportunity for the public to attend, listen to, and observe such meetings; and to broadcast and maintain records of such meetings on each party's website.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02356

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Increases the number of members on the farm laborers wage board from three to five; adds as members the commissioner of agriculture and markets and a member appointed by the Dean of the Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02269

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Relates to aggravated harassment of an employee by an incarcerated individual; eliminates the requirement that an incarcerated individual causes or attempts to cause an employee to come into contact with blood, seminal fluid, urine, feces, saliva, or the contents of a toilet bowl by throwing, tossing or expelling such fluid or material.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02344

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Provides for the exemption of disabled veterans of the armed forces of the United States from New York State Thruway tolls.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00869

Introduced
1/23/26  
Refer
1/23/26  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim January 27, 2026, as Holocaust Remembrance Day in the State of New York