New York State Representative

Joseph Destefano 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 65)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02557

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Creates the crime of stolen valor; makes such crime a class A misdemeanor.
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New York Assembly Bill A06296

Introduced
3/3/25  
Refer
3/3/25  
Establishes regional arts, cultural affairs, and parks grants for ten regions throughout the state for capital projects.
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New York Assembly Bill A06357

Introduced
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Refer
3/24/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Requires approval by 2/3 vote of membership of the senate and assembly voting separately to increase or decrease any tax rate, impose a new state tax, extend or delete existing state tax.
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New York Assembly Bill A06378

Introduced
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Reimburses counties who have purchased or will purchase Medicaid fraud detection software.
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New York Assembly Bill A06326

Introduced
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Requires gas and electric corporations to provide forty-five days' notice to customers whenever there is a service rate or charge increase.
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New York Assembly Bill A06391

Introduced
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Enacts the "cobalt and lithium mining and production divestment act" to prevent monies or assets of the common retirement fund from being invested in the stocks, securities or other obligations of any institution or company engaging in cobalt and lithium mining or production for the manufacture of batteries used in large-scale battery storage power stations and the primary propulsion systems for electric vehicles, if such company cannot establish through approved independent monitoring that their mining operation does not use child labor and that adult miners and other workers are employed under conditions that meet accepted criteria.
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New York Assembly Bill A06351

Introduced
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Creates incentives for counties to investigate and prosecute medicaid fraud.
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New York Assembly Bill A06372

Introduced
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Directs the commissioner of transportation, in consultation with the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities, to conduct a statewide study and review of the transportation of individuals with developmental disabilities.
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New York Assembly Bill A06318

Introduced
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Extends the time period from eighteen years to twenty-five years that a school shall be guaranteed recovery of energy performance contract costs from energy savings incurred by school districts over that time period.
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New York Assembly Bill A06399

Introduced
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Replaces the word rape with the term sexual battery.
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New York Assembly Bill A06414

Introduced
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Enacts the "omnibus emergency services volunteer incentive act" to provide benefits to volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers; increases the personal income tax deduction after four or more years of service; exempts motor vehicles used in the performance of such volunteers' duties from registration fees, use taxes and special fees for volunteer license plates; authorizes the provision of municipal health insurance coverage to such volunteers; establishes a volunteer recruitment service loan forgiveness program.
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New York Assembly Bill A06431

Introduced
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Requires the deposit, into the dedicated highway and bridge trust fund, of a portion of the sales tax collected on each gallon of motor fuel sold at retail; increases the amount to be deposited over time.
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New York Assembly Bill A06366

Introduced
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Establishes the dedicated highway and bridge trust fund reform act; ensures that money deposited into the dedicated highway and bridge trust fund is spent on construction purposes and not DOT and DMV operational activities.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00165

Introduced
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim March 6, 2025, as Lymphedema Day in the State of New York
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New York Assembly Bill K00169

Introduced
3/5/25  
Honoring Jane Petty for her outstanding education, research, advocacy, and fundraising efforts for lymphatic disease awareness on March 6, 2025