New York State Senator

Matthew Simpson 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 8)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07285

Introduced
3/25/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Establishes the "first responder peer support program act" which supplies peer-to-peer mental health programs to first responders.
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New York Assembly Bill A07407

Introduced
3/25/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Permits public schools to utilize or display indigenous names.
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New York Assembly Bill A07417

Introduced
3/25/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Eliminates state sales and compensating use taxes on motor fuels and diesel motor fuels; authorizes localities to eliminate such taxes at the local level; establishes various exemptions from New York's sales and use tax; provides for a sales tax exemption for housekeeping supplies and for ready-to-eat foods.
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New York Assembly Bill A07363

Introduced
3/25/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Report Pass
5/6/25  
Refer
5/6/25  
Report Pass
5/13/25  
Relates to protecting the communication rights of individuals with disabilities; provides that each person with a disability has the right to communicate in their preferred manner.
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New York Assembly Bill A06847

Introduced
3/14/25  
Refer
3/14/25  
Requires that any rules or regulations promulgated by the department of environmental conservation pursuant to the climate action fund are subject to a vote of the legislature and must be approved by a majority vote prior to implementation.
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New York Assembly Bill A06790

Introduced
3/14/25  
Refer
3/14/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
5/12/26  
Refer
5/12/26  
Report Pass
5/14/26  
Engrossed
5/14/26  
Provides that for taxable years beginning on and after January first, two thousand twenty-six, a resident taxpayer who serves as an active volunteer firefighter or as a volunteer ambulance worker shall be allowed a credit against the tax imposed equal to eight hundred dollars; provides for a real property tax exemption under certain circumstances to an enrolled member of an incorporated volunteer fire company, fire department or incorporated voluntary ambulance service residing in such city, village, town, school district, special district, fire district or county.
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New York Assembly Bill A06939

Introduced
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Requires each school district to ensure that every public school in which school days exceed five hours in duration provides up to thirty minutes of daily recess within the school day for all students in kindergarten through fifth grade and for students in sixth grade who attend an elementary school.
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New York Assembly Bill A06955

Introduced
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Directs the department of public service to promulgate rules, regulations and model policies regarding setback requirements for the siting of battery energy storage systems; requires minimum setback requirements for commercial energy storage systems, with a capacity of three megawatts or greater, of no less than seven hundred fifty feet from residential property and no less than three hundred feet from residential property located in a city with a population of one million or more inhabitants; requires public hearings prior to the approval of an application for a permit for such systems.
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New York Assembly Bill A07020

Introduced
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Fixes the maximum interest rate for credit cards issued or used in this state at 10%.
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New York Assembly Bill A07109

Introduced
3/20/25  
Refer
3/20/25  
Provides that the maximum speed limit on state highways may be established pursuant to an engineering and/or traffic investigation authorized or performed by the department of transportation or the municipality within which the section of state highway subject to such speed limit is located.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00256

Introduced
3/25/25  
Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of Adirondack Community Action Programs, Inc.
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New York Assembly Bill K00182

Introduced
3/10/25  
Refer
3/10/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim March 2025, as Pure New York State Maple Month in the State of New York
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New York Assembly Bill K00223

Introduced
3/18/25  
Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of The Kiwanis Club of Glens Falls, New York on March 25, 2025
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New York Assembly Bill K00229

Introduced
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim March 2025, as Irish American Heritage Month in the State of New York
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New York Assembly Bill K00224

Introduced
3/18/25  
Commending the Ticonderoga Area Chamber of Commerce upon the occasion of celebrating its 100th Anniversary in 2025