New York State Senator

Phara Forrest 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 11)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

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 A07376

Introduced
3/25/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
4/21/26  
Refer
4/21/26  
Report Pass
5/5/26  
Engrossed
5/11/26  
Requires third-party food delivery services and third-party grocery delivery services to provide the ability to include a gratuity at the same point in the online order process when the underlying order is placed; provides that customers shall not be required to pay a gratuity; provides that third-party food delivery services and third-party grocery delivery services shall not reduce the compensation of any worker as a result of gratuities; establishes penalties for violations of such provisions.
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New York Assembly Bill A07394

Introduced
3/25/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Relates to prevailing wage requirements applicable to public works and certain construction projects performed under private contract and paid for with public funds.
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New York Assembly Bill A06709

Introduced
3/10/25  
Refer
3/10/25  
Relates to the topics of the course required to be taken by practitioners certifying patients as eligible for medical cannabis; establishes the endocannabinoid system awareness program; requires the office of cannabis awareness and the department of health to publish information about the endocannabinoid system awareness program on their websites.
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New York Assembly Bill A06742

Introduced
3/11/25  
Refer
3/11/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
1/28/26  
Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision, in consultation with the commissioner of health and the commissioner of mental health, to develop a uniform electronic medical records system to be utilized by all correctional facilities in the state.
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New York Assembly Bill A06980

Introduced
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Requires the metropolitan transportation authority to publish certain information pertaining to capital project data for projects that are committed for construction on the capital program dashboard maintained by the authority on the authority's website; requires sources of funding to be specified.
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New York Assembly Bill A06920

Introduced
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Prohibits discrimination on the basis of a person's caste in opportunities of employment, housing, and access to public accommodations.
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New York Assembly Bill A07095

Introduced
3/20/25  
Refer
3/20/25  
Establishes the "Safe Staffing for Hospital Care Act"; establishes minimum staffing levels for various health care workers in different health care facilities; requires submission of staffing plans; prohibits most mandatory overtime.
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New York Assembly Bill A07275

Introduced
3/21/25  
Refer
3/21/25  
Establishes light duty during pregnancy and parental leave for railroad employees.
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New York Assembly Bill A07203

Introduced
3/21/25  
Refer
3/21/25  
Enacts the "New York state nurse employment, enhancement and dignity act" to provide hazard pay to nurses during a state disaster emergency, an annual tax credit for nurses, a student loan forgiveness program for nurses, and preferential school admission for nurses.
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New York Assembly Bill A06950

Introduced
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
5/12/26  
Refer
5/12/26  
Report Pass
5/28/26  
Enacts "the construction reporting pay act"; provides that each laborer, worker or mechanic in the employ of a contractor who by request or permission of an employer reports for work on any day shall be paid no less than four hours at the prevailing rate of wages.
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New York Assembly Bill A06708

Introduced
3/10/25  
Refer
3/10/25  
Relates to use of public funds for prevailing wage requirements applicable to construction projects performed under private contract.
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New York Assembly Bill A07071

Introduced
3/20/25  
Refer
3/20/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Relates to special provisions for the operation of bicycles when approaching stop signs and traffic-control signals including steady circular red signals and red arrow signals.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07015

Introduced
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Relates to parole eligibility for crimes committed at age twenty-one or younger; provides if such individual is convicted of a crime prior to their twenty-second birthday for which they were sentenced to a period of incarceration greater than 20 years, they shall be eligible for parole after fifteen years of incarceration.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill K00181

Introduced
3/10/25  
Refer
3/10/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim March 2025, as Women in the Trades Month in the State of New York