New York State Senator

Phara Forrest 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 13)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05320

Introduced
2/13/25  
Expands tuition assistance program awards for students experiencing homelessness.
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New York Assembly Bill A05330

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Establishes a uterine fibroids awareness and education program on the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of uterine fibroids and the elevated risk for minority women.
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New York Assembly Bill A05355

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Authorizes the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to discipline certain employees for acts of serious misconduct; defines serious misconduct; establishes procedures for such disciplinary action; prohibits employees who have been removed for serious misconduct from being placed on the eligible list after such removal.
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New York Assembly Bill A05359

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Prohibits any police officer, peace officer or employee of a correctional facility from interfering with the provision of medical assistance to an incarcerated individual.
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New York Assembly Bill A05424

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Establishes the Terry Cooper autopsy accountability act requiring autopsy reports to include all photographs of the body, microscopic slides, and post-mortem x-rays taken by, at the direction of, or reviewed by the person performing the autopsy.
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New York Assembly Bill A05480

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Protects individuals who provide or receive legally protected health activity, including reproductive health care and gender-affirming care, from criminal or civil liability or professional sanctions imposed by jurisdictions outside the state.
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New York Assembly Bill A05434

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Requires the office of children and family services to provide luggage to youth in foster care; provides that such luggage shall be distributed to social services districts for distribution to foster care youth; requires the office of children and family services to submit an annual report to the governor and the legislature about the distribution of luggage to foster care youth.
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New York Assembly Bill A05442

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Enacts the "rate hike notice act" which requires utilities in the state of New York to provide notice of a proposed rate hike to a customer via text, email and via such customer's monthly billing statement.
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New York Assembly Bill A05568

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Enacts the "New York city small business rent stabilization act" instituting a commercial rent control system in the city of New York; creates the commercial rent guidelines board.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05361

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Relates to access to lactation rooms in public buildings; requires signage for lactation rooms in public buildings.
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New York Assembly Bill A05452

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Prohibits imposing imprisonment or other penalties or fines for sleeping or camping in public spaces; prohibits involuntary admission to a hospital for observation, care and treatment or deeming a person as posing a substantial risk of physical harm to themself for failing to provide their own essential needs solely due to the fact that such person is sleeping in or upon publicly-owned property which is open to the public at such time.
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New York Assembly Bill A05454

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Establishes the New York smart work week pilot program to promote, incentivize and support the use of a four-day work week by qualifying employers and to study the benefits and impacts of such work arrangements; defines terms; establishes a tax credit for participating qualifying employers and employees.
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New York Assembly Bill A05423

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Establishes a four-day workweek pilot program for state employees; requires the division of the budget and the state department of civil service to identify state agencies or other jobs in the performance of any function of state government for which a four-day workweek is feasible and beneficial for at least sixty percent of state employees employed in such agency or job in the performance of such function of state government, and to implement a four-day workweek for such state employees.
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New York Assembly Bill A05549

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Doubles the empire state child credit for young children.
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New York Assembly Bill A05537

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Relates to licensing consumer debt collectors; sets minimum standards and regulations; establishes penalties for violations.