New York State Senator

Phara Forrest 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 15)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04938

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Report Pass
4/30/25  
Engrossed
5/5/25  
Refer
5/5/25  
Engrossed
6/9/25  
Enrolled
12/8/25  
Chaptered
12/19/25  
Provides protections for telecommunications tower technicians, including requiring certain trainings during work hours without a loss of pay; requires certain reporting by bidders for telecommunication contracts.
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New York Assembly Bill A04940

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Establishes procedures regarding orders of post-termination visitation and/or contact between a child and such child's parent and for modification of such orders.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04958

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Provides for the creation and maintenance of digital records for each incarcerated individual which includes all medical records, including but not limited to mental health records and results of drug or alcohol tests, work records and evaluations, conduct records and programming records.
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New York Assembly Bill A04918

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Provides interest rate limitations for financing arrangements and the extension of consumer credit; relates to the definitions of criminal usury in the first and second degrees; relates to the functions of the attorney general regarding rental purchase agreements.
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New York Assembly Bill A05018

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Requires that all human services contracts between any public entity and a human services provider stipulate that the public entity will pay no less than 150% of the higher of: the otherwise applicable minimum wage in the state or any otherwise applicable wage rule or order and that the necessary amounts have been appropriated to ensure payment of such minimum wage.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A06100

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Establishes the "tenant opportunity to purchase act"; prevents the displacement of lower-income tenants in New York and preserves affordable housing by providing an opportunity for tenants to own or remain renters in the properties in which they reside.
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New York Assembly Bill A06108

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Provides for the return of surplus proceeds from tax lien foreclosures to a former owner; requires 14-day posted notice prior to the public auction of a property.
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New York Assembly Bill A06101

Introduced
2/26/25  
Establishes the "Not on our dime!: Ending New York funding of Israeli settler violence act" to prohibit not-for-profit corporations from engaging in unauthorized support of Israeli settlement activity; allows for recovery of a civil penalty by the state attorney general; creates a private right of action for violations.
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New York Assembly Bill A06192

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Establishes a moratorium on the sale and use of biosolids; defines terms.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A06222

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
2/27/25  
Relates to establishing the "340B prescription drug anti-discrimination act"; prohibits pharmaceutical manufacturers and pharmacy benefit managers from discriminating against covered entities and New York state pharmacies based on participation in the drug discount program authorized by section 340B of the federal public health service act.
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New York Assembly Bill A06239

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
2/27/25  
Authorizes and directs the state board of elections, in cooperation with county boards of elections, to create an online petitioning system for designating petitions; provides that use of such online petitioning system shall not preclude the collection and use of paper designating petitions; authorizes the state board of elections to promulgate necessary rules and regulations.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A06250

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
2/27/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Standardizes the language across the relevant court acts to allow tenants statewide to sue in the county where the real property at issue is located in matters relating to a tenancy or lease; requires the Office of Court Administration to develop necessary forms, procedures and deliver a report.
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New York Assembly Bill A05882

Introduced
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Requires a pharmacy benefit manager to pay a participating pharmacy at minimum at the national average drug acquisition cost (NADAC) rate, or at the pharmacy acquisition cost rate if greater or there is not a NADAC rate, plus a professional dispensing fee that is at minimum the professional dispensing fee paid under the state medical assistance program.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05899

Introduced
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Establishes the universal child care act to provide for the establishment and funding of universal child care in the state of New York; establishes a universal child care taskforce to help implement universal child care in the state and repeals certain provisions of the social services law relating thereto; establishes the permanent child care workforce pay equity fund; establishes a universal child care public option pilot program to provide universal child care in at least twenty locations throughout the state; makes an appropriation therefor.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05913

Introduced
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Clarifies the meaning of actively seeking work for purposes of unemployment benefits when the claimant is a member of a labor organization; defines "union hiring hall".