New York State Senator

Phara Forrest 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 24)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03842

Introduced
1/30/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Establishes the insure our communities act to implement climate leadership and community protection act targets for insurers; identifies and protects such communities; relates to affordability of insurance rates; assesses covered insurance companies' record of performance at meeting insurance needs; requires covered insurance companies to file statistical reports, including information on insurance coverage in specific assessment areas and disadvantaged communities.
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New York Assembly Bill A03974

Introduced
1/30/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Creates the office of the ombudsperson for behavioral health access.
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New York Assembly Bill A04018

Introduced
1/30/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
5/11/26  
Refer
5/11/26  
Report Pass
5/29/26  
Establishes the New York dignity in pregnancy and childbirth act; requires hospitals and other facilities that provide perinatal care to implement an evidence-based implicit bias program for all health care providers involved in the perinatal care of patients within those facilities; requires the department of health to publish reports on maternal morbidity and pregnancy related deaths.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03926

Introduced
1/30/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Enacts the medical civil rights act; provides that persons in the custody or control of a law enforcement officer, police officer, peace officer, correctional officer, or other law enforcement representative or entity who are experiencing an emergency medical condition or is medically unstable have the right to be provided with emergency medical services and that such officers, representatives, and entities have a duty to provide such services; provides an exception to such duty to provide emergency medical services.
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New York Assembly Bill A03962

Introduced
1/30/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Requires the commissioner of health to conduct a study considering banning private equity ownership in hospice care and to report the results of such study to the governor and the legislature.
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New York Assembly Bill A03983

Introduced
1/30/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Establishes the freedom to rally and engage equitably (FREE) act protecting employees from discrimination as a result of participating in certain political activities.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03938

Introduced
1/30/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Report Pass
6/4/25  
Refer
6/4/25  
Report Pass
6/11/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Enrolled
12/1/25  
Chaptered
12/12/25  
Authorizes the department of transportation to establish and implement a state memorial sign program to memorialize persons who died due to injuries sustained in a fatal motor vehicle crash on state highways.
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New York Assembly Bill A03876

Introduced
1/30/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Increases the amount of allowance that trial and grand jurors are entitled to in each court of the unified court system.
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New York Assembly Bill A03975

Introduced
1/30/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Establishes an economy-wide cap and invest program to support greenhouse gas emissions reductions in the state by setting a maximum allowable amount of greenhouse gas emissions by covered entities and regulating the sale or auction of greenhouse gas emissions allowances to covered entities.
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New York Assembly Bill A03655

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
1/29/25  
Enacts the "home utility weatherization jobs act"; requires each gas corporation, electric corporation, or combination gas or electric corporation to submit to the public service commission for review and approval at least one and up to ten neighborhood scale weatherization and electrification-ready projects.
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New York Assembly Bill A03647

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
1/29/25  
Enacts the "faith-based affordable housing act" for development on residential land; defines terms; provides that each village, town, and city shall allow the construction and occupation of residential buildings on any covered site up to the specified densities; provides that all residential buildings constructed pursuant to this section in a town, village, or city with fewer than one million inhabitants shall set aside twenty percent of the residential floor area for households earning an average of eighty percent of area median income; outlines the densities for New York city; makes related provisions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03613

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
1/29/25  
Provides that no law enforcement agency shall use a chemical incapacitant except for pepper spray; defines terms.
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New York Assembly Bill A03654

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
1/29/25  
Relates to decreasing the length of the suspension period applicable to certain individuals who lose their jobs due to a labor dispute, such as a strike, and who seek to obtain unemployment insurance benefits; decreases the suspension period from two consecutive weeks to one week; provides that the waiting period and suspension period shall be served concurrently.
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New York Assembly Bill A03675

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
1/29/25  
Relates to tax on sales of motor fuel and petroleum products and makes conforming changes; repeals provisions relating to manufacturing gallonage for purposes of the imposition of certain taxes; repeals provisions relating to reimbursement; repeals provisions relating to a utility credit or reimbursement; repeals provisions relating to an aviation fuel business which services four or more cities; repeals provisions relating to services rendered with respect to certain property; repeals provisions relating to fuel sold to an airline for use in its airplanes.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03632

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
1/29/25  
Establishes a billionaire mark-to-market tax taxing residents with one billion dollars or more in net assets.