New York State Senator

Phara Forrest 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 32)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04556

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Relates to providing residents of municipal public housing in the state with free basic cable and high-speed internet service, and reimbursing internet service providers and cable television companies for providing such service.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04831

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Authorizes local water and sewerage authorities to charge fees for surface runoff.
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New York Assembly Bill A04050

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Enacts the "Community Violence Intervention and Prevention Act"; provides findings for evidence-based and evidence-informed health programs from hospital-based and community-based programs.
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New York Assembly Bill A04230

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Establishes clean energy goals of reducing the annual total of vehicle miles traveled within the state by 20% by the year 2050; requires state and local highway projects to comply with reductions to vehicle miles traveled targets.
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New York Assembly Bill A04144

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Report Pass
5/19/25  
Refer
5/19/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Prohibits state chartered banking institutions from investing in and providing financing for private prisons.
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New York Assembly Bill A04073

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Provides doula services at all correctional institutions and local correctional facilities; requires the department of corrections and community supervision to retain an organization to make at least two doulas at any given time available to provide doula services twice a week, for four hours, at all correctional institutions and local correctional facilities that house incarcerated individuals who identify as female, as well as to provide doula services during labor and delivery, upon request.
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New York Assembly Bill A04100

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Establishes an emergency insulin program and corresponding emergency insulin program trust fund to facilitate emergency access to analog insulins.
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New York Assembly Bill A04181

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
2/25/26  
Prohibits governmental entities from entering into agreements to house individuals in immigration detention facilities; requires governmental entities to terminate existing contracts for the detention of individuals in immigration detention facilities.
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New York Assembly Bill A04272

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Includes statistics on childbirth complications, fetal losses, other injuries and other maternity outcomes in information for maternity patients.
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New York Assembly Bill A06592

Introduced
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Provides for license requirements for natural hair styling that are distinct and separate from other practices of cosmetology.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A06578

Introduced
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
5/29/25  
Refer
5/29/25  
Report Pass
6/10/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Refer
6/10/25  
Engrossed
5/5/26  
Establishes the artificial intelligence training data transparency act requiring developers of generative artificial intelligence models or services to post on the developer's website information regarding the data used by the developer to train the generative artificial intelligence model or service, including a high-level summary of the datasets used in the development of such system or service.
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New York Assembly Bill A06632

Introduced
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Establishes "SNAP for all", a state-funded supplemental nutrition assistance program to provide for those who are excluded from federal SNAP benefits solely due to immigration status; outlines eligibility requirements of applicants and operational requirements of the office of temporary and disability assistance.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04263

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Increases the income eligibility threshold for the tuition assistance program up to one hundred fifty thousand dollars.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04666

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Requires a local social services district to accept or deny an application for public assistance as soon as possible but no later than thirty days after the date of the application.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A06560

Introduced
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Relates to the transfer, acceptance, or purchase of military weapons from the United States government; prohibits participation in the 1033 federal excess property program; provides exceptions.