New York State Senator

Phara Forrest 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 6)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00861

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to services available to immigrants residing in certain family and adult shelter facilities; requires the office of New Americans to establish a program to deliver comprehensive case management services to immigrants residing in certain shelters.
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New York Assembly Bill A02698

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Report Pass
5/19/25  
Refer
5/19/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Establishes an awareness campaign on the use of hormone replacement therapy in treating the symptoms of perimenopause and menopause.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02692

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Establishes a working group to create a pilot program for an alternative system to a credit score for unbanked persons, undocumented immigrants and any other individuals who would benefit from such alternative system.
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New York Assembly Bill A08861

Introduced
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Establishes the community accompaniment and post-release support program in the office for new Americans to provide grants to community-based organizations that offer services to individuals released from immigration detention; defines eligible services; requires the office to establish criteria for awarding grants; requires the office to submit an annual report on the program.
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New York Assembly Bill A08953

Introduced
7/16/25  
Refer
7/16/25  
Enacts the "fair share act"; authorizes cities imposing city personal income taxes to adopt and amend local laws imposing an additional tax of two percent on the annual city taxable income of city residents, estates and trusts reporting any return in excess of one million dollars.
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New York Assembly Bill K00721

Introduced
6/6/25  
Refer
6/6/25  
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim June 2025, as Caribbean Heritage Month in the State of New York
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New York Assembly Bill A08862

Introduced
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Establishes the immigrant in-home child care training pilot program in the office for new Americans to provide training, technical assistance, and other support to immigrants seeking to establish licensed in-home daycare services; requires the office to submit an annual report on the program; authorizes the office to accept gifts, grants, devises and bequests and to use monies made available to the program to implement the program.
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New York Assembly Bill A08855

Introduced
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Establishes the detention support program in the office for new Americans to provide financial assistance to individuals and families of detained persons, including for bond payments to secure release from detention and travel stipends to facilitate visitation with detained individuals; establishes the detention support program fund.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01213

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Enacts the "New York city teleworking expansion act"; provides that each agency shall establish a policy and program to allow employees to perform all or a portion of their duties through teleworking to the maximum extent possible without diminished employee performance; defines the term "telework" to mean to perform normal and regular work functions on a workday that ordinarily would be performed at the agency's principal location at a different location, thereby eliminating or substantially reducing the physical commute to and from such agency's principal location.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02689

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Enacts the building up immigrant legal defense or BUILD act to provide competitive workforce development and capacity building grants to eligible entities that are seeking to expand access to representation for individuals facing deportation by increasing the workforce and strengthening the legal services infrastructure needed to provide such representation.
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New York Assembly Bill A02720

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Enacts the solar for schools act which provides grants for eligible school districts to purchase and install solar and geothermal power sources; defines terms; directs the New York state energy and research development authority to establish such grant program; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof; makes an appropriation therefor.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07625

Introduced
4/1/25  
Refer
4/1/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
5/19/26  
Refer
5/19/26  
Requires gas pipeline facilities to accelerate the repair, rehabilitation, and replacement of equipment or pipelines that are leaking or leak prone and increase safety reporting relating to gas pipeline leaks; requires the public service commission to establish timelines for the repair, rehabilitation or replacement of leaking or leak prone infrastructure; requires the commission to provide a gas safety report to the legislature.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08929

Introduced
7/16/25  
Refer
7/16/25  
Repeals the crime of felony murder; permits vacating conviction and resentencing of defendants convicted of felony murder; requires reporting of certain crime statistics and information.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08933

Introduced
7/16/25  
Refer
7/16/25  
Relates to reporting requirements on small nonprofits which lobby before the government.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08908

Introduced
7/16/25  
Refer
7/16/25  
Prohibits local, state and federal law enforcement officers from wearing any mask or personal disguise while interacting with the public in the performance of their duties; excludes certain protective masks.