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Tony Simone 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00701

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Repeals the requirement that applicants must pass an examination in order to qualify as a licensed master social worker.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00665

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to the creation of a crime database of all convictions in New York state of animal cruelty, fighting, neglect, abandonment and mistreatment; makes such crime database available to all law enforcement entities, district attorneys, duly incorporated humane societies, societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, dog or cat protective associations and animal control officers.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00679

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to establishing the crime of coercive control; provides that a person is guilty of coercive control when such person engages in a course of conduct against a member of such person's same family or household, without the victim's consent, which results in limiting or restricting, in full or in part, the victim's behavior, movement, associations or access to or use of such victim's own finances or financial information; provides that coercive control is a class E felony.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00695

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Enacts the "Joseph Fletcher act"; permits certain claims by essential employees for compensation based on death due to COVID-19 which were previously denied or not timely filed.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00687

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Provides that certain communications made without malice regarding an incident of sexual assault, harassment or discrimination shall be deemed privileged; provides that a prevailing defendant in an action brought against such defendant for making a communication that is privileged shall be entitled to attorney's fees and costs for such defense.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00473

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes a nonpartisan poll monitoring program.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00534

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Prohibits public bodies from conducting an executive session where the subject to be considered relates to the appointment of an elected member or officer to fill a vacancy in an elected office of such public body, including interviews of prospective appointees and related discussions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00699

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires the implementation of an electronic benefit transfer system using industry-standard commercial electronic funds transfer technology.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00685

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to the disposition of campaign funds raised by an elected official who has been convicted of a crime committed while in public office or has been impeached and has been convicted, or has resigned public office following findings by either the attorney general or a committee of the legislature that the official has violated the law.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00643

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to the purchase of claims by corporations or collection agencies; relates to the inference of an assignee's intent and purpose in taking an assignment of a claim against an obligor that is not an eligible obligor.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00633

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires the owner of any place or establishment where animals or fowls are slaughtered or butchered for food to reimburse costs associated with capture and return or rescue and rehabilitation of escaped animals.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00659

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/13/25  
Refer
5/13/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Report Pass
6/6/25  
Refer
6/6/25  
Prohibits landlords from including incorrect information relating to rent decontrol in certain leases and renewals thereof; imposes a violation punishable by a fine of $1000 for a violation by a landlord; requires the standardization of certain notices pertaining to units subject to the Affordable New York Housing Program.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00565

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/21/25  
Engrossed
3/26/25  
Refer
3/26/25  
Engrossed
4/9/25  
Enrolled
12/8/25  
Prohibits the establishment of new for-profit hospices or increasing the capacity of existing for-profit hospices.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00514

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Refer
4/2/25  
Relates to parole eligibility for certain incarcerated persons age fifty-five or older if they have served at least fifteen years of their sentence or sentences.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00622

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
6/4/25  
Engrossed
3/31/26  
Requires mandatory health insurance coverage for acupuncture services upon the prescription of a health care provider acting within the provider's scope of practice.