New York State Senator

Tony Simone 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 6)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01036

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to liability to support a child who is placed in foster care pursuant to an approved application for foster care maintenance; provides that such liability shall not be imposed if it will adversely affect the health, safety or welfare of the child on whose behalf such payments are to be made or other persons in the child's household or will adversely affect the length of the child's placement or impair the ability of the child to return home when discharged from foster care; limits the ability of a county or local social services district to cause a referral to be sent for the purpose of commencing collection of child support for a child placed in foster care.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01100

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Authorizes the legislature to increase the number of justices of the supreme court in any judicial district.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01198

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Removes certain restrictions on eligibility for personal and home care services under medicaid.
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New York Assembly Bill A01195

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
5/21/25  
Engrossed
5/21/25  
Refer
5/21/25  
Engrossed
5/29/25  
Enrolled
12/1/25  
Chaptered
12/4/25  
Requires that health insurance policies shall provide coverage for follow-up screening or diagnostic services for lung cancer; provides that no patient cost sharing shall be imposed for follow-up screening or diagnostic services for lung cancer.
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New York Assembly Bill A00860

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Report Pass
5/11/26  
Refer
5/11/26  
Report Pass
5/28/26  
Prohibits drug, cannabis or alcohol testing of pregnant or postpartum individuals and newborns unless the individual consents and it is within the scope of medical care, or the testing is necessary for a medical emergency.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00905

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Exempts a person from a money judgment arising from an action in another state for knowingly engaging in conduct that aids or abets the performance or inducement of an abortion.
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New York Assembly Bill A00957

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
6/13/25  
Refer
6/13/25  
Ensures services provided in school-based health centers are not provided to medical assistance recipients through managed care programs.
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New York Assembly Bill A00941

Introduced
1/8/25  
Increases fees for the registration of larger, heavier motor vehicles; provides a waiver for a portion of weight added by batteries in electric vehicles.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00866

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to the employee status of an individual; establishes criteria for determining whether labor or services performed for remuneration qualify as employment.
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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 A02677

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Provides that in instances involving alleged criminal offense or offenses committed by a person, whether or not formally on duty, who is a peace officer as defined in section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law and employed or contracted by a corrections agency, or is a peace officer as defined in subdivision twenty-five of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law, concerning any incident in which the death of a person, whether in custody or not, is caused by an act or omission of such peace officer, the attorney general shall have the authority to transfer the investigatory authority and criminal jurisdiction under this section to an individual or individuals independent of the office of the attorney general.
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New York Assembly Bill A02735

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Relates to licensure requirements for fiscal intermediaries.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02747

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Report Pass
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Ensures that construction and fabrication done off of a public work site for specific use only in a public work project be compensated at the prevailing wage rate.
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New York Assembly Bill A08807

Introduced
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Report Pass
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Provides reimbursement for enhanced septic system projects and defines what qualifies as an enhanced septic system project.