New York Assemblymember Harvey Epstein [D]

Filter View [Reset All]
Syndicate content
StanceStateBillStatusSummary/TitleLast Actionsort icon
NYA09012Intro
25%
Enacts the "Empowering People in Rights Enforcement (EMPIRE) Worker Protection Act"; relates to the delegation of state enforcement authority to private actors; authorizes an affected employee, whistleblower, representative organization or an organiz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-02
To Assembly Labor Committee
NYA08241Intro
25%
Requires all municipalities to update all applicable forms and data systems to include a gender "x" option by January 1, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-02
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA00155Intro
25%
Establishes application processing and review requirements for reprieves, commutations and pardons by the governor; requires the governor to provide: a written notification that the application has been received; a receipt number that the applicant c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-01
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA08997Intro
25%
Prohibits the use of credit history checks to ascertain the payment status of a student loan of an applicant for employment for the purposes of making hiring decisions except where otherwise mandated by law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-01
To Assembly Labor Committee
NYA08992Intro
25%
Extends for two years the requirement for OPWDD to give a 90-day notice to the Senate, Assembly, and labor organizations of any closures or transfer of a state operated individualized residential alternative.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-01
To Assembly People with Disabilities Committee
NYA02677Engross
50%
Relates to a state transportation plan; requires such plan include a minimum twenty-year forecast period at the time of adoption, assessing long-range needs spanning such period, including a forecast of highway pavement and bridge conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-31
To Senate Transportation Committee
NYA02898Engross
50%
Requires insurance policies to cover neuropsychological exams for dyslexia under certain circumstances; caps coverage amount.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-31
To Senate Insurance Committee
NYA05318Intro
25%
Updates provisions relating to dignity for all students including establishing the student suicide prevention act which includes curriculum and teacher training requirements designed to prevent student suicide with a focus on LGBTQ students; makes an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-31
To Assembly Education Committee
NYA01023Intro
25%
Establishes the end toxic home flipping act; imposes a tax on the transfer of certain residential properties which are sold within two years of the prior conveyance of such property; exempts certain purchases of residential properties from mortgage r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-30
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYK00807PassMemorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim January 2024, as Mentoring Month in the State of New York
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-30
adopted
NYK00810PassCommending the Julia L. Butterfield Memorial Library upon the occasion of hosting its Bicentennial celebration on December 19, 2023
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-30
adopted
NYK00808PassMemorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim February 2024 as American Heart Month in the State of New York
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-30
adopted
NYA08939Intro
25%
Prevents the displacement of call center workers who provide call center services for the government in certain circumstances; provides protections for call center workers when contracts with call center contractors are terminated; requires new call ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-30
To Assembly Labor Committee
NYA08930Intro
25%
Waives Unemployment Pandemic Benefits repayments in whole or in part if the payment of such pandemic unemployment assistance was without fault on the part of the claimant and such repayment would be contrary to equity and good conscience.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-30
To Assembly Labor Committee
NYK00799PassMemorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim January 27, 2024, as Holocaust Remembrance Day in the State of New York
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-29
adopted
NYA00330Intro
25%
Provides that the voting age in New York be 16 years old.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-26
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA00409Intro
25%
Requires free education for grades pre-K through undergraduate degree programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-26
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA00412Intro
25%
Relates to authorizing voting by incarcerated people.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-26
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA02441Intro
25%
Amends the constitution to prevent and mitigate adverse childhood experiences.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-26
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA03699Intro
25%
Provides for special elections for the offices of comptroller and attorney general for vacancies during a term.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-26
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA04897Intro
25%
Increases the length of the term of office to four years for members of the legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-26
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA08478Intro
25%
Allows the alteration or repeal of real property tax exemptions for private institutions of higher education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-26
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA08920Intro
25%
Prohibits the adjustment of maximum allowable rent where any modification, increase or improvement is made to accommodate the needs of a disabled tenant; defines disabled tenant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-26
To Assembly Housing Committee
NYA08917Intro
25%
Requires the department of environmental conservation, in coordination with NYSERDA, to submit an annual agency climate expenditure report containing a comprehensive estimate and summary of funds needed and funds spent to achieve the state climate go...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-26
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYA08916Intro
25%
Requires commercial garages containing electric vehicle charging stations to ensure public access to such charging stations at commercially reasonable rental or fee rates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-26
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA08906Intro
25%
Establishes a civil cause of action for employees who are subjected to an abusive work environment; provides employers shall be vicariously liable for such work environment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-26
To Assembly Labor Committee
NYA08886Intro
25%
Requires ice skating rinks maintain a certain indoor air quality and maintain a certificate of acceptable air quality where a resurfacing machine is used.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-26
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA08903Intro
25%
Requires municipalities to include an Affordable Housing Needs Assessment to establish a data-based foundation for the creation and preservation of affordable housing in the municipality, utilizing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-26
To Assembly Local Governments Committee
NYA08904Intro
25%
Requires municipalities to determine whether it is in the public interest to create a comprehensive plan adapted to the special requirements of the municipality and to determine whether it is in the public interest to update such comprehensive plan a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-26
To Assembly Local Governments Committee
NYA01568Intro
25%
Expands the eligibility period for indigent legal service attorneys to receive certain loan forgiveness; increases loan reimbursement for certain attorneys who work in legal services with indigent clients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-25
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA04141Intro
25%
Prohibits cost sharing for insulin; provides that an insured shall not be subject to a deductible, copayment, coinsurance or any other cost sharing requirement for the purchase of insulin.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-25
To Assembly Insurance Committee
NYA00923Intro
25%
Increases membership on the board of the metropolitan transportation authority, including members representative of commuters' advisory councils.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-24
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYA04053Intro
25%
Expands eligibility for temporary disability insurance and paid family leave benefits; makes conforming technical changes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-24
To Assembly Labor Committee
NYA08605Intro
25%
Decriminalizes certain prostitution offenses; amends provisions relating to prosecution of such offenses and vacating judgments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-24
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA04927Engross
50%
Establishes a duty to inform maternity patients about the risks associated with cesarean section for patients undergoing a primary cesarean section; establishes a duty to inform maternity patients about the reason for performing a primary cesarean se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-23
To Senate Women's Issues Committee
NYA08543Intro
25%
Requires one voting member of the metropolitan transportation authority be a transit dependent individual; changes the effectiveness of such provisions to 270 days after it shall have become a law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-23
substituted by s8037
NYA08207Intro
25%
Requires the department of health to convene a maternal health care and birthing standards workgroup to study, evaluate and make recommendations related to the development of maternal health care and birthing standards to ensure that patients receive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-23
substituted by s7702a
NYA05576Engross
50%
Requires certain information about the facility and what types of plans and procedures such facility has in place to be provided to prospective maternity patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-22
RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
NYA06921Intro
25%
Relates to the conversion to condominium ownership for the preservation of expiring affordable housing in the city of New York; provides expanded homeownership opportunities from the conversion of certain residential rental buildings to condominium s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-18
To Assembly Housing Committee
NYA05990Intro
25%
Restricts certain substances from being used in menstrual products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-18
advanced to third reading cal.228
NYA08837Intro
25%
Establishes the staff sergeant Alex R. Jimenez New York state military immigrant family legacy program within the department of veterans' services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-18
To Assembly Veterans' Affairs Committee
NYA01645Engross
50%
Requires all incarcerated individuals who do not have a high-school diploma or its equivalent to receive a reading proficiency level assessment and dyslexia screening upon intake by the department of corrections; requires for such individuals who per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-17
To Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee
NYK00764PassCelebrating the life of Thomas P. Diana, business owner, retired police officer, distinguished citizen, and devoted member of his community
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-17
adopted
NYA01273Engross
50%
Establishes the LGBTQ+ advisory board to make recommendations, conduct research, and more regarding the LGBTQ+ community in New York state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-16
To Senate Finance Committee
NYA00742Intro
25%
Relates to conferring youthful offender status upon conviction of an eligible youth for a misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-16
enacting clause stricken
NYA03226Engross
50%
Enacts the birds and bees protection act; prohibits the sale of certain pesticides or use of seeds coated with such pesticides; requires the department of environmental conservation to review the latest scientific information concerning certain pesti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-16
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYA01963Intro
25%
Amends procedures required for the custodial interrogation of children to provide additional protections and for taking juveniles and sixteen and seventeen year olds into custody.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-16
enacting clause stricken
NYA04592Intro
25%
Aligns utility regulation with state climate justice and emission reduction targets; repeals provisions relating to continuation of gas service; repeals provisions relating to the sale of indigenous natural gas for generation of electricity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-16
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYK00738PassMemorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim January 13, 2024, as Korean American Day in the State of New York
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-16
adopted
NYK00739PassCommemorating the observance of the 39th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the State of New York, on January 15, 2024
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-16
adopted
Syndicate content
feedback