New York Assemblymember John McDonald [D]

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NYA02017Intro
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Requires local governments to prepare and adopt an affordable housing plan no later than December 31, 2024; defines local government as a city, town or village; requires plan to identify the regional need for affordable housing, as well as such need ...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA05686Intro
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Prohibits and regulates the discovery and disclosure of immigration status; prohibits police officers, peace officers, school resource officers, probation agencies, state entities, state employees, and municipal corporations from questioning individu...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA07739Intro
25%
Requires the ethics commission of the unified court system to post each state-paid judge's annual financial disclosures on the ethics commission's public website for five years beginning with filings made on January 1, 2018.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA07795Intro
25%
Relates to the content and procedure for certification by pharmacists of patients using medical cannabis; allows a pharmacist employed by a registered organization and responsible for supervising the dispensing of medical cannabis within a cannabis d...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA06487Intro
25%
Expands who may visit local correctional facilities to include accompanying staff of legislative members and members of the department of corrections and community supervision requested by a legislative member.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Correction Committee
NYA07535Intro
25%
Establishes an online insurance verification system for motor vehicle insurance; requires insurers to provide necessary information.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Transportation Committee
NYA07850Intro
25%
Relates to providing net revenues from utility-owned large-scale renewable generation projects to low-income customers; authorizes utility companies to own such projects; provides that the commission shall require labor agreements and labor peace agr...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Energy Committee
NYA07846Intro
25%
Excludes cigarettes on hand prior to September 1, 2023 from the tax increase where a cigarette tax stamp has been affixed as of the close of business on August 31, 2023.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA07901Intro
25%
Regulates the practice of naturopathic medicine; establishes a state board for naturopathic medicine; establishes requirements to receive a limited permit in naturopathic medicine; establishes mandatory continuing education for the practice of naturo...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA07942Intro
25%
Relates to professional obligations under the physician loan repayment program; provides an option to practice as a physician engaged in private practice in an underserved area.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA07339Intro
25%
Relates to rechargeable battery recycling; adds a battery used as the principal electric power source for an electric scooter or bicycle with electric assist to the definition of "rechargeable battery"; provides that a battery manufacturer may not se...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA06969Intro
25%
Relates to the regulation of ingredients in personal care products and cosmetics to include restricted substances which shall be provided on lists identified by the commissioner.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA08087Intro
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Establishes a task force to be called the "office of asylum management" to study, evaluate, and develop recommendations relating to the management of asylum seekers in this state; requires reporting to the governor and the legislature.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA08158Intro
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Requires that every newspaper, magazine or other publication printed or electronically published in this state, which contains the use of generative artificial intelligence or other information communication technology, shall identify that certain pa...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYA04819Intro
25%
Establishes the professional practice of community midwifery; defines as the management in the home, birth center, or community setting, of normal pregnancies, child birth, and postpartum care, including newborn evaluation, resuscitation and referral...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA07169Intro
25%
Establishes the fentanyl abuse and overdose prevention task force to conduct a comprehensive study on fentanyl abuse and overdose prevention and to report on the findings and recommendations of the task force.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Committee
NYA05577Intro
25%
Provides for the advance payment of the earned income tax credit to qualifying employees.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA05373Intro
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Requires individuals who practice the profession of dental therapy or advanced dental therapy to be licensed and registered in the state; provides Medicaid reimbursement for dental therapy services.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA08360Intro
25%
Provides for standardized health insurance contracts for small dental employers who meet certain criteria.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Insurance Committee
NYA08299Intro
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Provides for certified medication aides to administer certain medications in residential health care facilities.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA08368Intro
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Establishes the Take A Look medical and dental workforce employment tour pilot program which is a campaign to promote and market the health care workforce employment and career opportunities in the following economic development regions: central, nor...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA08444Intro
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Requires the county sheriff to oversee an annual jail staffing analysis and provide a report to the commission of corrections and community supervision and give the public the opportunity to view the statistics of their local county jail.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Correction Committee
NYA08383Intro
25%
Authorizes the imposition of bail for certain felony offenses involving the manufacture, sale, distribution, or possession with intent to sell synthetic opioids.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA08384Intro
25%
Enacts "Chelsey's law"; provides that a person commits the crime of manslaughter or aggravated manslaughter when he or she knows or has reasonable grounds to know that a controlled substance is likely to cause the death of another person and sells, a...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA08397Intro
25%
Permits award of crime victim assistance funds to victims of overdoses, where such overdoses cause death and were the result of deception, surreptitious delivery, or third-party administration of a controlled substance.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA07316Intro
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Expands health care services provided by telehealth to include services delivered through a facility licensed under article twenty-eight of the public health law that is eligible to be designated or has received a designation as a federally qualified...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA06584Intro
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Requires applicants for major projects located near a disadvantaged community to submit an enhanced public participation plan.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYA04077Intro
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Removes expenditures for emergency medical services from the limit on real property tax levies by local governments.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Local Governments Committee
NYA08146Intro
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Provides public health insurance coverage for children who are eligible for such coverage under the age of six to continue until they reach the age of six.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA05934Intro
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Enacts the "voting integrity and verification act of New York (VIVA NY)"; provides that each voter is entitled to the use of an individual, voter verifiable paper ballot of the voter's vote and the opportunity to mark it privately and independently.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Election Law Committee
NYA00253Intro
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Relates to party nominations for candidates for county office, excluding counties located within cities with a population of one million or more.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Election Law Committee
NYA05530Intro
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Prohibits children twelve years old and younger from playing tackle football.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA04983Intro
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Provides for the protection of health information; establishes requirements for communications to individuals about their health information; requires either written consent or a designated necessary purpose for the processing of an individual's heal...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Science and Technology Committee
NYA08148Intro
25%
Establishes the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) For Kids Act prohibiting the provision of addictive feeds to minors by addictive social media platforms; establishes remedies and penalties.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Science and Technology Committee
NYA08149Intro
25%
Establishes the New York child data protection act to protect minors from having their personal data accessed; provides exceptions in certain circumstances.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Science and Technology Committee
NYA05094Intro
25%
Allows for the admission of a defendant's previous declarations or statements when the crime committed is a hate crime.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA08411Intro
25%
Authorizes the commissioner of health to adopt policies to exclude certain non-recurring items from income that would artificially inflate the availability of funds to meet current needs relating to eligibility for the program for elderly pharmaceuti...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Aging Committee
NYA06971Intro
25%
Establishes portable polling locations for early voting; provides that a county board of elections may establish one or more portable polling locations.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Election Law Committee
NYA06939Intro
25%
Authorizes county boards of elections to establish county-wide polling places where any person entitled to vote in such county by personal appearance may so vote on the day of a primary election or general election, subject to approval by the state b...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Election Law Committee
NYA08272Intro
25%
Requires that vehicles yield the right of way to multi-use trails that cross roadways.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Transportation Committee
NYA08415Intro
25%
Exempts from the payment of sales tax the purchase of oral hygiene products.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA08439Intro
25%
Requires the submission of certain information by a dentist as part of such dentist's triennial registration to enable the department of health to evaluate access to needed services in the state.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA01684Intro
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Requires that a claimant alleging that the contents of a website or mobile application that describes goods and services provided at a place of public accommodation constitutes an unlawful discriminatory practice against visually and hearing impaired...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA02418Intro
25%
Relates to assisting persons with medically diagnosed HIV infection.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA00174Intro
25%
Alters the definition of "drug" in the vehicle and traffic law to include any substance or combination of substances that impair, to any extent, physical or mental abilities; defines impairment and intoxication; provides that refusal to submit to a b...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Transportation Committee
NYA02958Intro
25%
Provides a payroll tax credit for compensation of journalists; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA08170Intro
25%
Prohibits state-operated hospitals from suing patients for medical debt; defines "medical debt".
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA06446Intro
25%
Makes conforming changes reflecting the previously authorized scope of practice of nurse practitioners; adds nurse practitioners as persons who can authorize or make certain determinations authorized to be made or determined by physicians.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA03240Intro
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Permits enrollment in the address confidentiality program for election officers.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA02957Intro
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Deems home instruction which is compliant with the provisions of article 65 of the education law and the home instruction requirements prescribed in the commissioner of education's regulations to be substantially equivalent in amount and quality to t...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Education Committee
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