New York Assemblymember Joseph DeStefano [R] | House | Introduced

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NYA09555Intro
25%
Directs the commissioner of education to change the name of the state high school equivalency diploma, formerly known as the general education development (GED) program, to the Excelsior high school diploma.
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2024-03-20
To Assembly Education Committee
NYA09537Intro
25%
Requires that all new motor vehicles sold at new motor vehicle dealerships include a spare tire, whether or not equipped with standard radial or run-flat tires.
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2024-03-20
To Assembly Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYA09544Intro
25%
Includes entities that provide employment or services to formerly incarcerated persons in the preferred source exemption for purposes of state purchasing; allows qualified charitable non-profit-making agencies for the blind and other disabled persons...
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2024-03-20
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA06019Intro
25%
Enacts provisions relating to collective negotiations by health care providers with certain health care plans in certain counties; applies to health benefit plans that provide benefits for medical or surgical expenses incurred as a result of a health...
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2024-03-19
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA06274Intro
25%
Repeals the provision of law that volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers who receive a real property tax exemption for service may not receive the income tax credit for such service.
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2024-03-19
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA01443Intro
25%
Relates to decreasing the length of the suspension period applicable to certain individuals who lose their jobs due to a labor dispute, such as a strike, and who seek to obtain unemployment insurance benefits; decreases the suspension period from two...
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2024-03-19
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA01889Intro
25%
Increases the income eligibility threshold for the tuition assistance program.
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2024-03-18
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA08977Intro
25%
Requires maternal health care providers facilitate a screening for maternal depression within the first six weeks of birth and that such screening be covered by insurance.
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2024-03-14
enacting clause stricken
NYA09412Intro
25%
Provides that any fertilized human ovum or human embryo existing outside of the uterus of a human body shall not be considered an unborn child, a minor child, a natural person, or any other term that connotes a human being for any purpose under state...
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2024-03-14
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA09423Intro
25%
Establishes the savings bank, savings and loan association or credit union municipal deposit program.
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2024-03-14
To Assembly Banks Committee
NYA09448Intro
25%
Provides that court records in a proceeding under articles 77, 78 and 81 of the mental hygiene law shall not be perused, examined, disclosed, taken or copied by any other person than a party, the attorney or counsel of a party, the guardian, the cour...
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2024-03-14
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA09436Intro
25%
Permits borough presidents to remove persons they appointed to a community district education council for criminal wrongdoing or misconduct.
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2024-03-14
To Assembly Education Committee
NYA09422Intro
25%
Directs the secretary of state to develop and implement an adopt-a-rural-cemetery program for the purposes of improving, repairing, and maintaining cemeteries in rural communities which are registered with and overseen by the division of cemeteries; ...
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2024-03-14
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYA09424Intro
25%
Allows a person who is at least ten years of age to hunt small game, fowl, deer or bear during applicable seasons without obtaining a hunting license or hunter's education course certification and to possess or control a firearm if the person is with...
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2024-03-14
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYA09467Intro
25%
Provides for the chief administrator of the courts to, upon request by a municipality, ensure the assignment and presence of a uniformed court officer during court proceedings or a law enforcement officer where no uniformed court officer is available...
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2024-03-14
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA09421Intro
25%
Establishes the commission for the modernization and revitalization of the state university of New York downstate medical center which directs such commission to conduct a study to examine services that should be offered at SUNY downstate medical cen...
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2024-03-14
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA02769Intro
25%
Relates to raising the income cap for senior citizens applying for the enhanced STAR property tax exemption to $120,000.
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2024-03-12
To Assembly Real Property Taxation Committee
NYA05067Intro
25%
Provides accidental disability retirement benefits for deputy sheriff Richard Stueber, a participant in World Trade Center rescue, recovery, and cleanup operations.
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2024-03-12
To Assembly Governmental Employees Committee
NYA05013Intro
25%
Relates to providing state correction officers with a special optional twenty year retirement plan.
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2024-03-12
To Assembly Governmental Employees Committee
NYA06341Intro
25%
Provides increases of cost-of-living adjustments for public retirees; allows increases of up to five percent.
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2024-03-12
To Assembly Governmental Employees Committee
NYA07902Intro
25%
Requires the use of a fire-resistant blanket, bag or container when charging a bicycle with electric assist or an electric scooter; requires sellers of such vehicles to include a fire-resistant blanket, bag, or container with the sale of each e-bike ...
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2024-03-12
To Assembly Transportation Committee
NYA07889Intro
25%
Requires batteries for bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters to be tested and approved by certain testing laboratories.
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2024-03-08
To Assembly Transportation Committee
NYA02970Intro
25%
Provides for restructuring unsustainable sovereign and subnational debt; provides a voluntary petition for relief may be filed with the state.
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2024-03-06
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA09370Intro
25%
Establishes a committee to study the feasibility of funding a kindergarten to college/career ready program and a universal college savings account.
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2024-03-06
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA06146Intro
25%
Requires an agency, the state legislature, or the judiciary responding to a request for public employee disciplinary records to notify the public employee whose personal information is subject to the request.
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2024-03-06
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA09348Intro
25%
Establishes a rural remote recruitment program to provide monetary incentives for remote workers to relocate into rural areas of New York that opt into the program; provides an application process; provides for funding; requires on an annual basis a ...
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2024-03-06
To Assembly Economic Development, Job Creation, Commerce and Industry Committee
NYA08365Intro
25%
Establishes a campaign to promote public awareness of the importance of good oral health, including but not limited to, the impact of oral disease, causes of oral disease and its prevention, oral health across the lifespan, the total body connection,...
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2024-03-05
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA05918Intro
25%
Extends certain tuition waivers for police officer students of the city university of New York to 2026.
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2024-03-05
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA00538Intro
25%
Requires electric companies to provide alternative measures to ensure customers with documented need for essential electricity for medical needs have access to electricity during power outages; requires electric companies to provide generators or lod...
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2024-03-04
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYA01764Intro
25%
Establishes the police canine vest fund to be used for the purpose of purchasing, maintaining, repairing and replacing soft body ballistic armor vests and other protective equipment for state police and municipal department police canines utilized in...
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2024-02-27
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA09280Intro
25%
Makes all costs and expenses of the department of public service and public service commission subject to appropriation by the legislature on the certification of the chairman of the department and upon the audit and warrant of the comptroller.
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2024-02-23
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYA09282Intro
25%
Establishes the veterans' services organization capital support program to provide funding to eligible entities for payment of the capital costs of construction, improvement, repairs, rehabilitation, or reconstruction of facilities owned by eligible ...
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2024-02-23
To Assembly Veterans' Affairs Committee
NYA09237Intro
25%
Allows for reimbursement of transportation costs for emergency care without prior authorization by the social services official including emergency medical transportation by an ambulance service certified under article 30 of the public health law; au...
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2024-02-22
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA09242Intro
25%
Establishes a supplemental household and dependent care credit payment for taxpayers who are eligible for certain household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment.
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2024-02-22
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA09257Intro
25%
Increases the applicable percentage of the child tax credit allowed in the empire state child tax credit from thirty-three percent to forty-five percent; prescribes how such payment or refund should be made based on amount.
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2024-02-22
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA09258Intro
25%
Increases the earned income tax credit for taxable years beginning in 2024.
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2024-02-22
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA09245Intro
25%
Increases the aggregate funds available for the child care tax credit for businesses that provide child care services.
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2024-02-22
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA09264Intro
25%
Establishes a child care program capital improvement tax credit program for child care programs to provide financial assistance to New York's child care providers to facilitate the enhancement, expansion, and improvement of access to quality child ca...
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2024-02-22
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA09207Intro
25%
Prohibits smoking or vaping tobacco or marijuana in individual units in all multi-unit housing facilities.
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2024-02-16
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA09220Intro
25%
Requires the office of children and family services implement a regional cost factor analysis for child care subsidies; requires social service districts implement such findings.
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2024-02-16
To Assembly Children and Families Committee
NYA09202Intro
25%
Relates to the establishment of a waiver for child care learning pods; provides that unlicensed and unregulated child care learning pods may operate if there are otherwise no violations of laws or codes, rules, and regulations of New York and such ch...
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2024-02-16
To Assembly Children and Families Committee
NYA07215Intro
25%
Directs the commissioner of health and the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities to conduct a study of the delivery of services to individuals with traumatic brain injury.
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2024-02-13
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA09167Intro
25%
Requires law enforcement and courts to notify the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) when an arrested person or defendant is not a United States citizen; adjusts certain maximum sentences for class A misdemeanors and uncla...
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2024-02-12
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA09193Intro
25%
Requires the state board of elections to participate in the systematic alien verification for entitlements (SAVE) program, administered by the United States citizenship and immigration services agency, to verify that a person who is either registered...
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2024-02-12
To Assembly Election Law Committee
NYA09172Intro
25%
Relates to requiring the use of project labor agreements for large scale construction projects under the state university construction fund; provides an exception to such requirement may be granted; provides that the fund may require every contractor...
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2024-02-12
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA09183Intro
25%
Authorizes school districts to submit an opt-out waiver to the commissioner of education authorizing such districts to opt-out of certain zero-emission school bus requirements.
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2024-02-12
To Assembly Education Committee
NYA09178Intro
25%
Establishes a tax deduction for a taxpayer who is a beneficiary of a deferred compensation plan and who elects to make a distribution of such deferred compensation in order to pay for qualified health insurance premiums, in an amount equal to six tho...
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2024-02-12
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA09196Intro
25%
Requires the reinstatement of certain officers and employees of the city of New York who were dismissed from employment due to a COVID-19 vaccine requirement.
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2024-02-12
To Assembly Governmental Employees Committee
NYA08437Intro
25%
Adds certain human services programs to the designated human services programs eligible for a cost of living adjustment.
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2024-02-09
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA07524Intro
25%
Provides that for taxable years beginning on and after January first, two thousand twenty-four, a resident taxpayer who serves as an active volunteer firefighter or as a volunteer ambulance worker shall be allowed a credit against the tax imposed equ...
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2024-02-09
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
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