New York Assemblymember Rebecca Seawright [D]

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NYA00399Intro
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 incorpo...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Agriculture Committee
NYA00446Intro
25%
Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to conduct a study on food insecurity at public and private higher education institutions.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA00460Intro
25%
Requires each school district to provide interventions and special curricula for children with dyslexia or other phonological learning differences or disabilities.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Education Committee
NYA00562Intro
25%
Relates to establishing sexual harassment prevention training protocols within the private sector including a model management policy and training program and how to properly disseminate information to employers and employees.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Labor Committee
NYA00456Intro
25%
Establishes the "education equity act" which provides language assistance to parents or guardians who have children enrolled in public school and whose primary language is not English; defines terms; creates an annual language assistance plan to asse...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Education Committee
NYA00483Intro
25%
Establishes the crimes of cruelty to animals to threaten, intimidate or harass in the second degree and cruelty to animals to threaten, intimidate or harass in the first degree when in the presence of a minor child.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA00829Intro
25%
Prohibits the possession and use of live ammunition at a film production facility or a qualified film production facility; requires all persons employed or present at a film production facility or a qualified film production facility to receive prope...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA00659Intro
25%
Relates to adding ammunition to the list of prohibited items to purchase or dispose of after certain convictions.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA00672Intro
25%
Requires school districts to screen for gifted and talented students; provides the parents or guardians of such students the option to opt out of such screening.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Education Committee
NYA00946Intro
25%
Expands eligibility for the New York state excelsior scholarship award to certain applicants enrolled on a part-time basis or in a BOCES or other approved vocational program; provides criteria for eligibility, and limits on amounts and durations for ...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA00710Intro
25%
Provides a civil action for deprivation of rights which is caused by any person or public entity.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA00713Intro
25%
Allows for limited three-day expansion of the statute of limitations where a proceeding to invalidate a designating or nominating petition has been commenced.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Election Law Committee
NYA00834Intro
25%
Authorizes a lien against personal and real property of the owner of a commercial towing company for illegal and improper practices; creates personal liability for members of an LLC and certain corporate shareholders.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA00933Intro
25%
Relates to the postmark date for change of enrollment.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Election Law Committee
NYA00686Intro
25%
Directs the MTA to establish a half fare rate program for veterans.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYA00779Intro
25%
Prohibits the use of consumer credit history in hiring, employment and licensing determinations.
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2024-01-03
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NYA00709Intro
25%
Enacts the "gender identity respect, dignity and safety act"; relates to the treatment and placement of incarcerated individuals based upon gender identity; requires that incarcerated individuals in state and local correctional facilities who have a ...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Correction Committee
NYA00680Intro
25%
Relates to price gouging; imposes criminal penalties for price gouging; removes language relating to the declaration of a state of emergency; increases civil penalty; authorizes a district attorney to enforce provisions.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYA00675Intro
25%
Relates to mandating greater levels of disclosure by non-fiduciaries that provide investment advice; requires signed acknowledgement of disclosure informing clients that the advisor owes no fiduciary duty.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA00665Intro
25%
Relates to flexible working arrangements; provides that employees may submit a request for flexible working arrangements in good faith; requires the employer to notify the employee of the decision; prohibits employers from retaliating against employe...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Labor Committee
NYA00930Intro
25%
Requires that a business allow a consumer to cancel a contract between the two parties using the same method that was used to enter into the contact.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYA00706Intro
25%
Requires employment and consumer dispute arbitrations to be submitted to neutral third party arbitrators; establishes prohibited arbitration agreements and provisions; requires disclosure of information by certain arbitrators.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA00739Intro
25%
Requires the termination of any police officer or peace officer who uses physical force which is not justifiable or which is not part of procedure regardless of if harm is done any person or if any complaint is filed against such police officer or pe...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Governmental Employees Committee
NYA00770Intro
25%
Relates to patient counseling before issuing a prescription for a schedule II opioid; requires practitioners to consult with the patient regarding the quantity of the opioid and the patient's option to fill the prescription in a lesser quantity, and ...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA00702Intro
25%
Requires hospitals to provide language assistance services to a patient or a patient's assistant for communication of clinical and other information, including but not limited to health care, billing and making appointments, to ensure effective commu...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA00920Intro
25%
Enacts the "all-electric building act"; provides that the state energy conservation construction code shall prohibit infrastructure, building systems, or equipment used for the combustion of fossil fuels in new construction statewide no later than De...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Energy Committee
NYA00664Intro
25%
Requires arrests be recorded or else such arrest is void and the defendant is discharged.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA00663Intro
25%
Provides representation to veterans that are at or below four hundred percent of the federal poverty guidelines for matters involving children, sustenance and real property proceedings.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA00668Intro
25%
Establishes a pregnant persons' bill of rights; requires posting and disclosing such bill of rights; establishes a penalty for failure to post or disclose such bill of rights.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA00857Intro
25%
Provides for the financing of the design, acquisition, construction, improvement and installation of East River Esplanade.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYA00681Intro
25%
Prohibits prior peace officers or police officers whose position as such was terminated or vacated due to misconduct from again becoming a peace officer or a police officer.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
NYA00766Intro
25%
Restricts the locations of gunsmiths and dealers in firearms in relation to child day care or educational facilities, and places of worship.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA00670Intro
25%
Requires primary care physicians to post certain information detailing how parents or guardians of infants and children can subscribe to the United States consumer product safety commission's e-mail subscription lists.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYA00683Intro
25%
Prohibits mandatory arbitration agreements in consumer and employment contracts; repeals existing provisions prohibiting mandatory arbitration clauses in certain consumer contracts.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYA00995Intro
25%
Relates to the medical aid in dying act; relates to a terminally ill patient's request for and use of medication for medical aid in dying.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA01114Intro
25%
Creates a private right of action for fertility fraud; adds a health care practitioner using human reproductive material from the practitioner or from a donor knowing or who reasonably should have known that such patient had not expressly consented t...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA01022Intro
25%
Requires prescription bottles containing opioids to have a label affixed concerning the addictive nature of the drug.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA01119Intro
25%
Provides that an insurer doing business in this state shall be liable to a policy holder for such insurer's refusal to pay or unreasonable delay of payment to the policy holder if such refusal or delay was not substantially justified; enumerates inst...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Insurance Committee
NYA01094Intro
25%
Expands eligibility for the tuition assistance program by restoring eligibility to graduate students; makes optional semesters, quarters or terms eligible for awards.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA01133Intro
25%
Limits the initial prescription of a controlled substance for the alleviation of acute pain to a seven-day supply for users twenty years of age or older and to a three-day supply for users nineteen years of age or younger.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA01215Intro
25%
Enhances criminal penalties for criminal mischief and larceny offenses committed at a place of religious worship and for cemetery desecration.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA01104Intro
25%
Prohibits fraudulent absentee ballot drop-off boxes or receptacles by making it a felony for anyone other than the board of elections to erect, display or maintain an absentee ballot drop-off box or receptacle.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA01067Intro
25%
Permits an exception from registration for nonresident pharmacies in cases of a specific patient need or a declared public health emergency under certain conditions.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA01058Intro
25%
Requires the commissioner of health to promulgate rules and regulations requiring nursing homes and residential health care facilities to test all residents of such nursing homes and residential healthcare facilities for the novel coronavirus (COVID-...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA01101Intro
25%
Establishes the teachers' fossil fuel divestment act; requires the New York state teachers' retirement system to divest the retirement system of any stocks, securities, equities, assets, or other obligations of corporations or companies included on a...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Governmental Employees Committee
NYA01124Intro
25%
Relates to the transparency and quality of care of operators of adult care facilities; requires certain applicants for adult care facilities to provide an opportunity for public comment on the application.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA01091Intro
25%
Establishes the consolidated assistance program for EMS departments which creates a sustainable state financing mechanism for emergency medical services.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Health Committee
NYA01112Intro
25%
Provides that neither the unauthorized or unlicensed practice of massage therapy, nor aiding or abetting of unauthorized or unlicensed practice of massage therapy, shall be deemed as the crime of unauthorized practice.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA01214Intro
25%
Provides for a separate line at polling places for persons with disabilities.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Election Law Committee
NYA01097Intro
25%
Extends to commercial tenants the right to seek a stay of the issuance of a warrant and a stay of any execution to collect the costs of the proceeding in a proceeding to recover the possession of premises in the city of New York.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
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