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Emérita Torres D

Assemblymember
New York Assembly District 77
Term: — – Jan. 3, 2026

Biography

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On Record (8)

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Requires property/casualty insurance companies to submit information on multifamily housing premiums and claims paid to the department of financial services.
Jul 04, 2026 · source · details / share
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Enacts the "Baby Food and Infant Formula Safety and Transparency Act"; requires the testing of baby food and infant formula for toxic heavy metals and the disclosure of such test results.
May 29, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires the commissioner of labor to prepare an annual report on the cost of living, poverty rates and adequacy of the current minimum wage in the state.
May 29, 2026 · source · details / share
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Prevents an increase in vehicular lane capacity of highways within two hundred feet of certain public housing facilities, in areas with high rates of asthma, and in environmental justice communities.
May 28, 2026 · source · details / share
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Prohibits certain financial institutions from charging a fee for making monthly, semi-monthly, and biweekly payments or for changing the frequency of mortgage payments.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires property/casualty insurance companies to submit certain information to the department of financial services, including zip code-level data on nonrenewal rates, nonpayment cancellation rates, other cancellation rates, claim frequency rates, average claim amounts, paid loss ratios, and average premiums; market share data; for property/casualty insurance companies that use a natural disaster risk model or scoring method to assign risk, information …
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Prohibits the use of surveillance pricing, directly or indirectly; prohibits the collection, use, retention, or sharing of data to facilitate surveillance pricing; provides exceptions; provides for enforcement by the attorney general; makes related provisions.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires the community gardens task force to conduct an assessment of all community gardens located on publicly owned land in the state to facilitate each garden's designation as a critical environmental area.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share

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Provides for a moratorium on evictions during extreme weather conditions, and the 72-hour period following such conditions.
Aug 17, 2026 · details / share
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Removes the lifetime ban on jury duty for convicted felons.
Aug 17, 2026 · details / share
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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 …
Jul 04, 2026 · details / share
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Protects the rights of people in prisons, jails and forensic facilities; limits the use of cell or segregated confinement; grants access to tablets, visitation, and certain items.
Jul 04, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes the artificial intelligence training data transparency act requiring developers of generative artificial intelligence models or services to post on the developer's website information regarding the data used by the developer to train the generative artificial intelligence model or service, …
Jun 30, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes the "clean fuel standard of 2026"; provides such standard is intended to reduce greenhouse gas intensity from the on-road transportation sector, with further reductions to be implemented based upon advances in technology.
Jun 30, 2026 · details / share
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Prohibits fuel oil, grade number four in any building or facility in the state after July 1, 2030.
Jun 18, 2026 · details / share
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Places a one year moratorium on the issuance of data center permits; requires utilities to establish an independent classification of service for large data centers; sets energy efficiency goals for data centers; provides for benefits for host communities; sets labor …
Jun 18, 2026 · details / share
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Requires insurers to provide insurance coverage for treatment of rare diseases, life-threatening conditions or diseases, degenerative and disabling conditions, or diagnoses involving medically fragile children, by a provider of the patient's choice.
Jun 18, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to parole eligibility for certain incarcerated persons age fifty-five or older if they have served at least fifteen years of their sentence or sentences.
Jun 18, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to the adjudication of parking infractions.
Jun 18, 2026 · details / share
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Enacts the New York privacy act to require companies to disclose their methods of de-identifying personal information, to place special safeguards around data sharing and to allow consumers to obtain the names of all entities with whom their information is …
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Requires businesses that allow automatic renewals, continuous service offers, and automatic subscription renewals to provide notice regarding cancelling such renewals, services, or subscriptions.
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Increases the duration of special accidental death benefits paid to a deceased member's children.
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes the climate corporate data accountability act requiring certain business entities within the state to annually disclose scope 1, scope 2 and scope 3 emissions; establishes the climate accountability and emissions disclosure fund.
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to returnable bottles; adds noncarbonated soft drinks, certain noncarbonated fruit or vegetable juices, coffee and tea beverages, carbonated fruit beverages and cider to the definition of "beverage"; provides that beginning April 1, 2027, the handling fee will be six …
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Prohibits the use of intoxication of the victim as a defense in sex crimes where the victim is under the influence of any drug, intoxicant, or other substance to a degree which rendered the victim temporarily incapable of appraising or …
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to special provisions for the operation of bicycles when approaching stop signs and traffic-control signals including steady circular red signals and red arrow signals.
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Requires the commissioner to establish Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander history and civic impact curriculum or instructions for school districts.
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Requires synthetic content creations system providers to include provenance data on synthetic content produced or modified by a synthetic content creations system that such provider makes available.
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Directs the department of environmental conservation to promulgate air quality standards for emissions of certain toxic air contaminants.
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Enacts the accelerate solar for affordable power (ASAP) act to set a new target for distributed solar energy capacity and direct the public service commission to advance reforms to the utility interconnection process to ensure timely and cost-effective integration of …
May 28, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to procedures relating to driving while ability impaired by drugs; defines impairment and intoxication; updates procedures for field testing of drivers suspected of being under the influence of drugs to include the use of oral/bodily fluid tests; provides that …
May 28, 2026 · details / share
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Provides lead service line identification by a public water system that serves certain areas.
May 28, 2026 · details / share
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Provides for automatic voter registration and pre-registration for persons applying for certain department of motor vehicles documentation, and for persons applying for or re-enrolling in Medicaid; allows individuals to decline such automatic registration and pre-registration.
May 28, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes extended producer responsibility for mattresses.
May 28, 2026 · details / share
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Provides that persons charged with a parking violation shall be able to make an electronic court appearance unless a locality elects not to permit electronic appearances.
May 28, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes an indirect source review for heavy distribution warehouse operations; requires the department of environmental conservation to conduct a study regarding zero-emissions zones.
May 28, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to the qualification of voters; provides that a citizen who is seventeen years of age at the time of a primary election and who will be eighteen years of age at the time of the general election for which …
May 28, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes a twenty-four hour, toll-free hotline and website for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning plus (LGBTQ+) individuals who are experiencing emotional distress, suicidal ideation, or crisis-related challenges, which shall provide immediate support, referrals, resource lists, and other information.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Directs the superintendent of financial services to conduct an analysis of the financial stability of the check cashing industry and review the current system of licensing for such industry and issue reports on both topics.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Imposes liability for damages caused by a chatbot impersonating certain licensed professionals.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to fair pricing for low-complexity, routine medical care to more closely align payment rates across ambulatory settings for selected services that are safe and appropriate to provide in all settings.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes a pilot program to provide grants to local education providers to implement high-impact tutoring programs prioritizing low-income or underserved students to address student learning loss or unfinished learning resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Directs the state librarian to provide guidance regarding evidence-based practices for literacy education to certain libraries.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Provides for coverage for New Yorkers losing insurance due to the implementation of HR 1.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Enacts the "home utility weatherization jobs act"; requires each gas corporation, electric corporation, or combination gas or electric corporation to submit to the public service commission for review and approval at least one and up to ten neighborhood scale weatherization …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Prohibits local, state and federal law enforcement officers from wearing any mask or personal disguise while interacting with the public in the performance of their duties; excludes certain protective masks.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes the NY digital choice act requiring social media companies to provide covered users with a copy of the covered user's social graph at the request of the covered user; defines terms; provides requirements for the interoperability of covered users' …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Requires instruction in arts and music education to be incorporated into curriculums for all public school students; requires school districts to ensure that appropriately certified teachers are providing such education; authorizes rules and regulations consistent with such provisions.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Enacts the "consumer grocery pricing fairness act" in relation to ensuring price fairness for covered goods in the state of New York.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Requires businesses which provide for someone to spoof a telephone number to keep records of the phone calls placed with their services.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Prohibits the sale of foods containing synthetic color additives in schools except under certain circumstances off and away from the premises or on premises at least a half hour after the end of the school day.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Enacts the "New York fundamental artificial intelligence requirements in (FAIR) news act"; provides requirements for fairness in disclosures to news media workers, news media consumers, oversight of AI systems, and workplace protections for news media workers.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Prohibits the use of electronic shelving labels, digital shelf display technology in food retail establishments and drug retail establishments; provides injunctive relief and civil penalties.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Prohibits discrimination on the basis of a person's caste in opportunities of employment, housing, and access to public accommodations.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Includes positive rental payment information reporting as a preference in the evaluation of project applications in the New York state low income housing tax credit program; requires landlords to offer tenants the option of positive rental payment information reporting; creates …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Increases short-term disability benefits.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes a tax on video streaming services; provides that the revenue from the tax is to be used to ensure that every resident in the state has access to modern communications networks; establishes the media arts technology and education fund.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Enacts the "beauty justice act"; provides for the regulation of ingredients in personal care products and cosmetics; prohibits the sale of personal care products and cosmetic products containing certain restricted products.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Increases tax rates imposed on unincorporated businesses and corporations in New York city upon adoption of a local law by the local legislative body of the city of New York.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to the health, safety and human rights of incarcerated pregnant individuals, incarcerated birthing parents and their children; requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to establish rules and regulations relating to conditions in institutions and correctional facilities and …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Enacts the "packaging reduction and recycling infrastructure act" to require companies selling, offering for sale, or distributing packaging materials and products to register with a packaging reduction organization to develop a packaging reduction and recycling plan; makes related provisions.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to the purchase of claims by corporations or collection agencies; relates to the inference of an assignee's intent and purpose in taking an assignment of a claim against an obligor that is not an eligible obligor.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to requirements when landlords offer tenants the option of rent reporting to a consumer reporting agency to boost such tenant's credit score.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Enacts the lead pipe replacement act to require the replacement of all lead service lines by November 1, 2037.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Provides additional protections for sensitive health information; requires all health information networks, electronic health record systems, and health care providers to provide patients with a right to restrict the disclosures of such patient's health information; defines terms; provides for exceptions.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Includes stormwater in the definition of sewage for purposes of certain water, sewer, and water and sewer authorities; defines stormwater.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Requires chain restaurants to place an icon on menus next to food items that have a high content of sodium.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Provides that public officers and employees of the state who are members of the United States Air Force Auxiliary Civil Air Patrol or the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Pilots shall be granted leave from work with pay to participate …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Enacts the "deed protection act" in relation to prohibiting a mortgage banker or mortgage loan servicer from commencing, maintaining, or proceeding with a foreclosure action on a mortgage loan where such mortgage banker or mortgage loan servicer knows or has …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to enacting the rent emergency stabilization for tenants act on local determinations of a housing emergency; authorizes a city with a population of one million or more to declare an emergency as to any class of housing accommodations if …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to false or misleading advertisements of food and food products; provides factors to determine whether an advertisement is false or misleading; provides for enforcement and a private right of action.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes a standardized statewide system for collecting, recording, and monitoring winter road maintenance operational data in order to improve efficiency, enhance transparency, and support the protection of water resources in the state of New York; requires calibration of all deicing …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Prohibits the sale of certain products that contain regulated perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances; requires manufacturers of products containing PFAS to provide notice of such fact to persons that offer the products for sale or distribution; provides penalties for violations.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Provides for permitted leaves of absence for members of the civil air patrol during emergencies for purposes of assisting with such emergencies.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Provides for supervision by certain marriage and family therapists and mental health counselors who meet certain experience requirements.
May 21, 2026 · details / share