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Jordan Wright D

Assemblymember
New York Assembly District 65
Term: — – Jan. 3, 2026

Biography

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On Record (25)

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Requires biannual certification of cooling towers; increases penalties for violations of such reporting requirements.
Jun 30, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes owners of mobile barber shops to obtain barber shop owner's licenses provided that they can furnish proof of title, possession, registration and driver's license authorizing operation of the vehicle to be used to operate the mobile barber shop and proof of proper layout, adequate equipment for the shop, sanitary conditions in the shop and good moral character.
Jun 30, 2026 · source · details / share
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Includes doula awareness and the advantages of utilizing a doula in the department of health's education and outreach program.
May 28, 2026 · source · details / share
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Corrects language relating to indigenous libraries from Indian libraries.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Establishes the senior center council for the purposes of providing a forum for discussion of challenges facing senior centers across the state and developing solutions; supports sharing of information regarding efficient and effective operation of senior centers in different areas around the state; encourages the spread of methods and programs with proven effectiveness; creates an environment for peer-to-peer support for …
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Amends the definition of motor vehicle to exclude personal delivery devices; requires personal delivery device operators demonstrate an adequate safety record and proof of insurance; subjects personal delivery devices to traffic rules and laws applicable to pedestrians; sets speed limits; requires such devices to obey all traffic and pedestrian control devices, and set minimum equipment standards.
Apr 07, 2026 · source · details / share
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Provides for the establishment of a nexus with the state of New York relating to unlawful discriminatory practices.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes the conveyance of certain property by the city of New York to The Allah Youth Center in Mecca Inc.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes electronic submission of absentee ballots.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires biannual certification of cooling towers; increases penalties for violations of such reporting requirements.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Corrects language relating to indigenous libraries from Indian libraries.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage bluefish from 2025 to 2028.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Empowers the council on the arts to designate the Harlem Renaissance Cultural District.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Directs the department of health to conduct an ongoing public awareness and education program on doulas and how beneficial they are to pregnancies.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Establishes the Black history preservation commission to ensure the documentation and preservation of Black history in New York state within the state university of New York.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Declares the "Juneteenth flag" to be the official state flag for raising awareness of the history of slavery, the struggles African Americans have faced, and the ongoing fight for equity today.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires every police officer, peace officer and employee of a correctional facility to intervene in incidents of violence involving incarcerated individuals.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Prohibits any police officer, peace officer or employee of a correctional facility from interfering with the provision of medical assistance to an incarcerated individual.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Directs the metropolitan transportation authority and the New York city transit authority to rename the 110th Street - Central Park North subway station to the 110th Street - Malcolm X Plaza station.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes owners of mobile barber shops to obtain barber shop owner's licenses provided that they can furnish proof of title, possession, registration and driver's license authorizing operation of the vehicle to be used to operate the mobile barber shop and proof of proper layout, adequate equipment for the shop, sanitary conditions in the shop and good moral character.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires the department of criminal justice services to develop, issue, and publish "race-blind charging" guidelines for a process whereby all prosecution agencies that prosecute criminal violations of the law as felonies or misdemeanors, shall implement a process by which an initial review of a case for potential charging is performed based on information, including police reports and criminal histories from …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Establishes equitable repair and maintenance standards for mixed income residential buildings with twenty or more units to prevent the use of repair and maintenance services as a form of tenant harassment.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Enacts provisions relating to modifications, suspensions, revocations, and renewals under the air quality control program; provides for expiration of any permit which has no expiration and has been in effect for five years; provides renewal periods shall not be longer than five years.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Directs the senior center council to engage in statewide planning of both a programmatic and fiscal nature to ensure the long-term sustainability and viability of senior centers in all areas of the state.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes up to two percent of mobile sports tax revenue, but not more than twenty million dollars, be used for youth team sports funding to be distributed by county youth bureaus, city of New York's department of youth and community development, and an organization which supports and invests in programs that use sports as a vehicle for youth development and …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · 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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Provides final discipline authority over civilian complaints to the civilian complaint review board; creates a hearing officer and adjudicative body for such complaint review board.
Aug 08, 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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Enacts the "student voter empowerment act"; requires each institution of higher education to designate a staff member to act as a student voting coordinator; requires such coordinator to develop and implement a student voting action plan to increase student voter …
Jun 30, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes the healthy and safe students act; requires comprehensive sexuality instruction for students in grades K-12 which includes a model curricula for comprehensive sexuality education and at a minimum conforms to the content and scope of national sexuality education standards.
Jun 30, 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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Enacts the housing development fund company fairness, preservation, and affordability act to clarify certain provisions relating to the dissolution and reincorporation of housing development fund companies; provides for tax exemptions and abatements for housing development fund companies.
Jun 24, 2026 · details / share
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Authorizes the dormitory authority to provide financing to The New York Climate Exchange Inc. for the construction of facilities on Governor's Island.
Jun 18, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes a captive insurance program for commuter vans, black cars, ambulettes and paratransit vehicles, small school buses, and charter buses that are engaged in the business of carrying or transporting nine to twenty-four passengers for hire; pre-arranged for-hire vehicles and …
Jun 18, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes the buy American, buy union grant program and the buy American, buy union grant fund for the purpose of providing grants to municipal subdivisions to reimburse such municipal subdivisions for the costs of procuring consumer or commercial vehicles which …
Jun 18, 2026 · details / share
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Repeals the rebates for stock transfer tax paid; dedicates funds of the stock transfer tax fund and stock transfer incentive fund to various funds; establishes the safe water and infrastructure action program.
Jun 18, 2026 · details / share
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Prohibits artificial intelligence companions from using features which are considered unsafe for minors; defines terms; specifies what are considered unsafe features.
Jun 18, 2026 · details / share
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Requires health care plans and payors to have a minimum of twelve and one-half percent of their total expenditures on physical and mental health annually be for primary care services.
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 granting certain individuals youthful offender status; adds a new category of individuals eligible for young adult offender status; provides for process and sentencing requirements related to such statuses.
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Prohibits drug, cannabis or alcohol testing of pregnant or postpartum individuals and newborns unless the individual consents and it is within the scope of medical care, or the testing is necessary for a medical emergency.
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Defines the term "construction projects" to mean the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement of any school building where a district receives any apportionment for debt service or building aid and the school building is sited within the Long Island region; …
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Enacts the "PFAS discharge disclosure act"; requires certain SPDES permit holders to conduct PFAS monitoring and disclose the results from such monitoring.
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to providing information to patients and the public on hospital rule-based exclusions; requires the commissioner of health to collect from each hospital a list of its hospital rule-based exclusions and publish such information on the department's website.
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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Establishes the "stop online predators act"; requires operators of covered platforms to conduct age verification to determine whether a user is a covered minor; requires operators of covered platforms to utilize certain default privacy settings for covered minors; requires operators …
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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Adopts the psychology interjurisdictional compact to increase public access to psychological services by allowing telepsychological practice and temporary in-person services across state lines.
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes a program for specific individuals to become complex care assistants and provide private duty nursing services to certain Medicaid enrollees.
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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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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Provides lead service line identification by a public water system that serves certain areas.
May 28, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to the right to unemployment benefits based on employment with certain educational institutions, including the state university of New York, the city university of New York and public community colleges; clarifies the meaning of certain terms relating to such …
May 28, 2026 · details / share
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Ends involuntary servitude in state and local correctional facilities in New York state.
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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Defines the practice of certified registered nurse anesthetist; requires collaboration with a licensed physician qualified to determine the need for anesthesia services; requires licensing; defines qualifications.
May 28, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to use of public funds for prevailing wage requirements applicable to construction projects performed under private contract.
May 28, 2026 · details / share
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Requires all authorities having jurisdiction over a population exceeding five thousand residents to adopt a residential automated solar permitting platform by June thirtieth, two thousand twenty-six.
May 28, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the constitution by adding a right to privacy.
May 28, 2026 · details / share
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Requires the sanitation department of the city of New York to provide owners, lessees or persons in charge of a premises at which a violation of the city solid waste disposal law is alleged to have occurred with a photograph …
May 28, 2026 · details / share
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Requires every franchisor, including its affiliates and subsidiaries to properly fulfill any warranty agreement and/or franchisor's service contract and to compensate each of its franchised motor vehicle dealers for warranty parts and labor, including but not limited to all warranty …
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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Restricts a law enforcement officer from initiating a traffic stop for certain violations of the vehicle and traffic law; provides for the suppression or exclusion of evidence obtained in violation of such provisions; relates to the duties of the division …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Regulates energy consumption by data centers; requires annual disclosure reporting; prohibits incentives in fossil fuel power purchase agreements with utilities; directs the public service commission to establish a data center surcharge and discount plan.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes visiting policies for incarcerated people, to provide incarcerated people opportunities for personal contact with relatives, friends, clergy, volunteers and other persons to promote better institutional adjustment and better community adjustment upon release.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Directs the New York state bridge authority to provide a report by July 1, 2027, outlining their efforts and progress on decreasing and deterring suicide attempts on authority bridges.
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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Establishes uniform waiting list priorities for domestic violence survivors applying for public housing.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to certain crimes of interference with health care services or access to places of religious worship; expands interference to include groups of two or more people demonstrating or preparing to demonstrate twenty-five feet outside of reproductive health care facilities …
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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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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Enacts the building up immigrant legal defense or BUILD act to provide competitive workforce development and capacity building grants to eligible entities that are seeking to expand access to representation for individuals facing deportation by increasing the workforce and strengthening …
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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Requires pharmacies to provide prescription drug readers or other means of access to individuals who disclose they have difficulty seeing or reading standard print labels on prescription drug containers; defines "prescription drug reader" to mean a device which is capable …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Authorizes pharmacists to administer injections for contraceptive use.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to artist preferences in housing; provides that giving occupancy preference to individuals who are involved in artistic activities is not an unlawful discriminatory practice provided that such preference is implemented or authorized by an agency or the state of …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Enacts the "protecting our kids from gamification of gambling act"; makes it unlawful for operators of social gaming platforms to provide a service to a minor user that allows online gaming-related gambling.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes the "jobs and housing act"; directs the private housing finance agency to develop and administer a jobs and housing pilot program to construct and preserve housing, including workforce housing, that is affordable to low and moderate income persons, and …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Permits individuals receiving hospice services to enroll in managed long term care plans; ensures coordinated service delivery.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Increases short-term disability benefits.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Requires the office of court administration, clerks, and all other records custodians to develop policies and procedures to ensure no identifying information or documentation relating to name change actions or sex designation change actions is visible or retrievable in any …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Requires healthcare facilities to maintain a fifty percent operating threshold of certain reusable healthcare protective textiles in their inventory unless a reprieve is provided for supply chain issues; provides a fine may be assessed for failure to comply, as determined …
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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Prohibits artificial intelligence chatbots from using features which are considered unsafe for minors; defines terms; specifies what are considered unsafe features.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Provides for the creation of an ebony alert system to be activated on behalf of Black youth who are reported missing under unexplained or suspicious circumstances, at risk, developmentally disabled, or cognitively impaired, or who have been abducted.
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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Enacts the "NY broadband resiliency, public safety and quality act" to provide for oversight of the resiliency, public safety and quality of broadband and voice over internet protocol service.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes the reentry assistance program; provides for eligible incarcerated individuals to receive a monthly stipend upon release from a state correctional facility; makes an appropriation of $25,000,000.
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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Allows commuter vans to accept hails from prospective passengers in the street; directs the New York city taxi and limousine commission to submit to the mayor and the speaker of the council and publish on its website a report on …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes maximum contaminant levels in drinking water for certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS); sets such levels at no higher than 4 parts per trillion (ppt) for perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and no higher than 10 …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes a developmental disability, mental health, and behavioral condition community stakeholder committee to examine effective evidence-based developmental, mental, and behavioral health screening methods for children in kindergarten through fifth grade.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes the "first responder peer support program act" which supplies peer-to-peer mental health programs to first responders.
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 a pharmacy benefit manager to pay a participating pharmacy at minimum at the national average drug acquisition cost (NADAC) rate, or at the pharmacy acquisition cost rate if greater or there is not a NADAC rate, plus a professional …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Prevents discrimination by insurers based on an individual's mental health or substance use disorder; incorporates into law federal enforcement rules set forth in the federal mental health parity and addiction equity act of 2008.
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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Provides that certain communications made without malice regarding an incident of sexual assault, harassment or discrimination shall be deemed privileged; provides that a prevailing defendant in an action brought against such defendant for making a communication that is privileged shall …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Requires the department of environmental conservation and the department of health, owners or operators of public water systems, and owners or operators of buildings to take actions to prevent and control waterborne pathogens including legionella from source-to-tap; creates a public …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Requires Medicaid to cover gender-affirming care regardless of federal funding; prohibits discriminatory practices by health care entities including hospitals, certain professionals, and insurers; requires insurance coverage for services or treatments for gender dysphoria or gender incongruence.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Includes certain persons engaged in a professional or teaching capacity in or for a religious, charitable or educational institution as employees for purposes of eligibility for paid family leave.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Requires each board of education to adopt a written policy for reconsideration of school library materials and make such policy available on its website; requires such policies to include provisions for the creation of a reconsideration committee to review complaints …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Provides WiFi service and internet access to all individuals residing in temporary housing; relates to funding for internet service under the ConnectAll digital equity grant program.
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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Enacts the "no gambling ads for kids act" under which certain covered platforms and social media platforms are prohibited from advertising a service permitting gaming-related gambling, predictive market wagering, online sweepstakes gaming, sports-related gambling, and/or traditional online gambling to minors.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to standards relating to hydrofluorocarbon substances; provides that any rules or regulations relating to hydrofluorocarbon substances established or implemented by the department of environmental conservation shall conform with, and shall not exceed, any applicable rules or regulations set forth …
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