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Nikki Lucas D

Assemblymember
New York Assembly District 41
Term: — – Jan. 3, 2026

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On Record (32)

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Authorizes the council on the arts to designate Little Panama as a cultural district in the city of New York; designates boundaries.
Jun 30, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires that any penalties for violations of housing standards or building and fire codes be assessed and imposed within fourteen days; increases certain fine amounts for violations of housing standards.
Jun 30, 2026 · source · details / share
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Directs the department of state and the public service commission to study and report upon the prevalence of the disclosure by public utilities, cable television companies and cellular telephone service providers to credit reporting agencies of late payments and defaults in payment of fees and charges by consumers.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires the collection of certain demographic information by state agencies, boards, departments and commissions.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires signage be placed alongside art and artifacts, including art and artifacts created using metal materials used in the exchange for enslaved human captives, which were stolen during the transatlantic slave period and the domestic slave trade period, between the 16th and 19th centuries, with its peak between 1700 and 1870, indicating such information.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Provides parity to durable medical equipment providers by requiring Medicaid managed care organizations to reimburse such providers at no less than one hundred percent of the medical assistance durable medical equipment fee schedule for the same service or item.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes the council on the arts to designate Little Panama as a cultural district in the city of New York; designates boundaries.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Expands the New York opportunity promise scholarship to include all SUNY AND CUNY approved programs which award certain associate's degrees.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Extends provisions of law relating to applied behavioral analysis.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Enacts the "New York State Freedmen's Bureau Act"; establishes a New York state freedmen's bureau; makes an appropriation therefor.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires signage be placed alongside art stolen during the Transatlantic Slave period between the 16th and 19th centuries, with its peak between 1700 and 1870, indicating such art was stolen.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to creating the Neighborhood Small Business Rent Increase Exemption; provides a tax abatement for limiting rent increases on small businesses in a city of one million or more persons.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to authorizing small business tax-deferred savings accounts.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Provides for a reduction of taxes pursuant to shelter rent to zero percent.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Prohibits a person convicted of rebellion or insurrection under federal law from state or municipal employment.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Establishes the commission on public safety, emergency preparedness, and mental health.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to requiring municipalities, authorities and agencies to obtain liability insurance on each duly appointed police officer in an amount not less than $200,000.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires the collection of certain demographic information by state agencies, boards, departments and commissions.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to the establishment of reduced residential rates for electric and natural gas service to low-income customers.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires owners of firearms to obtain liability insurance in an amount not less than one million dollars.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Enacts the "New York State American Freedmen Task Force on Reparations Remedies Act"; acknowledges New York state's role in the fundamental injustice and inhumanity of the institution of slavery; establishes the New York State American Freedmen Task Force on Reparations Remedies; examines all aspects of slavery, subsequent de jure and de facto racial, social and economic discrimination against American freedmen …
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Extends the effectiveness of certain provisions dealing with tax exemptions for rent regulated properties occupied by senior citizens and persons with disabilities.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Imposes certain governance and reporting requirements on the New York city housing authority; requires the establishment of a training program for board members of NYCHA; makes related provisions.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Provides parity to durable medical equipment providers by requiring Medicaid managed care organizations to reimburse such providers at no less than one hundred percent of the medical assistance durable medical equipment fee schedule for the same service or item.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires that any penalties for violations of housing standards or building and fire codes be assessed and imposed within fourteen days; increases certain fine amounts for violations of housing standards.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Establishes the Freedman's asset recovery agency to aid Transatlantic Slave victims and their heirs to seek a just and orderly return of assets to their original owners or such original owner's heirs.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Provides for emergency evacuation plans for vulnerable occupants in all residential occupancies; requires designated safe spaces equipped with emergency medical supplies in buildings greater than 125 feet (38 100 mm) in height; provides for a voluntary registry to meet the special needs of occupants who require assistance during evacuations or other emergency situations.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Enacts the mental health assessment and record keeping for the coroner's office act; requires the coroner, coroner and coroner's physician, or the medical examiner, to conduct a mental health assessment when a death occurs in such person's jurisdiction; requires death certificates list an underlying mental illness as the cause of death when a person commits suicide; requires life insurance policies …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Implements several programs to improve indoor air quality, including establishing photo-catalytic air scavenging technology certification centers and a weatherization and energy efficiency training program; establishes the office of workforce development and indoor air quality management training, minimum wage rates for indoor air quality workers, and the indoor air quality fund.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Prohibits discrimination against any individual with an actual or perceived status as a victim of domestic violence, a sex offense, or stalking; requires training on discrimination against individuals with an actual or perceived status as a victim of domestic violence, a sex offense, or stalking.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral
Relates to establishing discount programs for low-income senior citizens and individuals with a disability; provides that utilities, waterworks corporations, telephone corporations and cable television companies shall create discount programs that provide a 10 percent discount to low-income senior citizens and individuals with a disability; defines terms.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Directs the department of state and the public service commission to study and report upon the prevalence of the disclosure by public utilities, cable television companies and cellular telephone service providers to credit reporting agencies of late payments and defaults in payment of fees and charges by consumers.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share

Crossposts (48)

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Removes the lifetime ban on jury duty for convicted felons.
Aug 17, 2026 · details / share
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Provides grants to address food insecurity among students at public institutions for higher education.
Aug 02, 2026 · details / share
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Requires the New York state bridge authority, the Thousand Islands bridge authority, the Nassau county bridge authority, the Ogdensburg bridge authority, and the New York state thruway authority to develop a feasibility study to promote bicycle and pedestrian access on …
Jul 28, 2026 · details / share
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Enacts the "climate accountability and loss recovery act"; provides that the attorney general may bring a civil action against a covered entity for recovery of certain costs and assessments arising from a climate disaster.
Jul 21, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as school holidays, with dates established by religious law and tradition; allows for school districts and municipalities with a population of less than fifty thousand to opt into the recognition of such holidays.
Jul 04, 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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Exempts certain pet food from sales taxes to include specialty pet food.
Jun 18, 2026 · details / share
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Provides practical support for access to abortion care including, but not limited to, reimbursement for ground and air transportation, lodging, meals, childcare, translation services, and doula support.
Jun 18, 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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Enacts the "Renewable Capitol act"; requires the office of general services, in consultation with the power authority of the state of New York, to ensure that all operations that power, heat or cool the empire state plaza complex shall entirely …
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Prohibits the use of the term "excited delirium" as a diagnosis, label, or cause of death on death certificates, autopsy reports, police reports or any report, policy or procedure by a public agency or contractor; defines excited delirium.
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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Requires the office of victim services to publicize programs offered by the office and to include certain information in annual reports to the governor and the legislature and to make such reports public on the office's website.
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes a study regarding doula friendly work spaces; requires a report.
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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Relates to the contents of emergency response plans required to be submitted to the public service commission by electric corporations; requires such plans to include details of staffing, equipment, and ability to perform toward certain standards; requires the public service …
May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Directs the department of public service to promulgate rules, regulations and model policies regarding setback requirements for the siting of battery energy storage systems; requires minimum setback requirements for commercial energy storage systems, with a capacity of three megawatts or …
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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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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Enacts the "school security guard training enhancement act"; provides that annual training where a security guard is employed or contracted by a school in this state shall require the completion of school specific-training.
May 28, 2026 · details / share
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Extends provisions of law providing for certain fees and expenses in unemployment insurance proceedings to December 31, 2028.
May 28, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes the "SNAP for students act" requiring the office of temporary and disability assistance to create informational materials to provide information regarding student eligibility for SNAP benefits and to provide digital versions of such materials to institutions of higher education …
May 28, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes an assisted living program reimbursement program to provide enhanced Medicaid reimbursement to qualifying assisted living programs; requires at least 70% of such assisted living facility's staff to voluntarily self-identify as Black, Hispanic, or Asian; increases the capitated rates of …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to the reporting requirements of the statewide fiscal intermediary; requires the reporting of utilization data and financial data to protect medical assistance recipients in using the program and ensure the effective use of medical assistance funds; requires the statewide …
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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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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Relates to owner liability for failure of an operator to comply with street cleaning parking rules; relates to access to records prepared pursuant to street cleaning parking rules.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Increases short-term disability benefits.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Directs the department of public service to promulgate rules and regulations to establish fee transparency standards for electric vehicle charging stations.
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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Establishes the "New York state lead-safe renovation, repair and painting act"; establishes standards for lead-safe renovation, repair and painting of residential properties; requires documentation of compliance with such standards.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to the provision of breast pumps and related collection and storage materials to certain incarcerated nursing birth parents who are confined in or committed to an institution or local correctional facility with or without their child subject to specific …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Prohibits the use of restraints on and the use of force against incarcerated individuals during labor and incarcerated individuals who have experienced different pregnancy outcomes, absent extraordinary circumstances, and on pregnant and post-pregnancy persons during a custodial interrogation; provides for …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Grants employees access to personnel records; requires notice of negative information in such records and an opportunity for a review; permits employee to include certain information in personnel records.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Limits fines for the late payment or evasion of tolls charged by a public authority to twenty-five percent of the toll owed.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Enacts the "cannabis supply chain integrity and anti-inversion act"; prohibits any act or omission involving illicit cannabis; provides penalties for such cannabis inversion.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Requires chain restaurants to display an added sugars warning next to or directly under the name of each food item with high added sugars content wherever such food item is listed on a menu, menu board, or food tag, and …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes a moratorium on the sale and use of biosolids; defines terms.
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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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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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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Prohibits the use of student loan payment credit history checks to ascertain the payment status of a student loan of an applicant for employment.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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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 health information.
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