New York State Representative

Catalina Cruz Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01607

Introduced
1/10/25  
Relates to the provision of breast pumps and related collection and storage materials to certain incarcerated nursing birth parents others who are confined in or committed to an institution or local correctional facility with or without their child subject to specific time limitations; requires institutions and local correctional facilities to provide pumps and related materials to such incarcerated birth parents, but not beyond the date such child reaches twenty-four months of age except in limited circumstances related to parole; allows children to remain with their incarcerated birth parents in a correctional institution until twenty-four months of age, or longer in certain cases related to parole; requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to issue an annual report on data relating to incarcerated birth parents.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01626

Introduced
1/10/25  
Prohibits health care practitioners from performing a virginity examination or supervising the performance of a virginity examination on a patient; defines "virginity examination".
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01647

Introduced
1/10/25  
Relates to dispensing certain controlled substances for use by a person with a substance use disorder during certain emergency medical treatment, or to relieve acute withdrawal symptoms.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01668

Introduced
1/10/25  
Prohibits the diminution of health insurance benefits of public employee retirees and their dependents or reducing the employer's contributions for such insurance; defines employers to include the state, municipalities, school districts, and public authorities and commissions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01670

Introduced
1/10/25  
Prohibits the use of restraints on incarcerated individuals during labor, absent extraordinary circumstances, and on pregnant persons during a custodial interrogation.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01704

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Relates to establishing the housing access voucher program; provides that the commissioner of the division of housing and community renewal shall implement a program of rental assistance in the form of housing vouchers for eligible individuals and families who are homeless or who face an imminent loss of housing; provides that the commissioner shall designate housing access voucher local administrators in the state to administer the program.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01710

Introduced
1/14/25  
Provides for coverage for certain individuals under the 1332 state innovation program.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01723

Introduced
1/14/25  
Relates to the oversight of immigration detention facilities; prohibits municipalities from using funds or resources for the construction of any new detention facility or the expansion of any existing detention facility without approval by the legislature; establishes a committee on immigration detention oversight.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01724

Introduced
1/14/25  
Provides grants to address food insecurity among students at public institutions for higher education.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01727

Introduced
1/14/25  
Enacts The New Deal for CUNY; increases the ratio of faculty and mental health counselors to full-time students; requires that certain amounts of tuition be replaced by federal, state, and city funds.