New York State Representative

Catalina Cruz 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 19)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02601

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
6/9/25  
Relates to the expungement of syringe convictions of criminally possessing a hypodermic instrument.
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New York Assembly Bill A02608

Introduced
1/21/25  
Creates parity for incarcerated individual telephone services for international calls to family members outside continental United States, Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam or Central Northern Mariana Islands by requiring identical restrictions on the duration or number of phone calls and use of unit or facility phones made available to incarcerated individuals who are calling family members who are not outside continental United States, Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam or Central Northern Mariana Islands.
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New York Assembly Bill A02619

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
5/19/25  
Establishes certain rights upon the expiration of ground lease residential cooperative apartment buildings.
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New York Assembly Bill A02620

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
3/25/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Report Pass
4/8/25  
Refer
4/8/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
5/21/25  
Engrossed
5/27/25  
Amends procedures required for the custodial interrogation of children to provide additional protections and for taking juveniles and sixteen and seventeen year olds into custody.
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New York Assembly Bill A02656

Introduced
1/21/25  
Creates a fund to be used to research certain bridges being equipped with suicide barriers.
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New York Assembly Bill A02660

Introduced
1/21/25  
Provides for tax credit for the adoption of pets from an animal shelter up to $250 per pet.
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New York Assembly Bill A02715

Introduced
1/22/25  
Requires Medicaid to provide comprehensive coverage for the treatment of obesity including coverage for intensive behavioral therapy, bariatric surgery, and FDA-approved anti-obesity medication.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02720

Introduced
1/22/25  
Enacts the solar for schools act which provides grants for eligible school districts to purchase and install solar and geothermal power sources; defines terms; directs the New York state energy and research development authority to establish such grant program; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof; makes an appropriation therefor.
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New York Assembly Bill A02747

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Report Pass
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Ensures that construction and fabrication done off of a public work site for specific use only in a public work project be compensated at the prevailing wage rate.
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New York Assembly Bill A02748

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Report Pass
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Report Pass
6/6/25  
Refer
6/6/25  
Report Pass
6/9/25  
Engrossed
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Relates to eligibility for classification as permanent total disability; includes inability to perform the full range of sedentary work or approval for federal social security disability benefits as a result of a compensable accident or occupational disease as constituting permanent total disability.
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New York Assembly Bill A03041

Introduced
1/23/25  
Requires training for teachers, administrators and instructors in the area of mental health response; requires office of mental health to assist in development of curriculum for training.
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New York Assembly Bill A03073

Introduced
1/23/25  
Enhances criminal penalties for criminal mischief and larceny offenses committed at a place of religious worship and for cemetery desecration.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02689

Introduced
1/22/25  
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 the legal services infrastructure needed to provide such representation.
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New York Assembly Bill A02739

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Report Pass
5/29/25  
Engrossed
5/29/25  
Refer
5/29/25  
Requires a mortgagee to accept and apply payments.
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New York Assembly Bill A02745

Introduced
1/22/25  
Relates to protections for victims of real property theft, providing for a rebuttable presumption that a purchaser or incumbrancer has notice of fraud or fraudulent intent in certain circumstances.