New York State Representative

Catalina Cruz 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 26)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05223

Introduced
2/12/25  
Permits a retired member to change their option election or designate a new beneficiary where the beneficiary has been convicted of a family offense.
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New York Assembly Bill A05227

Introduced
2/12/25  
Creates a residential condominium owner's bill of rights that includes the right to transparency, the right to timely decisions, voting rights, the right to notice, and the right against extraordinary expenses.
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New York Assembly Bill A05232

Introduced
2/12/25  
Implements automatic enrollment for the tax abatement program for rent-controlled and rent-regulated property occupied by senior citizens; provides for a check box for a taxpayer to opt-out of data sharing and automatic enrollment on their tax return.
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New York Assembly Bill A05293

Introduced
2/12/25  
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.
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New York Assembly Bill A05341

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Report Pass
6/4/25  
Refer
6/4/25  
Report Pass
6/6/25  
Engrossed
6/6/25  
Restricts cannabis storefronts and premises from being located within 500 feet from a school and two hundred feet of a house of worship.
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New York Assembly Bill A05355

Introduced
2/13/25  
Authorizes the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to discipline certain employees for acts of serious misconduct; defines serious misconduct; establishes procedures for such disciplinary action; prohibits employees who have been removed for serious misconduct from being placed on the eligible list after such removal.
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New York Assembly Bill A05414

Introduced
2/13/25  
Removes the lifetime ban on jury duty for convicted felons.
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New York Assembly Bill A05432

Introduced
2/14/25  
Relates to dispensing certain controlled substances for use by a person with a substance use disorder during certain emergency medical treatment, for use in maintenance or detoxification treatment, or to relieve acute withdrawal symptoms.
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New York Assembly Bill A05478

Introduced
2/14/25  
Enacts the "gender identity respect, dignity and safety act"; relates to the treatment and placement of incarcerated individuals based upon gender identity; requires that incarcerated individuals in state and local correctional facilities who have a gender identity different from their assigned sex at birth be addressed and have access to commissary items, clothing and other materials that are consistent with the person's gender identity; establishes that incarcerated individuals shall be presumptively placed in a correctional facility with persons of the gender that most closely aligns with such person's self-attested gender identity unless the person opts out of such placement.
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New York Assembly Bill A05612

Introduced
2/18/25  
Establishes the volunteer firefighters of New York higher education learning plan; provides requirements for eligibility to receive awards under such plan; provides circumstances under which such award will be converted to a student loan.
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New York Assembly Bill A05751

Introduced
2/20/25  
Relates to increasing the class for certain vehicular crimes and enacting Kane's law; increases the class of vehicular manslaughter in the first and second degrees, aggravated vehicular homicide, and aggravated unlicensed operation in the first degree.
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New York Assembly Bill A05774

Introduced
2/20/25  
Relates to allowing for students in certain postsecondary education experience or transition programs to receive awards from the tuition assistance program.
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New York Assembly Bill A05804

Introduced
2/20/25  
Enables constitutionally-qualified electors to register to vote and to cast a ballot on the same day at a polling location.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05366

Introduced
2/13/25  
Restructures the crimes of schemes to defraud; establishes the crime of harassment of a legal services client.
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New York Assembly Bill A05373

Introduced
2/13/25  
Prohibits immigration enforcement in school settings; prohibits all public and charter schools from allowing law enforcement officials inside school property to access a student, except to address an imminent safety situation or if they have an appropriate judicial warrant or judicial order.