New York State Representative

Demond Meeks Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07873

Introduced
4/11/25  
Ends involuntary servitude in state and local correctional facilities in New York state.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08428

Introduced
5/15/25  
Refer
5/15/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
5/21/25  
Engrossed
5/21/25  
Refer
5/21/25  
Extends provisions of law relating to the authority of the department of environmental conservation to fix by regulation open seasons, size and catch limits and manner of taking fish from December 31, 2025 until December 31, 2028.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08503

Introduced
5/20/25  
Directs the department of agriculture and markets to increase the number of regional farmers' markets for the direct marketing of foods and produce produced in the state.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07929

Introduced
4/15/25  
Refer
4/15/25  
Report Pass
5/19/25  
Refer
5/19/25  
Report Pass
5/19/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/19/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Prohibits food stores and retail establishments from refusing to accept payment in cash; provides a civil penalty will be assessed for such actions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08191

Introduced
5/5/25  
Establishes a gender affirming care program in the department of health to ensure the continuity of gender affirming care services in the state.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08287

Introduced
5/9/25  
Provides for filter-first drinking water management plans where there is a finding of lead contamination in an affected school district.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08386

Introduced
5/13/25  
Provides for the creation of an ebony alert system to be activated on behalf of Black youth, including young women, men, nonbinary, boys, and girls, who are reported missing under unexplained or suspicious circumstances, at risk, developmentally disabled, or cognitively impaired, or who have been abducted.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08393

Introduced
5/13/25  
Provides for disability benefits for pregnancy loss.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08427

Introduced
5/15/25  
Refer
5/15/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Enacts the "fostering affordability and integrity through reasonable (FAIR) business practices act", to expand the attorney general's ability to protect New Yorkers from unfair, deceptive and abusive business practices.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08672

Introduced
5/27/25  
Eliminates court surcharges and fees and probation and parole surcharges and fees; eliminates the requirement that a parolee or releasee receiving a merit termination of sentence be financially able to comply with an order of restitution; eliminates the requirement that a person receiving a discharge of sentence be financially able to comply with an order of restitution and the payment of certain surcharges or fees (Part A); prohibits mandatory minimum fines for penal law and vehicle and traffic offenses (Part B); mandates that courts engage in an individualized assessment of a person's financial ability to pay a fine prior to imposing a fine (Part C); eliminates the availability of incarceration as a remedy for a failure to pay a fine, surcharge, or fee, lifts and vacates existing warrants issued solely on a person's failure to timely pay a fine, surcharge or fee and ends existing sentences of incarceration based on such failure (Part D); vacates existing unsatisfied civil judgments based on a person's failure to timely pay a surcharge, or fee (Part E); prohibits the collection of a fine, restitution or reparation from the funds of an incarcerated person; prohibits the payment of court fines, mandatory surcharges, certain fees, restitution, reparation or forfeitures from the earnings of prisoners (Part F); vacates existing unpaid surcharges, DNA databank fees, crime victim assistance fees, sexual offender registration fees, supplemental sex offender victim fees, or probation or parole supervision fees; repeals certain provisions of law relating to restrictions on remitting such fees (Part G).