New York State Representative

Emerita Torres Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03575

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Establishes an indirect source review for heavy distribution warehouse operations; requires the department of environmental conservation to conduct a study regarding zero-emissions zones.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03647

Introduced
1/29/25  
Enacts the "faith-based affordable housing act" for development on residential land; defines terms; provides that each village, town, and city shall allow the construction and occupation of residential buildings on any covered site up to the specified densities; provides that all residential buildings constructed pursuant to this section in a town, village, or city with fewer than one million inhabitants shall set aside twenty percent of the residential floor area for households earning an average of eighty percent of area median income; outlines the densities for New York city; makes related provisions.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03654

Introduced
1/29/25  
Relates to decreasing the length of the suspension period applicable to certain individuals who lose their jobs due to a labor dispute, such as a strike, and who seek to obtain unemployment insurance benefits; decreases the suspension period from two consecutive weeks to one week; provides that the waiting period and suspension period shall be served concurrently.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03682

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
1/29/25  
Establishes environmental standards for ambient lead and lead contamination in soils and on floors and window sills.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03928

Introduced
1/30/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Report Pass
3/25/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Report Pass
3/25/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Report Pass
3/25/25  
Engrossed
3/25/25  
Requires businesses that allow automatic renewals, continuous service offers, and automatic subscription renewals to provide notice regarding cancelling such renewals, services, or subscriptions.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03981

Introduced
1/30/25  
Relates to procedures relating to driving while ability impaired by drugs; defines impairment and intoxication; updates procedures for field testing of drivers suspected of being under the influence of drugs to include the use of oral/bodily fluid tests; provides that refusal to submit to such field tests is specified to be a traffic infraction; makes related provisions.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04040

Introduced
1/30/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Refer
4/2/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Codifies the disparate impact standard in the human rights law; provides that in cases of alleged housing discrimination, an unlawful discriminatory practice may be established by a practice's discriminatory effect.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04181

Introduced
1/31/25  
Prohibits governmental entities from entering into agreements to house individuals in immigration detention facilities; requires governmental entities to terminate existing contracts for the detention of individuals in immigration detention facilities.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04279

Introduced
2/3/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Prohibits mobile sports wagering operators and platforms from sending push notifications or text message notifications.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04280

Introduced
2/3/25  
Enacts the "choice in responsible gaming act"; requires mobile sports wagering operators to establish default betting limits on their platform and to notify authorized sports bettors of their ability to opt-out of the default betting limits; directs the gaming commission to determine the monetary limit and defined period of time for such betting limits.