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 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  
Restricts cannabis storefronts and premises from being located within 500 feet from a school and two hundred feet of a house of worship.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05373

Introduced
2/13/25  
Prohibits civil arrest 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.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05403

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Prohibits discrimination against and harassment or bullying of students by other students on school property or at a school function; requires schools to investigate reports of bullying; requires schools to adopt a written, plain-language anti-bullying and harassment policy; requires school employees to report incidents of bullying or harassment.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05414

Introduced
2/13/25  
Removes the lifetime ban on jury duty for convicted felons; repealer.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05448

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Refer
4/2/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
5/21/25  
Engrossed
5/21/25  
Requires the appointment of a Title VI coordinator at every college and university in the state to ensure compliance with Title VI of the federal civil rights act of 1964; requires the division of human rights to develop training for students and employees; requires the Title VI coordinator to notify annually all students and employees of the institution's policies and procedures for reporting discrimination and harassment.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05480

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Protects individuals who provide or receive legally protected health activity, including reproductive health care and gender-affirming care, from criminal or civil liability or professional sanctions imposed by jurisdictions outside the state.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05542

Introduced
2/14/25  
Updates the admission criteria for the science and technology entry program and collegiate science and technology entry program to consider whether a student is a member of an ethnic group that is underrepresented in the eligible profession they are pursuing.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05835

Introduced
2/21/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Directs the state librarian to provide guidance regarding evidence-based practices for literacy education to certain libraries.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05953

Introduced
2/25/25  
Includes in the class E felony of vehicular assault in the second degree, the causing of serious physical injury while operating a vehicle with suspended, revoked or no license; creates the crime of vehicular homicide.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A06086

Introduced
2/26/25  
Increases the minimum wage outside of New York city and the counties of Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester; repeals certain provisions of law relating to exceptions to minimum wage increases.