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Emerita Torres 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 2)

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00472

Introduced
1/8/25  
Establishes the clean fuel standard of 2025; provides such standard is intended to reduce greenhouse gas intensity from the on-road transportation sector, with further reductions to be implemented based upon advances in technology.
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New York Assembly Bill A00514

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Relates to parole eligibility for certain incarcerated persons age fifty-five or older if they have served at least fifteen years of their sentence or sentences.
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New York Assembly Bill A00649

Introduced
1/8/25  
Relates to the tolling of statute of limitations for individuals in state custody; provides that with respect to state action brought by anyone to recover damages for physical, psychological, or other injury or condition suffered while in state custody, the time in which such action must commence shall be extended to three years after such person is released from such custody.
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New York Assembly Bill A00733

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
6/5/25  
Refer
6/5/25  
Repeals provisions relating to persons knowing themselves to be infected with venereal disease.
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New York Assembly Bill A00785

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Report Pass
6/6/25  
Refer
6/6/25  
Report Pass
6/11/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Enrolled
7/23/25  
Chaptered
7/24/25  
Requires schools safety plans to include a cardiac emergency response plan that addresses the use of appropriate personnel and measures to respond to incidents involving any individual experiencing sudden cardiac arrest or similar life-threatening emergency on any school site owned or operated by a school or at a location of a school sponsored event.
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New York Assembly Bill A00825

Introduced
1/8/25  
Requires police departments and agencies to provide district attorneys' offices access to such departments' and agencies' electronic record systems for discovery purposes.
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New York Assembly Bill A01085

Introduced
1/8/25  
Establishes the "earned time act" providing for time allowances against the term or maximum term of sentences imposed by the court to be credited on an annual pro rata basis.
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New York Assembly Bill A01100

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Authorizes the legislature to increase the number of justices of the supreme court in any judicial district.
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New York Assembly Bill A01172

Introduced
1/9/25  
Authorizes the dispensing of abortion medication under certain conditions; requires insurance policies providing coverage for contraception to provide coverage for abortion medication.
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New York Assembly Bill A01261

Introduced
1/9/25  
Protects the rights of people in prisons, jails and forensic facilities; limits the use of cell or segregated confinement; grants access to tablets, visitation, and certain items.
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New York Assembly Bill A01283

Introduced
1/9/25  
Authorizes certain persons confined in institutions operated by the department of corrections and community supervision to apply for a sentence reduction.
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New York Assembly Bill A01328

Introduced
1/9/25  
Establishes supermarket wine licenses to sell from the licensed premises wine in sealed containers for consumption off such premises.
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New York Assembly Bill A01440

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Requires inspections of motor vehicle mufflers and exhaust systems.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01466

Introduced
1/9/25  
Establishes the New York Health program, a comprehensive system of access to health insurance for New York state residents; provides for administrative structure of the plan; provides for powers and duties of the board of trustees, the scope of benefits, payment methodologies and care coordination; establishes the New York Health Trust Fund which would hold monies from a variety of sources to be used solely to finance the plan; enacts provisions relating to financing of New York Health, including a payroll assessment, similar to the Medicare tax; establishes a temporary commission on implementation of the plan; provides for collective negotiations by health care providers with New York Health.
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New York Assembly Bill A01556

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
6/13/25  
Refer
6/13/25  
Enacts the "food safety and chemical disclosure act"; prohibits certain food additives and food color additives; provides that in an action to enforce compliance, the recognition by the federal food and drug administration of any of these substances as safe may not be alleged as a defense; establishes requirements for the reporting of GRAS (generally recognized as safe) substances.