New York State Representative

Harvey Epstein Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01580

Introduced
1/10/25  
Establishes the teachers' fossil fuel divestment act; requires the New York state teachers' retirement system to divest the retirement system of any stocks, securities, equities, assets, or other obligations of corporations or companies included on an exclusion list of coal producers and oil and gas producers.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01582

Introduced
1/10/25  
Provides that substituted consent by a guardian, health care proxy, or other third party shall not authorize a procedure resulting in sterilization in the absence of the informed consent of the person being sterilized.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01588

Introduced
1/10/25  
Prohibits the city school district from reimbursing charter schools for leasing a privately owned or other publicly owned facility; prohibits charter school employee contracts from including a non-disclosure agreement.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01597

Introduced
1/10/25  
Establishes the baby bucks allowance to provide income to eligible participants for the last three months of pregnancy and the first 18 months of the child's life; excludes income received from the baby bucks allowance for purposes of supplemental nutrition assistance program eligibility.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01598

Introduced
1/10/25  
Creates a civil cause of action for the manufacture, sale, or distribution of assault weapons or ghost guns within the state; aiding and abetting such manufacture, sale or distribution; or intending to aid and abet in such manufacture, sale or distribution; provides for a civil remedy of ten thousand dollars per violation.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01602

Introduced
1/10/25  
Expands the eligibility period for indigent legal service attorneys to receive certain loan forgiveness; increases loan reimbursement for certain attorneys who work in legal services with indigent clients.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01610

Introduced
1/10/25  
Sets out the procedures and requirements for special elections; implements a timetable for the special primary and special election, including the number of signatures required for the petition.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01616

Introduced
1/10/25  
Enacts the "Big Five African Trophies Act" relating to banning the importation, transportation and possession of certain African wildlife species and products.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01626

Introduced
1/10/25  
Prohibits health care practitioners from performing a virginity examination or supervising the performance of a virginity examination on a patient; defines "virginity examination".

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01619

Introduced
1/10/25  
Eliminates the MTA's exemption from environmental quality review standards established by article 8 of the environmental conservation law.