New York State Representative

Harvey Epstein Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00495

Introduced
1/8/25  
Relates to conditional release for eligible offenders who complete post-secondary degrees or programs; provides release twelve months before the completion of the controlling minimum period of imprisonment for eligible offenders who complete post-secondary degrees or programs.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00569

Introduced
1/8/25  
Relates to the publication of information on public meetings; requires the office of information technology services to develop a mobile application and website to publish information on every public meeting held by a state or local public body; requires public bodies to report such meetings to the office of information technology services.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00508

Introduced
1/8/25  
Increases the maximum time limits for tuition assistance program awards; increases the maximum number of academic years of study to six.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

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.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00532

Introduced
1/8/25  
Prohibits courts from ordering an evaluation of a party or child or allowing into evidence a forensic report created by a forensic evaluator on a party or child to assist such court in a child custody or visitation determination.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00574

Introduced
1/8/25  
Requires accessible buses to be available within a service area measuring three miles from any bus line of the authority or its subsidiaries.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00588

Introduced
1/8/25  
Relates to the former crime of loitering for the purpose of engaging in a prostitution offense; expunges criminal records for persons previously convicted of such crime; directs the chief administrator of the courts to provide information regarding such expungement; adds language to identify that the crime of loitering for the purpose of engaging in a prostitution offense is no longer in law.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00597

Introduced
1/8/25  
Includes additional community districts in which pilot programs to address the legalization or conversion of certain basement and cellar dwellings can be established by local law.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00602

Introduced
1/8/25  
Provides that restaurants may provide single-use plastic straws to customers when explicitly requested by the customer; prohibits single-use plastic stirrers.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00612

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
2/25/25  
Engrossed
3/25/25  
Removes certain requirements on what the office of children and family services can determine to be an appropriate staff/child ratios for family day care homes, group family day care homes, school age day care programs and day care centers.