New York State Representative

Harvey Epstein 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 24)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02590

Introduced
1/21/25  
Adds certain human services programs to the designated human services programs eligible for a cost of living adjustment.
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New York Assembly Bill A02594

Introduced
1/21/25  
Enacts the good jobs guarantee program to provide workforce training and opportunities for employment for residents of New York state to secure high paying jobs through the acquisition of job skills.
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New York Assembly Bill A02596

Introduced
1/21/25  
Establishes new targets for offshore wind electricity generation; includes the requirements that there is at least 15 gigawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by 2040, at least 18 gigawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by 2045 and at least 20 gigawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by 2050.
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New York Assembly Bill A02598

Introduced
1/21/25  
Establishes Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as school holidays, with dates established by religious law and tradition; allows for school districts and municipalities with a population of less than fifty thousand to opt into the recognition of such holidays.
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New York Assembly Bill A02601

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
6/9/25  
Relates to the expungement of syringe convictions of criminally possessing a hypodermic instrument.
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New York Assembly Bill A02603

Introduced
1/21/25  
Requires SUNY and CUNY campuses to hire energy management, materials management, and sustainability education and engagement employees at each SUNY and CUNY campus in numbers proportionate to campus size.
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New York Assembly Bill A02606

Introduced
1/21/25  
Relates to construction of voting machines and systems.
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New York Assembly Bill A02608

Introduced
1/21/25  
Creates parity for incarcerated individual telephone services for international calls to family members outside continental United States, Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam or Central Northern Mariana Islands by requiring identical restrictions on the duration or number of phone calls and use of unit or facility phones made available to incarcerated individuals who are calling family members who are not outside continental United States, Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam or Central Northern Mariana Islands.
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New York Assembly Bill A02619

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
5/19/25  
Establishes certain rights upon the expiration of ground lease residential cooperative apartment buildings.
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New York Assembly Bill A02620

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
3/25/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Report Pass
4/8/25  
Refer
4/8/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
5/21/25  
Engrossed
5/27/25  
Amends procedures required for the custodial interrogation of children to provide additional protections and for taking juveniles and sixteen and seventeen year olds into custody.
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New York Assembly Bill A02657

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
5/6/25  
Refer
5/6/25  
Report Pass
6/4/25  
Refer
6/4/25  
Establishes the electric landscaping equipment rebate program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve air quality, and reduce noise pollution by promoting the adoption of quieter, zero-emission landscaping equipment; provides for rebates at the point of sale for applicants purchasing or leasing certain equipment; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof.
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New York Assembly Bill A02660

Introduced
1/21/25  
Provides for tax credit for the adoption of pets from an animal shelter up to $250 per pet.
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New York Assembly Bill A02687

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Report Pass
6/6/25  
Refer
6/6/25  
Report Pass
6/9/25  
Engrossed
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Establishes a center for dyslexia and dysgraphia within the department of education.
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New York Assembly Bill A02689

Introduced
1/22/25  
Enacts the building up immigrant legal defense or BUILD act to provide competitive workforce development and capacity building grants to eligible entities that are seeking to expand access to representation for individuals facing deportation by increasing the workforce and strengthening the legal services infrastructure needed to provide such representation.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02701

Introduced
1/22/25  
Increases fines for the late filing of rent registration statements; provides that a late filing fine shall be one thousand dollars.