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Harvey Epstein 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 33)

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Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04920

Introduced
2/10/25  
Establishes Three King's day as a school holiday for all public schools in a city school district of a city having a population of one million or more inhabitants.
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New York Assembly Bill A04921

Introduced
2/10/25  
Enacts the college student suicide prevention act to provide for policies, guidelines and training opportunities to effectively and appropriately prevent student suicide, intervene in crisis situations, and support college communities in postvention.
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New York Assembly Bill A04923

Introduced
2/10/25  
Requires age-appropriate instruction on conflict resolution for elementary, middle, and high school students; requires the commissioner to develop curricula for schools in the state for such instruction; directs the commissioner to develop resource materials to facilitate such instruction.
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New York Assembly Bill A04929

Introduced
2/10/25  
Eliminates criminal and civil penalties for possession of controlled substances; establishes the drug decriminalization task force to develop recommendations for reforming state laws, regulations and practices so that they align with the stated goal of treating substance use disorder as a disease, rather than a criminal behavior.
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New York Assembly Bill A04958

Introduced
2/10/25  
Provides for the creation and maintenance of digital records for each incarcerated individual which includes all medical records, including but not limited to mental health records and results of drug or alcohol tests, work records and evaluations, conduct records and programming records.
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New York Assembly Bill A04994

Introduced
2/10/25  
Provides grounds for attachment; relates to procedures where employees may hold shareholders of non-publicly traded corporations personally liable for wage theft; relates to rights for victims of wage theft to hold the ten members with the largest ownership interests in a company personally liable for wage theft; relates to penalties for certain wage violations.
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New York Assembly Bill A04999

Introduced
2/10/25  
Prohibits the retail sale of flavored tobacco products and accessories; imposes a fine of not more than five hundred dollars for each infraction.
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New York Assembly Bill A05015

Introduced
2/10/25  
Waives Unemployment Pandemic Benefits repayments in whole or in part if the payment of such pandemic unemployment assistance was without fault on the part of the claimant and such repayment would be contrary to equity and good conscience.
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New York Assembly Bill A05020

Introduced
2/10/25  
Establishes a co-navigation services program for persons who are deaf-blind to provide services to a person who is deaf-blind that assist the person to physically access the person's environment and to make informed decisions, including providing visual and environmental information or sighted guide services and assisting with communication accessibility by communicating in the preferred language and communication mode of the person who is deaf-blind.
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New York Assembly Bill A05044

Introduced
2/11/25  
Requires that internet providers who provide service in a municipality provide basic internet service to each residential dwelling or residential dwelling unit in that municipality at no cost.
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New York Assembly Bill A05052

Introduced
2/11/25  
Requires high schools in grades nine through twelve to provide a course in financial literacy; requires students to complete such course as a condition of graduation.
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New York Assembly Bill A05072

Introduced
2/12/25  
Implements a one year phase-in period for a local law, ordinance or resolution imposing a paper carryout bag reduction fee where forty percent of such fees are returned to such county or city for the purpose of purchasing and distributing reusable bags, with priority given to low- and fixed-income communities, and after the first year, such forty percent of fees shall be remitted to the person who collected the fees.
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New York Assembly Bill A05122

Introduced
2/12/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Report Pass
6/16/25  
Refer
6/16/25  
Allows for individuals to consent to receive information from the C.W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation Program and the national marrow donor program at the time of application for or renewal of a driver's license or non-driver identification card; directs the commissioner of motor vehicles to establish a process by which the department of motor vehicles shall refer driver's license and non-driver identification card applicants who consent to having their information shared with the C.W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation Program and the national marrow donor program for the purposes of receiving information from such programs about enrolling as a potential donor.
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New York Assembly Bill A05142

Introduced
2/12/25  
Allows commuter vans to accept hails from prospective passengers in the street; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York Assembly Bill A04954

Introduced
2/10/25  
Relates to the conversion to condominium ownership for the preservation of expiring affordable housing in the city of New York; provides expanded homeownership opportunities from the conversion of certain residential rental buildings to condominium status by property owners that commit to preserve the inventory of expiring affordable housing in the city of New York.