New York State Representative

Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08191

Introduced
5/5/25  
Establishes a gender affirming care program in the department of health to ensure the continuity of gender affirming care services in the state.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08286

Introduced
5/9/25  
Prohibits participation in torture of incarcerated individuals by health professionals; prohibits a health care professional from engaging, assisting or planning the torture of an incarcerated individual; requires health care professionals to report torture.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08295

Introduced
5/12/25  
Refer
5/12/25  
Report Pass
5/29/25  
Refer
5/29/25  
Regulates automated decision-making by government agencies; requires agencies to conduct impact assessments; requires disclosure of automated decision-making tools utilized by governmental agencies.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08355

Introduced
5/13/25  
Relates to licensure requirements for fiscal intermediaries under the consumer directed personal assistance program.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08427

Introduced
5/15/25  
Refer
5/15/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Report Pass
6/16/25  
Refer
6/16/25  
Enacts the "fostering affordability and integrity through reasonable (FAIR) business practices act", to expand the attorney general's ability to protect New Yorkers from unfair, deceptive and abusive business practices.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08463

Introduced
5/16/25  
Refer
5/16/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Authorizes the commissioner of education to conduct a survey regarding instruction on Asian American, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islander history within the state; establishes an Asian American, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islander history advisory committee; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08576

Introduced
5/21/25  
Relates to preserving access to affordable drugs; provides that an agreement resolving or settling, on a final or interim basis, a patent infringement claim, in connection with the sale of a pharmaceutical product, shall be presumed to have anticompetitive effects if a nonreference drug filer receives anything of value from another company asserting patent infringement and if the nonreference drug filer agrees to limit or forego research, development, manufacturing, marketing, or sales of the nonreference drug filer's product for any period of time.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08672

Introduced
5/27/25  
Eliminates court surcharges and fees and probation and parole surcharges and fees; eliminates the requirement that a parolee or releasee receiving a merit termination of sentence be financially able to comply with an order of restitution; eliminates the requirement that a person receiving a discharge of sentence be financially able to comply with an order of restitution and the payment of certain surcharges or fees (Part A); prohibits mandatory minimum fines for penal law and vehicle and traffic offenses (Part B); mandates that courts engage in an individualized assessment of a person's financial ability to pay a fine prior to imposing a fine (Part C); eliminates the availability of incarceration as a remedy for a failure to pay a fine, surcharge, or fee, lifts and vacates existing warrants issued solely on a person's failure to timely pay a fine, surcharge or fee and ends existing sentences of incarceration based on such failure (Part D); vacates existing unsatisfied civil judgments based on a person's failure to timely pay a surcharge, or fee (Part E); prohibits the collection of a fine, restitution or reparation from the funds of an incarcerated person; prohibits the payment of court fines, mandatory surcharges, certain fees, restitution, reparation or forfeitures from the earnings of prisoners (Part F); vacates existing unpaid surcharges, DNA databank fees, crime victim assistance fees, sexual offender registration fees, supplemental sex offender victim fees, or probation or parole supervision fees; repeals certain provisions of law relating to restrictions on remitting such fees (Part G).

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08390

Introduced
5/13/25  
Requires the department of education to report information regarding counselors, social workers and psychologists in schools and to implement a plan to increase the school counselor, school social worker and school psychologist to student ratio to nationally accepted standards and provide funding for such.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08468

Introduced
5/16/25  
Refer
5/16/25  
Report Pass
6/16/25  
Refer
6/16/25  
Defines enforcement officers in a city with a population of one million or more for the purposes of regulating tobacco products, herbal cigarettes and smoking paraphernalia; provides that an enforcement officer for purposes of section 1399-ee of the public health law shall be the office of administrative trials and hearings.