New York State Representative

Jo Simon 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 A01591

Introduced
1/10/25  
Increases the amount of geothermal energy systems tax credits.
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 A01607

Introduced
1/10/25  
Relates to the provision of breast pumps and related collection and storage materials to certain incarcerated nursing birth parents others who are confined in or committed to an institution or local correctional facility with or without their child subject to specific time limitations; requires institutions and local correctional facilities to provide pumps and related materials to such incarcerated birth parents, but not beyond the date such child reaches twenty-four months of age except in limited circumstances related to parole; allows children to remain with their incarcerated birth parents in a correctional institution until twenty-four months of age, or longer in certain cases related to parole; requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to issue an annual report on data relating to incarcerated birth parents.
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 A01625

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Report Pass
5/13/25  
Establishes the homeowner protection program; provides that the department of law shall establish the homeowner protection program to ensure the availability of free housing counseling and legal services to homeowners for the purposes of mitigating threats to homeownership; provides that the department of law shall provide grants to eligible not-for-profit housing counseling organizations and legal services organizations to provide services under the program.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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 A01590

Introduced
1/10/25  
Allows members of a public body who cannot physically attend a meeting due to a disability to be counted as present for quorum purposes at meetings attended remotely.
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.