New York State Representative

Jo Simon Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01626

Introduced
1/10/25  
Prohibits health care practitioners from performing a virginity examination or supervising the performance of a virginity examination on a patient; defines "virginity examination".
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01633

Introduced
1/10/25  
Relates to youth programs sponsored by fire departments; provides that participants may respond to an emergency or hazardous activity, but shall remain in an appropriate and safe designated area that has been established by the chief or officer in charge; provides such participants cannot respond to an emergency on a vehicle using lights and/or sirens; provides such participants may not enter a burning structure; protects volunteer fire departments and fire companies from certain criminal and civil liability potentially arising from the operation of a youth program.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01641

Introduced
1/10/25  
Removes statute of limitations for certain civil actions related to child sexual assault offenses.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01647

Introduced
1/10/25  
Relates to dispensing certain controlled substances for use by a person with a substance use disorder during certain emergency medical treatment, or to relieve acute withdrawal symptoms.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01655

Introduced
1/10/25  
Relates to the definition of floor area and what is excluded in the measurement of floor area.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01667

Introduced
1/10/25  
Relates to establishing an office of antibiotic-resistance control; establishes the antibiotics education fund; includes methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other antibiotic-resistant infections in the definition of airborne infectious disease.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01670

Introduced
1/10/25  
Prohibits the use of restraints on incarcerated individuals during labor, absent extraordinary circumstances, and on pregnant persons during a custodial interrogation.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01691

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/14/25  
Report Pass
2/4/25  
Expands health care services provided by telehealth to include services delivered through a facility licensed under article twenty-eight of the public health law that is eligible to be designated or has received a designation as a federally qualified health center, including those facilities that are also licensed under article thirty-one or article thirty-two of the mental hygiene law.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01692

Introduced
1/14/25  
Provides that restaurants and third-party food delivery services may provide single-use food service items to customers when explicitly requested by the customer; prohibits certain plastic single-use items.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A01657

Introduced
1/10/25  
Requires health insurers to offer coverage of health care provided by out-of-network providers.