New York State Representative

Jo Simon Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05068

Introduced
2/12/25  
Restricts electioneering on polling place property.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05069

Introduced
2/12/25  
Enacts "Chelsey's law"; provides that a person commits the crime of manslaughter or aggravated manslaughter when such person knows or has reasonable grounds to know that a controlled substance is likely to cause the death of another person and sells, administers, delivers, or causes the delivery of a controlled substance to another person and such substance causes, contributes to, or aids in the death of such other person.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

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 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05154

Introduced
2/12/25  
Directs the office of children and family services to study, make recommendations on and report on child day care and child care assistance and the availability of funding therefor.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05099

Introduced
2/12/25  
Adds xylazine to the depressants designated as controlled substances with the exception of use in cattle or other nonhuman species if approved by the federal food and drug administration.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05122

Introduced
2/12/25  
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 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05123

Introduced
2/12/25  
Requires genetic testing results only be received by patients and health care providers providing direct care while health insurance companies only receive a record that the genetic testing was performed; provides insurers cannot require access to genetic testing results and cannot take adverse action against someone for not providing genetic testing results.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05144

Introduced
2/12/25  
Permits award of crime victim assistance funds to victims of overdoses, where such overdoses cause death and were the result of deception, surreptitious delivery, or third-party administration of a controlled substance.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05194

Introduced
2/12/25  
Relates to including rescue inhaler prescriptions for asthma and other chronic respiratory diseases for individuals under age nineteen in the statewide immunization information system.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05199

Introduced
2/12/25  
Ensures that temporary protected status beneficiaries continue to receive Medicaid benefits if the federal government ends the program.