New York State Representative

Joseph DeStefano Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02599

Introduced
1/21/25  
Requires electric companies to provide alternative measures to ensure customers with documented need for essential electricity for medical needs have access to electricity during power outages; requires electric companies to provide generators or lodging for such individuals and transportation for medical devices.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02604

Introduced
1/21/25  
Provides a reimbursement to small businesses and residential consumers of certain utilities for failure to provide contracted services; requires the Long Island power authority to do the same.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02618

Introduced
1/21/25  
Directs the commissioner of education, in conjunction with the superintendent of state police and the commissioner of the division of homeland security and emergency services, to establish standards for the security and safety of school grounds.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02621

Introduced
1/21/25  
Enacts the "education funding census update act"; updates the census numbers used to calculate certain education funding.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02628

Introduced
1/21/25  
Establishes the bullet-proof vests for officers fund.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02634

Introduced
1/21/25  
Expands the definition of tuition for children with handicapping conditions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02641

Introduced
1/21/25  
Establishes that any person who knowingly engages in a repeated course of cyberbullying of a minor is guilty of an unclassified misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by a period of imprisonment not to exceed one year, or both.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02649

Introduced
1/21/25  
Relates to indoor air quality in schools.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02663

Introduced
1/21/25  
Provides that a judge of a city court outside the city of New York may only serve until the last day of December next after such person shall be seventy-six years of age; makes exceptions for judges already elected or appointed to office.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02670

Introduced
1/21/25  
Requires cell towers to be equipped with a back-up power source in case of a power outage.