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 A05145

Introduced
2/12/25  
Provides for the licensing of professional and clinical music therapists encompassing the assessment, evaluation, and the therapeutic intervention and treatment of mental, emotional, developmental and behavioral disorders through the use of music.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05168

Introduced
2/12/25  
Relates to the availability and purchase of zero-emission school buses.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05190

Introduced
2/12/25  
Requires that correction officers employed in correctional facilities be identified by badge number only.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05146

Introduced
2/12/25  
Establishes the offenses of menacing a police officer or peace officer in the first degree and menacing a police officer or peace officer in the second degree; relates to circumstances under which an officer is not required to issue an appearance ticket; makes conforming changes.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05157

Introduced
2/12/25  
Prohibits insurance companies from imposing a co-pay pursuant to a follow up visit with a physician in order to receive a refill on an opioid drug prescription which was initially written for seven days or less.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05161

Introduced
2/12/25  
Provides pregnant persons with alternative birth choices to preserve the life of a fetus when electing to have an abortion by health care practitioners offering sedated birth and perinatal hospice procedures.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05165

Introduced
2/12/25  
Provides that sentence for commission of certain provisions of murder in the first degree is death or life without parole.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05171

Introduced
2/12/25  
Prohibits a municipal corporation from prohibiting the issuing of a permit for the construction of any new commercial, residential, or mixed-use building on the basis that such building will be a mixed-fuel building.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05187

Introduced
2/12/25  
Designates offenses against law enforcement officers, firefighters and emergency medical services personnel as hate crimes.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05193

Introduced
2/12/25  
Provides that the state shall pay to the city or county operating a facility, including whenever a person confined during proceedings pursuant to article ten of the mental hygiene law has been placed in any county jail or penitentiary, or a city prison operated by a city having a population of one million or more inhabitants, the actual per day per capita cost as certified to the state commissioner of corrections and community supervision by the appropriate local official for the care of such person as approved by the director of the budget.