New York State Representative

Joseph DeStefano Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07488

Introduced
3/28/25  
Authorizes the state of New York mortgage agency to purchase rehabilitation mortgages from banks within the state during periods when there is an inadequate supply of credit available for new residential mortgages or available for such loans at carrying charges within the financial means of persons and families of low and moderate income.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07526

Introduced
4/1/25  
Alters the definition of a qualified historic home for the purposes of the historic homeownership rehabilitation credit.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07504

Introduced
3/28/25  
Enacts the "Affordable NY act"; increases the STAR exemptions; adjusts personal income tax rates.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07524

Introduced
4/1/25  
Relates to establishing the lump sum allocation advisory committee (Part A); relates to requiring transparency, identification and disclosure of certain appropriations (Part B); relates to withholding the salaries of the governor, agency commissioners and deputy commissioners for failing to meet certain reporting deadlines (Part C); relates to creating a tax rate reduction board to look at personal income tax and corporate franchise tax rates (Part D); relates to conducting an audit of all state economic development programs (Part E); relates to prohibiting certain political contributions by individuals appointed to entities that oversee lump sum appropriations (Part F); relates to prohibiting certain third party contracts (Part G).
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07532

Introduced
4/1/25  
Allows for the removal of members of the state board of parole by a majority vote in the senate and the assembly; requires three or more members of such board personally interview potential parolees; requires that the determination to parole an incarcerated individual be unanimous.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07553

Introduced
4/1/25  
Expands coverage for developmentally disabled persons past twenty-six years of age; prohibits insurance companies from wrongfully terminating contracts of developmentally disabled persons; requires recertification of such developmentally disabled person's condition once every five years.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07560

Introduced
4/1/25  
Refer
4/1/25  
Report Pass
5/6/25  
Refer
5/6/25  
Report Pass
5/29/25  
Refer
5/29/25  
Report Pass
6/4/25  
Engrossed
6/4/25  
Refer
6/4/25  
Requires the developmental disabilities advisory council to submit an annual report to the governor, temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly on the activities of the council, and to make such report public.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07592

Introduced
4/1/25  
Excludes the five state-run veterans homes from assessments on their gross receipts received from all patient care services and other operating income; directs the Commissioner of Health to apply to the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services for any necessary waivers pursuant to federal law and regulation.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07617

Introduced
4/1/25  
Refer
4/1/25  
Report Pass
4/28/25  
Engrossed
5/5/25  
Removes the prohibition on patient participation in multiple transplant programs in New York state.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A07672

Introduced
4/4/25  
Establishes September twenty-second of each year as a day of commemoration known as Veteran Suicide Awareness and Remembrance Day.