New York State Representative

Joseph DeStefano 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 46)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05926

Introduced
2/25/25  
Provides that the tax levy limit shall be equal to a zero percent increase over the prior year tax levy when the difference between the total amount of taxes levied for the prior year less the tax levy limit results in a negative number.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05968

Introduced
2/25/25  
Expands the provisions of the urban development action area act by amending the definition of municipality and eligible area to include any city instead of specifically applying to a city with one million or more.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05928

Introduced
2/25/25  
Requires individuals who practice the profession of dental therapy or advanced dental therapy to be licensed and registered in the state; provides Medicaid reimbursement for dental therapy services.
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New York Assembly Bill A05952

Introduced
2/25/25  
Establishes the crime of falsely filing an extreme risk protection order to be punishable as a class E felony.
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New York Assembly Bill A05963

Introduced
2/25/25  
Requires the metropolitan transportation authority to create ten-year capital program plans.
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New York Assembly Bill A05974

Introduced
2/25/25  
Classifies operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of drugs by an individual under the age of twenty-one as a per se offense; includes any substance or combination of substances that impair, to any extent, physical or mental abilities in the definition of drugs; allows the odor of cannabis to be the basis for evidence for a violation of section 1192-a of the vehicle and traffic law.
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New York Assembly Bill A05977

Introduced
2/25/25  
Enacts Paige's law to provide education and awareness regarding brain arteriovenous malformation and brain aneurysms, as well as information on being a potential carrier of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, thoracic aortic aneurysms, Marfan syndrome and related disorders and genetic testing for such conditions and disorders.
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New York Assembly Bill A05978

Introduced
2/25/25  
Requires affordable housing funded by the state be used for veterans and people with disabilities, with each group receiving five percent of such affordable housing.
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New York Assembly Bill A05983

Introduced
2/25/25  
Prohibits employers from retaliating against employees for confronting an individual to prevent a theft or the unlawful taking of goods, wares, or merchandise; does not prohibit employers from training or re-training employees on policies against confrontation of theft.
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New York Assembly Bill A05991

Introduced
2/25/25  
Requires the office of mental health, office of addiction services and supports and the department of education to create a behavioral health website which shall provide information on various behavioral health issues such as depression, eating disorders, anxiety, schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar disorder.
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New York Assembly Bill A05992

Introduced
2/25/25  
Requires the city of New York to establish the New York city school safety fund, which transfers fines collected from the city's photo speed violation monitoring program and fines from the overpassing of stopped school buses to the fund to be used for school initiatives relating to the safe travel of students.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A06012

Introduced
2/25/25  
Establishes the safe water and infrastructure action program for the purpose of making payments toward the replacement and rehabilitation of certain existing local drinking water, storm water and sanitary sewer systems; applies to any county, city, town, village or public authority drinking water system, storm water system or sanitary sewer system within the state that is not under the maintenance and/or operational jurisdiction of a private entity.
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New York Assembly Bill A06025

Introduced
2/25/25  
Exempts from jury duty prospective jurors who are age seventy-five or older who make a request to be exempt.
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New York Assembly Bill A06028

Introduced
2/25/25  
Increases the personal needs allowance for residents of certain residential health care facilities from fifty-five dollars to one hundred dollars per month.
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New York Assembly Bill A06033

Introduced
2/25/25  
Establishes a tax credit for individuals who serve or are employed as a direct support professional, or direct care worker, up to five thousand dollars for taxpayers who make less than fifty thousand dollars and phased out for individuals who make over one hundred thousand dollars.