New York State Representative

Joseph DeStefano 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 56)

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Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York Assembly Bill A07747

Introduced
4/8/25  
Relates to the fingerprinting of prospective child day care employees and sharing fingerprint results.
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New York Assembly Bill A08064

Introduced
4/22/25  
Enacts the student journalist education act to protect student speech at educational institutions unless such speech is libelous, an invasion of privacy, or incites students to commit an unlawful act, violate school policies, or to materially and substantially disrupt the orderly operation of the school.
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New York Assembly Bill A08082

Introduced
4/24/25  
Establishes a retirement service credit for volunteer fire or emergency service.
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New York Assembly Bill A08086

Introduced
4/24/25  
Refer
4/24/25  
Report Pass
6/12/25  
Refer
6/12/25  
Directs counties, in coordination with their regional emergency medical services councils, to develop and maintain comprehensive county emergency medical system plans that provide for coordinated emergency medical systems within such counties.
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New York Assembly Bill A08190

Introduced
5/5/25  
Establishes the pipeline investment for public environmental solutions program for the purpose of making payments toward the replacement and rehabilitation of existing local municipally-owned and funded drinking water, stormwater and sanitary sewer systems; makes such program eligible for funding from the Clean water, clean air and green jobs environmental bond act of 2022.
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New York Assembly Bill A08205

Introduced
5/5/25  
Establishes grocery store wine licenses permitting the licensee to sell from the licensed premises wine produced in New York state or produced from ingredients grown or produced in New York state, in sealed containers for consumption off such premises.
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New York Assembly Bill A08219

Introduced
5/5/25  
Allows up to seven excess continuing education credit hours for real estate brokers and real estate salespersons to be carried forward to the next two-year licensing period.
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New York Assembly Bill A08222

Introduced
5/5/25  
Relates to the statute of limitations for certain deed theft actions; revives such actions otherwise barred by the existing statute of limitations; grants trial preference to such actions; directs the chief administrator of the courts to promulgate rules for the timely adjudication of certain revived actions.
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New York Assembly Bill A08309

Introduced
5/13/25  
Requires the New York state bridge authority, the Triborough bridge authority, the Thousand Islands bridge authority, the Nassau county bridge authority, the Ogdensburg bridge authority, and the New York state thruway authority to develop a feasibility study to promote bicycle and pedestrian access on bridges and provide a report to the governor, temporary president of the senate, speaker of the assembly, and the public a copy of such plan.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York Assembly Bill A07795

Introduced
4/11/25  
Requires detailed fiscal impact notes on certain legislation stating the estimated annual cost to the political subdivision affected and the source of such estimate; provides that bills will be invalidated if the funding source is not provided or the fiscal impact results in an annual net additional cost in excess of $10,000.
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New York Assembly Bill A07798

Introduced
4/11/25  
Establishes a temporary moratorium on unfunded mandates from the legislature and creates regional mandate relief councils.
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New York Assembly Bill A07800

Introduced
4/11/25  
Prohibits the use of state funds for non-residents seeking an abortion or any other procedure that results in the intentional termination of a pregnancy at any stage of gestation.
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New York Assembly Bill A07908

Introduced
4/11/25  
Creates a service learning program for students serving as active volunteer firefighters or volunteer ambulance workers; mandates certain features of such program.
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New York Assembly Bill A08179

Introduced
5/5/25  
Recalibrates the final average salary retirement calculations in the New York state teachers' retirement system for Joanne Halverson by including certain earnings from the 2020-2021 year.
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New York Assembly Bill A08193

Introduced
5/5/25  
Refer
5/5/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Report Pass
6/4/25  
Engrossed
6/4/25  
Refer
6/4/25  
Authorizes the assessor of the town of Brookhaven to accept an application for a real property tax exemption from Calvary Full Gospel Assembly of God Church for the property located at 777 Sipp Avenue in East Patchogue.