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Kwani O'Pharrow 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 16)

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05859

Introduced
2/24/25  
Enacts the "assuring college campus and educational safety and support (ACCESS) act" relating to harassment of students and applicants at educational institutions; describes the circumstances under which harassment at educational institutions is an unlawful discriminatory practice; describes the circumstances under which an educational institution is deemed to have permitted harassment; describes additional circumstances under which a college or university is deemed to have permitted harassment.
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New York Assembly Bill A05882

Introduced
2/24/25  
Requires a pharmacy benefit manager to pay a participating pharmacy at minimum at the national average drug acquisition cost (NADAC) rate, or at the pharmacy acquisition cost rate if greater or there is not a NADAC rate, plus a professional dispensing fee that is at minimum the professional dispensing fee paid under the state medical assistance program.
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New York Assembly Bill A05906

Introduced
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Report Pass
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Relates to mandatory employer disclosures regarding employee compensation and benefits, including any non-salary or non-wage compensation and benefits.
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New York Assembly Bill A05907

Introduced
2/24/25  
Provides for the revocation of a person's driver's license who has been convicted of operating a vessel while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
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New York Assembly Bill A05917

Introduced
2/24/25  
Relates to the assault of physicians providing direct patient care; provides that assault of physicians shall be assault in the second degree, a class D felony.
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New York Assembly Bill A05941

Introduced
2/25/25  
Relates to the removal of incarcerated individuals diagnosed with mental illness to a residential mental health treatment unit.
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New York Assembly Bill A05953

Introduced
2/25/25  
Includes in the class E felony of vehicular assault in the second degree, the causing of serious physical injury while operating a vehicle with suspended, revoked or no license; creates the crime of vehicular homicide.
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New York Assembly Bill A05979

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Report Pass
6/13/25  
Refer
6/13/25  
Provides for the inclusion of a faculty or staff member on the board of trustees of community colleges elected by and from among the faculty and staff of the college.
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New York Assembly Bill A05988

Introduced
2/25/25  
Includes temporary child care employment agencies and child care educational and training institutions as providers authorized to conduct background clearances.
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New York Assembly Bill A05989

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Report Pass
5/6/25  
Refer
5/6/25  
Report Pass
5/22/25  
Provides for automatic issuance of identification cards to incarcerated individuals and assistance with obtaining copies of any documents needed to apply for identification cards, including, but not limited to, an incarcerated individual's social security card and birth certificate.
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New York Assembly Bill A06001

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Requires that the state university of New York's board of trustees and the city university of New York's board of trustees shall each adopt a policy requiring all state university of New York, city university of New York, college, and community college campuses that offer membership programs to the general public for the use of fitness and aquatic facilities, to permit disabled veterans to obtain a membership for the use of fitness and aquatic facilities upon the same terms and conditions as apply to the general public, but without payment of any fees or other charges, or at a discounted rate; defines "disabled veteran".
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New York Assembly Bill A06016

Introduced
2/25/25  
Provides for loan forgiveness for social workers who commit to work in counties with less than two hundred thousand population, or towns which have a population of less than one hundred fifty persons per square mile for the duration of the award.
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New York Assembly Bill A06018

Introduced
2/25/25  
Designates August thirty-first of each year as a day of commemoration to be known as "Overdose Awareness Day".
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New York Assembly Bill A06029

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Report Pass
4/8/25  
Refer
4/8/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Report Pass
5/29/25  
Engrossed
5/29/25  
Relates to providing education and outreach programs related to home visiting programs which provide support for pregnant and parenting families, and have been proven to improve outcomes for mothers, infants, and families; provides that such information shall include information on services available from such programs, eligibility, and relevant contact information.
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New York Assembly Bill A06041

Introduced
2/26/25  
Establishes a temporary task force on the variable supplements fund program to make findings and recommendations.