New York State Representative

Linda Rosenthal Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00657

Introduced
1/8/25  
Increases the state excise tax on cigarettes.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00658

Introduced
1/8/25  
Requires homeless shelters to keep an opioid antagonist on hand at all times and trained personnel when required by applicable law, regulation, code, or operating plan approved by a social services district or the commissioner otherwise requires employees to be at the premises; sets out the requirements for the training of those employees; develops a training plan for opioid overdoses in conjunction with a registered opioid overdose prevention program.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00659

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
5/13/25  
Refer
5/13/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Report Pass
6/6/25  
Refer
6/6/25  
Prohibits landlords from including incorrect information relating to rent decontrol in certain leases and renewals thereof; imposes a violation punishable by a fine of $1000 for a violation by a landlord; requires the standardization of certain notices pertaining to units subject to the Affordable New York Housing Program.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00660

Introduced
1/8/25  
Relates to requiring all parties to an annulment or divorce to remove religious barriers to remarriage within ninety days of filing for such annulment or divorce or be subject to a fine of twenty-five hundred dollars per week.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00662

Introduced
1/8/25  
Requires the location of a proposed charter school be included in the charter application.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00664

Introduced
1/8/25  
Prohibits a person convicted of "Buster's Law" from owning or possessing a companion animal unless authorized by court order, after appropriate psychiatric or psychological testing.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00665

Introduced
1/8/25  
Relates to the creation of a crime database of all convictions in New York state of animal cruelty, fighting, neglect, abandonment and mistreatment; makes such crime database available to all law enforcement entities, district attorneys, duly incorporated humane societies, societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, dog or cat protective associations and animal control officers.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00667

Introduced
1/8/25  
Prohibits the use of leg-gripping traps.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00668

Introduced
1/8/25  
Pertains to confinement of animals for food producing purposes; prohibits any person to tether or confine any pig during pregnancy, calf raised for veal, or egg-laying hen who is kept on a farm for all or the majority of any day in a manner that prevents such animal from lying down, standing up and fully extending its limbs and turning around freely; establishes that commission of such crime shall constitute a class A misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for a period not to exceed one year and/or fine not to exceed $1,000.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00669

Introduced
1/8/25  
Imposes a commercial vacancy tax on vacant or abandoned commercial storefronts located in a city with a population of one million or more of one percent of the assessed value of the property.