New York State Representative

Matthew Simpson Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04718

Introduced
2/5/25  
Makes provisions permanent relating to disability due to disease or malfunction of the heart or coronary arteries.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04761

Introduced
2/6/25  
Relates to purchasing restrictions and persons boycotting American allies.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04772

Introduced
2/6/25  
Enacts "the combating campus antisemitism act"; prohibits the granting of tuition assistance awards to any student who has knowingly engaged in promoting antisemitism in a manner that is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action, that constitutes "true threats"; makes related provisions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04797

Introduced
2/6/25  
Enacts the "stop Anti-Semitism on college campuses act" to ensure no state aid is granted to any college or university that authorizes, facilitates, provides funding for, or otherwise supports any event promoting Anti-Semitism on campus; defines "Anti-Semitism".
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04802

Introduced
2/6/25  
Provides free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses for residents who participated in the World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup and who suffered a permanent disability.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04956

Introduced
2/10/25  
Relates to the SUNY Maritime admissions program increasing the number of positions reserved for nomination by the governor and members of the legislature and scholarship under the SUNY Maritime admissions program.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04968

Introduced
2/10/25  
Relates to being a good samaritan; adds "reasonable intervention" as a reason to be protected from liability; provides that a person may use physical force when and to the extent that such person reasonably believes that reasonable intervention is necessary to maintain order, but may use deadly physical force only when such person reasonably believes that reasonable intervention is necessary to prevent death or serious physical injury; appropriates $500,000 for public service announcements and community-based training programs aimed at educating people about the legal protections and responsibilities of being a good samaritan.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05077

Introduced
2/12/25  
Requires municipal corporations to approve any facility intending to house asylum seekers prior to their establishment; establishes a review process that incorporates notice to the public and the opportunity for the public to comment; renders a decision within 8 weeks.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05098

Introduced
2/12/25  
Establishes the New York state first home savings program to authorize first time home buyers to establish savings accounts to buy their first home.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A05155

Introduced
2/12/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Report Pass
5/19/25  
Refer
5/19/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
5/27/25  
Report Pass
5/29/25  
Engrossed
5/29/25  
Relates to veterans' health care; creates a veteran health care review to ensure veterans and their families have access to health and mental health treatment, including for post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, military sexual trauma, reproductive and mental health conditions, and suicide prevention.