New York State Representative

Matthew Simpson 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 10)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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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 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 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 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 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 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  
Refer
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.
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New York Assembly Bill A05168

Introduced
2/12/25  
Relates to the availability and purchase of zero-emission school buses.
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New York Assembly Bill A05171

Introduced
2/12/25  
Prohibits a municipal corporation from prohibiting the issuing of a permit for the construction of any new commercial, residential, or mixed-use building on the basis that such building will be a mixed-fuel building.
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New York Assembly Bill A05204

Introduced
2/12/25  
Requires a government photo identification card to be presented when casting a ballot; provides for a method to receive a government photo identification card at no charge; provides that notaries are not permitted to collect a fee for collecting the documents required.
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New York Assembly Bill A05352

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Directs the office of children and family services to establish an outdoor, nature-based child care program to allow for the operation of licensed outdoor, nature-based child care classrooms which provide early learning services for preschool or school-age children in an outdoor space and that employ a curriculum with nature to teach enrolled children.
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New York Assembly Bill A05363

Introduced
2/13/25  
Establishes a third-party vendor program of not more than 10 vendors to send certain packages to incarcerated individuals.
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New York Assembly Bill A05395

Introduced
2/13/25  
Directs the public service commission to conduct a full cost benefit analysis of the technical and economic feasibility of renewable energy systems in the state of New York and to compare such directly with other methods of electricity generation; makes certain changes relating to greenhouse gas emissions limits.
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New York Assembly Bill A05512

Introduced
2/14/25  
Relates to the regulation of live restraint cable devices to take wildlife; authorizes regulations by the department of environmental conservation.
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New York Assembly Bill A05567

Introduced
2/14/25  
Provides for the use of restoration services when determining the capacity of a defendant to stand trial.
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New York Assembly Bill A05584

Introduced
2/18/25  
Removes ammunition and ammunition sales from the requirements of background checks; repeals certain provisions of law relating thereto; repeals the background check fund.