New York State Representative

Phara Souffrant Forrest Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02598

Introduced
1/21/25  
Establishes Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as school holidays, with dates established by religious law and tradition; allows for school districts and municipalities with a population of less than fifty thousand to opt into the recognition of such holidays.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02601

Introduced
1/21/25  
Relates to the expungement of syringe convictions of criminally possessing a hypodermic instrument.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02606

Introduced
1/21/25  
Relates to construction of voting machines and systems.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02608

Introduced
1/21/25  
Creates parity for incarcerated individual telephone services for international calls to family members outside continental United States, Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam or Central Northern Mariana Islands by requiring identical restrictions on the duration or number of phone calls and use of unit or facility phones made available to incarcerated individuals who are calling family members who are not outside continental United States, Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam or Central Northern Mariana Islands.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02620

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
3/25/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Report Pass
4/8/25  
Refer
4/8/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
5/21/25  
Engrossed
5/27/25  
Amends procedures required for the custodial interrogation of children to provide additional protections and for taking juveniles and sixteen and seventeen year olds into custody.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02621

Introduced
1/21/25  
Enacts the "education funding census update act"; updates the census numbers used to calculate certain education funding.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02653

Introduced
1/21/25  
Repeals the requirement that the senate vote to confirm the appointment of certain chief executive officers within a certain time period; amends certain provisions of law relating thereto.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02720

Introduced
1/22/25  
Enacts the solar for schools act which provides grants for eligible school districts to purchase and install solar and geothermal power sources; defines terms; directs the New York state energy and research development authority to establish such grant program; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof; makes an appropriation therefor.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02692

Introduced
1/22/25  
Establishes a working group to create a pilot program for an alternative system to a credit score for unbanked persons, undocumented immigrants and any other individuals who would benefit from such alternative system.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02698

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Report Pass
5/19/25  
Refer
5/19/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Establishes an awareness campaign on the use of hormone replacement therapy in treating the symptoms of perimenopause and menopause.