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 A03578

Introduced
1/28/25  
Establishes a SNAP and cash assistance fraud victims compensation fund.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03582

Introduced
1/28/25  
Establishes an unemployment bridge program and an unemployment bridge program fund to provide wage replacement to workers that do not qualify for unemployment insurance or other worker wage assistance programs and who have lost a major source of income due to lost work (Part A); establishes the "Digital Ad Tax Act (DATA)" creating a tax on digital advertising services (Part B).
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03596

Introduced
1/28/25  
Enacts "the prison wage act" relating to payment for labor performed by incarcerated individuals.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03613

Introduced
1/29/25  
Provides that no law enforcement agency shall use a chemical incapacitant except for pepper spray; defines terms.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03632

Introduced
1/29/25  
Establishes a billionaire mark-to-market tax taxing residents with one billion dollars or more in net assets.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03647

Introduced
1/29/25  
Enacts the "faith-based affordable housing act" for development on residential land; defines terms; provides that each village, town, and city shall allow the construction and occupation of residential buildings on any covered site up to the specified densities; provides that all residential buildings constructed pursuant to this section in a town, village, or city with fewer than one million inhabitants shall set aside twenty percent of the residential floor area for households earning an average of eighty percent of area median income; outlines the densities for New York city; makes related provisions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03654

Introduced
1/29/25  
Relates to decreasing the length of the suspension period applicable to certain individuals who lose their jobs due to a labor dispute, such as a strike, and who seek to obtain unemployment insurance benefits; decreases the suspension period from two consecutive weeks to one week; provides that the waiting period and suspension period shall be served concurrently.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03671

Introduced
1/29/25  
Relates to the removal of certain policemen.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03675

Introduced
1/29/25  
Relates to tax on sales of motor fuel and petroleum products and makes conforming changes; repeals provisions relating to manufacturing gallonage for purposes of the imposition of certain taxes; repeals provisions relating to reimbursement; repeals provisions relating to a utility credit or reimbursement; repeals provisions relating to an aviation fuel business which services four or more cities; repeals provisions relating to services rendered with respect to certain property; repeals provisions relating to fuel sold to an airline for use in its airplanes.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03715

Introduced
1/30/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Relates to the taxation of moneys, credits, securities and other intangible personal property in the state that is not employed in carrying on any business therein.