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 A03981

Introduced
1/30/25  
Relates to procedures relating to driving while ability impaired by drugs; defines impairment and intoxication; updates procedures for field testing of drivers suspected of being under the influence of drugs to include the use of oral/bodily fluid tests; provides that refusal to submit to such field tests is specified to be a traffic infraction; makes related provisions.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04050

Introduced
1/31/25  
Enacts the "Community Violence Intervention and Prevention Act"; provides findings for evidence-based and evidence-informed health programs from hospital-based and community-based programs.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04073

Introduced
1/31/25  
Provides doula services at all correctional institutions and local correctional facilities; requires the department of corrections and community supervision to retain an organization to make at least two doulas at any given time available to provide doula services twice a week, for four hours, at all correctional institutions and local correctional facilities that house incarcerated individuals who identify as female, as well as to provide doula services during labor and delivery, upon request.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04100

Introduced
1/31/25  
Establishes an emergency insulin program and corresponding emergency insulin program trust fund to facilitate emergency access to analog insulins.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03983

Introduced
1/30/25  
Establishes the freedom to rally and engage equitably (FREE) act protecting employees from discrimination as a result of participating in certain political activities.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03989

Introduced
1/30/25  
Requires state agencies to develop plans for new Americans that incorporates effective training and resources, ensures culturally and linguistically competent and appropriate services, and includes administrative practices that reach out to and reflect the needs of immigrant populations and populations with limited English proficiency.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03991

Introduced
1/30/25  
Establishes requirements for the use of artificial intelligence, algorithm, or other software tools in utilization review and management; defines artificial intelligence.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03993

Introduced
1/30/25  
Prohibits discrimination through the use of clinical algorithms; provides exceptions for clinical algorithms that rely on variables to appropriately make decisions, including to identify, evaluate, and address health disparities.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A03998

Introduced
1/30/25  
Relates to employee access to lactation rooms in the workplace; requires that employers post written policies regarding the rights of nursing employees.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A04018

Introduced
1/30/25  
Establishes the New York dignity in pregnancy and childbirth act to require hospitals and other facilities that provide perinatal care to implement an evidence-based implicit bias program for all health care providers involved in the perinatal care of patients within those facilities; requires hospitals to provide expectant birthing parents with written information regarding certain patient rights; requires information related to pregnancy, if known, to be included on death certificates.