New York State Representative

Phara Souffrant Forrest 2023-2024 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 28)

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New York 2023-2024 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08932

Introduced
1/30/24  
Requires that all human services contracts between any public entity and a human services provider stipulate that the public entity will pay no less than 150% of the higher of: the otherwise applicable minimum wage in the state or any otherwise applicable wage rule or order and that the necessary amounts have been appropriated to ensure payment of such minimum wage.
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New York Assembly Bill A08935

Introduced
1/30/24  
Refer
1/30/24  
Report Pass
5/21/24  
Refer
5/21/24  
Report Pass
5/28/24  
Provides for the regulation of indoor and outdoor worksites with temperature protection standards and education, training and reporting requirements to ensure that employers provide safe conditions for their employees.
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New York Assembly Bill A08947

Introduced
1/30/24  
Refer
1/30/24  
Report Pass
3/19/24  
Refer
3/19/24  
Report Pass
5/7/24  
Refer
5/7/24  
Report Pass
5/7/24  
Engrossed
6/3/24  
Refer
6/3/24  
Engrossed
6/7/24  
Enrolled
9/5/24  
Chaptered
9/5/24  
Establishes the retail worker safety act requiring retail worker employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence; directs the department of labor to produce a model workplace violence prevention training program; requires employers to provide training on such programs; requires the installation of panic buttons at certain workplaces or wearable or mobile phone-based panic buttons to be provided.
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New York Assembly Bill A08953

Introduced
1/30/24  
Requires each high school senior to complete the FAFSA, an application for TAP, or a waiver form; requires schools to report data on the rates of submission of FAFSA and TAP applications.
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New York Assembly Bill A08995

Introduced
2/1/24  
Establishes light duty during pregnancy and parental leave for railroad employees.
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New York Assembly Bill A08996

Introduced
2/1/24  
Enacts the "New York state nurse employment, enhancement and dignity act" to provide hazard pay to nurses during a state disaster emergency, an annual tax credit for nurses, a student loan forgiveness program for nurses, and preferential school admission for nurses.
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New York Assembly Bill A09008

Introduced
2/1/24  
Establishes a public awareness campaign for maternal depression; makes an appropriation therefor.
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New York Assembly Bill A09012

Introduced
2/2/24  
Enacts the "Empowering People in Rights Enforcement (EMPIRE) Worker Protection Act"; relates to the delegation of state enforcement authority to private actors; authorizes an affected employee, whistleblower, representative organization or an organizational deputy to initiate a public enforcement action on behalf of the commissioner for certain provisions of the labor law, or any regulation promulgated thereunder.
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New York Assembly Bill A09057

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
Report Pass
4/16/24  
Refer
4/16/24  
Report Pass
5/14/24  
Refer
5/14/24  
Report Pass
5/20/24  
Engrossed
6/4/24  
Enacts the pro-banking act to mandate acceptance of the New York city identity card as a primary form of identification at all covered entities, including all banking organizations, foreign banking corporations, and interstate branches.
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New York Assembly Bill A09086

Introduced
2/6/24  
Relates to reducing the cost of prescription drugs by establishing maximum wholesale drug prices that are the same as the prices in Canada.
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New York Assembly Bill A09088

Introduced
2/6/24  
Establishes the New York State social housing development authority as a public benefit corporation to increase the supply of permanently affordable housing in the state through the acquisition of land and renovation or rehabilitation of existing real property, and through the construction of new, permanently affordable housing.
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New York Assembly Bill A09141

Introduced
2/8/24  
Refer
2/8/24  
Report Pass
6/7/24  
Refer
6/7/24  
Authorizes the Church of the Living God Pillar & Ground to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for the 2022-2023 assessment rolls.
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New York Assembly Bill A09145

Introduced
2/8/24  
Refer
2/8/24  
Relates to conferring youthful offender status upon conviction of an eligible youth for a misdemeanor.
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New York Assembly Bill A09151

Introduced
2/8/24  
Relates to requiring certain civil court documents to be provided to parties in their native language and requiring parties to demonstrate their understanding of the nature and effect of such documents.
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New York Assembly Bill A09170

Introduced
2/12/24  
Establishes the green affordable pre-electrification program to assist owners and tenants in residential properties in curing structural and building code defects which render the properties ineligible for climate change adaptation and resiliency project grants.