New York State Representative

Tony Simone 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 33)

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Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York Assembly Bill A08439

Introduced
5/16/25  
Authorizes the commissioner of health to make grants to not-for-profit organizations and elementary, secondary and postsecondary schools to be used to help pay for the costs of conducting local blood drives.
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New York Assembly Bill A08442

Introduced
5/16/25  
Establishes a personal income tax deduction for the interest paid on student loans by individual taxpayers having a federal adjusted income of between $65,000 and $125,000, and married taxpayers filing jointly having a federal adjusted income of between $130,000 and $250,000.
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New York Assembly Bill A08527

Introduced
5/20/25  
Expands the imposition of sales tax on the sale of race horses made through claiming races to include the total sale price on each sale.
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New York Assembly Bill A08528

Introduced
5/20/25  
Amends the imposition of sales tax to dramatic or musical arts performances, or live circus performances, or motion picture theaters, where such admission charge is not more than one thousand dollars.
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New York Assembly Bill A08534

Introduced
5/20/25  
Prohibits discrimination against individuals who have tested positive for HIV with respect to life, accident, and health insurance coverage.
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New York Assembly Bill A08611

Introduced
5/22/25  
Clarifies the right of publicity including the definitions of who and what qualifies as a digital replica; provides guidance as to digital replicas that do not violate an individual or deceased individual's right to publicity; expands the statute of limitations for an action brought for violating an individual's right to publicity.
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New York Assembly Bill A08651

Introduced
5/22/25  
Refer
5/22/25  
Report Pass
6/6/25  
Refer
6/6/25  
Report Pass
6/9/25  
Engrossed
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Relates to the extension of a tax exemption for a mutual redevelopment company in a city having a population of one million or more persons.
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New York Assembly Bill A08754

Introduced
6/2/25  
Permits "A Beautiful Noise, LLC" to file an application for a New York city musical and theatrical production tax credit for 2022.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York Assembly Bill A08440

Introduced
5/16/25  
Relates to employment contracts between school bus workers and the department of education in a city with at least one million inhabitants.
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New York Assembly Bill A08463

Introduced
5/16/25  
Refer
5/16/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Refer
5/20/25  
Report Pass
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Authorizes the commissioner of education to conduct a survey regarding instruction on Asian American, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islander history within the state; establishes an Asian American, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islander history advisory committee; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
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New York Assembly Bill A08659

Introduced
5/23/25  
Enacts into law components of legislation that relate to live event ticket sales; establishes an annual professional reseller renewal fee; requires professional ticket resellers to provide their New York state ticket reseller license number as a condition of utilizing an online resale marketplace to resell tickets (Part A); provides criteria for when a purchaser may obtain a full refund of the amount paid for a ticket (Part B); relates to resale requirements for tickets; requires that if a licensee or other ticket reseller doesn't have possession of the ticket, then they shall have a written contract to obtain the offered ticket at a certain price from a person or entity in possession of the ticket or from a person or entity who has a contractual right to obtain such ticket, and tickets to the event have been placed on sale by the venue or entity hosting the event or its authorized agent before the licensee or reseller can advertise the sale of the tickets (Part C); relates to unlawful charges in connection with tickets; permits reasonable charges for costs actually rendered or otherwise in connection to customer support, technological and software infrastructure, and actual operational costs for sales away from the box office; defines terms (Part D); relates to the availability of tickets for sale to the general public; defines a term (Part E); relates to the resale of tickets included in a subscription or season ticket package (Part F); extends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to tickets to places of entertainment (Part G).
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New York Assembly Bill A08672

Introduced
5/27/25  
Eliminates court surcharges and fees and probation and parole surcharges and fees; eliminates the requirement that a parolee or releasee receiving a merit termination of sentence be financially able to comply with an order of restitution; eliminates the requirement that a person receiving a discharge of sentence be financially able to comply with an order of restitution and the payment of certain surcharges or fees (Part A); prohibits mandatory minimum fines for penal law and vehicle and traffic offenses (Part B); mandates that courts engage in an individualized assessment of a person's financial ability to pay a fine prior to imposing a fine (Part C); eliminates the availability of incarceration as a remedy for a failure to pay a fine, surcharge, or fee, lifts and vacates existing warrants issued solely on a person's failure to timely pay a fine, surcharge or fee and ends existing sentences of incarceration based on such failure (Part D); vacates existing unsatisfied civil judgments based on a person's failure to timely pay a surcharge, or fee (Part E); prohibits the collection of a fine, restitution or reparation from the funds of an incarcerated person; prohibits the payment of court fines, mandatory surcharges, certain fees, restitution, reparation or forfeitures from the earnings of prisoners (Part F); vacates existing unpaid surcharges, DNA databank fees, crime victim assistance fees, sexual offender registration fees, supplemental sex offender victim fees, or probation or parole supervision fees; repeals certain provisions of law relating to restrictions on remitting such fees (Part G).
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New York Assembly Bill A08697

Introduced
5/30/25  
Refer
5/30/25  
Provides that the voting age in New York be 16 years old.
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New York Assembly Bill A08758

Introduced
6/2/25  
Enacts the accelerate solar for affordable power (ASAP) act to set a new target for distributed solar energy capacity and direct the public service commission to advance reforms to the utility interconnection process to ensure timely and cost-effective integration of new distributed energy resources.
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New York Assembly Bill A08807

Introduced
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Report Pass
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Provides reimbursement for enhanced septic system projects and defines what qualifies as an enhanced septic system project.