Representative • Democrat

Jo Simon

New York • District HD-052

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Bills Sponsored

Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

100% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 83

Other: 35

Yea: 6669

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Sponsored Bills

NY A02299•Introduced

Requires the installation of intelligent speed assistance devices if a driver accumulates eleven or more points on their driving record during a 24 month period, or receives 6 speed camera or red light camera tickets during a twelve month period.

Co-Sponsor

NY A01461•Introduced

Relates to the use of antipsychotic medications in nursing homes; imposes limits as to time and documentation; requires informed consent under certain circumstances.

Co-Sponsor

NY A00073•Introduced

Requires the display of certain labels and warnings on gas stoves sold, displayed for sale, or offered for sale at retail to a consumer in this state; authorizes the department of state to adopt regulations regarding the placement and format of such labels; provides for penalties; authorizes the attorney general to enforce such provisions.

Co-Sponsor

NY A01248•Introduced

Prohibits the knowing sale of xylazine above a certain weight to persons under the age of 21 and without proof of the intended use for institutional, veterinary, or scientific purposes.

Co-Sponsor

NY A02101•Introduced

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 improvements or projects relating to energy savings, green-house gas emissions reductions, climate change adaptation and resiliency project grants; establishes the energy efficiency and electrification interagency coordination group to coordinate between certain energy efficiency programs.

Co-Sponsor

NY A07995•Introduced

Relates to the weigh in motion monitoring systems and the data generated in conjunction with such systems pursuant to a demonstration program on interstate route 278 in Kings county; extends the authorization for such program.

Primary Sponsor

NY A07467•Introduced

Includes stormwater in the definition of sewage for purposes of certain water, sewer, and water and sewer authorities; defines stormwater.

Co-Sponsor

NY A04604•Introduced

Creates a wholesale prescription drug importation program which complies with federal standards and regulations for the purpose of generating substantial savings for consumers.

Primary Sponsor

NY A03244•Introduced

Authorizes the use of approved programs at foreign dental schools to satisfy the experience requirement for licensure as a dentist.

Co-Sponsor

NY A01242•Introduced

Establishes a task force to examine, evaluate, accept public comment and make recommendations concerning the impact of adverse experiences and preventive and trauma-informed policy and practices.

Co-Sponsor

NY A07796•Introduced

Provides for accessing records under the freedom of information law including notification procedures and the release of names of natural persons and residential addresses.

Co-Sponsor

NY A07779•Introduced

Directs the division of criminal justice services to establish a program for the care of retired law enforcement dogs which shall cover the cost of veterinary care for retired law enforcement dogs for the remainder of the lifetime of such dogs.

Co-Sponsor

NY A07781•Introduced

Removes the exclusion of part-time employees from certain definitions relating to employment and expanding the definition of employer; removes certain exclusions for employer notice requirements for the closing of a facility; removes the discretionary reduction of penalties for employers for certain acts or omissions concerning notice requirements for mass layoffs, relocations or employment loss; removes the maximum time period for determining back pay and other liabilities for certain employees who experience employment loss; allows the attorney general to take certain action to assist certain employees in receiving back pay and other liabilities; requires employers to pay severance to employees when there is a plant closing, relocation, or mass layoff.

Co-Sponsor

NY A07786•Introduced

Provides for restructuring unsustainable sovereign and subnational debt; provides a voluntary petition for relief may be filed with the state.

Co-Sponsor

NY A06285•Introduced

Relates to the contents of emergency response plans required to be submitted to the public service commission by electric corporations; requires such plans to include details of staffing, equipment, and ability to perform toward certain standards; requires the public service commission to establish a time-based restoration schedule.

Co-Sponsor

NY A03466•Introduced

Enacts the "Renewable Capitol act"; requires the office of general services, in consultation with the power authority of the state of New York, to ensure that all operations that power, heat or cool the empire state plaza complex shall entirely use renewable energy systems; requires the office of general services to establish an advisory committee to advise the office of general services on the preparation, design and content of a plan for the use of renewable energy systems.

Co-Sponsor

NY A03229•Introduced

Prohibits insurance companies from discriminating based on genetic predisposition including refusing to issue or renew, charging any increased rate, or restricting any length of coverage; prohibits insurers from requiring genetic testing.

Co-Sponsor

NY A00565•Engrossed

Prohibits the establishment of new for-profit hospices or increasing the capacity of existing for-profit hospices.

Co-Sponsor

NY A07714•Introduced

Establishes certain consumer rights for the protection of consumer health, safety and/or privacy needs related to utility meters.

Co-Sponsor

NY A02620•Introduced

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.

Co-Sponsor

NY A00355•Engrossed

Provides for a partial exemption from taxation of certain residential real property transferred by a governmental entity, nonprofit housing organization, land bank or community land trust to low-income households; sets forth conditions for the discontinuance of such exemption.

Co-Sponsor

NY A00034•Engrossed

Provides that the thruway authority shall issue permits for ambulances and fire vehicles exempting such vehicles from paying tolls on the thruway when engaged in an emergency operation.

Co-Sponsor

NY A07689•Introduced

Prohibits insurers from cancelling life insurance policies based on a medical condition that was disclosed in the application for insurance.

Co-Sponsor

NY A07681•Introduced

Requires all insurance policies and health maintenance organization contracts to provide coverage for maternity patients and their newborns for hospital stays of at least 48 hours following childbirth by natural delivery and 96 hours following childbirth by caesarean section; provides such coverage for patients who are recipients of medicaid.

Co-Sponsor

NY A07686•Introduced

Enacts the "public renewables transparency act"; relates to the New York power authority's conferral process; requires the conferral report be posted on the authority's website; provides that the authority shall provide an option for stakeholders to submit comments remotely as well, and incorporate feedback from such sessions and written comments into the final draft of the strategic plan; makes related provisions.

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