Representative • Democrat
Jonathan Rivera
New York • District HD-149
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Activity Summary
Bills Sponsored
26
Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):
95% Positive
Voting Pattern
Nay: 21
Yea: 4997
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Sponsored Bills
NY A07929•Introduced
Prohibits food stores and retail establishments from refusing to accept payment in cash; provides a civil penalty will be assessed for such actions.
Co-Sponsor
NY A01529•Introduced
Requires the disclosure of lead-based paint test reports in real estate transactions.
Primary Sponsor
NY A06543•Introduced
Relates to returnable bottles; adds noncarbonated soft drinks, certain noncarbonated fruit or vegetable juices, coffee and tea beverages, carbonated fruit beverages and cider to the definition of "beverage"; provides that beginning April 1, 2027, the handling fee will be six cents for each beverage container accepted by a deposit initiator from a dealer or operator of a redemption center; directs the multi-agency bottle bill fraud investigation team to submit a report on findings of pervasive bottle redemption fraud in New York state.
Co-Sponsor
NY A06576•Introduced
Requires peer-to-peer car sharing programs provide insurance coverage in amounts equal to the financial responsibility requirements set forth in section three hundred eleven of the vehicle and traffic law; removes requirements relating to requiring additional insurance coverage.
Co-Sponsor
NY A04144•Introduced
Prohibits state chartered banking institutions from investing in and providing financing for private prisons.
Co-Sponsor
NY A01816•Introduced
Includes animal fighting as a criminal act for purposes of enterprise corruption crimes.
Co-Sponsor
NY A00101•Introduced
Prohibits the use of intoxication of the victim as a defense in sex crimes where the victim is under the influence of any drug, intoxicant, or other substance to a degree which rendered the victim temporarily incapable of appraising or controlling such person's conduct and such condition was known or reasonably should have been known to a person in the actor's situation.
Co-Sponsor
NY A08672•Introduced
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).
Co-Sponsor
NY A04875•Introduced
Requires certain documents and forms to be provided in the twelve most common non-English languages spoken by limited English proficient immigrants of five years or less according to the American community survey, as published by the United States census bureau.
Co-Sponsor
NY A03647•Introduced
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.
Co-Sponsor
NY A01077•Introduced
Enables safe access to public roads for all users by utilizing complete street design principles.
Primary Sponsor
NY A01006•Introduced
Eliminates provisions exempting employees with disabilities from the minimum wage law; provides that laws or minimum wage orders that authorize an employer to pay a wage that is less than the minimum wage are valid provided that under such laws or orders an employee with a disability is paid the same wage as an employee in a comparable position that does not have a disability.
Co-Sponsor
NY A08576•Introduced
Relates to preserving access to affordable drugs; provides that an agreement resolving or settling, on a final or interim basis, a patent infringement claim, in connection with the sale of a pharmaceutical product, shall be presumed to have anticompetitive effects if a nonreference drug filer receives anything of value from another company asserting patent infringement and if the nonreference drug filer agrees to limit or forego research, development, manufacturing, marketing, or sales of the nonreference drug filer's product for any period of time.
Co-Sponsor
NY A04619•Introduced
Relates to the taxation of vapor products; provides for the licensing of vapor products distributors; imposes certain tax return filing requirements on vapor products distributors; provides for enforcement powers.
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 A02619•Introduced
Establishes certain rights upon the expiration of ground lease residential cooperative apartment buildings.
Co-Sponsor
NY A01906•Engrossed
Requires a system for notifying customers of bed bug infestations on MTA subways, trains and buses, within 24 hours of discovering such infestation.
Co-Sponsor
NY A01994•Engrossed
Allows certain defenses to parking violations despite entering of a default judgment.
Co-Sponsor
NY A01067•Introduced
Relates to prohibiting the exclusion of coverage for losses or damages caused by exposure to lead-based paint; provides that no insurer licensed or permitted by the superintendent to provide liability coverage to rental property owners shall exclude coverage for losses or damages caused by exposure to lead-based paint.
Primary Sponsor
NY A08149•Introduced
Authorizes any person who is licensed or certified as a physician, physician's assistant, massage therapist, physical therapist, chiropractor, dentist, optometrist, nurse, nurse practitioner, emergency medical technician, podiatrist or athletic trainer by a foreign government or another state or territory to provide medical services during the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 and the FIFA World Cup 26.
Primary Sponsor
NY A01749•Introduced
Enacts the "packaging reduction and recycling infrastructure act" to require companies selling, offering for sale, or distributing packaging materials and products to register with a packaging reduction organization to develop a packaging reduction and recycling plan.
Co-Sponsor
NY A08253•Introduced
Authorizes Melissa Baker to receive certain service credit under a twenty year retirement plan for service with the village of Blasdell Police Department.
Primary Sponsor
NY A07615•Introduced
Designates the Scajaquada heritage area as a state designated heritage area; establishes the Scajaquada heritage area commission to undertake all necessary actions to facilitate the creation of the Scajaquada heritage area, complete a management plan to ensure the long-term preservation and maintenance of such heritage area, and provide for the implementation and sustainability of undertaking recommendations of the completed management plan.
Primary Sponsor
NY A00516•Introduced
Increases the volunteer firefighters' and ambulance workers' credit.
Co-Sponsor
NY A00136•Engrossed
Relates to the medical aid in dying act; relates to a terminally ill patient's request for and use of medication for medical aid in dying.
Co-Sponsor
NY A04869•Introduced
Relates to judicial diversion programs; establishes a diversion part in each county; repeals certain provisions of law relating thereto.
Co-Sponsor
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